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Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea
Kenneth Bae · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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For the first time, Kenneth Bae tells the full story surrounding his arrest and imprisonment in North Korea. Not Forgotten is a modern story of intrigue, suspense, and heart. Driven by his passion to help the people of North Korea, Bae moves to neighboring China to lead guided tours into... |
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The Allure of the Archives
Arlette Farge · Yale University Press
Format: Book |
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Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives... |
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Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
N A TeÃŒ?ffi · New York Review Books
Pages: 296
Format: Print book |
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Considered Teffi's single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author's last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced.In... |
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A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet
Eavan Boland · W. W. Norton & Company; New Ed edition
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover |
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An eloquent series of linked essays about the poetic enterprise from "one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century" (Poetry Review)."This is a book of being and becoming. It is about being a poet. It is also about the long process of becoming one," writes... |
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Jimmy Carter
Julian E. Zelizer · Times Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book |
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The maverick politician from Georgia who rode the post- Watergate wave into office but whose term was consumed by economic and international crises A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter rose to national power through mastering the strategy of the maverick politician. As the face of the "New... |
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Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker
Carolyn J Brown · Univ Pr Of Mississippi
Pages: 147
Format: Book |
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Margaret Walker (1915-1998) has been described as "the most famous person nobody knows." This is a shocking oversight of an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, educator, and activist as well as friend and mentor to many prominent African American writers. Song of My Life... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN""You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book." - The Wall Street Journal"Essential reading."... |
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Wild by Nature: From Siberia to Australia, Three Years Alone in the Wilderness on Foot
Sarah Marquis · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 259
Format: Print book |
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One woman 10,000 miles on foot 6 countries 8 pairs of hiking boots 3,000 cups of tea 1,000 days and nights "The only way to survive three years of walking was to embrace the moment of now." -- from Wild by Nature Not since Cheryl Strayed gifted us with her adventure on the Pacific... |
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Charles Dickens
Jenny Hartley · Oxford University Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book |
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His characters have... |
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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
Arthur Lubow · Ecco Press
Pages: 752
Format: Print book |
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The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographsDiane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer brings... |
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Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President
David S. Heidler · Random House
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover |
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History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation's first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them. In 1789,... |
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Before Pictures
Douglas Crimp · Dancing Foxes Press ; Chicago
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is best known for his work with the "Pictures Generation" - the very name of which Crimp coined to define the work of artists like Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman who appropriated... |
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Land of Enchantment
Leigh Stein · Penguin Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Set against the stark and surreal landscape of New Mexico, Land of Enchantment is a coming-of-age memoir about young love, obsession, and loss, and how a person can imprint a place in your mind forever. When Leigh Stein received a call from an unknown number in July 2011, she let it go to voice... |
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