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Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals
Brenda Peterson - Mountaineers Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Peterson's writing style and her intimately told stories about how animals and people can jointly navigate the planet have the ability to draw readers in and leave them with hope about the future of the world." -- Library Journal, Starred Review. In Wild Chorus, award-winning... |
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Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde
Jennie Garth - Penguin Group USA
Format: Book
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For the first time ever, Jennie Garth is putting it all out there, sharing her joys and her sorrows, her successes and her failures, with candor and a surprising, even bawdy, sense of humor. From her sudden rise to fame as a golden-haired teen beauty, to recently redefining herself as a single... |
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Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll
Lenny Kaye - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century ... . In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective." -Patti SmithAn insider's take on the evolution... |
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition... |
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Sanctuary: A Memoir
Emily Rapp Black
Format: Hardcover
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"Congratulations on the resurrection of your life," a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, a boy named Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience... |
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Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
Kate Clifford Larson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She wassubjected... |
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Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
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J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist
Thomas Beller - New Harvest; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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J.D. Salinger published his first story in The New Yorker at age twenty-nine. Three years later came The Catcher in The Rye, a novel that has sold more than sixty-five million copies and achieved mythic status since its publication in 1951. Subsequent books introduced a new type in contemporary... |
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Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
KIM BROOKS - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." -- Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World"A beautifully... |
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