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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!
Nicholas Carlson · Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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When Yahoo hired Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California headquarters. On them there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge... |
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Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal · Dutton
Pages: 317
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human. Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal... |
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One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine
Kathleen Gallagher · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The breathtaking story of a young boy with a never-before-seen disease, and the doctors who take a bold step into the future of medicine to save him - based on the authors' Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting.In this landmark medical narrative, in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta... |
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The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
Virginia DeJohn Anderson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general,... |
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The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Vivek J Tiwary · Published by M Press, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc., 2013.
Pages: 135
Format: Print book
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The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatles-from their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than merely the story of "The Man Who Made The Beatles," The Fifth... |
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A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain
Christina Crosby · New York University Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested... |
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Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies
Tara Ison · Soft Skull Press
Format: Print book
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Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues... |
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Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
Holly FitzGerald · Vintage
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride - the wildest - down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles... |
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Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
Kelley French · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head... |
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Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography
Brendan King · Bloomsbury
Pages: 564
Format: Print book
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Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the best loved and most recognizable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973) ,The Bottle Factory Outing (1974) , An Awfully Big Adventure (1990) , Every... |
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Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
Annia Ciezadlo · Free Press; Reprint edition
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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American Book Award WinnerWinner of Books for a Better Life Award (First Book)James Beard Foundation Award NomineeBNN Discover Awards, second place nonfiction IN THE FALL OF 2003, AS IRAQ DESCENDED INTO CIVIL WAR, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. For the next six years, she lived... |
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