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After spotting her homeless mother digging through a New York Dumpster, Jeannette Walls unspools the story she’s tried to outgrow: a childhood of brilliance and neglect, big dreams and bigger lies, and the hard, determined climb toward a life she chose for herself.
From a blistering Nevada missile test where a “stealth” jet refuses to appear on radar, to secret CIA airfields and Mach 3 spy planes, Ben Rich recounts how a small band of engineers repeatedly bent physics—and bureaucracy—to change modern warfare.
A Mexican-American scholarship boy learns English and climbs into the American middle class—then discovers the cost: a hush between him and his parents, a changed faith, and an uneasy conscience about policies that claim to help people like him.
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After spotting her homeless mother digging through a New York Dumpster, Jeannette Walls unspools the story she’s tried to outgrow: a childhood of brilliance and neglect, big dreams and bigger lies, and the hard, determined climb toward a life she chose for herself.
From a blistering Nevada missile test where a “stealth” jet refuses to appear on radar, to secret CIA airfields and Mach 3 spy planes, Ben Rich recounts how a small band of engineers repeatedly bent physics—and bureaucracy—to change modern warfare.
A Mexican-American scholarship boy learns English and climbs into the American middle class—then discovers the cost: a hush between him and his parents, a changed faith, and an uneasy conscience about policies that claim to help people like him.
In 1915, Shackleton’s ship Endurance is crushed by Antarctic pack ice—yet his real legend begins after the wreck, as he keeps 27 men alive on drifting floes, then gambles everything on an open-boat voyage and an impossible mountain crossing to bring rescue.
Bailey believes he’s finally reached a perfect afterlife—until Ethan and CJ ask him to return once more, with his memories wiped, to keep a promise that will stitch together a fractured family, a lost love, and a purpose that outlasts any single lifetime.
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