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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Michael Sims · Bloomsbury
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
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Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.Working from nineteenth-century... |
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Radiation Days: The Rollicking, Lighthearted Story of a Man and His Cancer
L F Hoffman · W W Norton
Pages: 263
Format: Print book
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What's it worth to you to live another year?Writer, poet, foodie, and storyteller Lynn Hoffman considers that question in Radiation Days, a memoir of his experience fighting throat cancer.How many arrows will you put up with? How often are you willing to puke? What's a good day, no, what's... |
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The Long Game: A Memoir
Mitch Mcconnell · Sentinel
Pages: 278
Format: Print book
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In October 1984, a hard-charging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for President Ronald Reagan to arrive at a presidential rally in Louisville. In the midst of a tough Senate campaign against an incumbent Democrat, the young Republican hoped Reagan's endorsement would give a much-needed... |
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Publisher for the Masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius
R Alton Lee · Bison Books
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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His admirers called him the "Barnum of Books" and the "Voltaire of Kansas" because of his ability to bring culture and education to the people. R. Alton Lee brings to life Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) , a writer-publisher-entrepreneur who was one of America's... |
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The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir
D. Watkins · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, but told by the man who lived it, THE COOK UP is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade portrayed in The Wire and an incredible story of redemption. The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore,... |
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The Auctioneer: Adventures in the Art Trade
Simon De Pury · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Just as William Goldman, the ultimate screenwriter, took us inside Hollywood, Simon de Pury, the ultimate art player, will take us inside an even more secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front page news almost every day. The former Chairman... |
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Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
Renata Calverley · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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September, 1939. Przemysl, Poland. No one has explained to three-year-old Renatka what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is away with the Polish Army, that her beautiful Mamusia is no longer allowed to work at the university, and that their frequent visitors—among them Great... |
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Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway's Adventures as a World War II Correspondent
Terry Mort · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From Omaha Beach on D-Day and the French Resistance to the tragedy of Huertgen Forest and the Liberation of Paris, this is the story of Ernest Hemingway's adventures in journalism during World War II. In the spring of 1944, Hemingway traveled to London and then to France to cover World... |
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Finding Lina: A Mother's Journey from Autism to Hope
Helena Hjalmarsson · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Lina was a precocious toddler—charming, chatty, joyful. At the age of three, in the aftermath of her second MMR vaccine, first came a seizure, and then, to her parents’ horror, the loss of Lina’s ability to play, use language, and control her impulses. Over the next few years... |
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24 Karat Etiquette: Golden Rules from the World's Most Glamorous Zip C
Lisa Gache · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book
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In Beverly Hills, fame and wealth can buy everything—except class, grace, and sophistication. In 24 Karat Etiquette, Lisa Gaché offers a behind-the-scenes look at Beverly Hills residents’ unique social dilemmas through the eyes of an etiquette expert, tasked with transforming... |
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