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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Natalie Dykstra - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid and masterful story ofIsabella Stewart Gardner - creator of one of America's most stunning museums - an American originalwhose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's world, museum,and the artshe collected.
Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum,... |
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Chita: A Memoir
Chita Rivera - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chita Rivera - three-time Tony Award-winner, Kennedy Centers honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero - until the entertainment... |
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem.... |
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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"If ever a book was necessary, it's this one." - Bill McKibben"Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer grounds of solidarity in these times." - Judith Butler. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired... |
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Paradise Now: The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld
William Middleton - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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A fun and lively account of fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld, written by fashion journalist and author William Middleton, who knew the designer in Paris.In February 2019, the fashion world lost one of its most enduring cultural icons, Karl Lagerfeld, the creative director for the storied House... |
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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
Curtis Chin - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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This "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers) . Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe... |
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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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I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain
Emily Farris - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback
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A hilariously-honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35 Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. As she saw it, disorganization... |
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie Smith - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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"[Smith]...reminds you that you can...survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new." - Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author The bestselling poet and author of the "powerful" (People) and "luminous"... |
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John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community (Black Lives)
Raymond Arsenault - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis
For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable... |
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Medgar and Myrlie
Joy-Ann Reid - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family.
Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating... |
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