Biographies
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The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller
$28.00 Add to cartINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
An album-by-album celebration of the life and music of Mac Miller through oral histories, intimate reflections, and critical examinations of his enduring work. “One of my- Author: Chesman, Donna-Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 1637580681
- Language: English
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Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist: The True Story of a World-Traveling Bug Hunter
$17.99 Add to cartBack in 1881, when Evelyn Cheesman was born, English girls were expected to be clean and dressed in frilly dresses. But Evelyn crawled in dirt and collected glow worms in jars. When girls grew up they
- Author: Evans, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1943147663
- Language: English
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Banksy Graffitied Walls and Wasn’t Sorry.
$17.95 Add to cartA clever, quirky, and highly entertaining biography of the leading contemporary artist, Banks
Banksy is a world-famous graffiti artist who secretly spray paints pictures on streets and walls while no o
- Author: Gilberti, Fausto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 7, 2021
- ISBN10: 183866260X
- Language: English
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We Share the Sun: The Incredible Journey of Kenya’s Legendary Running Coach Patrick Sang and the Fastest Runners on Earth
$27.95 Read moreAn enlightening biography and gripping sports narrative that takes us behind the scenes into the lives of some of the world’s most elite runners in Kenya and their coach, Patrick Sang.
“I highly rec- Author: Gearhart, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363556
- Language: English
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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
$29.95 Add to cartDJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed.
- Series: American Music
- Author: Walker, Lance Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1477325131
- Language: English
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Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life
$18.95 Add to cartWoodsqueer is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the t… [more below]
- Author: Legler, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349596
- Language: English
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The Art and Life of Hilma AF Klint
$19.95 Add to cartHilma af Klint (1862-1944) began painting her abstract and highly symbolic images as early as 1906, long before Kandinsky and Malevich arrived at what has generally been regarded as the birth of moder
- Author: Hillström, Ylva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0500653178
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$18.00 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Po… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 6, 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188534
- Language: English
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Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThis gritty bestselling memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, and Soulsavers documents his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the ’80s and ’90s.
W- Author: Lanegan, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 0306922789
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$40.00 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316703613
- Language: English
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My Grandfather’s Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men
$24.95 Add to cartRichard Moves Camp’s My Grandfather’s Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of Wtuȟ’a (“Chips”),… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Moves Camp, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 1, 2024
- ISBN10: 1496236912
- Language: English
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Cut!: How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized Animation
$18.99 Add to cartLong before Walt Disney, a young woman revolutionized the landscape of animation using light, a pair of scissors, and her imagination. From acclaimed author C. E. Winters and debut illustrator Matt Sc
- Author: Winters, C. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0063067390
- Language: English
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Alone: The Journeys of Three Young Refugees
$21.99 Add to cartFinalist, Governor General’s Literary Award, Translation
Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by no adult at
- Author: Tom, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 1773069276
- Language: English
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American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South
$24.99 Add to cartIncluded on NPR’s 2022 “Books We Love” List
What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 1
Finalist, 2023 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
ALSC Notable Children’s Book- Series: Medical Fiascoes
- Author: Jarrow, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 168437815X
- Language: English
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The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio
$35.95 Read moreThe Beginning Was the End is the definitive account of DEVO’s vibrant early history, from the authors of the first-ever book about the band. The Beginning Was the End features more than eighty never-b… [more below]
- Series: Ohio History and Culture
- Author: Dellinger, Jade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222518
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$30.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0306926075
- Language: English
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Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace, and Courage
$26.99 Add to cartA great gift for Communion and confirmation!
Performing Miracles. Facing Wild Lions. Confronting Demons. Transforming the World. From Augustine to Mother Teresa, officially canonized as St. Teresa of- Author: Wallace, Carey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 761193278
- Language: English
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Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
$40.00 Add to cart*AWARD WINNER* of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author / and the NCBR Recognition Award
A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers–fam
- Author: McCalman, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062913239
- Language: English
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Mario Buatta: Anatomy of a Decorator
$55.00 Read moreThe first authoritative assessment of Mario Buatta by a prot?g?e of the decorator. Never-before-seen archival material is culled to present the design master as someone who remains impactful in today’… [more below]
- Author: Evans Eerdmans, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 847873579
- Language: English
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
$32.00 Add to cartThe story of Messalina – third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world
The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable- Author: Cargill-Martin, Honor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363955
- Language: English
