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Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption
BENJAMIN RACHLIN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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During the last two decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the opportunity for meaningful... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, and insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy.In 1690, the dour New England Primer, thought to be the first American children's book, was published in Boston.... |
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
ELLEN ULLMAN · MCD
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably... |
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The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
Paula Poundstone · Algonquin Books
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
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"A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." - Lily Tomlin "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known." - Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice "Is there a secret to happiness?"... |
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The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love
Andy Merrifield · Verso
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate attack on the tyranny of expertsModern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love.In The Amateur, thinker Andy Merrifield shows us how the many spheres... |
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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
WILLIAM MCRAVEN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Should be read by every leader in America...a book to inspire your children and grandchildren to become everything that they can." --Wall Street Journal"Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national... |
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It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir
Simon Fitzmaurice · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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"Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming." - Alan RickmanA luminous memoir in the tradition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker gives us "a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more,... |
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Son of Bum: Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Football and Life
Wade Phillips · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary football coach and Super Bowl champion with the Denver Broncos, Wade Phillips, recalls his life in football and memories of his father, NFL head coach Bum Phillips, in a book perfect for a Father's Day gift. "Having played for and against Wade Phillips, the first word... |
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Confessions of a Domestic Failure
Bunmi Laditan · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere There are good moms and bad moms - and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect,... |
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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
John T Edge · Penguin Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A people's history of Southern food that reveals how the region came to be at the forefront of American culinary culture and how issues of race have shaped Southern cuisine over the last six decadesTHE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half... |
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How Cycling Can Save the World
Peter Walker · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Peter Walker - reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog - shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle. Car culture has ensnared much of the world - and it's no wonder. Convenience and comfort (as well as some clever lobbying) have made the car the transportation... |
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
Samantha Irby · Vintage
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem... |
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The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
THICH NHAT HANH · HarperOne
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh - - one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today... |
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Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot
Melissa Cynova · Llewellyn
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Kitchen Table Tarot is a book about real life tarot reading for real people. With down and dirty advice from Melissa Cynova, this book tells it like it is and helps you read the cards for yourself and others. Praise: "Cynova's debut book struts forward to lead the pack with its authentic... |
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Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
TIM BAUERSCHMIDT · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma - newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage - rose to her full height... |
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Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
LEIGH MONTVILLE · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful portrait of Muhammed Ali from the New York Times bestselling author of At the Altar of Speed and The Big Bam. It centers on the cultural and political implications of Ali's refusal of service in the military - and the key moments in a life that was as high profile and transformative... |
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Jr Forman · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that... |
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
ANDREA PETERSEN · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
CATHRYN JAKOBSON RAMIN · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm,... |
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A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
ANGELA JACKSON · Beacon Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A retrospective on the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her one hundredth birthdayGwendolyn Brooks is one of the American literary icons of the twentieth century. Mentored by Langston Hughes and Richard Wright from a young age,... |
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Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family
Kathy Mckeon · Gallery Books
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover
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An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny - and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from... |
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." -- Paula Hawkins, author of Into the Water... |
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The Mighty Franks: A Memoir
MICHAEL FRANK · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A psychologically acute memoir about an unusual and eccentric Hollywood family."My feeling for Mike is something out of the ordinary," Michael Frank overhears his aunt say to his mother when he is a boy. "I wish he were mine."Michael's childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle... |
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Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters
Harold Evans · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A wise and entertaining guide to writing English the proper way by one of the greatest newspaper editors of our time. Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger. He's even been knighted for his services... |
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