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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
Laura Cumming - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap - the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter... |
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND. Take a well-fed nine-year-old... |
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Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
Emily Strasser - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted more than seventy thousand people eager for high-paying wartime jobs. Among them was author... |
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While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students
J. Reuben Appelman - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the "University of Idaho Murders," offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the media's seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations,... |
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Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
David Leonhardt - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The Morning" newsletter.. "With the even-handed incisiveness that has made him one of the country's... |
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