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The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews

Fred r Bleakley - Wicked Son
Format: Hardcover

As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosinto save them.The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian...
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Award-Winning Quilts and Their Makers: The Best of American Quilter's Society Shows 1985-1987

Victoria Faoro - Collector Books
Format: Paperback

Quiltmakers discuss their award-winning quilts from the Society's shows from 1985 to the present
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Beyond Ridiculous: Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)

Kenneth Elliott - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback

Beyond Ridiculoustells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. They launched Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at the Limbo Lounge, a raffish club in the fringes of the East Village, but it would...
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Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor."My life is all about opposites," he writes. "Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it. I adored...
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You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine

UNION SQUARE & CO. - Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover

An important, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir about the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war as told through the diary entries of a young Ukrainian girl. Yeva Skalietska's story begins on her twelfth birthday in Kharkiv, where she has been living with her grandmother since she was a baby....
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Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

EVETTE DIONNE - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender - and toward a brighter future - from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations...
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Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983

JEN B LARSON - Feral House
Format: Paperback

Think punk was only a boys club? Read about the women who were the punk revolution! Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll. The explosion of punk sent shockwaves of revolution to every...
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Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

Alexander Nemerov - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period....
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Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery

Paul Collins - Crown; First Edition, 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done. Still our nations...
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The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond

CHRIS BLACKWELL - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of Sound Man and The Soundtrack of My Life, a lyrical, warmhearted, and inspirational memoir from the founder of Island Records about his astonishing life and career helping to bring reggae music to the world stage and working with Bob Marley, U2, Grace Jones, Cat Stevens, and many...
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