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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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To Break or Bounce: Finding Balance, Stability, and Resilience in Our Lives
Dr. Shelley Plumb · Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Format: Paperback
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The action in Shelley Plumb's powerful story of rediscovery and emotional healing takes place over the course of a single day the day of her grandmother's funeral. As she wanders her grandmother's property, a place where she spent much of her childhood, the author is inundated... |
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Warhol
Blake Gopnik · Ecco
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his - or any - age To this day, mention the name "Andy Warhol" to almost anyone and you'll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became... |
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American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
Marie Mutsuki Mockett · Graywolf Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett's father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming... |
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Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
Tom Clavin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times"With a former newsman's nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we will ever get of the old West's most famous feud." -- Associated Press The true story of the Earp brothers,... |
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Galileo: And the Science Deniers
Mario Livio · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Galileo's story may be more relevant today than ever before. At present, we face enormous crises - such as the minimization of the dangers of climate change - because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo encountered this problem 400 years ago.... |
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Keep What You Love: A Visual Decluttering Guide
Irene Smit · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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In this whimsical yet practical guide to sorting through the too-much-stuff of modern life, the premise is simple: on each page, a delightful illustration of items that fill our lives - novelty ice cube trays, a manual typewriter, game pieces, that souvenir snow globe. And beneath each... |
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker · Doubleday
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established... |
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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Madeleine Albright · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants - reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring... |
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner · Hachette Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter... |
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Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
Victoria James · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An affecting memoir from the country's youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world At just twenty-one, the age when most people are starting to drink (well, legally at least) , Victoria James became the country's youngest sommelier... |
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