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The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Jeanne Safer · Picador Usa, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Dr. Jeanne Safer has dedicated much of her decades' long career in psychotherapy to exploring taboo subjects that we all think about in private but seldom discuss in public. From conflicted sibling relationships to the choice not to have children, Safer's work has always been... |
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The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems
Larry Levis · Graywolf, 2016.
Pages: 96
Format: Print book
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The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to himDid not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself became A darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves. --from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It"The Darkening Trapeze collects... |
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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
MATT TAIBBI · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 314
Format: Print book
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Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization's... |
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Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W Sears · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 884
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals... |
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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work... |
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Mustache Shenanigans: Making Super Troopers and Other Adventures in Comedy
Jay Chandrasekhar · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Director, writer, and actor Jay Chandrasekhar tells the hilarious history of his comedy group, Broken Lizard, and the making of the cult film Super Troopers, as well as the currently filming Super Troopers 2.Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing, and acting... |
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Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too
LOUIE ANDERSON · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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With wry wit and poignant humor, Louie Anderson, New York Times bestselling author and three-time Emmy Award-winning comedian starring in Zach Galifianakis's Baskets, shares his journey of turning life's challenges into joy as well as the wisdom he's gained from his mother.Louie Anderson... |
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's... |
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