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Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World
Gillian Gill - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies - of strength, style, and creativity... |
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Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first authoritative biography - featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs - of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.Forty-five years... |
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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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Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire
Barbara Lynch - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in the Kitchen in this funny, fierce, and poignant memoir by world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch, recounting her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to culinary stardom.Celebrated chef... |
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Miles & Me
QUINCY TROUPE - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback
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An intimate story of Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the young journalist and poet Quincy Troupe--soon to be a major motion picture.Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great... |
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Lawrence Weschler - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patientThe author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published... |
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Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France
Craig Carlson - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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Paris was practically perfect...Craig Carlson was the last person anyone would expect to open an American diner in Paris. He came from humble beginnings in a working-class town in Connecticut, had never worked in a restaurant, and didn't know anything about starting a brand-new business.... |
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7-10 Split:: My Journey As America's Whitest Black Kid
Michael Gordon Bennett - Bennett Global Entertainment Publishing
Format: Print book
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Reflecting on America's civil rights era, Bennett, cofounder and CEO of Bennett Global Entertainment, relives his coming-of-age years as a military brat traveling abroad and stateside in this understated, restrained memoir. The Bennett family, with his father in the U.S. Air Force,... |
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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
SALLIE BINGHAM - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: eBook
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The definitive biography of Doris Duke, the legendary defiant and notorious tobacco heiress and philanthropist, from renowned author Sallie Bingham.As the founder of the Archive for Women's History and Culture at Duke University's Perkins Library, Sallie Bingham has been granted... |
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The Jolly Roger Social Club: A True Story of a Killer in Paradise
Nick Foster - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book
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The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American ex-pat community in Panama--a tale of greed, political history, and murderIn the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five... |
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