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Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
Kelley French · Little Brown and Company Pages: 336 Format: Print book |
A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head... |
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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Rachel Corbett · W W Norton Pages: 336 Format: Print book |
The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block. When Rilke... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker · Penguin Books Pages: 736 Format: Print book |
In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Dalai Lama · Avery Pub Group Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity. The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness... |
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The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
Gavin Edwards · Random House Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
This collection of the most epic, hilarious, and strange Bill Murray stories from the past four decades spotlights the star's extraordinary ability to infuse the everyday with surprise, absurdity, and wonder.No one will ever believe you.New York Times bestselling author Gavin Edwards, like... |
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin · Liveright Publishing Corp Pages: 656 Format: Print book |
This long-awaited biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master. Still known to millions only as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) remains curiously absent from... |
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TV
Alan Sepinwall · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 432 Format: Print book |
Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown... |
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She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron
Richard Cohen · Simon & Schuster Pages: 320 Format: Print book |
Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship.Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist,... |
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