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In Search of Buddha's Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads
Christine Toomey · Experiment Llc, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Illuminating and unprecedented: An award-winning journalist's 60,000-mile journey to meet, learn from, and practice with the world's most remarkable ordained Buddhist women The Tibetan Buddhist nuns who Christine Toomey happened to meet in 2011 told stories she couldn't forget... |
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Trans: A Memoir
Juliet Jacques · Verso
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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Moving memoir and insightful examination of transgender politics "Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation."In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment... |
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I Am Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson · 37 INK
Pages: 241
Format: Print book |
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The long-awaited memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer - interwoven with his recollections of collaborating with fellow artists such as Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and Snoop Dogg.Recognized the world over... |
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How Music Dies
Ian Brennan · Allworth Press
Pages: 426
Format: Print book |
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All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to provoke thought and inspiration for artists in every medium, How Music Dies (or Lives) is a virtual... |
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Flaubert
Michel Winock · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 560
Format: Print book |
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Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work in France's century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution... |
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The World's Largest Man: A Memoir
Harrison Scott Key · Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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The riotous, tender story of a bookish Mississippi boy and his flawed, Bunyanesque father, told with the comic verve of David Sedaris and the deft satire of Mark Twain or Roy Blount, Jr.Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women... |
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America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation
Joshua Kendall · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover |
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When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred ogling new gadgets at the hardware... |
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Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Führer
Walter Shapiro · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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From acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, the true life story of how his great-uncle a Jewish vaudeville impresario and exuberant con man managed to cheat Hitler s agents in the run-up to WWII. All his life, journalist Walter Shapiro assumed that the outlandish stories about his great-uncle... |
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Linda Ronstadt · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover |
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Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ’70s.... |
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