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Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
Trish O'Kane - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid... |
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American Negra: A Memoir
Natasha S. Alford - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city... |
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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Kara Swisher - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. . While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster... |
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Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon
Joel Selvin - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover
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The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking Crew to redefining rock on the Seventies' biggest hits and outrageous tours, and ultimately to the most shocking crime in rock history - a story of musical genius, uncontrollable madness,... |
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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
Andre Dubus III - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments.During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord... |
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Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America
David Charter - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen.. From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts - and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year... |
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Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
Deborah Taffa - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition.Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised... |
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