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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist,... |
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Gordon Corera · Pegasus Books Pages: 431 Format: Print book
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The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining... |
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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes · Knopf Format: Hardcover
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This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through... |
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American Dreamer: My Life in Fashion & Business
Tommy Hilfiger · Ballantine Books Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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In this tale of grit and glamour, setbacks and comebacks, business and pop culture icon Tommy Hilfiger shares his extraordinary life story for the first time. Few designers have stayed on top of changing trends the way Tommy Hilfiger has. Fewer still have left such an indelible mark on global... |
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Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway's Adventures as a World War II Correspondent
Terry Mort · Pegasus Books Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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From Omaha Beach on D-Day and the French Resistance to the tragedy of Huertgen Forest and the Liberation of Paris, this is the story of Ernest Hemingway's adventures in journalism during World War II. In the spring of 1944, Hemingway traveled to London and then to France to cover World... |
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
Orlando Figes · Holt & Company, Henry Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreamsIn this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian... |
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
Theresa Brown · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital's cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost,... |
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS · Harper Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
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Separated @ Birth: A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited
Samantha Futerman · G.P. Putnam's Sons Format: Hardcover
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Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, "I think we might be twins ... don't freak out ... "It all began when design student Anaïs Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anaïs found... |
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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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White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
Geoff Dyer · Pantheon Books Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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From "one of our most original writers" (Kathryn Schulz) comes an expansive and exacting book - firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive - about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's perennial... |
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John Muir: The Man Who Saved America's Wild Places
Mary Colwell · Lion Hudson; 1st New edition edition Format: Hardcover
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An in-depth portrait of John Muir, the founder of the U.S. National Parks and the founder and first president of the Sierra Club John Muir was the founder of the U.S. National Parks and a towering figure in the history of that country's involvement with ecology. Born into a harsh... |
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The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl: Adventures in Life and Love in the Heart of Dixie
Jaime Primak Sullivan · Simon & Schuster Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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Jaime Primak Sullivan, outspoken star of Bravo TV's Jersey Belle, offers no-nonsense Southern-spun advice for navigating life and love with her signature charismatic Jersey charm in this winning fish-out-of-water tale.Jamie Primak Sullivan, a Jersey-bred, tough-as-nails PR maven - and unlikely... |
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi · Scribner Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from... |
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A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
Janice Hadlow · Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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The Times Best Books of the Year * The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year The New Statesman Book of the Year selection by Lucy Hughes-Hallett BBC History Magazine Book of the Year selection by Helen Rappaport"A masterpiece . . . . [T]his heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction... |
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