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Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things
Amy Dickinson · Hachette Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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In STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice... |
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What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare
Andrew McConnell Stott · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable, ridiculous, rain-soaked story of Shakespeare's Jubilee: the event that established William Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time.In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate the artistic legacy of the town's most famous... |
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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
Margaret Willes · Yale University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship... |
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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
WILLIAM J COOPER · Liveright
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father?Long relegated to the sidelines of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) , has never basked in the historical spotlight.... |
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Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
KIM BROOKS · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." -- Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World"A beautifully told,... |
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All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music
Michael Corcoran · University of North Texas Press
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover
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A lavishly illustrated collection of forty-two profiles of Texas music pioneers, most underrated or overlooked, All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music covers the musical landscape of a most musical state. The first edition was published in 2005 to wide acclaim. This second edition... |
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Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine
Dinty W. Moore · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
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"Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we tell ourselves," writes contributor Madaline Harrison. Bodies of Truth continues this tradition through a variety of narrative approaches by writers... |
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Käthe Kollwitz in Dresden
Käthe Kollwitz · Paul Holberton Publishing
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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Käthe Kollwitz is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and arguably the greatest female artist. Her undeniable talent soon established her as a leading printmaker in a profession then dominated by men, even though she was a fierce social critic and focused her aesthetic vision... |
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You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
PIPER WEISS · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir - The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep - that presents an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within Manhattan's exclusive prep-school scene in the early 1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession... |
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No Happy Endings: A Memoir
Nora McInerny · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The author of It's Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking - interviews that are "a gift to be able to listen [to]" (New York Times) - returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.Life... |
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Journey to Mindfulness: The Autobiography of Bhante G.
Henepola Gunaratana · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
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In a new expanded anniversary edition, read the inspiring life-story from the bestselling author of Mindfulness in Plain English. Bhante Gunaratana - Bhante G., as he is affectionately called - is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West. This expanded anniversary edition... |
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Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter
Marusya Bociurkiw · Dagger Editions
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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How can a god-fearing Catholic, immigrant mother and her godless, bohemian daughter possibly find common ground? FOOD WAS HER COUNTRY is the story of a mother, her queer daughter and their tempestuous culinary relationship. From accounts of 1970s' macrobiotic potlucks to a dangerous... |
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Criminals: My Family's Life on Both Sides of the Law
Robert Anthony Siegel · Counterpoint
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A prismatic, provocative look at one family -- led by a charismatic, defense attorney father -- whose bonds exist on both sides of the law The Siegels of New York are a singular creation -- quirky, idealistic, shaped in large part by Siegel's father, a lovable, impossible man of gargantuan... |
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Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ITAMAR RABINOVICH · Yale University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually... |
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The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir
Apricot Irving · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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In this compelling, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as a missionary's daughter in Haiti during a time of upheaval - both in the country and in her home.Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary's daughter in Haiti - a country easy to sensationalize... |
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