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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach,... |
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Kenneth Whyte - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert Hoover--a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune,... |
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
ANNE HELEN PETERSEN - Plume
Format: Hardcover
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**One of NPR's Best Books of 2017** "Petersen's gloriously bumptious, brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment. Her careful examination of how we eviscerate the women who confound or threaten is crucial reading if we are ever to be better." - Rebecca... |
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At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl
Hans Scholl - Plough Publishing House
Format: Paperback
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Personal letters and diaries provide an intimate view into the hearts and minds of a brother and sister who became martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II.Idealistic, serious, and sensible, Hans and Sophie Scholl joined the Hitler Youth with youthful and romantic enthusiasm.... |
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Adulthood for Beginners: All the Life Secrets Nobody Bothered to Tell You
ANDY BOYLE - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback
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"A hilarious guide to help young workers not be idiots....a guide to being an adult in the modern age." --Chicago TribuneStop saying "adulting" -- and other life advice you didn't know you needed. But you do.It's no secret that being a grown-up can be hard. Most... |
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Mormon Rivals: The Romneys, the Huntsmans and the Pursuit of Power
Matt Canham - Salt Lake Tribune
Format: Print book
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Distant relatives whose ties extend back to the founding of the Mormon church, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr. became political allies as governors. Before that, their fathers were chummy. Mitt's sister and Jon's mom were college roommates. So when Romney was preparing his first presidential... |
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Adventure Cats: Living Nine Lives to the Fullest
Laura Moss - Workman
Format: Print book
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Just when you thought you knew all there was to know about cats comes the ultimate - and unexpected - guide to taking your cat into the wild. Here are cats walking on a leash. Cats hiking on a leash. Cats tramping through snow. Cats camping. Cats kayaking, canoeing, even surfing... |
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The Rain in Portugal: Poems
Billy Collins - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite... |
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated motivational speaker and YouTube sensation Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a "culture of kindness" and a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always... |
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
VAN JONES - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - from the CNN host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) , now seen... |
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1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire
Rebecca Rideal - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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1666 was a watershed year for England. An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the devastating Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions.Shedding light on these dramatic events and their context,... |
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LaFosse & Alexander's Essential Book of Origami: The Complete Guide for Everyone
Michael G Lafosse - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Print book
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This comprehensive origami book contains 16 easy lessons - each revealing a different aspect of the paper folding magic that is origami!World-renowned origami artists Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander share their wisdom and expertise in this complete introduction to the world... |
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Bleed, Blister, And Purge: A History Of Medicine On The American Frontier
Volney Steele - Mountain Press Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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Bleed, Blister, and Purge traces the fits and starts of medical progress on the western frontier. With the authority of a scholar and the sparkle of an old-time storyteller, Dr. Volney Steele takes the reader from rotgut whiskey to modern anesthetics, from castor oil to antibiotics, and from... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Book
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When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template,... |
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You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships
DEBORAH TANNEN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Through research into the unique ways women talk to one another, this warm and wise exploration of female friendship will help women lean into the comfort these powerful relationships offer and avoid the hurt feelings that come from common miscommunications. Best friend, old friend, good... |
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
Lyndal Roper - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story... |
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Park Bench
CHRISTOPHE CHABOUT - Gallery 13
Format: Paperback
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With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabout (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench.From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various... |
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Alone
Christophe Chaboute - Gallery 13
Format: Paperback
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Available in English for the first time - the internationally bestselling graphic novel and an Official Selection at France's prestigious Angoulme Internaional Comics Festival by master illustrator-storyteller Chabout (Park Bench, Moby-Dick) .On a tiny lighthouse island... |
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
Art Garfunkel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"Poetic musings on a life well-lived - one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isnt your typical autobiography. Garfunkels history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." - Bookreporter... |
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More than Human
Lewis Blackwell - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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"Award-winning photographer Tim Flach has spent years inquiring into the essential bond we have with animals. Now he presents the culmination of a career-long endeavor, an extraordinary body of work in which each image is more striking and powerful than the last. Just as did Flach's... |
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Start to Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking
Eric Lax - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A cinephile's dream: the chance to follow legendary director Woody Allen throughout the creation of a film--from inception to premiere--and to enjoy his reflections on some of the finest artists in the history of cinema. Eric Lax has been with Woody Allen almost every step of the way. He chronicled... |
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
PAMELA PAUL - HENRY HOLT
Format: Print book
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Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her lifeFor twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books... |
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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
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How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's,... |
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Kindness Boomerang: How to Save the World
Orly Wabha - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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Kindness Boomerang contains 365 daily acts, one for each day of the year, accompanied by inspirational quotes, personal stories on the power of paying it forward, and tangible steps to change your outlook on life. This book empowers you to bring positivity into your everyday life... |
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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
Jancee Dunn - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird - Random House
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
MITCH PRINSTEIN - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness - and why we don't always want to be the most popularNo matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word "popular" immediately transports you back to your teenage... |
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Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
SCOTT EYMAN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman tells the story of the remarkable friendship of two Hollywood legends who, though different in many ways, maintained a close friendship that endured all of life's twists and turns.Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest... |
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Call to mercy
Mother Teresa - Image
Format: Hardcover
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Published to coincide with Pope Francis's Year of Mercy and the Vatican's canonization of Mother Teresa, this new book of unpublished material by a humble yet remarkable woman of faith whose influence is felt as deeply today as it was when she was alive, offers Mother Teresa's profound... |
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Lowe's Best-Selling House Plans
Creative Homeowner Press. - Creative Homeowner
Format: Book
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<div><div>Best-Selling House Plans offers readers 400 of our most-successful designs from leading architects and designers. Over 200 gorgeous full-color photographs allow readers to experience homes actually built from the designs, plus some stunning interior images.... |
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The Customer is Always Wrong
Mimi Pond - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Hardcover
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A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholismThe Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young nave artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies... |
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Instrumental
Dave Chisholm - Z2 Comics
Format: Paperback
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In the small hours of the morning, on a headlong collision into history, ambition, and magic, a trumpeter wails in the apocalypse. "You are making it happen. All the deaths. All the destruction."Tom is a solid, but not great, musician. While his bandmates are happy to play gigs... |
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Higher Is Waiting
Tyler Perry - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate book of inspiration by the one and only Tyler Perry - actor, producer, director, philanthropist, and the creator of Madea Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire readers to climb... |
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Strays: A Lost Cat, a Homeless Man, and Their Journey Across America
BRITT COLLINS - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other.Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading... |
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Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel
Robert L Gandt - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state.In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate... |
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Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding
David Tolin - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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While most people find it relatively easy to manage their possessions, some find it extremely difficult. If you have a problem resisting the urge to acquire and you find your home cluttered and filled to capacity with items many people would find useless and unnecessary, you may suffer... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
Annie Spence - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Gen-X librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in her life.Librarians spend their lives weeding. Not weeds, but books! Books that have reached the end of their shelf life, both literally and figuratively. They remove the ones... |
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Octavia E Butler - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover
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Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues... |
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Radicalizing Peace: How Your Good, Small, Faithful Steps Can Change The World
Mark Traylor - Elevate Fiction
Format: Print book
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The news and media are full of discussions about religious radicals. Their extreme actions dominate our headlines and political conversations because their behavior is so far from society's comfort zone. Much of this kind of behavior that we see is negative and destructive, but maybe there's... |
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I'll Push You: A Journey of 500 Miles, Two Best Friends, and One Wheelchair
PATRICK GRAY - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Two best friends, 500 miles, one wheelchair, and the challenge of a lifetime.Friendship takes on new meaning in this true story of Justin and Patrick, born less than two days apart in the same hospital. Best friends their whole lives, they grew up together, went to school together, and were... |
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Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy
THOMAS MOORE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Moore is the renowned author of Care of the Soul, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller. In Ageless Soul, Moore reveals a fresh, optimistic, and rewarding path toward aging, one that need not be feared, but rather embraced and cherished. In Moore's view, aging... |
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Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
BRETT ARCHIBALD - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." -- The Wall Street JournalIn April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a surf-charter boat, making a night-time crossing of the remote Mentawai Strait off Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle of a storm,... |
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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters
GARRY WILLS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient textGarry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join... |
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The Story Cure: A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir
Dinty W. Moore - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
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A collection of cures for writer's block, plotting and characterization issues, and other ailments writers face when completing a novel or memoir, prescribed by the director of creative writing at Ohio University.People want to write the book they know is inside of them, but they run into... |
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
Sheryl Sandberg - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death... |
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Joni: The Anthology
BARNEY HOSKYNS - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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Nine Grammys. More than ten million albums sold. Named one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time by Rolling Stone. Here, for the first time, an essential collection of writings on Joni Mitchell that charts every major moment of the famed troubadour's extraordinary career,... |
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Jazz Vocal Improvisation: An Instrumental Approach
Mili Bermejo - Berklee Press
Format: Paperback
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(Berklee Guide) . Learn to improvise like an instrumentalist! Artful vocal jazz improvisation requires knowing the changes, and all musicians need to understand what is happening on the musical landscape. This book will help you hear, understand and apply jazz theory so that you can solo... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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Will's red coat : a story of friendship, faith, and one old dog's choice to live again
Tom Ryan - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus.Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly dog, and brought him home... |
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How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016
P. J. O'Rourke - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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This election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O'Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. As P.J. put it, "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of 1692.... |
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The Music of Central Asia
Theodore Craig Levin - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This beautiful and informative book offers a detailed introduction to the musical heritage of Central Asia for readers and listeners worldwide. Music of Central Asia balances "insider" and "outsider" perspectives with contributions by 27 authors from 14 countries. A companion... |
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Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air
HAROLD BLOOM - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra - one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters.Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare,... |
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Hug Everyone You Know: A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer
Truglio Martin - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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Antoinette Martin believed herself to be a healthy and sturdy woman -- that is, until she received a Stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis. Cancer is scary enough for the brave, but for a wimp like Martin, it was downright terrifying. Martin had to swallow waves of nausea at the thought of her body... |
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SereKNITy: Peaceful Projects to Soothe and Inspire
Nikki Van De Car - Running Press Book Publishers
Format: Print book
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In today's fast-paced world everyone is looking for ways to slow down, recharge, and appreciate the small, meaningful details of everyday life. SereKNITy: Peaceful Projects to Soothe and Inspire gives readers the perfect outlet with a collection of more than twenty-five knitting and crocheting... |
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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living
Meik Wiking - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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Embrace Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga) and become happier with this definitive guide to the Danish philosophy of comfort, togetherness, and well-being.Why are Danes the happiest people in the world? The answer, says Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, is Hygge.... |
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Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": The Authorized Graphic Adaptation
Miles Hyman - Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2017 Sollis Comics Festival's Best Adult Graphic NovelThe classic short story--now in full colorShirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and harrowing,... |
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Men Explain Things To Me
Rebecca Solnit - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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"This slim book - seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez - hums with power and wit." - Boston Globe"The antidote to mansplaining." - The Stranger"Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often... |
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The Next Ten Minutes: 51 Absurdly Simple Ways to Seize the Moment
Andrew Peterson Ed.D. - Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Hardcover
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The desire to discover meaning in our lives is a powerful motivator for many people. Some turn to psychotherapy and counseling for help, some turn to spiritual teachings, and many turn to both. The Next Ten Minutes is the guide to help us discover the seeds of transformation and meaning... |
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The Art of Failing: Notes from the Underdog
Anthony McGowan - Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback
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I've invented a new pastime. I call it Hedgerow Russian Roulette. It involves randomly eating fruits and berries I find in bushes along the side streets of West Hampstead. My reasoning is that I'd be bloody unlucky to find any single berry deadly enough to kill me. It's not really... |
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers... |
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
VANESSA VAN EDWARDS - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Do you wish you could decode people Do you want a formula for charisma Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date or your networking partner You need to know how people work. As a human behavior investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive... |
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Tremulous Hinge
Adam Giannelli - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia - in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver... |
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Benjamin K Bergen - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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It may be starred, beeped, and censored--yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains.Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks,... |
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From Under Mountains
Claire Gibson - Image Comics
Format: Paperback
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Old Blood feuds rise up from the past to haunt the ruling family of Karsgate Keep.Young Lady Elena must defy convention and assume her father's role, facing forcesthat threaten Akhara from outside its borders, and worse yet, from within.Collects FROM UNDER MOUNTAINS #1-6 |
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Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump
G B Trudeau - Andrews McMeel Publishing
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"Doonesbury is one of the most overrated strips out there. Mediocre at best." --Donald Trump, 1989He tried to warn us. Ever since the release of the first Trump-for-President trial balloon in 1987, Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau has tirelessly tracked and highlighted the unsavory... |
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