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The Undertaker's Daughter
Kate Mayfield · Gallery Books
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What if the place you called "home" happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir evocative of Six Feet Under and The Help, with a hint of Mary Roach's Stiff.The first time I touched... |
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The Letters of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy led his nation for little more than a thousand days, yet his presidency is intensely remembered, not merely as a byproduct of his tragic fate. Kennedy steered the nation away from the brink of nuclear war, initiated the first nuclear test ban treaty, created the Peace... |
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Make Me a Mother: A Memoir
Susanne Antonetta · W.W. Norton
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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A woman unexpectedly finds her best self through a sleepy bundle handed over at the airport in this heartfelt and surprising memoir. In Make Me a Mother, acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their six-month-old son, Jin, at the airport... |
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Dan Barry · Harper
Pages: 340
Format: Print book |
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With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice... |
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Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land
Robert Crawford · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poetsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. Young Eliot... |
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Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words
Malka Marom · ECW Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades... |
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How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons
Bob Mankoff · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover |
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Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that... |
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
Jonah Berger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.If you're like most people, you think that your choices... |
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