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Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love
Brad Gooch · Harper Pages: 400 Format: Print book
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers.Ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born over eight centuries... |
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Charlemagne
Johannes Fried · Harvard University Press Pages: 688 Format: Print book
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When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating... |
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American Dreamer: My Life in Fashion & Business
Tommy Hilfiger · Ballantine Books Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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In this tale of grit and glamour, setbacks and comebacks, business and pop culture icon Tommy Hilfiger shares his extraordinary life story for the first time. Few designers have stayed on top of changing trends the way Tommy Hilfiger has. Fewer still have left such an indelible mark on global... |
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Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
Mara Wilson · Penguin Books Pages: 259 Format: Print book
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""Growing up, I wanted to BE Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight."--Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City "Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking, Where Am I Now? reminds you that no matter how unique your life is, some things bind us all together."... |
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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
Sarah Gristwood · Basic Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule - whether they were on the throne or behind the scenes, women held unprecedented power for more than a hundred years. From Isabella of Castile, her daughter Katherine of Aragon, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici,... |
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
William F Jr Buckley · Crown Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique... |
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Tell Me More: And 11 Other Important Things I'm Learning to Say
KELLY CORRIGAN · Random House Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place "Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth... |
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Angelic Music: The Story of Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica
Corey Mead · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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A jewel of musical history - the story of Ben Franklin's favorite invention, the glass armonica - including the composers who wrote for it (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, among others) ; Dr. Mesmer who used it to hypnotize; Marie Antoinette and the women who popularized it; its decline... |
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Clancys of queens
Tara Clancy · Crown Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited... |
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Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter R. Borneman · Random House Format: Book
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In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda:... |
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The ex : a novel
Alafair Burke · Harper Audio Format: Audiobook
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Widower Jack Harris has resisted the dating scene ever since the shooting of his wife Molly by a fifteen-year-old boy three years ago. An early morning run along the Hudson River changes that when he spots a woman in last nights party dress, barefoot, enjoying a champagne picnic alone,... |
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Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography
Philip Gefter · Liveright Publishing Corporation Pages: 458 Format: Print book
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Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable... |
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Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
Scott Simon · Flatiron Books Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller"In a return to the bighearted storytelling that made him a star NPR correspondent, [Simon] pays full tribute to the ex-showgirl who...taught her only son to be honest, kind, and entertaining. Be assured, tears will fall."--People Magazine "In... |
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History
Arlene Alda · Henry Holt and Co. Format: Kindle Edition
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"A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." - President Bill Clinton "Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." - Barbara WaltersA touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's... |
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