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My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry
Philip Levine · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him. In prose both as superbly rendered as his poetry and as down-to-earth... |
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Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
Sarah Wildman · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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One woman’s journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity, myth, and memory.Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file... |
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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Rachel Corbett · W W Norton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block. When Rilke... |
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Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir
Darryl Mcdaniels · Amistad
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts - one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.As... |
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Rasputin: A Short Life
Frances Welch
Format: Paperback
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Told with humor, intrigue, and a shrewd eye for detail, this riveting short biography sheds much-needed light on the life of nineteenth-century Russian icon Grigory Rasputin. Grigory Rasputin, a Siberian peasant turned mystic and court sage, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played... |
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Steel Will: My Journey through Hell to Become the Man I Was Meant to Be
Robin Overby Cox · Baker Books
Format: Hardcover
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On February 19, 2007, SSG Shilo Harris was patrolling an infamous southern Iraqi roadway when his Humvee was struck by an IED. Moments later, three members of his crew were dead and Shilo had sustained severe burns over 35 percent of his body, lost his ears and the skin off his face, and lost... |
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A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow
Mike Farris · W W Norton
Pages: 332
Format: Print book
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Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii.In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant's wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia's mother,... |
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Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces
Dorit Sasson · She Writes Press
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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At age nineteen, Dorit Sasson, a dual American-Israeli citizen, was trying to make the status quo work as a college student -- until she realized that if she didn't distance herself from her neurotic, worrywart of a mother, she would become just like her.Accidental Soldier: A Memoir... |
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Iran-Contra: Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power
Malcolm Byrne · University Press of Kansas
Format: Hardcover
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Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to "Contra" guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly selling arms to Iran (our... |
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The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered
Laura Auricchio · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance... |
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride's family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite.Sally Ride made history as the first American... |
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Getting Real
Gretchen Carlson · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A candid, funny memoir from the charismatic FOX News channel anchor and Miss America Pageant winner Celebrity news anchorwoman Gretchen Carlson shares her inspiring story and offers important takeaways for women (and men) about what it means to strive for and find success in the real... |
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