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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez · Hachette Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated motivational speaker and YouTube sensation Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a "culture of kindness" and a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always... |
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
Hermione Lee · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW' S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle TimesWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyThe acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most... |
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Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Nell Stevens · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with wry writing advice, Bleaker House is a story of creative struggle that brilliantly captures the self-torture of the writing life. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but life kept getting in the way.... |
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Little Labors
Rivka Galchen · New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Rivka Galchen's Little Labors is a droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies and literatureSei Shonagon's Pillow Book -- a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen's new book -- contains a list of "Things That Make One Nervous."... |
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I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
Joanna Connors · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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"This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn."When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown... |
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Die Young with Me: A Memoir
Rob Rufus · Touchstone Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes the incredibly moving true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer and how music was the one thing that helped him get through his darkest days.Punk's not dead in rural West Virginia. In fact,... |
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Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Cat Cora · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Remarkably candid, compulsively readable, renowned chef Cat Cora's no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage, and the meals that have shaped her memories.Before she became a celebrated chef, Cathy Cora was just a girl from Jackson, Mississippi, where... |
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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
LENORA CHU · Harper
Pages: 347
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors' PickIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education... |
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True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy
Kati Marton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carré, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to.True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American... |
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All at Sea: A Memoir
Decca Aitkenhead · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's... |
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Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran
Barry Meier · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help... |
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Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir
Ron Perlman · Da Capo Press
Format: eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The candid, revealing, hilarious, and inspiring memoir of the iconic star of the Hellboy movies, Beauty and the Beast, and Sons of Anarchy |
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