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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Kirstin Downey · Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity... |
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Sex Object: A Memoir
Jessica Valenti · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. Sex Objectexplores the painful,... |
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Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
Alice Waters · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant"... |
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The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Richard W. Etulain · University of Oklahoma Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American... |
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Laura Caldwell · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity.... |
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The Last Rescue: How Faith and Love Saved a Navy SEAL Sniper
Joel Kilpatrick · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of war, a Navy SEAL finds faith, hope, and love. Howard Wasdin, author of SEAL Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper twenty-two weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, survived the firestorm made famous in Black Hawk Down only to return to a world without... |
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Nicholas Reynolds · William Morrow
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "riveting"* international cloak-and-dagger epic, here is the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life -- including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo" -- that fueled his art and his undoing.In 2010, while... |
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My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
Maurice/ Powell Herb White · Amistad
Pages: 386
Format: Print book
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The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to influence music today. With an introduction... |
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The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir
JIMMY WEBB · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Jimmy Webb's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He's the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York Times Bestseller * "Bright... |
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose voices moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George... |
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Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chr
Jarem Sawatsky · Red Canoe Press
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback
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Diagnosed with a disease that can't be reversed? Learn how to keep living life to the fullest. Have you received a terminal or chronic diagnosis? Is your mind succumbing to age or illness? Can you ever find joy, peace, or fulfillment in these challenging conditions? The answer is a resounding... |
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Without you : a memoir of love, loss, and the musical Rent
Anthony Rapp · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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Actor Rapp recounts his life-changing experience in the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent. Rapp had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical from his first audition, so he was thrilled when he landed a starring role. When Rent opened to thunderous... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Blanche Wiesen Cook · Viking
Pages: 688
Format: Print book
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"Outstanding ... A winning concluding volume in a series that does for Eleanor Roosevelt what Robert Caro has done for Lyndon Johnson." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewThe final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady.Historians, politicians, critics,... |
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