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One Tragic Night: The Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial
Mandy Wiener · St. Martin's Press
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At 0803 on the morning of Valentines Day 2013, news broke that Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympic superstar known as the Blade Runner, had shot and killed his girlfriend at his luxury home in Pretoria, South Africa. Within minutes, the story reverberated around the world as banners flashed... |
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Van Gogh: A Power Seething
Julian Bell · New Harvest
Format: Hardcover |
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"I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and - of the artistic life," Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. "And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there's a chance that our hopes won't be in vain." His prediction... |
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Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation
Robert J. Norrell · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) , and Roots (1976) . They changed the way white and black... |
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The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour-and the
Sheila Weller · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover |
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"Weller rivetingly recounts these gutsy ladies' time on the front lines... an inspiration for future generations of journalists." --Vanity FairFor decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women - Diane Sawyer,... |
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The Radical King
Cornel West · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover |
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A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic... |
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Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
Leah Vincent · Nan A. Talese
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In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox... |
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Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Claire Harman · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ©2015
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing... |
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The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form,... |
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