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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
Tom Phelan - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Alice Taylor's To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan's We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s.Tom Phelan, who was born and raised... |
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Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
Steve Ryfle - Wesleyan
Format: Hardcover
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Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unmatched succession of science fiction films that were commercial hits worldwide. From the atomic allegory of Godzilla and the beguiling charms of Mothra to the tragic mystery of Matango... |
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U2: Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World
Timothy D. Neufeld - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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U2's significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative... |
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Hunter of Stories
Eduardo Galeano - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The internationally acclaimed last work by the legendary Latin American writer Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including the stories of those... |
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Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard
STEPHEN TAYLOR - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and unconventional figure, Anne Barnard lived a life that might have been the outline of a novel by her contemporary, Jane Austen, or by Edith Wharton.She was born in Scotland in 1772, lived at the heart of Georgian society, and yet defined herself by defiance of convention.... |
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A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash
Alexander Masters - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Alexander Masters, the bestselling author of Stuart: A Life Backwards, asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heapIn 2001, 148 tattered and mold-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge.... |
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Nobu: A Memoir
Nobuyuki Matsuhisa - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and unique memoir by the acclaimed celebrity chef and international restaurateur, Nobu, as he divulges both his dramatic life story and reflects on the philosophy and passion that has made him one of the world's most widely respected Japanese fusion culinary artists.Nobu needs... |
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Reporter: A Memoir
Seymour M Hersh - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time--a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a decades-long career breaking some of the most impactful stories of the last half-century, from Washington to Vietnam to the Middle East.Seymour... |
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
LELAND MELVIN - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success.Leland Melvin is the only... |
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Geto Boys' The Geto Boys
Rolf Potts - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Print book
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At the outset of summer in 1990, a Houston gangsta rap group called the Geto Boys was poised to debut its self-titled third album under the guidance of hip-hop guru Rick Rubin. What might have been a low-profile remix release from a little-known corner of the rap universe began to make... |
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Manderley Forever
Tatiana De Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier."It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor.... |
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Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond
MARTIN KEMP - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death, the world- renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty- year journey with the work of the world's most famous artistA personal memoir interwoven with original research, Living with Leonardo takes us deep inside Leonardo da Vinci scholar... |
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Swabbed & Found: An Adopted Man's DNA Journey to Discover his Family Tree
Frank Billingsley - Bright Sky Press
Format: Hardcover
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As Houston's beloved KPRC weatherman for more than 20 years, Frank Billingsley seems like a relative to many people. His optimistic presence comes into their homes and reassures that even the gloomiest of rainclouds probably has a silver lining. He has such a way with people that it is obvious... |
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Redemption At Hacksaw Ridge: The Gripping True Story That Inspired The Movie
Booton Herndon - Remnant Publications
Format: Hardcover
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"When we go into combat, Doss, youre not comin back alive. Im gonna shoot you myself!" The men of the 77th Infantry Division couldnt fathom why Private Desmond T. Doss would venture into the horrors of World War II without a single weapon to defend himself. "Youre nothing... |
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Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice
ELLE LUNA - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a very real sense we define our lives through our stories. Understand these stories, along with the motivations behind them, and we can positively change how our future unfolds. With this premise, Elle Luna, the author of The Crossroads of Should and Must, and the psychotherapist... |
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Bowie: The Illustrated Story
Pat Gilbert - Voyageur Press
Format: Hardcover
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David Bowie released an incredible 27 studio albums, beginning with his eponymous 1967 debut and ending with Blackstar, released just two days before his death in January 2016. Widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians and performers of the previous five decades, Bowie demolished... |
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Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz
FRED HERSCH - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch. His prodigious talent as a sideman - a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson - blossomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that defied... |
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
JULIA VAN HAAFTEN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and inventor.Berenice Abbott is to American photography as Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. She was a photographer... |
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition... |
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Absolutely on Music: Conversations
Seiji Ozawa - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered... |
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
MICHAEL CHABON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays - heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise - on the meaning of fatherhood, anchored by the viral sensation, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion".For the September 2016... |
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner.
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir.... |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018.A Publisher's Weekly Best... |
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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
KAYLEEN SCHAEFER - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A personal and sociological examination--and ultimately a celebration--of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society"Text me when you get home." After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love.... |
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Being Elvis
Ray Connolly - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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On the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death comes this rocking biography of an iconic artist who fundamentally transformed American culture.Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic... |
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It's All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives
Kevin Avery - Fantagraphics
Format: Hardcover
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This is a prose series of unpublished interviews with, and a visual retrospective of, the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer. In 1976, the critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing his literary hero, legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald. Beginning in the late... |
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The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
James Hornfischer - Bantam Books
Format: Print book
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The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U. S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower One of America s preeminent military historians, James D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive... |
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Paulie's: Classic Italian Cooking in the Heart of Houston's Montrose District
Paul Petronella - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Hardcover
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All proceeds from September pre-sales will be donated to Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund. Houston Press named Paulie's "Best Montrose Neighborhood Restaurant" in 2015, and its operator and namesake, Paul Petronella, was listed among Houston's "Most Interesting Men"... |
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The Death of Hitler: The Final Word
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BRISARD - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Based on unprecedented access to a long-buried archive, a dramatic and revealing account that sheds new light on Hitler's final hours, his death and his remains.What actually happened in Hitler's bunker? What happened to Hitler's body in those last desperate days after Germany's... |
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This Is Not My Beautiful Life: A Memoir
Victoria Fedden - Picador
Format: Print book
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This Is Not My Beautiful Life is the story of how Victoria lost her parents to prison and nearly lost her mind. No one ever said motherhood would be easy, but as she struggles to change diapers, install car seats, and find the right drop-off line at pre-school--no easy task--when each one is named... |
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Billy Joel: America's Piano Man
Joshua S. Duchan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Despite his tremendous success, Billy Joel's gifts as a composer and commentator on American life are long overdue for a thorough investigation. In Billy Joel: America's Piano Man, music historian Joshua S. Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring... |
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"My Name Is Quarnig": Survivor of Armenian Genocide
Nancy Weller Dorian - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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The year 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the Genocide perpetrated by the Moslem Ottoman Turks against the Christian nation of Armenia. This book is an account of a second generation Armenian survivor's life as it emerged from that conflagration and later thrived in America. It is a story... |
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My Days: Happy and Otherwise
Marion Ross - Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . . Before she was affectionately known to millions as "Mrs. C.," Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount... |
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
Matthew Dennison - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams - Hanover Square
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went... |
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches,... |
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The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution
Brent Preston - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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ADVANCE PRAISE "A must-read story told with honesty, humor, and humility by a passionate farmer who reminds us what our food system can and should be about." - Daniel Boulud "Preston uses brilliant storytelling and brutal honesty to describe what it takes to create both... |
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The Power of Pasta: A Celebrity Chef's Mission to Feed America's Hungry Children
Bruno Serato - SelectBooks
Format: Hardcover
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The Power of Pasta is a beautifully illustrated four-color book by celebrity chef Bruno Serato. It is part memoir, part cookbook, and, above all, a work of advocacy on behalf of children and families facing poverty and homelessness as the founder of Caterina's Club that feeds thousands... |
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
KHIZR KHAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream."Khan's aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands." - Kirkus Reviews In fewer... |
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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Robert Kanigel - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Book
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The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.
Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children,... |
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Stormy Days: Memoirs of an Iranian-Armenian Businessman
Levon Aharonian - Gomidas Inst
Format: Paperback
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The memoir of a successful Iranian-Armenian businessman, community activist and philanthropist during the most turbulent periods of modern Iranian and Armenian history. This is a fascinating and invaluable account of Armenian communities of modern Iran. |
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Lemon Jail: On the Road with the Replacements
Bill Sullivan - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota's greatest bands - with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs "Don't bore us, get to the chorus" is Bill Sullivan's motto, which will come as no surprise to anyone who opens Lemon Jail. A raucous tour diary... |
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The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
Mayte Garcia - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the one-year anniversary of his death, legendary musician Prince's first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside the personal and professional life of one of the world's most beloved icons. In The Most Beautiful,... |
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H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
Adam Selzer - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's... |
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Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony
Andrew Bloomfield - New World Library
Format: Paperback
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When aspiring screenwriter Andrew Bloomfield moved into a bungalow in Southern California he soon discovered that he shared the property with a large colony of feral cats - untamed, uninterested in human touch, not purring pets in waiting. But after a midnight attack by predators that... |
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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy
Jean Kennedy Smith - Harper
Format: Print book
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In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof.Prompted... |
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Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution
Behrooz Ghamari - Or Books Llc
Format: Print book
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Set in the tumultuous aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Remembering Akbar weaves together the stories of a group of characters who share a crowded death row cell in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. A teeming world is evoked vividly through the relationships, memories, and inner... |
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
JAMES F SIMON - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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The epic 1950s battle that would shape the legal future of the civil rights movement is chronicled here for the first time. The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower was a gradualist... |
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Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife
Pamela Bannos - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century... |
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Spy Sites of Washington, DC: A Guide to the Capital Region's Secret History
Robert Wallace - Georgetown University Press
Format: Print book
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Washington, DC stands at the epicenter of world espionage. Mapping this history from the halls of government to tranquil suburban neighborhoods reveals scores of dead drops, covert meeting places, and secret facilities -- a constellation of clandestine sites unknown to even the most avid... |
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The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai
Ha Jin - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also known as Li Po--one of the most beloved poets ever to emerge from China.With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range... |
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
GABRIELLE UNION - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,... |
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Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
TIM BAUERSCHMIDT - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height... |
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Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines
Gregory Crewdson - Aperture
Format: Print book
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Cathedral of the Pines presents Gregory Crewdson's first new body of work in over five years. The series marks a return to Crewdson's classic style of storytelling via the single image, using light and color to create newly intimate, psychologically charged imagery. It also marks... |
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Two's Company: A Fifty-Year Romance with Lessons Learned in Love, Life & Business
Suzanne Somers - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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In her most personal and inspiring book yet, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Somers shows readers how to shape a healthy, lasting relationship through the lens of her 50-year love affair with her husband, Alan Hamel. For the first time, Suzanne will expose the inner workings... |
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
FIONA SAMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, a prize-winning poet delivers a major new biography of Mary Shelley -- as she has never been seen before.We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail -- the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft,... |
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BRAVE
ROSE MCGOWAN - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A voice for generationsRose McGowan... |
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Agent M: The Lives and Spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
Henry Hemming - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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Maxwell Knight was a paradox. A jazz obsessive and nature enthusiast (he is the author of the definitive work on how to look after a gorilla) , he is seen today as one of MI5's greatest spymasters, a man who did more than any other to break up British fascism during the Second World War - in spite... |
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Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
Jed Perl - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved... |
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The Wife's Tale: A Personal History
Aida Edemariam - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia - a nation that would undergo a tumultuous transformation from feudalism to monarchy to Marxist revolution to democracy,... |
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Collected Nonfiction, Volume 2: Selections from the Memoirs and Travel Writings
Mark Twain - Everyman's Library
Format: Print book
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The second of two new hardcover volumes collecting the major nonfiction writings of the "father of American literature," including excerpts from The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi. Mark Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling... |
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The Latter Days: A Memoir
Judith Freeman - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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An arresting, lyrical memoir about the path the author took - sometimes unwittingly - out of her Mormon upbringing and through a thicket of profound difficulties to become a writer.At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the Mormon church-owned department store in the Utah town where... |
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Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
Judy Goldman - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads... |
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L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World
Joe Donnelly - Rare Bird Books
Format: Paperback
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During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with Christian Bale, gone on a date... |
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Unwifeable: A Memoir
Mandy Stadtmiller - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor... |
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Forging a President: How the Wild West Created Teddy Roosevelt
William Hazelgrove - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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"There are few sensations I prefer to that of galloping over these rolling limitless prairies, with rifle in hand, or winding my way among the barren, fantastic and grimly picturesque deserts of the so-called Bad Lands." - Theodore RooseveltHe was born a city boy in Manhattan;... |
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Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life
Scott Ian - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Scott Ian, rhythm guitarist and cofounder of Anthrax and author of I'm the Man, collects all of his craziest hard rock stories into one balls-to-the-wall volume. Access All Areas has tales of humor, excess, fun, debauchery, food, booze, and mayhem from Scott's many years on the road... |
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Interior States: Essays
Meghan O'Gieblyn - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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"Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection." --Lorrie MooreA fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues... |
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Mun Chae-In ui unmyong
Jae-In Moon
Format: Hardcover
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The special edition of the 19th Presidential election of the Republic of Korea "Destiny of Moon Jaein". This book was written by former President Roh Moo-hyun and the participating government, which he saw from his perspective of his lifelong comrades, Moon Jae-in, who had trusted... |
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misrables
David Bellos - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the world's most popular novelPutting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information... |
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Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend
Karen Bartlett - Lesser Gods
Format: Paperback
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"The most definitive biography yet" -- Choice magazine"A vivid portrait of a tortured soul" -- Out in the City"A heart-breaking read" -- Record CollectorKnown the world over for her unique musical style, distinctive look and a voice that propelled her into... |
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Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
Bridget Quinn - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female... |
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Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black
Alan Light - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated biography of Johnny Cash that tells his life story through never-before-seen personal photographs and memorabilia from the Cash familyJohnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black is a Cash biography like no other. It reveals Cash's personal and professional... |
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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
Michael Tisserand - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOKFINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN BIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYIn the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator... |
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Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
Ben Blum - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account." - Jennifer Senior, New York Times Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other Alex Blum was a good kid,... |
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Hitlers generals (Korean Edition)
Namdo-hyeon - Planet Media
Format: Paperback
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Hitlers generalsGermany, which has been militarily shrinking since the Treaty of Versailles, was the reason why they were able to take control of the world in a short time, and there were German generals!CEO of the battlefield. Ten generals with the rise and fall of the Third ReichThe Ten Generals... |
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A young man's moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen,... |
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Rory Gallagher: His Life and Times
MARCUS CONNAUGHTON - Collins Pr
Format: Paperback
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A biography of Irish rock icon, Rory Gallagher. In this compelling account, contemporaries, fellow musicians, filmmaker Tony Palmer, and Taste drummer John Wilson talk about Rory from his meteoric rise in the 1960s with Taste to his remarkable solo career. This is a testament to the musical... |
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Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
Jason Porath - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog. Well-behaved women seldom make... |
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The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir
LAURA JEAN BAKER - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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"Laura Jean Baker has written a beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents, which are indistinguishable from its joys. This is a warmly intimate yet intellectually provocative personal document of originality and considerable charm." - Joyce Carol Oates With... |
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Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
Michelle Stevens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist - an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks... |
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Siren Song: My Life in Music
SEYMOUR STEIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The autobiography of America's greatest living record man: the founder of Sire Records and spotter of rock talent from the Ramones to Madonna.Seymour Stein is America's greatest living record man. Not only has he signed and nurtured more important artists than anyone alive, now sixty... |
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Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue
Charles Dowell Youmans - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A rare case among history's great music contemporaries, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949) enjoyed a close friendship until Mahler's death in 1911. Unlike similar musical pairs (Bach and Handel, Haydn and Mozart, Schoenberg and Stravinsky) , these two composers... |
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Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano
Stewart Pollens - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Paduan-born harpsichord maker and contemporary of Antonio Stradivari, who is credited with having invented the pianoforte around the year 1700 while working in the Medici court in Florence. Through... |
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
Joan Juliet Buck - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter... |
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Quicksand : what it means to be a human being
Henning Mankell - Harvill Secker
Format: Print book
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In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. |
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Talking Music 2: Blues and Roots Music Mavericks
Holger Petersen - Insomniac Press
Format: Paperback
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Talking Music 2 is the second collection of Holger Petersen's in-depth radio interviews with artists - the pioneering men and women who created the blues and roots sounds that have influenced the course of popular culture and music worldwide. Many of his interview subjects are no longer... |
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Bomb: The Author Interviews
BOMB Magazine - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on 30 years of BOMB Magazine, this anthology of interviews brings together some of the greatest figures of world literature for a brilliant and unforgettable collection of sharp, insightful and intimate author conversations. Here we have a conversation with Jonathan Franzen,... |
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Im hisheli hushere
Martiros Abrahamean - Printinfo
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The memoirs of the author, as captain, during and prior to the Armenian massacres of 1915. |
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That's What She Said: Wise Words from Influential Women
Kimothy Joy - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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An artist and activist committed to the empowerment of women and girls has created a gorgeous illustrated volume, blending watercolor and short biography to showcase the contributions of more than fifty influential female leaders whose words and actions are a passionate call to arms.Distraught... |
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The Romance of Elsewhere: Essays
Lynn Freed - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautiful writer, dead-on brilliant, rich in humor, possessing a dark and comforting wisdom." -- Anne Lamott Lynn Freed's deeply personal essays explore our most quintessential question: What makes a home? From very early on she had imagined for herself an ideal life:... |
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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
Daniel Swift - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating biography of Ezra Pound told via the stories of his visitors at St. Elizabeths HospitalIn 1945, the great American poet Ezra Pound was deemed insane. He was due to stand trial for treason for his fascist broadcasts in Italy during the war. Instead, he escaped a possible death... |
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
David Leite - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite... |
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
Liz Pryor - Random House
Format: Print book
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For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through... |
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The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera
Adam Begley - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling, stylish biography of a fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer.A recent French biography begins, Who doesn't know Nadar In France, that's a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris - a cohort that includes... |
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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Richard Russo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, ranging throughout writing and reading and living.In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight... |
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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
Julia Phillips - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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"The Hollywood memoir that tells all . . . Sex. Drugs. Greed. Why, it sounds just like a movie." - The New York Times Every memoir claims to bare it all, but Julia Phillips's actually does. This is an addictive, gloves-off expos from the producer of the classic films... |
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Rolling Stones on Air in the Sixties: TV and Radio History As It Happened
Richard Havers - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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The first official, in-depth history of the Rolling Stones told through the band's television and radio broadcasts - appearance by appearance - published to tie in with the global release of a DVD containing recently discovered, never-before-released footage of the Stones on TV, in front... |
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Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, Father Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gangs in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of radical kinship.In his first... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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My Beloved Man
Vicki P. Stroeher - Boydell & Brewer
Format: Print book
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'To read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two giants. ' From the Foreword by FIONA SHAW This volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship... |
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Mean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned Childhood
Tom Shillue - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the stand-up comedian and host of Fox News' humorous late-night talk show Red Eye, a nostalgic look back at his childhood and the simple American values that shaped his worldview - a portrait of growing up in 1970s America.As a comedian and the host of Red Eye, whip-smart funny... |
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A Spy in the House of Loud: New York Songs and Stories
Chris Stamey - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, "the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it." In A Spy in the House... |
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The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II
Karen Dolby - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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A charming collection of quotes and anecdotes celebrating the incomparable Queen of EnglandWhen we think of the queen, we probably picture a serious, dignified personage complete with majestic hat and matching handbag. But The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II reveals a side of the monarch... |
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Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez
Jose Baez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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The unabridged, inside story of the trial and final days of New England Patriots superstar Aaron Hernandez, by his attorney and New York Times bestselling author Jose Baez ("The best defense lawyer in the country." - Sean Hannity) .When renowned defense attorney Jose... |
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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
Peter Graham - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme - better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry - and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline's mother, Honora. Half an hour later, the girls returned alone, claiming that Pauline's mother had had an accident.... |
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Alexander Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography
Richard Sylla - Sterling Pub Co Inc
Format: Print book
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Find out who lived and who died in the incredible story of the founding father who made America modern - and became the toast of Broadway. This richly illustrated biography portrays Alexander Hamilton's fascinating life alongside his key contributions to American history, including his unsung... |
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
SARAH KRASNOSTEIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes... |
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Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies
Tara Ison - Soft Skull Press
Format: Print book
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Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues... |
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Long Way Back
Charley Boorman - Aa Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This biography details motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman's recovery from a major road traffic accident in 2016. On February 16 2016, motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman suffered a major road traffic accident in Portugal. Having spent the better part of his life on some form of motorbike,... |
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With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice
Dorothy Marcic - Citadel
Format: Paperback
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"A rapid-fire, real-life thriller." - New York Times bestselling author M. William Phelps The lovely widow had confessed to the coldblooded murder of her husband. But Dorothy Marcic suspected a more sinister tale at the heart of her beloved uncle's violent death. The brutal... |
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Night Class: A Downtown Memoir
Victor Corona - Soft Skull Press
Format: Book
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The playground of the rich and the beautiful, downtown New Yorks nightlife spectacles and power of self-invention incubated pop icons from Andy Warhol to Lady Gaga. NYU sociologist Victor P. Corona sought a new education, where night classes held in galleries, nightclubs, bars, apartments,... |
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Can You Tolerate This?
Ashleigh Young - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling - and already prizewinning - collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappointment, Katherine Mansfield tourism and New Zealand punk rock, and the limitations of the body. Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal... |
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Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal
Jonathan Green - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. The use of crack cocaine surged, replacing heroin as the high of choice. Drug dealers claimed... |
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
MAYA JASANOFF - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Enlightening, compassionate, superb" - John Le CarrA visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing todayMigration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism... |
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France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child
Katherine Pratt - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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From the coauthor of My Life in France, a revealing collection of photographs taken by Paul Child that document his and Julia Child's years in France Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia... |
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All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
LIZA JESSIE PETERSON - CENTER ST
Format: Print book
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ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px... |
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The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'Sullivan - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed... |
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Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 19471962
Douglas Dreishpoon - Hauser & Wirth Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Nothing and Everything examines the synergistic relationship between artists and composers living in New York City between the end of World War II and the early 1960s. It features seven artists and composers -- Louise Bourgeois, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Joan... |
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A Paris Year: My Day-to-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World
Janice MacLeod - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman's French sojourn in the world's most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris... |
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Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon
Iris Apfel - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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"Iris is one of my favorite subjects to photograph. She has four eyes in front and two eyes behind, and that's why she can see things in a round-about way. She flirts with us just enough to make us fall madly in love with her, as she once did to her beloved husband Carl. In the midst... |
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Neruda: The Poet's Calling
Mark Eisner - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other... |
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I Survived Ted Bundy: The Attack, Escape & PTSD that Changed My Life
Rhonda Stapley - Galaxy-44 Publishing, LLC
Format: Print book
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She was an innocent Mormon girl. He was America's most notorious serial killer. When their paths crossed on a quiet autumn afternoon, he planned to kill her. But this victim had an incredible will to survive and would live to tell her story nearly three decades after he met death in a Florida... |
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas - New Directions
Format: Print book
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The classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrations This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) , one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child's-eye... |
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Becoming Henry Moore
Henry Moore - Art / Books
Format: Hardcover
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Becoming Henry Moore tells the story of the artist's creative journey between 1914 and 1930, from gifted schoolboy to celebrated sculptor.Displaying skill and ambition from a young age, Moore (1898-1986) spent his early years studying the art of the past and of his contemporaries,... |
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Fifty Years of Armenian Literature
Grigor Pěltean - The Press at California State University
Format: Paperback
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Fifty Year of Armenian Literature in France examines Armenian literature as it emerged in France between 1922 and the beginning of the 1970's. Its goals are several. First of all, to retrace the literary history of the period starting with Armenian immigration until the passing away... |
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Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
DAWN DAVIES - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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If you're looking for a parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother.This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college... |
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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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Books for Living
Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new?... |
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Imperatory Rossii (Russian Edition)
Gergij Chulkov - Book on Demand Ltd.
Format: Unknown Binding
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Georgij Ivanovich Chulkov (1879-1939) - poet, prozaik, literaturoved, yarkaya figura v literaturnoj zhizni Serebryanogo veka. Ego istoricheskoe issledovanie o rossijskih imperatorah Pavle I, Aleksandre I, Nikolae I, Aleksandre II, Aleksandre III pomogaet glubzhe ponyat istoriyu Rossii... |
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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Donna Seaman - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are In many art books, they've been marginalized... |
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Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
THOMAS PAGE MCBEE - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with "hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love" (Maggie Nelson) , an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity... |
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Two Turns From Zero: Pushing to Higher Fitness Goals-Converting Them to Life Strength
Stacey Griffith - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"The journey Stacey Griffith charts in Two Turns From Zero is both inspiring and instructional. Her book is action-oriented and wise beyond measure. It is full of engaging spirit and the true power of love and movement." - Deepak ChopraExpert motivator, a fitness virtuoso and a self-empowerment... |
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Future Perfect: A Skeptic's Search for an Honest Mystic
Victoria Loustalot - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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A witty, unflinching, and provocative memoir about one woman's journey into the fact, fiction, and fraud of the modern mystical complex.In the months following the breakup with her longtime boyfriend, Victoria Loustalot crossed paths with multiple psychics eager to impart their vision.... |
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The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
JONATHAN SANTLOFER - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Written with unexpected humor and great warmth, The Widower's Notebook is a portrait of a marriage, an account of the complexities of finding oneself single again after losing your spouse, and a story of the enduring power of familial love."This is deeply moving ... beautifully... |
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents
RICHARD FORD - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty... |
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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
Cullen Murphy - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut SchoolFor a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nations top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stones throw of one another... |
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Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry
Leonard Slatkin - Amadeus Press
Format: Hardcover
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(Amadeus) . Leading Tones is a glimpse into several aspects of the musical world. There are portions devoted to Leonard Slatkin's life as a musician and conductor, portraits of some of the outstanding artists with whom he has worked, as well as anecdotes and stories both personal and professional.... |
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Craig Brown - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon... |
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The Diesel Brothers: A Truckin' Awesome Guide to Trucks and Life
Heavy D - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Feel like somebody hit the brakes on your Diesel Brothers cravings? Discover how you can keep the gas going with this rip-roaring ride behind the scenes of Discovery Channel's popular series Diesel Brothers.In the world of monster trucks, no one builds bigger and more extreme rides... |
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The Plots Against Hitler
Danny Orbach - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance... |
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
Lucy Worsley - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Take a trip back to Jane Austens world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austens childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother... |
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ELLA: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald
Geoffrey Mark - Ultimate Symbol
Format: Hardcover
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Ella Jane Fitzgerald, The First Lady of Song, became an internationally celebrated cultural force who has been called the greatest female singer in history. ELLA chronicles the ultimate rags-to-riches embodiment of the American dream, whose personal life was one of the best-kept secrets... |
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Figures in a Landscape: People and Places
Paul Theroux - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux's latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters,... |
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The Incest Diary
Anonymous - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"In the fairy tales about father-daughter incest -- 'The Girl Without Hands,' 'Thousand Furs,' the original 'Cinderella,' 'Donkey Skin,' and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors -- the daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by their father's... |
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews,... |
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