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Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters
Sean Egan · Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning - their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968. After some low points - when founder Peter Green left, some fans felt that the band continuing was sacrilege - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, and the band's 1977... |
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Will & I: A Memoir
Clay Byars · Farrar
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life. Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly and miraculously... |
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Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
Rifqa Bary · WaterBrook Press
Format: Hardcover |
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"After four years of hiding my faith from my family, I knew that it was time. I wrote with shaky hands, 'Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I refuse to deny him ... .' There was no turning back now. I had to get out of that house if I wanted to live. Was this worth risking... |
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird · Random House Inc
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover |
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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded... |
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My Old Neighborhood Remembered: A Memoir
Avery Corman · Barricade Books
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My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture. Best-selling author Avery Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he grew up – in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores and bookmakers,... |
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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation
Adam Resnick · Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBCs Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people. While courageously admitting to being euphorically antisocial and sick in the head, he allows us to plunge even deeper into his troubled... |
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Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays
Bonnie Friedman · Etruscan Press
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Surrendering Oz is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. From her early job as a proofreader at The Guinness Book of World Records through a series of dominating and liberating friendships and secret connections, the author takes charge of her life... |
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The Fall: A father's memoir in 424 steps
Diogo Mainardi · Other Press
Format: Hardcover |
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THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, alongside his father through the streets of Venice, the city where a medical mishap during Tito's birth left him with Cerebral... |
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My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead · Crown Publishers
Pages: 293
Format: Print book |
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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal... |
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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou · Random House
Format: Hardcover |
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific... |
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The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book
Ted Kooser · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 83
Format: Print book |
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Ted Kooser sees a writer's workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what's jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.... |
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The Elephants in My Backyard: A Memoir
Rajiv Surendra · Regan Arts
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming... |
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TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald
Timothy L O'Brien · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Available for the first time in a decade-the book that launched a $5 billion lawsuit--with a new introduction by the author in which O'Brien reflects on the recent wave of TrumpMania. This entertaining look inside the world of Donald Trump is chock full of rip-roaring anecdotes, jaw-dropping... |
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Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History
Andrew Cohen · Mcclelland & Stewart
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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On two consecutive days in June 1963, in two lyrical speeches, John F. Kennedy pivots dramatically and boldly on the two greatest issues of his time: nuclear arms and civil rights. In language unheard in lily white, Cold War America, he appeals to Americans to see both the Russians and the "Negroes"... |
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They're playing our song : a memoir
Carole Bayer Sager · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares the remarkably frank and darkly funny story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with some of the greatest composers and musical... |
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