Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family
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Oct 21 2017
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9780805243185
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Once a Dancer: an Autobiograph
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Jul 31 2017
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0312187505
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Deep Thoughts from a Hollywood Blonde: a Memoir
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Dec 31 2016
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9780451240279
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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
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Dec 29 2016
isn:
9781627795289
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My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
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May 22 2016
isn:
9781455540242
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Ofrenda #3
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Dec 24 2015
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Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
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With no men around, there was no law against nudity, but modesty had insatiable demands.
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Jun 9 2015
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9780143127413
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Fairyland: a Memoir of My Father
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I set up interviews with our gray tabby, Heidi, so named because of her tendency to hide under the furniture whenever I entered the room. I'd ask Heidi a question, then pinch her ear with my fingernails to elicit a response, capturing the exchange on Dad's playback tape recorder. But this activity increased her elusiveness.
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Mar 10 2015
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9780393082524
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Paper Life, a
I love all of Tatum O'Neal's child-star movies and her in them--especially Paper Moon (well, yeah, the book was better, but what can you do?), The Bad News Bears and Little Darlings. O'Neal's autobio fills us in on the horror behind her success. The nine-year-old youngest-ever winner of an Academy Award went to the ceremony sans her selfish, druggie parents. If this tell-all is even half-true, O'Neal's parents, stepmother Farrah Fawcett and husband John McEnroe were serious douches to her.
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Oct 8 2013
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0-06-054097-4
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Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith
Like lots of people who watched the Summer (for the northern hemisphere, anyway) Olympics, I was immediately enamored by Gabby Douglas. She's so talented! Pretty! And her being Black in a sport disproportionately dominated by White athletes, at least per this USA Gymnastics Diversity Study is part of her appeal, especially considering how biased the media coverage was. Consider that Jordyn Weiber was the girl-to-beat going in, but Douglas is the one who won the Olympic trials.
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Jan 12 2012
isn:
978-0-310-74061-2