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Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
Meryl Comer · HarperOne
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A New York Times BestsellerEmmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer's Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up... |
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First American Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory... |
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Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
Jim Newton · Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Leon Panetta's first career, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including 16 years in the House of Representatives, lasted thirty-five years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then "retired" to establish the Panetta... |
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Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom
Colleen Saidman Yee · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback |
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From a rebellious young woman with a dangerous heroin habit to a globe-trotting fashion model to "First Lady of Yoga" (The New York Times) , Colleen Saidman Yee tells the remarkable story of how she found herself through the healing power of yoga - and then inspired others to do the same.I've... |
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27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
Howard Sounes · Da Capo Press; First Thus edition
Format: Hardcover |
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When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobains mother named the 27 Club. Now hes gone and joined that stupid club, she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. I told... |
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover |
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A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took a job at a crematory,... |
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Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
Glenn Beck · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover |
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The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.THEIR NAMES ARE FAMILIAR.THEIR STORIES ARE NOT.Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? Credit... |
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan · Scribner
Format: Hardcover |
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An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worlds attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude... |
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Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line
Michael Gibney · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 214
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMEThe back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen.... |
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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Carlos Santana · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendIn 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York Times Bestseller * "Bright... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN""You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book." - The Wall Street Journal"Essential reading."... |
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Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
Leonard Cohen · Independent Pub Group
Pages: 604
Format: Print book |
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Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2012. In Leonard Cohen... |
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 607
Format: Print book |
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This "historically engaging and pressingly relevant" biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master.Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson... |
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