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Holy American Burnout!

Sean Enfield - Split/Lip Press
Format: Paperback

"Profound insights into the current reality of America, taking on race, inequality, violence, and education. An impressive debut from an exciting new voice!" - Daryl Farmer,author of Where We Land: Stories and Bicycling Beyond the Divide. "Sean Enfield shares tales as varied...
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Fethullah Gulen: A Life of Hizmet

Jon Pahl - Blue Dome Press
Format: Hardcover

In this first ever biography of Fethullah Glen in English, Jon Pahl walks us in a journey of wisdom and controversy, from Turkey of 1940s to the United States in the twenty-first century, exploring the story of the man and the social movement he has inspired. This is the story of a pious...
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

Michael Chabon - HarperCollins
Format: Audio CD

"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays-heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise-on the meaning of fatherhood.For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon,...
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

Anne Boyd Rioux - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world,...
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Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras

Sarah Chapelle - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Dazzling. Incomparable. Unforgettable. The definitive book of Taylor Swift's fashion evolution. This gorgeous hardcover edition has gilded gold edges, foiled cover accents and colored endpapers. For Taylor Swift, fashion and music go hand-in-hand -- each playing a powerful role in shaping...
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Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing

K. Jane Lee - TEN16 Press
Format: Paperback

As a pediatric critical care physician and an ethicist, Jane Lee was accustomed to caring for children with a range of serious conditions and disabilities, and felt comfortable helping families navigate decision-making for these children. When a complicated delivery leaves her second child...
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Sober.House. (My Story)

Mallory Neuberger
Format: Paperback


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The Weight of Being: How I Satisfied My Hunger for Happiness

Kara Richardson Whitely - Seal Press
Format: Paperback

A brutally honest story about being fat in America--and one woman's experience with radical weight loss after a lifetime of fat shamingKara Richardson Whitely thought she could do anything. After all, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro-three times! But now she's off the mountain and back home...
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Adios, Motherfucker: A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and Roll

Michael Ruffino - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Paperback

The riotous and unbridled confessions of a debauched rock and roller and his adventures in excess while touring Middle America on the '80's hair-metal nostalgia circuit The Unband emerged from the suburbs of late '80's New England and drank, drugged, crashed, and burned...
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In the Shadow of the Bridge: A Memoir

Joseph Caldwell - Delphinium
Format: Hardcover

The bohemian, free-spirited existence that blessed many of Manhattan's gifted artists and writers in the nineteen fifties and sixties has, with current skyrocketing rents and the high-income requirements of basic living, been nearly extinguished. And only for the likes of an astute...
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