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Sublime Physick: Essays
Patrick Madden · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 244
Format: Print book
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A follow-up to Patrick Madden's award-winning debut, this introspective and exuberant collection of essays is wide-ranging and wild, following bifurcating paths of thought to surprising connections. In Sublime Physick, Madden seeks what is common and ennobling among seemingly disparate,... |
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Final Destination: Disaster: What Really Happened to Eastern Airlines
George Jehn · Changing Lives Press
Pages: 257
Format: Print book
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Final Destination: Disaster informs the public, for the very first time, what actually precipitated the controversial sale of Eastern Air Lines, at one time the second largest airline in the free world, to Frank Lorenzo's Texas Air Corporation, which led to its certain demise. It is written... |
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Dagger 22: U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
Michael Golembesky · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The sequel to New York Times bestseller Level Zero HeroesLevel Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky's bestselling account of Marine Special Operations Team 8222 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, was just the beginning for these now battle-hardened special operations warriors.The unforgiving Afghan... |
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Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living
Paul Collins · New Harvest; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English... |
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Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis
Joseph Tabbi · Northwestern University Press
Format: Hardcover
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During his lifetime, William Gaddis (1922-1998) evaded biographical questions, never read from his work publicly, and didn't allow his photograph to appear on his books. Before his novel J R (1975) won Gaddis the National Book Award and some measure of renown, he had given up the bohemian... |
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The Backwash of War: The Classic Account of a First World War Field-Hospital
Ellen N. La Motte · Conway
Format: Hardcover
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"War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be purified. Well, there are many people to write you of the noble side, the heroic side, the exalted side. I must write you of what I have seen, the other side, the backwash." —Ellen... |
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Where Memory Leads: My Life
Saul Friedländer · Other Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In this sequel to the classic work of Holocaust literature When Memory Comes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns to memoir to recount this tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedländer returns with WHEN... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture." -- New York... |
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The Blue Cascade: A Memoir of Life after War
Mike Scotti · Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. As one of the soldiers on the front line of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Scotti was taught that weakness is what gets you killed: no hesitation, focus your energies on your objective, and complete the mission. Upon returning... |
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Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches
Anna Politkovskaya · Melville House; Tra edition
Format: Paperback
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A collection of final dispatches by the famed journalist, including the first translation of the work that may have led to her murderAnna Politkovskaya won international fame for her courageous reporting. Is Journalism Worth Dying For? is a long-awaited collection of her final writing.Beginning... |
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Female Executions: Martyrs, Murderesses and Madwomen
Geoffrey Abbott · Summersdale; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The fairer sex get it in the neck in these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine, and gas chamber From Nan Hereford, the cloaked highwayman who held up coaches with just her fists, to the woman who survived the gallows and took her empty coffin away with her, this book illuminates... |
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Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.
Delia Ephron · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, sisterhood, movies, and family. In Losing Nora, she deftly captures the rivalry, mutual respect, and intimacy that made up her relationship... |
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
Douglas Smith · Farrar
Pages: 832
Format: Print book
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On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figureA hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels,... |
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