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Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet
Robert J Mayhew - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Format: Print book
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Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succs de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly and that societies, both human and animal, tend to overstep the limits of natural resources in "perpetual oscillation between... |
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Father and Son: A Lifetime
Marcos Giralt Torrente - Sarah Crichton Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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"This is a story about two people, but I'm the only one telling it."Many authors have wrestled with the death of a father in their writing, but few have grappled with the subject as fiercely, or as powerfully, as the brilliant Spanish writer Marcos Giralt Torrente does in Father... |
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The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West
Lorna Gibb - Pgw
Format: Print book
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Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth century literary scene. A passionate suffragist, socialist, fiercely intelligent, Rebecca West began her career as a writer with articles in The Freewoman and The Clarion. Her first book, a biography of Henry James, was published when she was only... |
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Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man
Benjamin Franklin Cooling III - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In Jubal Early Robert E. Lees Bad Old Man, a new critical biography of Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, Civil War historian B.F. Cooling III takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating, idiosyncratic characters in the pantheon of Confederate heroes and villains.... |
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A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community
Sister Simone Campbell - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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In the summer of 2012, Sister Simone Campbell and a group of fellow Roman Catholic nuns toured parts of the country to rally support against Congressman Paul Ryan's budget, a plan that cut vital social programs for the hurting poor and the struggling middle class. Prayer groups turned... |
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Publishing: A Writer's Memoir
Gail Godwin - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Publishing is a personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1958, Godwin... |
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The Prince of los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
Richard Blanco - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities.Richard... |
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Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose
Candace Cameron Bure - B & H Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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"How do you do it all?"That's the question that wife, mom, actress, and best-selling author Candace Cameron Bure is often asked. And it's a question that women everywhere are asking themselves as we seek to balance all of our roles, responsibilities, and opportunities.So,... |
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
Alysia Abbott - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst... |
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Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man
Marcus Baram - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Best known for his polemic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron was a musical icon who defied characterization He tantalized audiences with his charismatic stage presence and his biting observant lyrics in such singles as The Bottle and Johannesburg provide a time capsule... |
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Lois Lenski: Storycatcher
Bobbie Malone - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Print book
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For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children see beyond the rim of their own world. In "Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, " historian and educator Bobbie Malone... |
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Andrew Maraniss - Vanderbilt University Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee Outstanding TitleBased on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC,... |
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More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments
Megan Hustad - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Megan Hustad and her family try to reconcile an evangelical upbringing in a post-Christian AmericaWhen Megan Hustad was a child, her father uprooted their family from Minneapolis to embark on a cross-cultural journey in the name of evangelical Christianity. As missionaries they brought... |
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Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong
Susan Blumberg-Kason - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrongWhen Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started graduate school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the Chinese man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan thought she'd stumbled into an exotic fairy... |
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Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814
Rory Muir - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain’s greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military... |
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The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty
J Randy Taraborrelli - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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THE HILTONS is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary ideas and unyielding will established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry. But outside the boardroom, Conrad struggled with... |
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No Place to Hide: A Brain Surgeon's Long Journey Home from the Iraq War
W. Lee Warren - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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A War Zone of the Soul Dr. W. Lee Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the Air Force in Iraq in 2004. When he traded a comfortable if demanding practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone,... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover
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In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story... |
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Black Prophetic Fire
Cornel West - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies In an accessible conversational format Cornel West with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders Frederick... |
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Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Lawrence Goldstone - Ballantine Books,
Format: Print book
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From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation. The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss,... |
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Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
Nick Davies - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover
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At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voicemail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for The Guardian, knew... |
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I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir
Kevin Sessums - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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On his 53rd birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspects but, Kevin knew that his rapidly... |
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Ruth and Billy Graham: The Legacy of a Couple
Hanspeter NuÌ?esch - Baker Books, 2014.
Format: Print book
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No one has preached the gospel to more people than evangelist Billy Graham. But behind this exceptional man is an equally exceptional woman who made his global ministry possible. Through her love, support, prayers, and personal ministry, Ruth helped shape the ten core values that have been... |
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself... |
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Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers - Berkley
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Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified—who the hell does Melissa think... |
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Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
Kelley French - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head... |
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Good Grief: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village
Ellen Stimson - Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An Endless Vacation Becomes a Way of Life! One vacation changed everything. Ellen Stimson and her husband had such a wonderful time in Vermont that they wondered what living there would really be like. “What if we stayed here . . . forever?” So began the series of adventures... |
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Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Jillian Lauren - Plume; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that... |
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Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: A Memoir
Andrew Lohse - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An account of sordidness and redemption by the Dartmouth fraternity member whose Rolling Stone profile blew the whistle on the frat's inhumane hazing practices.Always trust the brotherhood.Always protect your pledge brothers.What happens in the house stays in the house.Before... |
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Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
Leah Vincent - Nan A. Talese
Format: Book
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In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox... |
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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious... |
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One Perfect Day: A Mother and Son's Story of Adoption and Reunion
Diane Burke - Skyhorse Publishing,
Format: Print book
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The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to deal... |
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M Gates - Vintage
Format: Book
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he'd long left Washington politics behind: After... |
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Johnny Carson
Henry Bushkin - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Format: eBook
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"A close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year." - Janet Maslin, "Ten Favorite Books of the Year," New York Times |
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Beijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China
Val Wang - Gotham
Format: Hardcover
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A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider's perspective to China's shift from ancient empire to modern superpower Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed... |
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The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Vivek J Tiwary - Published by M Press, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc., 2013.
Format: Print book
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The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatles-from their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than merely the story of "The Man Who Made The Beatles," The Fifth... |
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The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
Bart Moore-Gilbert - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"I've always had difficulty imagining my father as a policeman. He seemed most himself in the informal setting of safari life, clothes disheveled, sometimes not shaving for days. So why did he join the Indian Police, with its rigid hierarchies and complex protocols?"Setting... |
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Beautiful Eyes: A Father Transformed
Paul Austin - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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Through parenting a child with a disability, a father discovers patience, acceptance, and unconditional love. In 1987, Paul Austin and his wife Sally were newlyweds, excited about their future together and happily anticipating the birth of their first child. He was a medical student and she was a nurse.... |
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Let the Tornado Come: A Memoir
Rita Zoey Chin - Simon & Schuster; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning poet comes this riveting, gorgeous memoir about a young runaway, the trauma that haunted her as an adult, and the friendship with a horse that finally set her free.When she was eleven years old, Rita began to run away. Her father's violence and her mother's... |
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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific... |
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Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt our Finances, Freedom, and Security
Janine Wedel - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book that challenges Americans to reevaluate our views on how a new and more sophisticated style of corruption and private interests have infiltrated every level of society.From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, however divergent their political views, these groups seem... |
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Moguls, Monsters and Madmen: An Uncensored Life in Show Business
Barry Avrich - ECW Press
Format: Print book
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A sharp and witty expos of show business and notorious charactersBarry Avrich is a Montreal-born, self-made film producer/director, flamboyant advertising executive, and legendary biographer and connector of moguls and stars. For over three decades he has relentlessly produced films on some... |
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Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Gene Santoro - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century, and ranks with Charles Ives and Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found... |
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Devotion and Defiance: My Journey in Love, Faith and Politics
Humaira Awais Shahid with Kelly Horan - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring personal story by the most prominent Muslim woman activist and legislator for women's rights in Pakistan.In the fall of 2001, a newlywed English professor took on a job editing the "women's section" of one of Pakistan's leading Urdu newspapers. She soon... |
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Embrace the Suck: What I learned at the box about hard work,
Stephen Madden - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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With irreverence, humor, and soul-touching candor, the former editor of Bicycling magazine explores the CrossFit phenomenon, the fitness revolution sweeping America, chronicling his experience "inside the box" and how he got into the best shape of his life.Lifelong amateur athlete... |
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Phil Jackson: Lord of the Rings
Peter Richmond - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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With eleven championship rings to his name, Phil Jackson is internationally recognized as one of the greatest coaches in the history of the NBA. Known as a defensive disrupter and a master fouler during his early days as a New York Knick and later celebrated as the “Zen Master”... |
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Postcards from Cookie: A Memoir of Motherhood, Miracles, and a Whole Lot of Mail
Caroline Clarke - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother - Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole - and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages... |
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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
Arthur Lubow - Ecco Press
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographsDiane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer brings... |
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Operation Damocles: Israel's Secret War Against Hitler's Scientists, 1951-1967
Roger Howard - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The forgotten cloak-and-dagger history of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt to develop long-range missiles capable of striking Israel From 1951 to 1967 Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring... |
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Charlemagne
Johannes Fried - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating... |
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Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror
W. Scott Poole - Soft Skull Press
Format: Print book
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The new book from award-winning historian W. Scott Poole is a whip-smart piece of pop culture detailing the story of cult horror figure Vampira that actually tells the much wider story of 1950s America and its treatment of women and sex, as well as capturing a fascinating swath of Los Angeles... |
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In Gratitude
Jenny Diski - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ... I got a joke in. "So - we'd better get cooking the meth," I said to the Poet.In... |
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American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth Seton
Joan Barthel - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father... |
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The Making of a Man: How Men and Boys Honor God and Live with Integrity
James Lund - Thomas Nelson
Format: Book
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What exactly is manhood? How do guys get there? Tim Brown won the Heisman Trophy at Notre Dame and starred in the NFL for seventeen seasons. He left the game as a Los Angeles and Oakland Raiders legend and one of the most respected men in sports. Now “Mr. Raider” shares his amazing... |
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Malcolm X: The Great Photographs
Thulani Davis - Stewart Tabori & Chang
Format: Hardcover
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Presents over one hundred photographs--taken by photographers such as Gordon Parks and Eve Arnold--that document Malcolm X's life |
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Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
Harvey Kubernik - Backbeat Books
Format: Hardcover
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No other contemporary songwriter has created a body of work of such consistent quality, and such singular emotional and intellectual brilliance, as Leonard Cohen. His smoke-black vocal style navigates the most sophisticated and arresting of melodies in songs infused with romance, innuendo,... |
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Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee
James Gavin - Atria Books
Format: Book
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From the author of the "definitive" (Vanity Fair) biography of Lena Horne, Stormy Weather, comes a brilliantly written portrait of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee."She made you think that she knew who you were, that she was singing only to you..."... |
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I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland
Michelle Leon - Minnesota Historical Society
Format: Print book
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A founding member of Babes in Toyland takes readers on the roller coaster ride of the rock-and-roll lifestyle and her own journey of self-discovery. |
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The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America
Daniel Connolly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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18-year-old high school senior Isaias Ramos plays in a punk rock group called Los Psychosis and likes to sing along to songs by Björk and her old band, the Sugarcubes. He’s so bright that when his school’s quiz bowl goes on local TV, he acts as captain.
The... |
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Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
Jennifer Worth - Ecco/HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered... |
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Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
David Ritz - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassinationMartin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times... |
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My Battle Against Hitler: Faith, Truth, and Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich
John Henry Crosby - Image; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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How does a person become Hitlers enemy number one? Not through espionage or violence, it turns out, but by striking fearlessly at the intellectual and spiritual roots of National Socialism. Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German Catholic thinker and teacher who devoted the full force of his intellect... |
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H. L. Mencken: the Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition:
H L Mencken - Library Of America
Format: Hardcover
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A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure... |
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All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life
Andrew M. Cuomo - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this full and frank memoira personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilienceNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along the way.With... |
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My Accidental Jihad
Krista Bremer - Workman Pub Co
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways her marriage would change... |
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Pablo Escobar: My Father
SebastiaÌn MarroquiÌn - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER!THE POPULAR SERIES NARCOS CAPTURES ONLY HALF THE TRUTH. HERE, AT LAST, IS THE FULL STORY.Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time, but these versions have... |
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Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
Anthony B. Pinn - Prometheus Books, Publishers
Format: Paperback
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A former African American minister reveals his unusual journey from faith to atheism. Anthony Pinn preached his first sermon at age twelve. At eighteen he became one of the youngest ordained ministers in his denomination. He then quickly moved up the ministerial ranks. Eventually he graduated... |
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The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
Ben Mezrich - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files,... |
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Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden Too Great to Bear
Richard Striner - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardcover
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Woodrow Wilson is often considered one of the greatest presidents in American history because, in the first two years of his presidency, he succeeded on many fronts. However, acclaimed author and historian Richard Striner now makes the case that a presidency that is too often idealized... |
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Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward
Format: electronic resource
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Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York MagazineTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South."We saw the lightning and that... |
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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Carlos Santana - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendIn 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years... |
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Will & I: A Memoir
Clay Byars - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life. Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly and miraculously... |
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Queen of Thieves: The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
J. North Conway - Skyhorse Pub Co Inc
Format: Book
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Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country's top receiver... |
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Misty Copeland - Touchstone Books, published by Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina.In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when... |
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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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Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
Andrea Di Robilant - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy... |
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
Diane Keaton - Random House
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourselfno matter what anyone else thinks. Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside... |
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A History of American Sports in 100 Objects
Cait Murphy - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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What artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which Pete Rose wrote, "I'm sorry I bet on baseball"? Could it be Lance Armstrong's red-white-and-blue bike, now tarnished by doping and hubris? Or perhaps... |
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Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior
Mike Leach - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Playing cowboys and Indians as a boy legendary college football coach Mike Leach always chose to be the Indianthe underdog whose success turned on being a tough resourceful ingenious fighter And the greatest Indian military leader of all was Geronimo the Apache warrior whose name is so symbolic... |
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Richard Rubin - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover... |
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Desert solitaire a season in the wilderness
Edward Abbey - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook
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When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many... |
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The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball
Willie Randolph - It Books; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary New York Yankee Willie Randolph tells the story of his life playing and coaching for the most storied professional sports franchise in the world, detailing his career on and off the field with some of baseball biggest stars.In his long-awaited memoir, Willie Randolph shares stories... |
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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
Kenneth L Adelman - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland - the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War - by President Reagan's arms control director, Ken Adelman.In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour... |
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Speaking Freely: My Life in Publishing and Human Rights
Robert L Bernstein - The New Press
Format: Print book
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What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Vaclav... |
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Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences
Catherine Pelonero - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens, New York in 1964. The case... |
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Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Anita Anand - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included... |
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Word for Word: A Memoir
Lilianna Lungina - Overlook Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling sensation in Russia, where it was called “the most significant cultural event of the year,” Word for Word is nothing less than the story of a nation’s literary conscience—the history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a single person.... |
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The Map of Enough: One Woman's Search for Place
Molly May - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Molly Caro May grew up as part of a nomadic family, one proud of their international sensibilities, a tribe that never settled in one place for very long. Growing up moving from foreign country to foreign country, just like her father and grandfather, she became attached to her identity... |
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Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience
Eileen Cronin - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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MERMAID: A Memoir of Resilience was chosen as one of Oprah's Best Memoirs of the Year (2014).MERMAID is included in the February O Magazine's selection "10 Titles to Pick Up Now.A gorgeously crafted memoir about resilience, family, and forging your own way, by a woman born... |
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Hummingbirds
Ronald I. Orenstein - Firefly Books
Format: Book
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A comprehensive natural history of nature's smallest bird species. The tiny hummingbird has long been a source of fascination for birdwatchers and naturalists alike. They number 300 species and Ronald Orenstein has a passion for all of them. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world.... |
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Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
Kevin Roose - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Becoming a young Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money-- as well... |
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The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
Craig Nelson - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Men and the award-winning biographer of Thomas Paine comes the first complete history of the Atomic Age, a brilliant, magisterial account of the men and women who uncovered the secrets of the nucleus, brought its power to America, and ignited... |
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For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
Rosemary Mahoney - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree"This joyful, thoughtful book took me on an emotional... |
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The Real Custer: From Boy General to Tragic Hero
James S Robbins - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custerfrom cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated... |
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Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
Ron Miscavige - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. Ron Miscavige's personal, heartfelt story is a riveting... |
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A Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
Eric Liu - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed... |
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No he dejado de soñar
Luis Guti?rrez - Aguilar
Format: Paperback
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La biografía franca, inteligente, inspiradora y a menudo graciosísima de uno de los más intrépidos líderes políticos de los Estados Unidos. Adorado por los inmigrantes y trabajadores por cuyos derechos tanto ha luchado, el Congresista Luis Gutiérrez es, junto... |
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Unfriending My Ex: Confessions of a Social Media Addict
Kim Stolz - Scribner,
Format: Paperback
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"In this candid and insightful new memoir, Kim Stolz discusses the trials and tribulations of our obsession with social media and mobile technology...a Tweet-worthy, share-worthy, Instagrammable look into our society and the lives we create online." - Harper's Bazaar An incisive,... |
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Eat, Drink and Remarry: Confessions of a Serial Wife
Margo Howard - Harlequin
Format: Hardcover
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Despite her many years of offering relationship advice as a syndicated columnist—not to mention her pedigree as the daughter of the woman the world revered as Ann Landers— Margo Howard had to walk down the aisle four times before getting it right.Now the outspoken and witty Howard... |
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett - Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author ofState of Wonder, Run,andBel Canto,examines her deepest commitmentsto writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husbandcreating a resonant portrait of a life inThis is the Story of a Happy Marriage.This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage... |
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