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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter
Lucy O'Brien author of Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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"This may well become the definitive biography of Carpenter....Pop music fans will appreciate this strong biography." - Library Journal, Starred ReviewNamed a Financial Times 2023 Best Book of the Year - Pop Music Named one of The Times and The Sunday Times, UK 17 best rock and pop music... |
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The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Dwight Garner - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic. . Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book... |
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
Rebecca Renner - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Editors' Choice"Delivers everything its title promises and much more." - NPR"Remarkable... Every species, and every person who fights for its continued existence, deserves a book like this." -- The New York Times"This nail-biter account has the intensity... |
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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
Rebecca Clarren - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement... |
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
Tracy Daugherty - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty.. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American... |
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
Scott Eyman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman.. Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie... |
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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
Sly Stone - AUWA
Format: Hardcover
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One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer and a legend. He created a new kind of music, mixing Black and white, male and female, funk and rock. As a songwriter, he penned some of the most iconic anthems of the 1960s and '70s, from "Everyday People"... |
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Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
Benjamin Taylor - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a lifelong lover of Willa Cather's work. The story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence. Some... |
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Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
Gay Talese - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Literary legend" (New York) Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many "nobodies" who make New York so fascinating, culminating with the strange and riveting story of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Upper East Side brownstone - and himself - rather... |
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