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1974 A Personal History.
Prose, Francine.
Paper Book
"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism--uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony--give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political...
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Desperately Seeking Something A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls.
Seidelman, Susan.
Ebook
The funny and insightful first-person story of the trailblazing movie director of the 80s and 90s whose fearless punk drama, "Smithereens" became the first American indie film to compete at Cannes, and smash hit "Desperately Seeking Susan" led to a four-decade career in film. ...
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The Friday Afternoon Club A Family Memoir.
Dunne, Griffin
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller! "Warm and perceptive." --New York Times "Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." --Washington Post "Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail." --Los Angeles Times ...
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Getting to Know Death A Meditation.
Godwin, Gail.
Paper Book
"Getting to Know Death could just as easily be called Getting to Know Life. As a meditation, it is both unsentimental and full of wonder. As a piece of writing, it stands beside the best of Godwin's fiction. Extraordinary." -Ann Patchett From New York Times...
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Traveling On the Path of Joni Mitchell.
Powers, Ann
Paper Book
*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. "What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and...
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Impossible City Paris in the Twenty-First Century.
Kuper, Simon.
Ebook
An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little. When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris,...
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When the Sea Came Alive An Oral History of D-Day.
Graff, Garrett M.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Absolutely gripping." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post * "A masterpiece of oral history...stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting." --Evan Thomas * "Gripping and propulsive...Readers will be spellbound." --Publishers Weekly<...
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Adventures in Volcanoland What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves.
Mather, Tamsin.
Paper Book
A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the world In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us...
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Better Faster Farther How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women.
Mertens, Maggie.
"From foot-binding to corsets, patriarchal societies have found ways to immobilize women, but now, marathoners and Olympians are proving that women can run like the wind!" --GLORIA STEINEM "A look behind the curtain that all women who love running and sport should...
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Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV.
Nussbaum, Emily.
Paper Book
The rollicking saga of reality television, a "sweeping" (The Washington Post) cultural history of America's most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer--"a must-read for anyone interested in television or popular culture"...
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Hip-Hop Is History.
Questlove
Paper Book
This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical...
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Dark Wire The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever.
Cox, Joseph.
Ebook
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to wiretap the world, shows how cunning both the authorities and drug traffickers have become, with privacy implications for everyone. In 2018, a powerful app for...
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A Gentleman and a Thief The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue.
Jobb, Dean
Paper Book
A captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the...
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