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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
Jessica Fechtor · Avery
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An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly... |
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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
Kelly Corrigan · Ballantine
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic... |
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Kara Cooney · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal... |
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When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
Francois Furstenberg · The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover |
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In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republics formative years from the viewpoint... |
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Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer , · Random House
Format: Hardcover |
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A genuine literary event - an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific... |
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The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
Steve Osborne · Doubleday |
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How ya doin? With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth and over a million times on their website with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales from... |
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I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
Lee Grant · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 463
Format: Hardcover |
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Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legÂendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue "It... |
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