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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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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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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,...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
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276 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"As a young girl growing up in Houston, Margaret Juhae Lee never heard about her grandfather, Lee Chul Ha. His history was lost in early twentieth-century Korea, and guarded by Margaret’s grandmother, who Chul Ha left widowed in 1936 with two young sons. To his surviving family, Lee Chul Ha was a criminal, and his granddaughter was determined to figure out why. Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History chronicles Chul Ha’s untold story. Combining...
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023.
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278 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
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English
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In the 1920s, while the great minds of science financed by the biggest companies in the world wrestled with 19th century solutions to a 20th century problem, 14-year-old Philo T. Farnsworth dreamed of trapping light in an empty jar and transmitting it, one line a time, on a magnetically deflected beam of electrons. Every video screen on the planet today can trace its origins to a sketch that Farnsworth drew for his high-school science teacher in 1922....
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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viii, 341 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless, comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly and his death in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche-a devastating and controversial tragedy that claimed the lives of seven people. On January 20, 2003, a thunderous crack rang out and a 100-foot-wide tide of snow barreled down the Northern Selkirk Mountains in British...
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37Ink/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 335 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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This stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia led to violence shows how found her own power and provides a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we know little about.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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xxi, 486 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.
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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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