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By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream
“My birth was planned around Judaism and basketball,” writes Dan Grunfeld in the opening paragraph of his book. “It’s an appropriate testament to what I was inheriting. When I was born in 1984, my dad was an NBA player for the New York Knicks. My parents scheduled my C-section delivery to take place between two…
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CrimeReads: Three L.A. True Crime Stories That Went From Reality to Books to Films
CrimeReads: Three L.A. True Crime Stories That Went From Reality to Books to Films. https://crimereads.com/three-l-a-true-crime-stories-that-went-from-reality-to-books-to-films/
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Article: 8 Retellings with a Bite of Darkness
8 Retellings with a Bite of Darkness https://flip.it/YNAwhk
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Luckiest Girl Alive book review|Lainey Gossip Books
If You’re not following Lainey Gossip, may I suggest that you do. It’s all about pop culture including books, fashion, movies, celebrities, etc. with lots of fun videos including this one of Tom Cruise thanking people for seeing his latest movie Top Gun: Maverick while free falling from an airplane and talking on his way…
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Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
Almost 12,000 people streamed into the First Cavalry Armory on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on May 25, 1889 to view the coffin of Dr. P.H. Cronin, an Irish physician and political activist who had been savagely murdered. “It was one of the first ‘sensational’ murders covered by the Chicago press and far beyond,” says…
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