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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in AmericaIn the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing... |
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Renegade at Heart: An Autobiography
Lorenzo Lamas · BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Meet the real Lorenzo Lamas. Lorenzo Lamas has played many roles over the course of his roller coaster career. Star of two major television shows, five-time husband, and reality show star, Lamas has been tabloid fodder for decades. Fans can easily believe they have seen every side of Lamas.... |
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Learning to Drive
Katha Pollitt · Random House Trade Paperbacks; Mti Rep edition
Format: Print book |
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Learning to Drive Now a major motion picture starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben KingsleyCelebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection... |
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Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico
M. M. McAllen · Trinity University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Print book |
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In this new telling of Mexicos Second Empire and Louis Napoléons installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life.From... |
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Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs
Yukari Iwatani Kane · HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Pages: 371
Format: Print book |
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Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs's death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs's vision and keep the company moving forward.Steve... |
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The Family of Jesus
Karen Kingsbury · Howard Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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America's favorite inspirational novelist offers a fictional view of six of the family members of Jesus, all anchored by Scriptural truth, creating a life-changing and unprecedented emotional connection to the Bible.Through The Family of Jesus, readers will develop an emotional connection... |
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Morgue: A Life in Death
Vincent Dimaio · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Forensic science is booming. TV dramas, books and movies have made morgues cool. Complex technology and intricate research can take curdled blood, bone shards, and flakes of skin and turn them into justice. And Vincent Di Maio, MD, son of a famous New York City medical examiner, is one of the lions... |
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So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
Barbara A Brenner · University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 281
Format: Print book |
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"What kind of cancer is it?" was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: "You don't need to know that." Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, made knowing her business... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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The event that launched the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of young Emmett Till - now reexamined by an award-winning author with access to never-before-heard accounts from those involved as well as recently recovered court transcripts from the trial.In 1955, a fourteen-year-old... |
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Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
Andrea Di Robilant · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover |
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From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy... |
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Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie
Woody Woodmansey · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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The death of David Bowie in January 2016 rocked the globe. Millions of fans celebrated his music, his film and theatrical roles, his trend-setting influence on fashion and gender and popular culture.Drummer Woody Woodmansey is the last surviving member of Bowie's band The Spiders... |
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The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
Christopher Isherwood · Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Pages: 481
Format: Print book |
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The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy--in their own wordsThe English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within... |
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