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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Anne Boyd Rioux · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world,... |
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
Karen Piper · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missilesThe China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware.... |
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Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon
Charles Casillo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography reveals how Marilyn's childhood contributed to her struggle with bi-polar disorder, and impacted her career and personal life.Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still... |
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth,... |
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
ANTONIA FELIX · Sourcebooks
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. From her fierce support of the middle class to her unapologetic response to political bullies, Warren is known as a passionate yet plain-speaking champion of equity and fairness. In the wake... |
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Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946
James P. Leary · University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Americas Upper Midwest is a distinctive region where many indigenous and immigrant peoples have maintained, merged, and modified their folk song traditions for more than two centuries. In the 1930s and 1940s, Sidney Robertson, Alan Lomax, and Helene Stratman-Thomaswith support from the Library... |
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40 Knots and How to Tie Them
Lucy Davidson · Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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Knowing which knot to use when and how to tie it can mean the difference between safety and danger or a dry or wet night camping. A well-tied knot is not only a safeguard, but also a thing of beauty. 40 Knots and How to Tie Them presents the essential knots, from classic sturdy, strong... |
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In Pieces
Sally Field · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her story for the first time, and in her own gorgeous words--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.... |
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Baby Names 2019: This Year's Best Baby Names: State to State
ELEANOR TURNER · Crimson Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Choosing a name for your baby has never been easier or more enjoyable than with Baby Names 2019. Whether you are looking for a traditional name or something more adventurous, Baby Names 2019 will help solve your baby-naming dilemmas.Popular culture continues to affect baby naming. The recent... |
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Best American Poetry 2018
David Lehman · Scribner
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Celebrating thirty years, the 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry - "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune) - collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.In a review of Best... |
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Craig Brown · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon... |
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Lisa McCubbin · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford, from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Presidents and Mrs. Kennedy and Me.Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer... |
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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2019
Bill Cosby · Old Farmer's Almanac
Pages: 304
Format: Audiobook
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It's another new year celebrating everything under the Sun, including the Moon, with The Old Farmer's Almanac, America's oldest continuously published periodical! Always timely, topical, and distinctively "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the Almanac has been... |
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The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks
SUSAN SHAPIRO · Writer's Digest Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices and anyone, in any field, can break in. So why not you? Over the last two decades, writing professor Susan Shapiro has taught more than 25,000 students of all ages and backgrounds at NYU, Columbia, Temple, The New School,... |
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Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide 2019
TERRY KOVEL KIM KOVEL · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
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The 2019 KOVELS' ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES PRICE GUIDE is the most complete and best-illustrated price guide available--with 15,000 listings and more than 2,500 full-color photographs--from the most trusted name in the industry. The Kovels are the most trusted source for both the casual... |
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