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Letters to Memory
Karen Tei Yamashita · Coffee House Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." - NPR"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." - New York Times Book ReviewWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous,... |
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Drop-Dead Easy Knits
Gale Zucker · Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Finally, a knitting book featuring fantastic projects that don't require you to study a pattern for hours--a sure recipe for blissful, carefree knitting. A book of great potential gifts and keepsakes, this collection of 30 dynamic projects--from blankets to simple sweaters to wraps--is... |
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An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels
Gabriele Amorth · Sophia Institute Press
Pages: 145
Format: Print book
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From Fr. Gabriel Amorth, the renowned exorcist in Rome, comes this powerful, eye-opening book on the deadly antics of Satan and his fallen angels, as well as spiritual remedies for each. These pages provide a basic orientation in the dark phenomenology, succinctly explaining Catholic doctrine... |
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The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights
Shaun Assael · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 303
Format: Print book
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A daring investigation into the mysterious death of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, set against the dawn of the 1970s, when the mob was fighting to keep control of the Las Vegas Strip, Richard Nixon was launching America's first war on heroin, and boxing was in its glory days.On January... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston · Hachette Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Edward O. Wilson · Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature.In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most... |
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
MICHAEL V HAYDEN · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more importantIn the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence,... |
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One hundred million years of food
Stephen Le · Picador
Pages: 309
Format: eBook
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"Travelling around the world to places as far-flung as Vietnam, Kenya, India, and the US, Stephen Le introduces us to people who are growing, cooking, and eating food using both traditional and modern methods, striving for a sustainable, healthy diet ... Le contends that our ancestral... |
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
KHIZR KHAN · Random House
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream."Khan's aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands." - Kirkus Reviews In fewer than... |
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For the Love of the South: Recipes and Stories from My Southern Kitchen
Amber Wilson · Harper Design
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The creator of the popular food blog For the Love of the South captures the essence of Southern culture - a deep devotion to family, friends, and food - in a charming cookbook featuring delicious, comforting recipes, her recollections of growing up on the bayous of Louisiana, and more than... |
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See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
Lorrie Moore · Knopf
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book... |
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Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard
STEPHEN TAYLOR · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and unconventional figure, Anne Barnard lived a life that might have been the outline of a novel by her contemporary, Jane Austen, or by Edith Wharton.She was born in Scotland in 1772, lived at the heart of Georgian society, and yet defined herself by defiance of convention.... |
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