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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through... |
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Jeffrey Toobin · Doubleday
Pages: 371
Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress... |
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Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius
Laurence Bergreen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 544
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the impoverished child, abandoned by his parents, who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius whose name still resonates today: Giacomo Casanova.Today, "Casanova" is a synonym for "great lover," yet the real... |
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Yo soy el hijo del cartel de Cali
William RodrÃguez · Aguilar
Format: Print book
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Yo soy el hijo del cartel de Cali es el testimonio de William RodrÃguez AbadÃa, hijo y sobrino de Miguel y Gilberto RodrÃguez Orejuela, fundadores de una de las organizaciones criminales más temidas de Colombia en la década de los noventa. Por primera vez y con un tono Ãntimo, el heredero... |
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
LELAND MELVIN · Amistad
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success.Leland Melvin is the only... |
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Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939
Edgar Feuchtwanger · Other Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling... |
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The lives of Frederick Douglass
Robert S Levine · Harvard University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are put side by side and consideration... |
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Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
TIM BAUERSCHMIDT · HarperOne
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover
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When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height... |
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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy · Picador USA
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black AmericansWhen Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will... |
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The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
Bela Zombory-Moldovan · NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback
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Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World War An NYRB Classics Original The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away,... |
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18 and Life on Skid Row
Sebastian Bach · HarperCollins Publishers 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records... |
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The Incest Diary
Anonymous · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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"Anonymous memoir of a daughter's abuse by, and attachment to, her father"-- |
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