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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life
Nancy Koester · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery... |
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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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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." - Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? "A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page... |
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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
BETH ANN FENNELLY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband's sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." -- from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses... |
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Filthy Rich
James Patterson · Little
Pages: 15
Format: Print book
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A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth... |
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The Radical King
Cornel West · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic... |
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Promise me, Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
Joseph R Biden · Thorndike Press
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""Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's... |
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Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic, " to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which... |
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Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away
David Dekok · Globe Pequot Press; 1st Edition edition
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On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania... |
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan · Harpercollins
Pages: 652
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history - a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh... |
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Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love
C. David Heymann · Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby and Jackie comes the riveting, true story of the passionate, volatile relationship between baseball great Joe DiMaggio and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe eloped in January of 1954, they became an international... |
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Fast N' Loud: Blood, Sweat and Beers
Richard Rawlings · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The breakout star of Discovery's hit automotive restoration show Fast N' Loud takes readers on an entertaining ride through his wild life and behind the scenes of his hit show in this memoir and automotive handbook, revving with outrageous details and jaw-dropping stories, and injected... |
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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience as a fiercely intellectual... |
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