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Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
Whoopi Goldberg - Blackstone Publishing Inc
Format: Hardcover
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From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life.If it weren't for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they needed to succeed in life,... |
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Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
Ken McGoogan - Douglas & McIntyre
Format: Hardcover
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Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures... |
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Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species
Greg Cummings - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction. Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He shares his fascinating experiences as a "wildlife... |
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Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
David L. Roll - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Truman, and the legacy Truman struggled to overcome to lead America into a new, post-war world. In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt selected as his next running mate a hardworking,... |
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi Dench - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig.... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green.... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head.... These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.. For the very first... |
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
Susan Page - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time - Barbara Walters - a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.. Barbara Walters was a force... |
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her "witty... |
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