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Biography and Memoir March 2022
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Die walking : a child's journey through genocide
by Obadiah M.
"In 1994, Obadiah was the thirteen-year-old son of a Hutu pastor dreaming of becoming an airplane pilot when he heard something was wrong in Kigali, Rwanda. He didn't understand the politics, but an uncle appeared, a family meeting was held, then they were fleeing genocide. They were under gunfire. Soldiers were in pursuit. Everywhere were bodies, hunger, that smell. Stalked by terror, Obadiah kept moving through unrelenting danger and the darkest despair. He was sustained by faith and the African philosophy of Ubuntu -- finding one's self through others. But not even escape led to safety, as Obadiah had to face the American refugee detention system. Die Walking is one boy's horrific story of shared humanity in a world gone mad"
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The Duchess Countess : the woman who scandalized eighteenth-century London
by Catherine Ostler
Taking readers into the sumptuous Georgian era, this fascinating look at the scandalous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, whose infamous bigamy trial was bigger news in British society than the American War of Independence, reveals a woman who defied society’s expectations of her.
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