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My Rebbe
Adin Steinsaltz · Maggid
Format: Hardcover
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For legendary Talmud scholar and prolific author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, the Lubavitcher Rebbe embodied a lifelong mission to better the world. Far surpassing the role of teacher, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was at once a scientific mind and faithful believer; educational... |
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
PAMELA PAUL · HENRY HOLT
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her lifeFor twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books... |
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Inside the Clinton White House: An Oral History
Russell L Riley · Oxford University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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President Bill Clinton led one of the most influential and consequential White House tenures in recent memory. However, because of the office's traditional climate of confidentiality, many details of his behind-the-scenes activities have remained absent from the written record. How did the administration... |
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Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl and Her Amazing Story of Healing
Christy Beam · Hachette Books
Pages: 215
Format: Print book
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"Miracles from Heaven is a powerful, healing story about family, love, faith, and hope. It amazed me and it will inspire readers everywhere. ---T. D. Jakes, bestselling author of Destiny In a remarkable true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter,... |
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Unlikely Companions: The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor
Laurie Hess · Da Capo
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Whether it's an umbrella cockatoo who's not eating, a depressed chinchilla, a pregnant potbellied pig, or a ferret possibly needing surgery, exotic animal vet Laurie Hess is at the front lines with some remarkable pets-and their equally eccentric, dedicated, and sometimes demanding owners.... |
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Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One.
Ginger Zee · Kingswell
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range... |
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Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980
Craig Shirley · Broadside Books
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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With a Foreword by Jon MeachamNew York Times bestselling biographer Craig Shirley charts Ronald Reagan's astonishing rise from the ashes of his lost 1976 presidential bid to overwhelming victory in 1980. American conservatism - and the nation itself - would never be the same.In 1976,... |
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Onward and Upward in the Garden
Katherine S. White · NYRB Classics; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazines first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White,... |
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How Not to Become a Spy: A memoir of love at the end of the Cold War
Justin Lifflander · Gilbo Shed Books
Pages: 267
Format: Print book
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Justin Lifflander dreams of becoming an intelligence officer and joining the Cold War fight against the Russians. Following internships at the State Department and the FBI, he lands a job at the US Embassy in Moscow. But Lifflander's story turns out to be less The Spy Who Loved Me and more... |
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Lead with Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis
Jeffrey A. Krames · AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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When Fortune announced its list of the World's Greatest Leaders, the top spot was awarded - not to a captain of industry - but to the new pontiff. In the year since his election, Pope Francis earned that accolade...and more. He has achieved the remarkable: breathed life into an aging... |
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN · Random House
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly... |
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The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand
Geoff Dyer · University of Texas Press
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover
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Garry Winogrand - along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander - was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world's foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand's work for many years. Modeled on John... |
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