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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein
JAMIE BERNSTEIN · Harper Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television... |
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And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
Meaghan O'Connell · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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One of the most anticipated books of 2018 -- Esquire, Elle, Nylon, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, GoodReads, The Millions, BookRiot, The Week."The biggest compliment of all: I used several hours of daylight childcare hours reading this book, just because I didn't want to put it down."... |
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The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Serhii Plokhy · Basic Books Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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"From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a KGB assassin whose defection to the West changed the face of Cold War espionage" In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets... |
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To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder
Nancy Rommelmann · Little A Format: Hardcover
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The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children?On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River.... |
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN · Random House Pages: 166 Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly... |
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Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
Florence Welch · Crown Archetype Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic vocalist of Florence and the MachineSongs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't... |
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Dani Shapiro · Alfred A Knopf Pages: 160 Format: Print book
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The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry... |
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Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography
Johnny Marr · Dey Street Books Pages: 480 Format: Print book
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The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths.An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memoir as vivid and arresting as his music. The Smiths, the band with the signature sound he cofounded,... |
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The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
NIKKI MEREDITH · Citadel Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. At their murder trial the following year, lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi described the two so-called Manson Women as "human... |
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Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto
Lesley Hazleton · Riverhead Books Pages: 224 Format: Print book
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A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging - and ultimately the most honest - stance toward the mysteries of existence. One in four Americans reject any affiliation with organized religion, and nearly half of those under thirty describe themselves... |
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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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The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign
Thomas Oliphant · Simon & Schuster Pages: 448 Format: eBook
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A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate... |
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On Bowie
Rob Sheffield · Dey Street Books Pages: 208 Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January... |
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Unti Bruce Dickinson
BRUCE DICKINSON · Dey Street Books Pages: 371 Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalist of Iron Maiden, one of the most successful, influential and enduring rock bands ever.Pioneers of Britain's nascent Rock & Metal scene back in the late 1970s, Iron Maiden smashed its way to the top, thanks in no small... |
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