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Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Glenn Kurtz · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Named one of the best books of 2014 by NPR, The New Yorker, and The Boston GlobeWhen Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its historical significance or of the impact it will have on his life. The film, shot long ago by his grandfather... |
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Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
Paula Byrne · Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle (May 2014) starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode - a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society... |
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Yiyun Li · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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In her first nonfiction book, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable?"What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?"Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this... |
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Juliet's Answer: One Man's Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak
Glenn Dixon · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Eat, Pray, Love meets The Rosie Project in this fresh, heartwarming memoir by a man who travels to Verona and volunteers to answer letters addressed to Shakespeare's Juliet, all in an attempt to heal his own heartbreak.When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he packs his bags for Verona,... |
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It Was Me All Along: A Memoir
Andie Mitchell · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter,... |
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Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes
Elizabeth Bard · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the world's... |
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If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir
Jessica Hendry Nelson · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three... |
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The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco,... |
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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
ANN HOOD · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story... |
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The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Azar Nafisi · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change peoples lives, by the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in TehranTen years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn · Penguin Press
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
John A. Nagl · Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that... |
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