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“Extraordinarilymoving . . . apowerfullydrawn
survival epic.”—TheWall Street Journal
Unbroken
byLauraHillenbrand
I
nboyhood, LouisZamperini wasan incorrigibledelinquent.
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toadoomed flight onanafternoon inMayof 1943.WhenhisArmyAir Forces
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adrift ona foundering life raft.Driven to the limitsof endurance, Zamperini
wouldanswer desperationwith ingenuity; sufferingwithhope, resolve, and
humor; brutalitywith rebellion.His fate,whether triumphor tragedy,wouldbe
suspendedon the frayingwireof hiswill.
Unbroken isanunforgettable testament to the resilienceof thehuman
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Behind theBeautiful Forevers
Life, Death, andHope inaMumbai Undercity
byKatherineBoo
Winnerof theNationalBookAward, the
LosAngelesTimes
BookPrize,
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Finalist for thePulitzerPrizeand theNationalBookCriticsCircleAward
I
n thisbrilliantlywrittenbook, basedonbasedon threeyearsof
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withhope. Abdul, a teenager, ison thevergeof liftinghis familyof eleven
out of poverty. Asha,mother of three, isdetermined tomakeher daughter
Annawadi’s first femalecollegegraduate. ButwhenAbdul is falselyaccused
inashocking tragedy, tensionsover religion, caste, sex, power, andeconomic
envyescalateand the truecontoursof anunequal, desperatelycompetitive
market cityare revealed.
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