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Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life
David R Dow · Twelve, 2014. Pages: 273 Format: Print book
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"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone." In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row.... |
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Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen
Sheila Johnson Kindred · McGill-Queen's University Press Pages: 296 Format: Hardcover
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In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited... |
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Barry Strauss · Simon & Schuster Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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The exciting, dramatic story of one of history's most famous events - the death of Julius Caesar - now placed in full context of Rome's civil wars by eminent historian Barry Strauss.Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history.... |
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Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
Jens Andersen · Yale University Press Pages: 360 Format: Hardcover
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The first English‑language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed... |
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Unashamed
Lecrae Moore · B&H Publishing Group Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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"If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from theirrejection. " Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.... |
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The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
Eric Burns · Pegasus Books, 2016. Pages: 300 Format: Print book
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Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most fascinating and written-about presidents in American history -- yet the most poignant tale about this larger-than-life man has never been told.More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate.... |
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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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Appetites: A Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain · Ecco Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family... |
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Judy Melinek · Scribner, 2014. ©2014 Pages: 258 Format: Paperback
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"Fun ... and full of smart science. Fans of CSI - the real kind - will want to read it" (The Washington Post) : A young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the hair-raising cases that shaped her as a physician and human being.Just two months... |
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Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
Ben Greenman · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related... |
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The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust
Laura Smith · Viking Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventureAt twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiancé, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard... |
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Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
Edmund White · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn’t speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture.... |
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Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes
Kristen Beddard · Sourcebooks Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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A memoir of love, life, and recipes from the woman who brought kale to the City of Light The story of how one expat woman left her beloved behind when she moved to France-her beloved kale, that is. Unable to find le chou kale anywhere upon moving to the City of Light with her new husband,... |
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Dadland
Keggie Carew · Atlantic Monthly Pages: 432 Format: Print book
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Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. For most of her adult life, Keggie was kept at arm's length from her father's personal history, but when she is invited to join him for the sixtieth anniversary of the Jedburghs... |
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