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Florence Foster Jenkins
Nicholas Martin · St. Martin's Griffin Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.' Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE · Sarah Crichton Books Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty... |
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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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Chasing Hope: A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future
Richard M Cohen · Blue Rider Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening... |
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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 Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers
Craig Harrison sniper · St. Martin's Press Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan,... |
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
Liz Pryor · Random House Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year... |
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When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the People Who Died and the People Who Lived On
Joni Foster · Red Raku Press Pages: 153 Format: Paperback
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In 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The store owner grabbed the package and ran down the back... |
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
Joan Juliet Buck · Atria Books Pages: 416 Format: Print book
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From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold,... |
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Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
Jens Andersen · Yale University Press Pages: 360 Format: Hardcover
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The first English‑language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed... |
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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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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Richard Russo · Knopf Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, ranging throughout writing and reading and living.In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life... |
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