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The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic Era
Jennifer Ashton M.D.
Format: Hardcover
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From the Chief Medical Correspondent at ABC News comes a doctor's guide to finding resilience in the time of COVID.In March 2020, "normal" life changed, perhaps forever. In its place we were confronted with life and routines that were unusual and different: the new normal.... |
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Mike Nichols: A Life
Mark Harris
Format: Hardcover
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Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who's... |
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Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad · Random House
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery.In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement... |
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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
Philippe Sands · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Baron Otto von Wächter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets,... |
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The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart
Noreena Hertz · Currency
Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Even before the global pandemic brought terms like "social distancing" into the vernacular, loneliness was well on its way to becoming the defining trait of the twenty-first century. Today, nearly half of adults in the United States report feeling lonely, and more than twenty... |
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When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
Martha Teichner
Format: Hardcover
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There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional, happily-ever-after endings. When Harry Met Minnie is that kind of fairy tale, with the vibrant, romantic New York City backdrop... |
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
Richard Thompson Ford · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants dressed like princes and butchers' wives in gem-encrusted crowns were... |
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Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life
Eric Metaxas · Salem Books
Format: Hardcover
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For Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life - a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit. Renowned... |
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