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Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

ELAINE M HAYES · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women's and civil rightsSarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers...
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

Dan Hampton · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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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

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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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

Steven M D Hatch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished...
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The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

Anne Fadiman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines -- with all her characteristic wit and feeling -- her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine -- along with a plummy upper-crust...
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon

Larry Tye · Random House
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight...
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Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief

Kate Inglis · Shambhala
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life.Inglis's story is a springboard that...
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The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi: My Journey into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began

KATHIE LEE GIFFORD · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

As a lifelong student of Scripture, Kathie Lee Gifford has always desired a deeper understanding of God's Word and a deeper knowledge of God Himself. But it wasn't until she began studying the biblical texts in their original Hebrew and Greek - along with actually hiking the ancient paths...
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Catching Ricebirds: A Story of Letting Vengeance Go

Marcus Doe · Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Born in Liberia, West Africa, in 1979, Doe's earliest memory is of his brother Molley teaching him to catch birds in their yard, luring them into traps with grains of rice. But by mid-July 1990, a violent civil war erupted and Liberia was thrown into a time of fear, starvation, and death....
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Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder

Leah Carroll · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover

Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother,...
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Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott

Joyce Scott · Beacon Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

The remarkable story of "outsider" artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with her sisterFrom birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what...
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Cockroaches

Scholastique Mukasonga · Archipelago Books
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth--designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being...
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The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat

Kevin Flynn · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From the archives of The New York Times, 165 years of the most notorious real-life crimes. For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime, its reporters racing alongside tabloids to track the shocking incidents that disrupt daily life. This fascinating...
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In the Darkroom

Susan Faludi · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger...
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939

Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book

A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures...
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