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Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
John Waters - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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No one knows more about everything -- especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling -- than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby,... |
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Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
LAURIE NOTARO - Little A
Format: Paperback
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A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife.Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn't end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every hair's root is a symbol of knowledge... |
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The Francis Miracle: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church
John L. Allen - Time
Format: Hardcover
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There is no other organization whose inner workings are more secretive than the Vatican - the spiritual and physical center - of the Catholic Church. Now, with a dynamic new leader in Pope Francis, all eyes are upon the church, as this immensely popular Pope seeks to bring the church back... |
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive... |
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The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover
Paul Letersky - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The 1960s and 1970s were arguably among America's most turbulent post-Civil War decades. While the Vietnam War continued seemingly without end, protests and riots ravaged most cities, the Kennedys and MLK were assassinated, and corruption found its way to the highest levels of politics,... |
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Son: A Psychopath and His Victims
Jack Olsen - Scribner; Reissue edition
Format: Print book
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A classic from "the dean of true crime" (The Washington Post) - now with a new foreword - this 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the handsome, privileged son of one of the city's most elite families.For more... |
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Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob
Patrick Picciarelli - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hollywood Godfather is Gianni Russo's over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when... |
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An Extravagant Life: An Autobiography Incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper
Stuart Woods - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the story of his own life from childhood to the present, and chronicles the journey that made him the writer he is today.Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense... |
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Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom
Lewis Buzbee - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating meditation on education from the author of The Yellow-Lighted BookshopIn Blackboard, Lewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational... |
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