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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Anne Boyd Rioux · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world,... |
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
Karen Piper · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missilesThe China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware.... |
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Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon
Charles Casillo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography reveals how Marilyn's childhood contributed to her struggle with bi-polar disorder, and impacted her career and personal life.Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still... |
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth,... |
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
ANTONIA FELIX · Sourcebooks
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. From her fierce support of the middle class to her unapologetic response to political bullies, Warren is known as a passionate yet plain-speaking champion of equity and fairness. In the wake... |
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Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes a new book about the place hope holds in our lives."I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne... |
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Fame: The Hijacking of Reality
JUSTINE BATEMAN · Akashic Books
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
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"Instead of crashing and burning, Bateman has found a life outside the maelstrom, ably described in this sharp, take-no-prisoners book."--Kirkus Reviews"Bateman delivers a blisteringly honest analysis of fame and her years in and out of the spotlight...Bateman's impassioned... |
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Beginning Japanese: Your Pathway to Dynamic Language Acquisition
Michael L. Kluemper · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning Japanese is a complete Japanese textbook and language learning package for beginning learners - who want to become fluent in Japanese and have fun while doing it!Start speaking, reading and writing Japanese today with the most exciting new introduction to the Japanese language!... |
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Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
Charles Jardine · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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With over 100 movies and two Academy Awards to his credit over six decades, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career--and now his 85th year. One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge... |
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On Sunset: A Memoir
Kathryn Harrison · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard -- a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic... |
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My Squirrel Days
ELLIE KEMPER · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naïf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker.There comes a time in every sitcom... |
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
JAMES MUSTICH · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate book for book lovers: the 1,000 must-read books across genres and eras, each accompanied by a thought-provoking short essay on why the book is so essential. |
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Homespun: Amish and Mennonite Women in Their Own Words
Lorilee Craker · Herald Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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"A revealing and wide ranging resource. . . . This eclectic book will interest any reader who s curious about the plain lifestyle." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Straight from the pens of Amish and Mennonite women . . . Ever wish you could visit with a group of Amish or Mennonite women over... |
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
NICOLE CHUNG · Catapult
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection An Official Junior Library Guild Selection An ABA Indies Introduce Selection "This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story, then widens her aperture... |
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Dog Decoder: How to Identify Any Dog, Any Time
David Alderton · Thunder Bay Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Discover your mutt's family tree with this extensive guide to mixed breeds.Understanding which breeds are part of your dog's mix will help you to better appreciate its special nature. With Dog Decoder, you'll learn how to identify physical traits that can be used to decipher... |
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Buckingham Palace: The Interiors
Ashley Hicks · Rizzoli
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Interior designer and artist Ashley Hicks presents his photographs and description of the interior design of Buckingham Palace, home of Britain's royal family since 1837. An important representation of Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian styles, the palace is the work of such noted architects... |
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The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History
NICK OFFERMAN · Dutton
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the full story behind Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, including stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for over a decade.The year: 2000. The setting: Los Angeles. A gorgeous virtuoso of an actress... |
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Ballet: The Definitive Illustrated History
DK · DK
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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This DK visual guide to ballet history goes beyond other ballet books, with beautiful photography that captures famous dancers and key stories.Discover more than 70 of the most famous ballet dances, from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake to The Rite of Spring. Learn the stories behind renowned... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic... |
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Fashion Climbing
BILL CUNNINGHAM · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and styleFor Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings... |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron De Hart · Knopf
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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The first full life - private, public, legal, philosophical - of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews... |
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The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings
Leonard Cohen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The final collection of the seminal musician and poet, which he was determined to complete before his deathJust weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Fortunately,... |
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Don't Quit Your Day Job: The Adventures of a Midlist Author
Michael Fedo · Holy Cow! Press
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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Don't Quit Your Day Job: The Adventures of a Midlist Author, is a memoir recounting the five-decade writing career of Michael Fedo, whose books have not attained best-seller status, despite receiving mostly favorable reviews in publications such as The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews,... |
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The Wizard of Foz: Dick Fosbury's One-Man High-Jump Revolution
Bob Welch · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In 1968, perhaps the finest US Olympic men's track-and-field team ever stirred the world in unprecedented ways, among them the victory stand black rights protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos in Mexico City. But in competition no single athlete mirrored the free-thinking '60s... |
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My Love Story: A Memoir
TINA TURNER · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening and compelling memoir.From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner... |
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American Semi Trucks: A Photo History from 1943-1979
Ron Adams · Enthusiast Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Prepare for a photo-packed look at trucks in action! Ron Adams has combed his huge archive of vintage truck photos to assemble this collection of over 300 black-and-white and color photos of postwar trucks. Prior to deregulation in the 1980s, distinctly branded trucks from hundreds of independent... |
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Imani Perry · Beacon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short... |
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Iron and Water: My Life Protecting Minnesota's Environment
Grant J Merritt · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
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A memoir of family, mining pioneers and unscrupulous magnates, and the fight for Minnesota's natural resources In 1855 the Merritt family arrived in Minnesota, where a descendant, Alfred, would one day become one of the "Seven Iron Men" - builders of the first mines to tap the state's... |
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