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Sneakers
HOWIE KAHN - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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"The definitive story of the sneaker universe." - Wall Street Journal MagazineFeaturing exclusive interviews with Virgil Abloh (Off-White) , Daniel Bailey, Ronnie Fieg (Kith) , DJ Clark Kent, Serena Williams, Alexander Wang, Kobe Bryant and many, many others. Through honesty,... |
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Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway's Adventures as a World War II Correspondent
Terry Mort - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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From Omaha Beach on D-Day and the French Resistance to the tragedy of Huertgen Forest and the Liberation of Paris, this is the story of Ernest Hemingway's adventures in journalism during World War II. In the spring of 1944, Hemingway traveled to London and then to France to cover World... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary ... a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading... |
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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
Liel Leibovitz - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work. Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts,... |
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In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father... |
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The Mighty Franks: A Memoir
MICHAEL FRANK - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A psychologically acute memoir about an unusual and eccentric Hollywood family."My feeling for Mike is something out of the ordinary," Michael Frank overhears his aunt say to his mother when he is a boy. "I wish he were mine."Michael's childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle... |
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Sharp
Michelle Dean - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm -- these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history... |
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime
Cutter Wood - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes the facts aren't the only truth. When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest - her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car - and the residents... |
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