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My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Abigail Pogrebin · Fig Tree Books LLC
Pages: 225
Format: Print book
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The much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culture -- not in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps that's because we haven't all looked at religion... |
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Killings
Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings,... |
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Ghost songs : a memoir
Regina McBride · Tin House Books
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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A searingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir about a girl who begins to see her parents' ghosts after their tragic deaths.Eighteen-year-old Regina McBride is haunted by the ghosts of her parents. Her father visits her -- he is desperate, but she doesn't know how to help him. Her mother is a quiet... |
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Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne
Christopher Andersen · Gallery Books
Pages: 341
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of William and Kate and The Day Diana Died takes a compulsively readable look into the relationships and rivalries of Queen Elizabeth, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Kate Middleton.One has been famous longer than anyone on the planet... |
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The Kardashians: An American Drama
JERRY OPPENHEIMER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Secrets and scandals of the Kardashians, so closely held that not even hard core fans have heard about them, are finally exposed in New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer's forensic dissection of the infamous reality TV clan. From the curious life of patriarch Robert Kardashian,... |
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Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
Manjula Martin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A collection of essays from today's most acclaimed authors - from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen - on the realities of making a living in the writing world.In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often... |
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Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
N A TeÃŒ?ffi · New York Review Books
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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Considered Teffi's single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author's last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced.In... |
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Marrow: A Love Story
Elizabeth Lesser · Harperwave
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant - one the donor and one the recipient - begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love.A mesmerizing and courageous... |
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Word detective : searching for the meaning of it all at the oxford english dictionary
John Simpson · Basic Books
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
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Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions - and a great many more - can be found in the pages of the Oxford English... |
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days. They... |
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Freedom: My Book of Firsts
Jaycee Lee Dugard · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted... |
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Beautiful Scars: A Life Redefined
Kilee Brookbank · KiCam Projects LLC
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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The updated edition of the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award winner for Best Inspirational Book! Kilee Brookbank was a typical sixteen-year-old, but her last ordinary day erupted in an explosion that consumed her house, burning forty-five percent of her body and sending her to the brink of death.... |
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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Robert Kanigel · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day. Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking... |
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TREYF: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw
Elissa Altman · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From the Washington Post columnist and James Beard Award-winning author of Poor Man's Feast comes a story of seeking truth, acceptance, and self in a world of contradiction... Treyf: According to Leviticus, unkosher and prohibited, like lobster, shrimp, pork, fish without scales, the mixing... |
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Filthy Rich
James Patterson · Little
Pages: 15
Format: Print book
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A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth... |
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