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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive... |
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Scott Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.The veteran of four space flights and the American... |
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN · Ecco
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
ALISON WEIR · Ballantine Books
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and moralizing. Now, in the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author and esteemed... |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks... |
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The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up
Michael J Meyer · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries,... |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
David Yaffe · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty... |
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Grant
Ron Chernow · Penguin Press
Pages: 928
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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Killings
Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden."... |
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