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Tag: memoir

  • One More Mountain 

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    Fleeing Iran for America by Mansur Nurdel with Jeannette Moninger Book Description (from Amazon.ca) This book is the inspirational true story of young man willing to risk it all. Since the Islamic Revolution began in 1979, millions of Iranians have fled to Turkey seeking refuge from religious and political persecution. In 1988, I was one…

  • unbroken spirit by Jade Lynn

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    Book Description (from Amazon.ca) In this heartfelt and unflinchingly honest memoir, Jade recounts her harrowing journey from the depths of emotional abuse to the discovery of her inner strength and unyielding hope. Told with raw vulnerability and courage, this story traverses the painful terrain of manipulation, self-doubt, and isolation, painting a vivid picture of a…

  • Crossing Fifty-One by Debbie Russell

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    Book Description (Amazon.ca) A week before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell risked everything to voluntarily enter a locked federal drug-treatment facility known as a “narcotic farm.” Sixty-five years later, Dr. Russell’s granddaughter Debbie suffers a debilitating crisis of identity when her father (Dr. Russell’s oldest son), always her biggest fan, is accepted into hospice. Debbie’s…

  • The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

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    Book Description (Amazon.ca) Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty”—just as the 1970’s counterculture movement…

  • The Woman In Me

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    Review of Britney Spears – The Woman in Me