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"For many families, the holiday season is--in a word--unhinged. In no family is that more true than in Danny Pellegrino's, beloved podcast host of Everything Iconic and bestselling author. Inappropriately improvised monologues at the children's Christmas pageant, presents that land someone in the emergency room, or just sitting on the absolute roller coaster that is a Hallmark movie marathon, the holidays are a strange and magical time in the Pellegrino...
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North-South Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Even the greatest poet was once a child. And so it was with Rumi. When he was young he was enchanted by birds and books. He later became a scholar, but it was the loss of his best friend, Shams, that inspired Rumi to his most important realization: Love is in us and everywhere. The Persian mystic and poet Rumi is one of the best known and most widely read poets in the world. The renowned illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh herself comes from Iran. With this...
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English
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Inspired by Didion's own words, journalist Evelyn McDonnell presents an illustrated journey through Didion's life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento, Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles, and Malibu to Manhattan, Miami, and Hawaii. McDonnell reveals the world as it was seen through Didion's eyes and explores her work in chapters keyed to the singular physical motifs of her writing.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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xvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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This inventive new biography of the legendary physicist examines his complex and contradictory nature—from brilliant scientist to charming lothario and life of the party—in 99 vignettes based on intriguingly different particles.
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English
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"Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young architect who pulls her toward joy, adventure, and greater self-acceptance. On a sweltering August morning, only a few months shy of the newlyweds' move to Vancouver, thirty-two-year-old Kurtis heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy's family. It is the last time she sees her husband alive."--
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Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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832 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and at times controversial, athletes in history. His iconic smile lifted the dowdy sport of American pro basketball from a second tier sport with low ratings into the global spotlight, a transformation driven by his ability to eviscerate opponents with a style that featured his grand sense of fun. He was a master entertainer who directed Los Angeles Lakers 'Showtime' basketball to the heights of both glory...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him"--
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Voracious/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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374 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
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English
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"This is the first time Cash's fifty years of songwriting have been collected anywhere. [The] book includes the lyrics to 125 songs [culled from the 600 he wrote], and the stories behind them. Perhaps more than any other American artist, he spoke to the soul of the nation as well as to the triumphs and challenges of his own life. These pages explore Cash's range as a poet and storyteller, taking readers from his early life and first successes through...
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
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49 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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"In 2010, Harry Styles was thrust into the spotlight when he auditioned for The X Factor UK and was placed in a new band called One Direction. That band of five young men would go on to place third in the competition, but their time together wouldn't stop there. They went on to release five albums and headline four international tours. After the band went on a break in 2015, Harry Styles decided to pursue his dream of being a solo artist. Since then,...
13) Desert queen
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Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"This picture book biography in verse follows the life of beloved Rajasthani drag performer Queen Harish, known as the Whirling Desert Queen of Rajasthan. Lit by an inner fire and propelled by a family tragedy, Harish defied the gender conventions of middle class Indian life, battled discrimination and intimidation, and eventually grew up to dance with Bollywood movie stars and on stages across the world. Jyoti Gopal���s rhythmic phrases evoke...
14) Fi: a memoir
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child. "Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from...
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Incorrigible Arts/ Embassy Books & Laundry
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"... the true story of Thomas Townsend Brown - a little-known scientist whose discoveries in the realm of relativity and gravity control maybe more than the human race can handle."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"The Queens of STEAM series explores the life and work of women who've made a big impact in a specific area of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). In this edition, newly independent readers meet Mary Oliver, one of America's most influential and bestselling poets."--Amazon.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
550 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. [This biography] traces his origins as one of the last American writers who had direct contact with this country's pioneer traditions"--
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Picador
Pub. Date
2021.
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xxii, 762 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
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English
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Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and personal dramas? Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father's penury and...
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