Biography
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Book of Mutter
$17.95 Read moreA fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.
Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave en
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1584351969
- Language: English
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Working and Thinking on the Waterfront
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer-one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer-lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge-history, science,
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 1933435291
- Language: English
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We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story
$11.99 Add to cartFrom Paralympic ski racer and YouTube star Josh Sundquist, comes an always-funny (and sometimes-awkward) memoir about teenage misadventures.
When I was twenty-five years old, it came to my attention t- Author: Sundquist, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0316251003
- Language: English
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Far and Near: On Days Like These
$19.95 Read moreNow in trade paper Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volum… [more below]
- Author: Peart, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1770412670
- Language: English
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Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape
$19.95 Add to cart“A tender and thoughtful rendering of an important artist’s life. Sam Nakahira uses the power and beauty of comics to its fullest to immerse you in the mind and genius of Ruth Asawa. As soon as I fini… [more below]
- Author: Nakahira, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1947440098
- Language: English
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Lord Knows, At Least I Was There: Working with Stephen Sondheim
$34.95 Add to cartWhen the Atlanta-born Paul Ford first fell in love with the American musical theatre at the age of five, after seeing the movie version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, he never imagined that
- Author: Ford, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0996016988
- Language: English
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Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
$22.99 Add to cartThe Reformation of the sixteenth century was a vast and complicated movement. It involved kings and peasants, cardinals and country priests, monks and merchants. It spread from one end of Europe to th… [more below]
- Author: Roland H Bainton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1426754434
- Language: English
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Sorolla: The Masterworks
$55.00 Add to cartA new survey of the best works by the elusive and spectacular Spanish Impressionist Joaqu n Sorolla. Often compared to his contemporary, the American artist John Singer Sargent, Joaqu n Sorolla (1863-… [more below]
- Author: Pons-Sorolla, Blanca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0847839338
- Language: English
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah dese… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0307591778
- Language: English
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A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return: Expanded Edition
$14.99 Read moreThis expanded edition of A Game for Swallows features a new, illustrated afterword, as Abirached reflects on the meaning of her memoir’s title, the graffiti that inspired it, and the future of Beirut
- Author: Abirached, Zeina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1728446139
- Language: English
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The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
$21.99 Add to cart“An impressive, meticulously reported postmortem. . . . The Wizard of Lies is the definitive book on what Madoff did and how he did it.” –Bloomberg Businessweek
Who was Bernie Madoff, and how did he- Author: Henriques, Diana B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250007437
- Language: English
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Pitch Black
$17.95 Read moreIn this short graphic novel, acclaimed author Youme joins with Anthony Horton to tell the true story of how Anthony lived and created art underneath the New York City subway system.
“On the subway, do
- Author: Horton, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1643796569
- Language: English
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I Hope I Screw This Up: How Falling in Love with Your Fears Can Change the World
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller! In this irreverently funny, one-of-a-kind book, transformational comedian Kyle Cease shows you how to love failure and follow your heart, release the addictions of your mi… [more below]
- Author: Cease, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1501152106
- Language: English
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Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors
$52.00 Add to cartDiscover the secrets of the world’s top concentrated value investors
Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors chronicles the virtually unknown–but wildl
- Author: Benello, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1119012023
- Language: English
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The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television
$29.99 Read moreA biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling’s rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his own personal Twilight Zone.
We recognize him as our sharpl- Author: Shadmi, Koren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1643378694
- Language: English
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I Am Gandhi
$9.99 Read moreAdvocate for peace and nonviolent revolutionary Gandhi is the 12th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. (Cover may vary)
As a young man in India, Gand… [more below]- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0593619218
- Language: English
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The Who Was? History of the World: Deluxe Edition
$13.99 Add to cartThis timeline of world history gives a fresh take on global events, from King Tut to Malala Yousafzai, and includes ten pages of bobblehead stickers
More than 150 Who Was? subjects gathered into a si- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Manzanero, Paula K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0593224345
- Language: English
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Raquela: A Woman of Israel
$19.99 Add to cartA National Jewish Book Award-winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel’s statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.
During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywe… [more below]
- Author: Gruber, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1453258302
- Language: English
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The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America
$18.99 Add to cartThis “smart, confident, and necessary” (Shea Serrano, New York Times bestselling author) first cultural biography of rap superstar and “master of storytelling” (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Marcus J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1982107596
- Language: English
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
$19.99 Read more“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging.” – KirkusReviews, starred review
“Richard Rubin has done something that w- Author: Rubin, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0544290488
- Language: English
