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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer

Robert Sullivan - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"Extraordinary . . . A transformative experience for the reader." -- Lucy Sante "A large-hearted, wide-angled book . . . I couldn't put it down." -- Ian Frazier A personal exploration of the American West and the work of one of America's greatest photographers. Timothy...
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

Susan Page - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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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Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code

Jason Bell - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler's deadliest secret code: the framework of the Final Solution.. In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman. As an MI6 spy - known...
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Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery

Ken McGoogan - Douglas & McIntyre
Format: Hardcover

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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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon...
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future

Alice Randall - Atria/Black Privilege Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music.....
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.. To be a bookseller or librarian ... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker....
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My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories

Joan Nathan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A new cookbook from the best-selling and award-winning author that uses recipes to look back at her life and family history - and at her personal journey discovering Jewish cuisine from around the world. "There is no greater authority on Jewish cooking than Joan Nathan." - Michael...
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