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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M. Blow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place... |
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On Michael Jackson
Margo Jefferson · Pantheon Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against... |
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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Tom Robbins · HarperCollins Publishers Pages: 362 Format: Print book
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Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels - including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce... |
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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
Karen Abbott · Random House; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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The author of the acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller "Sin in the Second City" returns with the gripping and expansive story of America's coming-of-age--told through the extraordinary life of Gypsy Rose Lee and the world she survived and conquered.A pair of sister... |
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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
Nancy Isenberg · Viking Adult; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him The narrative of Americaxs founding is filled with godlike geniusesxFranklin Washington Adams Jeffersonxversus the villainous Aaron Burr Generations have been told Burr was a betrayerxof... |
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Composed: A Memoir
Rosanne Cash · Viking Adult; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriter For thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.... |
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Big in China
Alan Paul · Harper; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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"What a romp….Alan Paul walked the walk, preaching the blues in China. Anyone who doubts that music is bigger than words needs to read this great tale." —Gregg Allman "An absolute love story. In his embrace of family, friends, music and the new culture... |
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Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
Amir D. Aczel · Atria; 1 edition Format: Deckle Edge]
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In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before... |
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