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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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Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
BRETT ARCHIBALD · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." -- The Wall Street JournalIn April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a surf-charter boat, making a night-time crossing of the remote Mentawai Strait off Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle of a storm, ill with... |
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Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Claire Harman · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ©2015 Pages: 480 Format: Print book
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On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing... |
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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
Daniel Swift · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A captivating biography of Ezra Pound told via the stories of his visitors at St. Elizabeths HospitalIn 1945, the great American poet Ezra Pound was deemed insane. He was due to stand trial for treason for his fascist broadcasts in Italy during the war. Instead, he escaped a possible death... |
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Burned: A True Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't
Edward Humes · Dutton Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving... |
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The Individualist - Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations
Todd Rundgren · CLEOPATRA Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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Legendary songwriter, guitarist, producer and now an offiical nominee for the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame, Todd Rundgren, pens his first ever autobiography reflecting on both his phenomenal career as well as his rollercoaster of a personal life! Over 200 pages of recollections, structured... |
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No One Tells You This: A Memoir
Glynnis MacNicol · Simon & Schuster Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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ELLE's The 30 Best Books to Read This Summer"A piercing examination of what it means both to love grown-up, complicated women - and to be one." -- Rebecca Traister, All The Single Ladies "Glynnis has written a book that is honest, hilarious and raw...it misses nothing."... |
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No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering
Clara Bensen · Running Press Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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One Dress, Three Weeks, Eight Countries - Zero BaggageNewly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking... |
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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir
ZACK MCDERMOTT · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot.... |
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin · Thorndike Press Large Print Format: Library Binding
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO?the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation... |
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All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
LIZA JESSIE PETERSON · CENTER ST Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px... |
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How We Love Is How We Live
Common · Atria Books Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Common - the Grammy Award-, Academy Award-, and Golden Globe-winning musician, actor, and activist - follows up his New York Times bestselling memoir One Day It'll All Make Sense with this inspiring exploration of how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to take better... |
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Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer
PAUL HAM · Pegasus Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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By looking deeply into the Führer's childhood, war experiences, and early political career, this rigorous narrative seeks to answer this question: How did the early, defining years of Hitler's life affect his rise to power? When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years... |
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