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So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
ROGER STEFFENS - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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The definitive oral history of Bob Marley by one of the world's foremost reggae scholars. Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945-1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never... |
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The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando
William J. Mann - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW SelectionBest Book of 2019 -- Publisher's WeeklyBased on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor... |
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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
Rebecca Frankel - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods -- through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids -- until they were liberated... |
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Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
Michelle Miller - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.Though Michelle... |
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The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border
Rosayra Pablo Cruz - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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When Rosayra "Rosy" Pablo Cruz made the agonizing decision to seek asylum in the United States with two of her children, she knew the journey would be arduous, dangerous, and quite possibly deadly. But she had no choice: violence - from gangs, from crime, from spiraling chaos... |
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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Richard Ratay - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Part pop history and part whimsical memoir in the spirit of National Lampoon's Vacation - Don't Make Me Pull Over! is a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips - a halcyon era that culminated in the latter part of the twentieth century, before portable DVD players,... |
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To Me, He Was Just Dad: Stories of Growing Up with Famous Fathers
Stein, Joshua David - ARTISAN
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My Father the Chef. My Father the Cult Leader. My Father the Duke. My Father the Rock Star. These men (Jacques P pin, Saul Newton, John Wayne, and, respectively) are among the famous--and infamous--fathers featured in To Me, He Was Just Dad . . ., a collection of first-person essays... |
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Jill: A Biography of the First Lady
Julie Pace - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiring and surprising life of Dr. Jill BidenWife, mother and educator, Dr. Jill Biden has been described as President Biden's greatest political asset. Like many women of her generation, Jill Biden worked hard to balance family and career, always placing her commitments to her husband,... |
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