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This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

Alan Townsend PhD - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of scientific wonder, as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend's wife and daughter. . A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable,...
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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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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

Johann Hari - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it - from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies.In...
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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

Larry Tye - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping group portrait of the pioneers and longtime kings of jazz - Duke Ellington, Satchmo Armstrong, and Count Basie - who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become...
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I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

Ann Leary - S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.. Having arrived at a certain age (her prime) , Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying - and often failing - to be nice....
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A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth's Court

Thomas Lockley - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

An incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England.. On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men - led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher - traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth...
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The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops

Jack McCallum - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

The true story behind Crispus Attucks High School and the all-Black basketball team loosely depicted as the championship opponent in the beloved classic sports movie Hoosiers. For far too long the mythology of Indiana basketball has been dominated by Hoosiers. Framed as the ultimate underdog,...
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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

Nicholas Shakespeare - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about...
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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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You Never Know: A Memoir

Tom Selleck - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way. Frank, funny and open-hearted,...
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