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Fashion is freedom : a girl from Tehran and her rise to the runway
Tala Raassi · Sourcebooks Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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The inspiring true story of how courage, a dream, and some needle and thread can change a life forever... Since she was young, Tala Raassi knew her fate lay in fashion. But growing up in her beloved homeland of Iran, a woman can be punished for exposing her hair in public, let alone wearing... |
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The Lonely War: One Womans Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran
Nazila Fathi · Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 2009, as she was covering the popular uprisings in Tehran for the New York Times, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi received a phone call. "They have given your photo to snipers," a government source warned her. Soon after, with undercover agents closing in, Fathi... |
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
Nick Offerman · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Pages: 340 Format: Hardcover
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Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman,... |
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Matter of honor
Anthony Summers · Harpercollins Pages: 480 Format: Print book
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi · Little, Brown Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee.Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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Lee
Lee Radziwill · Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 2015. Pages: 144 Format: Print book
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As begun in the best-selling Happy Times, her first book with Assouline, Lee Radziwill's colorful journey continues in the much-anticipated Lee. In this quest or privacy and freedom within a highly publicized life, Radziwill shares her unique perspective as a witness to history, recalling... |
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan · Scribner Format: Hardcover
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An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worlds attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude... |
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Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
Bettina Stangneth · Knopf; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmannmdasha superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendtrsquos notion... |
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Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece
Andrew Levy · Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, which turns on its head everything we thought we knew about America's favorite icon of childhood.In Huck Finn's America, award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern... |
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
J W Ocker · Countryman Press Pages: 338 Format: Print book
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Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history -- the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 -- transformed it into... |
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Obsessed
M William Phelps · Pinnacle Books Pages: 500 Format: Paperback
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"Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience." --Suspense MagazineSheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met the man of her dreams. Nelson Sessler had no idea how violently... |
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American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
Alex Beam · Perseus Books Group Pages: 334 Format: Hardcover
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On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.At thirty-nine years... |
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