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Why Religion?: A Personal Story
ELAINE PAGELS · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help... |
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie · Little
Pages: 457
Format: Book
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One of the most anticipated books of 2017--Entertainment Weekly and Bustle A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Family relationships... |
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A Good Time to be a Girl
Helena Morrissey · William Collins
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Five years have passed since women were exhorted to 'Lean In'. Over that time, the world has transformed beyond all expectations. But why should anyone 'lean in' to a patriarchal system that is out of date? Why not change it entirely for the good of us all?Five years have... |
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First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
Susan Swain · PublicAffairs
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians for C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image. This book provides an up-close historical look at these fascinating women who survived... |
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The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
Lone Frank · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulationThe technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath at Tulane University in the 1950s and '60s has been... |
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The Road to Happiness Is Always Under Construction
Linda Gray · Regan Arts
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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To celebrate her 75th birthday, Linda Gray, the iconic star of Dallas and timeless beauty, is sharing her road map to happiness in her revelatory memoir.When Linda Gray, iconic star of Dallas, was twenty years old, a magazine editor coldly rejected her as a model, writing that, perhaps... |
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Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir
ALICE ANDERSON · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away is a deeply poignant memoir set in a post-Katrina Mississippi. Alice Anderson is returning to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home that she'd carefully cultivated for her husband, Dr. Liam Rivers, and their... |
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Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler
Oliver Hilmes · Northeastern University Press
Pages: 331
Format: Book
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Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more-polarized reactions than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964) . Mistress to a long succession of brilliant men, she married three of the best known: the composer Gustav... |
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Rosa Brooks · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 438
Format: Print book
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A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security.... |
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Masaji Ishikawa · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing true story of one man's life in - and subsequent escape from - North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes.Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age
CHRISTINE LAHTI · Harper Wave
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories from Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and director Christine Lahti.For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience... |
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How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
Eva Hagberg Fisher · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost - and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists,... |
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