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Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music
PAUL KILDEA · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating story of Frédéric Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.In November 1838, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They... |
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Cancerland: A Medical Memoir
DAVID T M D SCADDEN · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A doctor's riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer.What is it like to encounter cancer? How does it feel to face the unknown, to enter a world of hope, loss, and dread?From the diagnosis of his childhood friend's mother to his poignant memories in the lab, David Scadden's... |
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The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
DEBORAH LEVY · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind... |
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Custer: The Making of a Young General
Edward G. Longacre · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer:... |
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Another Good Dog: One Family and Fifty Foster Dogs
CARA SUE ACHTERBERG · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A warm and entertaining memoir about what happens when you foster fifty dogs in less than two years -- and how the dogs save you as much as you save them. When Cara felt her teenaged children slipping away and saw an empty nest on the horizon, she decided the best way to fill that void... |
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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
KATE HARRIS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic." - Pico IyerA brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road - an illuminating... |
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A Life of My Own: A Memoir
Claire Tomalin · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literatureIn A Life of My Own, the renowned biographer of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, and former literary editor for the Sunday Times reflects on a remarkable life surrounded... |
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