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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Alice Anderson assesses the damage to her Mississippi home while dealing with her husband's declining mental health. After a violent attack, she flees with her children and faces an epic battle -- emotional, psychological, spiritual, and legal -- for her children's welfare, for self-preservation, and ultimately, for redemption. -- Adapted from book jacket.
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xx, 281 pages ; 22 cm
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James Rhodes' passion for music has been his lifeline -- the thread that has held through a life of abuse and turmoil. But whether listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatized teenager or discovering a Bach adagio while in a hospital ward, he survived his demons by encounters with musical miracles. These -- along with a chance encounter with a stranger -- inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today. Instrumental is a memoir...
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xxi, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Diego Armando Maradona was one of the greatest footballers of all time. He was also one of the most controversial. In an international career with Argentina he earned 91 caps, scored 34 goals and played in four FIFA World Cups. His vision, passing, ball control and dribbling skills, and his presence and leadership on the field, often electrified his own team's overall performance. Yet, while he was regarded as a god on the pitch, his turbulent private...
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xv, 943 pages ; 25 cm
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Takes a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Konner tells the story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence became rooted in genetically inherited characteristics of the human brain--From publisher description.
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