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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Richard Munson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country.Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants.... |
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
Rob Sheffield - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop's most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns... |
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In Love and Trust: Letters from a Zen Master
Thich Nhat Hanh - Parallax Press
Format: Paperback
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Experience Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh's expressions of love, connection, and wisdom through deep and personal letters - now published in English for the very first time.. Widely recognized for his profound yet accessible teachings on the art of mindful living, Thich Nhat Hanh lived... |
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Frighten the Horses
Oliver Radclyffe - Roxane Gay Books
Format: Hardcover
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A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one's life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes. . From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed... |
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Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions - and mutual antagonisms - of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.. Could you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan? - Eve Babitz, in a letter... |
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How Banksy Saved Art History
Kelly Grovier - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A new take on the history of art through the eyes of the international phenomenon that is Banksy.Few would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also a perceptive art historian might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad memorable... |
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Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
Richard Bernstein - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer. Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington,... |
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Lovely One: A Memoir
Ketanji Brown Jackson - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji BrownJackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's... |
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