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Matter of honor
Anthony Summers · Harpercollins Pages: 480 Format: Print book |
On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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Nobody's Son: A Memoir
Mark Slouka · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
"There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down," Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past.Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist... |
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books Pages: 336 Format: Print book |
From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird · Random House Pages: 696 Format: Print book |
This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
David Sax · PublicAffairs Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
By now, we all know the mythology of the digital revolution: it improved efficiency, eliminated waste, and fostered a boom in innovation. But as business reporter David Sax shows in this clear-sighted, entertaining book, not all innovations are written in source code. In fact, businesses... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky · Doubleday Pages: 400 Format: Print book |
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses
Robert Wagner · Viking Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner's memoir of the great women movie stars he has known. In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise of television, becoming... |
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Much Ado: A Summer with a Repertory Theater Company
Michael Lenehan · Surrey Books Pages: 224 Format: Print book |
Much Ado, written by award-winning journalist Michael Lenehan, gives readers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the lauded American Players Theatre's 2014 production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout has called the APT - based... |
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How to Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias: Create the Futuristic Humans, Aliens, Robots, Vehicles, and Cities of Your Dreams and Nightmares
Prentis Rollins · Monacelli Studio Pages: 208 Format: Print book |
A DC Comics illustrator shows readers how to conceptualize, draw, and digitally enhance their own science fictional worlds - whether for graphic novels, comics, movies, or video games. Sci-fi imagery commands today's popular culture, from Star Wars to The Hunger Games and The Walking... |
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
Althea McDowell Altemus · The University of Chicago Press Pages: 192 Format: Print book |
Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York... |
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Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis
Mark Shriver · Random House Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
A down-to-earth and deeply intimate portrait of Pope Francis and his faith, based on interviews with the men and women who knew him simply as Jorge Mario Bergoglio Early on the evening of March 13, 2013, the newly elected Pope Francis stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica... |
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George lucas : a life
Brian Jay Jones · Little Brown and Company Pages: 560 Format: Print book |
The essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George LucasOn May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George... |
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Daily show - the book : an oral history
Chris Smith · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 459 Format: Print book |
The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher · Blue Rider Press Pages: 240 Format: Print book |
From Princess Leia herself: another self-examination of unlikely life and times by the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking - ready to publish following the release of the latest Star Wars sequel.
Carrie Fisher, that most idiosyncratic of Hollywood stars,... |
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Scrappy Little Nobody
Anna Kendrick · Touchstone Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick... |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal... |
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