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Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
Anne Boyd Rioux · W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. Pages: 416 Format: Print book
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"Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!"?Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American ModernismConstance Fenimore Woolson... |
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
KHIZR KHAN · Random House Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring memoir by the Gold Star parent and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream and why - especially in these tumultuous times - we must not be afraid to step forward for what we believe in when it matters most. The American is an intensely... |
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The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
Mayte Garcia · Hachette Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the one-year anniversary of his death, legendary musician Prince's first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside the personal and professional life of one of the world's most beloved icons. In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired... |
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Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann
Frederic Spotts · Yale University Press Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant... |
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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother
Donald Sturrock · Penguin Books Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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From the author of The BFG - soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Bill Hader, and Adam Godley - a whimsical, witty, and revealing collection of the legendary children's author and writer... |
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Camille T Dungy · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history.As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely... |
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Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
JANET MOCK · Atria Books Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world - without a road map to guide her.The journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation... |
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The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide
John Brooks · Scribner, 2016. Pages: 224 Format: Print book
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An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director,... |
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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
ANN HOOD · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 186 Format: Hardcover
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A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story... |
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The Iceberg: A Memoir
Marion Coutts · Grove Press, Black Cat Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Winner of the Wellcome PrizeA finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award"A memoir quite unlike any other. It has the strength of an arrow: taut, spiked, quavering, working to its fatal conclusion...an extraordinary story told in an extraordinary way." - The Sunday... |
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Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
Deborah Beatriz Blum · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time. The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge... |
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN · RANDOM House Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer - and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries... |
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