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Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel
Christopher P Dum · Columbia University Press
Pages: 320
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Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans -- released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid,... |
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
William J. Mann · Harper; First Edition edition
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New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern... |
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America--Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes Celebrating Local Farmers
Mario Batali · Grand Central Life & Style; Gift edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Bestselling author and world-renown chef Mario Batali pays homage to the American farmer-from Maine to Los Angeles-in stories, photos, and recipes.AMERICA -- FARM TO TABLE Simple, Delicious Recipes Celebrating Local FarmersMario Batali, who knows the importance of ingredients to any amazing... |
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Essays After Eighty
Donald Hall · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From a former Poet Laureate, a new collection of essays delivering a gloriously unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age  Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the unknown,... |
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The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free
Alex Perry · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover |
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A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs... |
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Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 406
Format: Paperback |
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The form is so elemental, so basic, that we have difficulty imagining a time before it existed: a single set, fixed cameras, canned laughter, zany sidekicks, quirky family antics. Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler... |
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The Sound of Music Companion
Laurence Maslon · Universe
Format: Hardcover |
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The definitive book on the world's most beloved musical, The Sound of Music Companion charts the incredible and enduring story of Maria von Trapp and her story over the last hundred years - from Maria's birth in Vienna in 1905 to the 50th anniversary of the film's release in 2015.... |
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Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights
John Gerard Ruggie · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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"A true master class in the art of making the impossible possible." —Paul PolmanOne of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed,... |
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1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop
John Mitchinson · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI, a brilliant sequel to their New York Timesbest-selling 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop is bursting with mindboggling morsels of triviainformative, hilarious,... |
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Schizophrenia: A Brother Finds Answers in Biological Science
Ronald Chase · Johns Hopkins University Press
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When bright lives are derailed by schizophrenia, bewildered and anxious families struggle to help, and to cope, even as scientists search for causes and treatments that prove elusive. Painful and often misunderstood, schizophrenia profoundly affects people who have the disease and their... |
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Approaching the End of Life: A Practical and Spiritual Guide
Donna Schaper · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover |
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In her more than forty years as a minister, Rev. Donna Schaper has been approached hundreds of times by people wanting to know how to prepare for the end of life in both practical and spiritual matters. Countless others have turned to her for guidance on how to handle the death of a loved... |
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