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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Janis: Her Life and Music
George-Warren, Holly · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues,... |
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
Brands, H. W. · Basic Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution,... |
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your... |
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American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way
Freedman, Paul · Liveright
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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With an ambitious sweep over two hundred years, Paul Freedman's lavishly illustrated history shows that there actually is an American cuisine. For centuries, skeptical foreigners -- and even millions of Americans -- have believed there was no such thing as American cuisine. In recent... |
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Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance
Ady Barkan · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In this inspirational and moving memoir - reminiscent of When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Hour - activist Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all. Ady Barkan loved taking afternoon... |
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Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks
Wilson-Lee, Kelcey · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Revealing the truth behind the life of a royal princess in medieval England, the colorful story of the five remarkable daughters of King Edward I. Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized -- and largely mythical -- notion... |
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