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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father's strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman... |
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Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
Peter Sarris · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over nearly four decades of remarkable change, in an era of geopolitical threats, climate change, and plague.... |
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Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
Pashtana Durrani · Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms - from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with the drive... |
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Nuff Said
Tyrus · Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Just Tyrus returns in his inimitable style with deeper reminiscences on the life that shaped him and how he views the world we're living in.. "In this sequel, you'll delve into some of Tyrus's extraordinary... |
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The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
Sam Wasson · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the definitive account of Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American filmmaking, if not the entire world, through his production company... |
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Kasher in the Rye
Moshe Kasher · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
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"The finest, most moving and powerful memoir I have ever read." - MAYIM BIALIK. Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point, he had already been in psychoanlysis for 8 years. By the time he was 15, he had been... |
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Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
John Reeves · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Presenting an original, thought-provoking look at Ulysses S. Grant, Soldier of Destiny evokes the life of the general through his conflicted connection to slavery, allowing readers a clearer understanding of this great American. . Captain Ulysses S. Grant, an obscure army officer who was expelled... |
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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Format: Audiobook
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The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.. When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black... |
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This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
Navied Mahdavian · Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Paperback
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"In Mahdavian's hands, comics feel like poetry. Perfect ink drawings bring land, beast, and humans, with all their delicacy and yearning, viscerally to life. This Country ... made me want to grant my own surroundings the grace, humor, and dignity of Mahdavian's observant... |
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Wandering through Life: A Memoir
Donna Leon · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Theinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life story as she enters her eighties. In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, DonnaLeon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her thanbeen... |
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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Fei-Fei Li · Flatiron Books: A Moment of Lift Book
Format: Hardcover
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The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.. Wired called Dr. Fei-Fei Li "one of a tiny group of scientists -- a group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen table -- who are responsible... |
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Johnny Cash: The Life In Lyrics
Johnny Cash · Voracious
Format: Hardcover
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The life of the Man in Black revealed by his lyrics and by rare photographs and ephemera, in a lavishly illustrated edition authorized by the Cash estate Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than six hundred songs... |
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To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
Tracy K. Smith · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might - together - come to a new view of our shared past. "A vulnerable, honest look at a life lived in a country still struggling with its evils...Hopeful...Beautiful and haunting." - Eddie... |
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