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    A Mic for All Seasons
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    A Mic for All Seasons

    When Kenny Albert was growing up, family gatherings sounded a lot like a dispatch from the first all-sports radio station. There was his father, Marv, whose voice shaped the sound of modern basketball, and there too were his uncles Al and Steve-a trio of...
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    Owning the Unknown
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    Owning the Unknown

    Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the...
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    The Swift Dark Tide
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    The Swift Dark Tide

    What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with another woman?The Swift Dark Tide is a story of selfhood and desire, of careful listening to an ungovernable heart.Part memoir, part love letter, The Swift Dark...
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    The Mahogany Pod
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    The Mahogany Pod

    The Mahogany Pod is a moving portrayal of a joyful love affair that was cut short by a terminal illness after just one exhilarating year and an inspirational account of vulnerability, reconciliation and learning to live fully after loss."Gorgeous ... her...
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    Freddie
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    Freddie

    Rescued from a puppy mill in 2010, Freddie was a bright light in lives of his human companions and the ultimate muse for biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies to explore the human-animal bond in his books. As Grant helped Freddie overcome the fears and traumas...
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    Josef Koudelka: Next
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    Josef Koudelka: Next

    An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography's most renowned and celebrated artists. Throughout his more than sixty-year-long obsession with the medium, Josef Koudelka considers a remarkable range of photographic subjects - from his...
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    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae
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    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae

    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae is a tribute to the leading icon in music, Bob Marley. In 1975, after meeting Marley in London, photographer Kate Simon gained unique access to the Wailers, capturing intensely personal moments and momentous...
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    The Funny Thing About Death
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    The Funny Thing About Death

    Six years ago, Jo Caulfield was about to go on stage when she found out that her big sister Annie had cancer. Not the best way to start a nationwide comedy tour. But the tour turns out to be a welcome distraction for both sisters. As Jo reports back from...
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    Tomlin
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    Tomlin

    In 2007, at the age of thirty-four, Mike Tomlin was hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Replacing Hall of Famer Bill Cowher-and two years removed from the team's Super Bowl XL victory-there was immense pressure on the first-year head...
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    Creative Producing
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    Creative Producing

    Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producerAs former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum is...
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    My Beautiful Psychosis
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    My Beautiful Psychosis

    What if psychosis is really a wake up call?Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs...until she decides to give them up...and that's when the insomnia starts. After five nights without sleep she ends up in...
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    A Different Path
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    A Different Path

    "Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it?"Neville Symington...
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    Growing Up?
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    Growing Up?

    This book, by a well established author previously writing in a quite different genre, that of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, is written for an entirely different readership. Patrick Casement has put together a fascinating account of his...
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    The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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    The Life of Charlotte Bronte

    As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was comparatively well. The characters were her...
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    The Wrath of Blonde
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    The Wrath of Blonde

    Laura Banks is a triple threat to herself and others as a comedy writer, stand-up and four-time author, with her USA Today Bestseller, "Breaking the Rules" selling a quarter of a million copies. Laura got her first acting break in "Star Trek II: The...
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    Happy Forever
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    Happy Forever

    'Mark is one of the most indomitable yet gentle spirits I've ever met. He will always be one of my favorite artists I've ever worked with. And someday when I grow up, I want to be just like him.'Alice Cooper'This book is a puzzle. The outside frame...
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    The Baby Doctor
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    The Baby Doctor

    Baby Doctor is an inspiring journey of the life of Gregor Alexander, who grew up in Colombia to become a beloved neonatal doctor in Florida. Alexander became close friends with legendary golfer Arnold Palmer and his wife Winnie and together they were...
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    Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked
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    Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked

    Celebrated by writers including Jonathan Franzen, who said that"[t]his crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century," The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead...
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    Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost
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    Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost

    A poet who crafted thegreatest character in literary history with his engaging anti-hero of Satan, John Milton connected personal experience with the breadth of cosmic epic. HisParadise Lost is a touchstone of English literature.In the latest entry in...
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    Blurred Boundaries
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    Blurred Boundaries

    The civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists drove the largest refugee exodus in the modern history of China,across the sea to the southern island of Taiwan. Martial artists of many styles were among this diaspora.In the 1940's areas of...
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    Three Fires
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    Three Fires

    In Three Fires,award-winning author Denise Mina re-imagines the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century - inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo Savonarola...
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    People of Indiana University
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    People of Indiana University

    What makes Indiana University one of the best institutions for higher education in the world? After spending a few months pondering on this questions, I realized that it is a multitude of things. From having some of the most immersive and intentional...
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    American Classicist
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    American Classicist

    A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world.Edith Hamilton (18671963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former...
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    Banneker
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    Banneker

    The brainchild of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, Banneker: The Afro-American Astronomerwas first conceived after Murray discovered what he found to be a beautifully written letter to Thomas Jefferson by a then unknown writer of color.Aided in his...
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    Fag Hag
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    Fag Hag

    'Some girls fancy sailors, others fancy soldiers. But you, my dear, are a fag hag!'Lola Miesseroff's childhood certainly predisposed her to be a rebel. She was born in Marseilles in 1947 to immigrant parents, her mother a...
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    Farley and Claire
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    Farley and Claire

    Letters made public for the first time: never-before-seen love letters between Farley Mowat and his wife, Claire. Claire participated fully in the project, giving permission to publish her love letters and photos from her personal archive. Includes...
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    Bhutan to Blacktown
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    Bhutan to Blacktown

    I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-la hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal...
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    I Quit Everything
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    I Quit Everything

    An experimental account of one woman's quest to shed addictive substances and behaviors from her life-which dares to ask if we're really better off without them.In January 2021, Freda Love Smith, acclaimed rock musician and author of Red Velvet...
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    Trauma Sponges
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    Trauma Sponges

    Beyond an adrenaline ride or a chronicle of bravura heroics, this unflinching view of a Minneapolis firefighter reveals the significant toll of emergency responseIn this remarkable memoir, Jeremy Norton marshals twenty-two years of professional...
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    Nightfly
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    Nightfly

    Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972.The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the...
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    The DJ Who "Brought Down" the USSR
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    The DJ Who "Brought Down" the USSR

    Of the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list. A masterful BBC presenter, Seva was considered a sage of rock 'n' roll. His programs introduced forbidden western popular music and culture into...
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    Dovlatov and Surroundings

    Dovlatovand Surroundings is a literary ode by one of the mostconsequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, toanother: Sergei Dovlatov. Though the book's focus is ostensibly the manhimself, the text unfolds as a comprehensive look at...
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    If Only You Could Bottle It
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    If Only You Could Bottle It

    Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism,...
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    Journey to Joy
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    Journey to Joy

    The joy is in the journey! We all have our own journey in life with ups and downs. Sometimes it feels like things will never go our way, but yet if we are bold enough to face our fears, learn from our failures, and heal from our pain then we can find the...
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    Mingus
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    Mingus

    "I play what I am. I play Mingus." This comics biography tells the troubled life, the battles against racism, the brilliant music of a master who has left an indelible mark on the jazz scene, and beyond. From his beginnings in Los Angeles in the 1940s to...
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    Black Lives, American Love
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    Black Lives, American Love

    In this hard-hitting collection of essays, D.B. Maroon presents a personal biography of America, Blackness, and racial politics with unflinching style, and delivers a relentless truth-telling on some of the country's fiercest debates and most profound...
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    Silence, Full Stop
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    Silence, Full Stop

    Starred Review fromForeword Reviews. "The book conveys emotions in a deep, visceral way . . . an outstanding memoir about the difficulties of overcoming abuse." A breathtaking and gut-wrenchingly real graphic memoir of the struggles of an adolescent girl...
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    Surf Is Where You Find It
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    Surf Is Where You Find It

    The saying goes, "The second best thing about surfing is talking about it afterward."Gerry Lopez, one of the most revered surfers of all time brings readers into the intimately personal sport with Surf Is Where You Find It, a collection of stories that...
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    Ed Kranepool
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    Ed Kranepool

    No origin story of the New York Mets is complete without Ed Kranepool.The lefty first baseman known as "Steady Eddie" made his major-league debut at age 17 during the team's inaugural season and would eventually depart, nearly two decades later, with his...
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    The Trials of Madame Restell
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    The Trials of Madame Restell

    The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rightsFor forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, "Madame Restell," the nom de guerre of the...
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    A Beginners Guide To Japanese Haiku
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    A Beginners Guide To Japanese Haiku

    An old pond; a frog jumps in: the sound of water Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by William Scott Wilson, the book...
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    Ulisse Aldrovandi
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    Ulisse Aldrovandi

    The Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was a prolific writer, polymath and prodigious collector who amassed the largest collection of naturalia in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as hundreds of coloured drawings detailing them. Many of these...
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    Ford Madox Ford
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    Ford Madox Ford

    Ford Madox Ford (18731939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad, Ford was a leading figure of the avant-garde in pre-WWI London,...
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    Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing
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    Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing

    A critical biography of one of the most celebrated prose stylists in early modern English.This book provides an overview of the life and work of the scandalous Renaissance writer Thomas Nashe (1567c.1600), whose writings led to the closure of theaters...
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    Descartes
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    Descartes

    A critical biography of Ren Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called 'the father of modern philosophy', Ren Descartes' contributions to philosophy, mathematics and natural science set the...
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    Byron
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    Byron

    In this new book, David Ellis traces Byron's life from rented lodgings in Aberdeen to the crumbling splendours of Newstead Abbey and then on to his grand tour of the East. Describing his exile from England after a disastrous marriage, and subsequent...
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    John Ashbery
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    John Ashbery

    Mysterious, esoteric, and baffling, John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous, even charming, and ever responsive to his shifting social and political contexts. This biography charts...
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