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The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers
Jon Pessah · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover |
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The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty yearsIn the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their... |
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The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
Harold Bloom · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHailed as "the indispensable critic" by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom - New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University - has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion... |
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Unfriending My Ex: Confessions of a Social Media Addict
Kim Stolz · Scribner,
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback |
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"In this candid and insightful new memoir, Kim Stolz discusses the trials and tribulations of our obsession with social media and mobile technology...a Tweet-worthy, share-worthy, Instagrammable look into our society and the lives we create online." - Harper's Bazaar An incisive,... |
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Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
Judd Apatow · Random House
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years - including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne Barr,... |
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What If?
Randall Munroe · Mariner Books
Pages: 303
Format: Print book |
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From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language,... |
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Brigid Schulte · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover |
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Can working parents in America - or anywhere - ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously... |
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101 Two-Letter Words
Stephin Merritt · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A one-of-a-kind celebration of the 101 two-letter words allowed in Scrabble.Rolling Stone has called singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields the Cole Porter of his generation O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as the wryest pen since Dorothy Parkers.... |
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Digest
Gregory Pardlo · Four Way; First Edition /First Printing edition |
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Rich in intertextuality, 'Digest' improvises form and contemplates the canon while pushing us to question the identities we create. |
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Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees...and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have
Bill Geist · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning... |
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