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Language
English
Description
In this deeply personal memoir in the vein of Andre Agassi's Open and Megan Rapinoe's One Life , the winningest snowboardcross rider of all time chronicles her career, a story of self-growth that reveals the secret of her resilience and how she overcame crushing early failure to win Olympic gold. On February 16, 2006, twenty-year old American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis was poised to win the first gold medal in women's snowboardcross, a sport making...
2) Knife skills
Author
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's, a below-average restaurant, the only place that will give her a job. Things change when she finds head chef Louie Ferrar dead in the walk-in freezer of his restaurant. But instead of closing the place down, the owner, Russian gang boss Anatoly Morzov, not only offers her Louie's job, but also the position of his personal...
3) The Hive
Author
Physical Desc
352 pages 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Thousands watch as Charlotte Goodwin streams live on Instagram. Her ex-boyfriend kneels before her, hands tied. As his past deeds are revealed, how will the viewers judge him? What would you decide?
Author
Publisher
Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Denise Hamilton has always believed in the power and promise of a word she learned as a schoolgirl: "indivisible." In her groundbreaking debut, she challenges readers to move beyond current notions of diversity and inclusion to build communities, workplaces, and relationships that live up to that word. She urges us to reexamine long-held beliefs and habits and to dismantle hierarchies that shape our current society. If we want to repair the fraying...
Publisher
Barrons Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1,320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides equivalents in the Spanish spoken in both Spain and Latin America for a hundred thousand words and expressions in American English, along with numerals, symbols, abbreviations, cultural tips, and guides to Spanish and English grammar.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and...
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