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Death Need Not Be Fatal
MALACHY MCCOURT · Center Street
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The Monk's Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
ROBERT HUDSON · Eerdmans
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them together In 1965 Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year-old dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age,... |
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The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir
LAURA JEAN BAKER · The Experiment
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Laura Jean Baker has written a beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents, which are indistinguishable from its joys. This is a warmly intimate yet intellectually provocative personal document of originality and considerable charm." - Joyce Carol Oates With... |
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The Jacksons: Legacy
The Jacksons · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The only official, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Jacksons' lives and careers, celebrating 50 years of one of the greatest acts of all time.
The Jacksons: Legacy is the first official book on the the Royal Family of Pop. Unrivaled access to the family archives as well as the private... |
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Other People: Takes & Mistakes
David Shields · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation. Can one person know another person? How do we live through... |
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The Dawn Prayer
MATTHEW SCHRIER · BenBella Books
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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"What is your name?" asked General Mohammad. "Matthew," I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means 'dead' in Arabic. On New Year's Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home from Syria, where he'd been photographing the intense... |
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The Nightingale's Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz
Thomas Wolf · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinistsSpanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry... |
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Letters from the Box in the Attic: A Story of Courage, Survival and Love
Barbara Serbinski Sipe · BalboaPress
Pages: 255
Format: Paperback
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Eleven years of events can have a profound effect on an entire lifetime. The story of Stanis?awa Emilia (Emma) Krasowska Serbinski is told by her daughter, Barbara, tracing her mother's courageous and terrifying journey from the Soviet invasion of Poland, through Soviet prisons... |
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A Mother's Tale
Phillip Lopate · Mad River Books
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
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In 1984, Phillip Lopate sat down with his mother, Frances, to listen to her life story. A strong, resilient, indomitable woman who lived through the major events of the twentieth century, she was orphaned in childhood, ran away and married young, and then reinvented herself as a mother,... |
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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
Edmund Gordon · Oxford University Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book
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Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range.Her life was as vigorously modern... |
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Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home
JESSICA BERGER GROSS · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman's childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adversity.To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's childhood - growing up in a "nice"... |
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Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
ELIZABETH A SMART · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, My Story -- about being held
in captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive -- with a powerful and inspiring
book about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim... |
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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet,... |
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Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music
Patrick B Mullen · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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The cowboy songs and dusty Texas car rides of his youth set Patrick B. Mullen on a lifelong journey into the sprawling Arcadia of American music. That music fused so-called civilized elements with native forms to produce everything from Zydeco to Conjunto to jazz to Woody Guthrie. The civilized/native... |
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