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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir
Seamas O'Reilly - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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This heartwarming and hilarious family memoir shares what life was like growing up as one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles.After the untimely death of his mother, five-year old Seamas and his ten (TEN!) siblings were left to the care... |
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Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing
Philip Schultz - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, intimate, and inspiring exploration of how to write through persona, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning founder of an influential writing school.Throughout his growth as a writer, acclaimed poet Philip Schultz has battled with the dark voice in his head -- the "shitbird,"... |
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Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
Selma Blair - Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback
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Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as ... a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally... |
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The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
David I Kertzer - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a groundbreaking, explosive, and riveting book about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini"Splendid . . . The Pope at War ends... |
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Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War
Phil Klay - Penguin Press
Format: Paperback
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From the author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided America When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago, after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself part of the community of veterans who have... |
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Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
Natalie Hodges - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback
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A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becomingHow does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time?Uncommon... |
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James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback
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How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world?· On the morning he was born, he nearly died. · Growing up, he didn't love to read. That changed.· He worked at a mental hospital... |
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