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At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
Thich Nhat Hanh · Parallax Pr
Format: Print book
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This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking, inspiring, and enjoyable to read. Collected here for the first time, these stories span the author's life. There are stories from Thich Nhat Hanh's childhood... |
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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
Marianne Monson · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 198
Format: Print book
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Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades... |
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The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney
William J Birnes · Gallery Books
Pages: 601
Format: Print book
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A definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on exclusive interviews, and with those who knew him best, including his heretofore unknown mistress of sixty years."I lived like a rock... |
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Beloved Strangers: A Memoir
Maria Chaudhuri · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 199
Format: Hardcover
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One of Maria Chaudhuri's early memories growing up in Dhaka was planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Home was not an especially unhappy place, but in Maria's family, joy was ephemeral. With a mother who yearned for the mountains and the solitariness and freedom to pursue... |
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Part Swan, Part Goose: An Uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family
Swoosie Kurtz · Perigee Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a wise, warmhearted memoir that celebrates her extraordinary life and stellar career, Swoosie Kurtz shares just the right combination of personal misadventure and showbiz lore, candidly reflecting on the right choices that empowered her, the wrong choices that enlightened her, and the intimate... |
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Glenn Miller Declassified
Dennis M Spragg · Potomac Books
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special) , boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel the plane vanished. No trace of the aircraft or its occupants has ever... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana · Knopf
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world;... |
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The Keillor Reader
Garrison Keillor · Viking Books
Pages: 361
Format: Hardcover
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Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done - a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist,... |
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Sarah Perry · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal.... |
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
PATRISSE KAHN-CULLORS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born."This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized... |
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Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
Graydon Carter · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A collection of beloved authors on their favorite writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair What did A. Scott Berg find in Ernest Hemingway's papers in Cuba? How did meeting e.e.... |
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Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
Katherine Ramsland PhD · Foreedge
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself "B.T.K."... |
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Whitey on Trial: Secrets, Corruption, and the Search for Truth
Margaret McLean · Forge
Pages: 367
Format: Print book
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After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns... |
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In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders
KATHRYN CASEY · William Morrow
Pages: 496
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Courthouse. Two months later, a massacre. The day before Easter, the couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower... |
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