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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 Art of the Wasted Day
PATRICIA HAMPL · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"A sharp and unconventional book - a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers." - Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydreamThe Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue... |
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Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon
Iris Apfel · Harper Design
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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"Iris is one of my favorite subjects to photograph. She has four eyes in front and two eyes behind, and that's why she can see things in a round-about way. She flirts with us just enough to make us fall madly in love with her, as she once did to her beloved husband Carl. In the midst... |
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Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook
Clive James · Yale Univ Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were - and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving... |
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Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer
M WILLIAM PHELPS · Kensington
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover
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"Anyone can become a killer under the right circumstances - even you." For the first time, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of "Raven," the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark Minds - and tells the story of his intriguing... |
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Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol
Steve Jones · Da Capo
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Ask anyone who knows about music and they'll tell you: without Steve Jones, punk rock would not exist. This is not hyperbole. The prototypical street-urchin-turned-Sex-Pistols-guitarist was the inspiration for and creator of the punk movement, which started shaking the culture in late... |
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A young man's moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen,... |
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Trump Talk: Donald Trump in His Own Words
George Beahm · F W Media
Pages: 194
Format: eBook
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An unbiased collection of Trump's greatest quotes! Brash, outspoken, and successful, Donald Trump is an American phenomenon. Always a controversial business leader, he's now become a major political figure, and he continues to make headlines around the globe. Even if you don't... |
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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 Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central
Christine Pelisek · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 325
Format: Print book
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Christine Pelisek - petite, blonde, Canadian - seems the least likely reporter to have broken the story on the longest running serial killer west of the Mississippi. But in 2008 she did just that with her cover story for LA Weekly, shedding light on a suspected killer of women in South... |
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The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco,... |
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Searching for booker wright.
Yvette Johnson · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal portrait.""Have... |
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We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir
Kelly Grey Carlisle · Sourcebooks
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Moving and complex, this is an exquisitely written tale of perseverance and unconditional love. A worthwhile addition to any collection." -- Library Journal, STARRED ReviewA mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both.Kelly... |
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