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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
MICHAEL CHABON · Harper Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover
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"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays - heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise - on the meaning of fatherhood, anchored by the viral sensation, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion".For the September 2016... |
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Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
Kimberly Harrington · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio Pages: 1 Format: Audiobook
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Being a mother is a gift.'' Where's my receipt?Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington's poetic, hysterically funny (and occasionally just hysterical) world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood, not necessarily in that order. It's a place of loud parenting, fierce loving, too much... |
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Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
Ramie Targoff · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian RenaissanceRamie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa... |
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
Tessa Fontaine · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Tessa Fontaine's astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery-- through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother. Turns... |
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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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The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers
Marcia Gay Harden · Atria Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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In this poetic and inspiring memoir, one of America's most revered actresses uses the imagery of flowers and the art of Ikebana to depict the unique creative bond that she has had with her mother throughout the years - and how, together, they are facing her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's... |
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Lear: The Great Image of Authority
Harold Bloom · Scribner Pages: 176 Format: Hardcover
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Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear - the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last... |
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The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior
MICHAEL K JONES · Pegasus Books Pages: 488 Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable and inspiring story of one of the greatest warrior-princes of the Middle Ages -- and an unforgettably vivid portrait of warfare and chivalry in the fourteen century.As a child he was given his own suit of armor; at the age of sixteen, he helped defeat the French at Crécy.... |
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A World to Win: The Life and Thought of Karl Marx
SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN · Verso Pages: 768 Format: Hardcover
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Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birthIn this essential new biography - the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx - Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent... |
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