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Year of the Monkey
Smith, Patti · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti... |
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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Jim Mattis · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis - the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time - and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.... |
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Austin, Nefertiti · Sourcebooks
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In America, Mother = WhiteThat's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted... |
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Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe
Birch, Will · Da Capo Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, best-known for "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" Described as "Britain's greatest living songwriter," Nick Lowe... |
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
Renia Spiegel · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into EnglishRenia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start... |
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One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels
Vaughters, Jonathan · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, throught he eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures.Jonathan Vaughters' story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown... |
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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
Sue Roe · Penguin
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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'Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed' The TimesDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic creativity became the cradle... |
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Condé Nast: The Man and His Empire -- A Biography
Susan Ronald · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Condé Nast's life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth... |
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The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
Sherman, Anna · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residentsFrom 1632 until 1854, Japan's rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. In hypnotic prose and sensual detail, Anna Sherman describes... |
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Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
Whittock, Martyn · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and revealing history of one of the most seminal events in American history as seen through fourteen diverse and dynamic figures. Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist... |
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