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It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree
A J JACOBS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family - where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "Family of Humankind."A.J.... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 300
Format: eBook
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Ladies Night at the Dreamland
Sonja Livingston · The University of Georgia Press
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend, and personal memory. The result is a series of essays that highlight lives as varied, troubled, and spirited as America itself. |
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Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars
DAVID HEPWORTH · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our cultureRecklessness, thy name is rock.The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed.... |
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Yiyun Li · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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In her first nonfiction book, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable?"What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?"Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this... |
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Prince: A Private View
AFSHIN SHAHIDI · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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When Prince wanted to document his One Nite Alone tour in 2002, he turned to Afshin Shahidi. Again in 2004, he went along on Prince's record breaking Musicology Tour. Afshin met Prince in 1989 and became his cinematographer and later his photographer. He was the photographer closest to Prince... |
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The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat
Kevin Flynn · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the archives of The New York Times, 165 years of the most notorious real-life crimes. For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime, its reporters racing alongside tabloids to track the shocking incidents that disrupt daily life. This fascinating... |
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Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour · Grove Press
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
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"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
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Other People: Takes & Mistakes
David Shields · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation. Can one person know another person? How do we live through... |
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To Siri With Love: A Mother, her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the viral New York Times piece ''To Siri with Love'' comes a collection of touching and hilarious stories about a 13-year-old autistic boy and his intimate relationship with Apple's automated personal assistant, Siri.When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apple's... |
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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders · Da Capo Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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Out of Idaho
Regina Calcaterra · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival. They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic... |
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