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Surf Is Where You Find It: The Wisdom of Waves, Any Time, Anywhere, Any Way - Paperback

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by Gerry Lopez (Author), Rob Machado (Foreword by), Steve Pezman (Foreword by)The saying goes, "The second best thing about surfing is talking about it afterward." Gerry Lopez, one of the most revered surfers of all time brings readers into the intimately personal sport with Surf Is Where You Find It, a collection of stories that recount harrowing waves, epic wipeouts, and heroes encountered over a lifetime on the water. From growing up in Hawaii in the '50s and '60s, to finding the tube in t...

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz - Paperback

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by Eve Babitz (Author), Molly Lambert (Introduction by), Sara Kramer (Editor)Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve's Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage, have seduced generations of readers with their unfailing wit and impossible glamour. What is less well known is that Babitz was a workin...

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems - Hardcover

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by Megan Fox (Author)THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Heartbreaking...Go read the book, everyone." --Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. "These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had...

The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods - Hardcover

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by Greg King (Author)The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California's famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the world's tallest trees understand how unlikely it is that these last isolated groves of giant trees still stand at all. In this grippin...

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt - Paperback

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by T. J. Stiles (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt's humble birth during the presidency of George Wash...

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior - Hardcover

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by Carole Lindstrom (Author), Bridget George (Illustrator), Autumn Peltier (Introduction by)From New York Times bestselling picture book author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Bridget George comes Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior, an inspiring picture book biography about two Indigenous Rights Activists, Josephine Mandamin and Autumn Peltier. The seventh generation is creatingA sea of change. It was a soft voice, at first.Like a ripple.But with practice it grew louder. Indigenous women have lon...

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend - Hardcover

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by Rob Copeland (Author)The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. An instant New York Times bestseller!Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international ad...

History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes - Hardcover

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by Tracey Baptiste (Author), Shauna J. Grant (Illustrator)Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume, learn about two brave women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott! A Black woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus sparked a bus boycott and became part of one of the most iconic moments in American history. Yet, few know that Rosa Parks had actively worked toward social justice her whole life. And even fewer know that th...

The Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is a River - Paperback

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by Thomas Sugrue (Author)This original biography of Edgar Cayce tells the complete story of America's most well-documented psychic. Explores Cayce's life, work, psychic readings, and phenomenal medical cures. Photos. Index. Number of Pages: 382 Dimensions: 1.1 x 7 x 4.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: February 01, 1997

A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Daisy Hernandez (Author)The PEN Literary Award-winning author "writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love" about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, wh...

On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California - Paperback

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by Jaclyn Moyer (Author)Author BiographyJaclyn Moyer grew up in northern California's Sierra Foothills. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, High Country News, Salon, Guernica, Orion, Ninth Letter, and other publications. She has been a Fishtrap Fellow, a Sozopol Literary Seminars Fellow, and a finalist for the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize. She has worked as a vegetable farmer, bread baker, teacher, and native seed collector. Moyer lives with her partner and 2 young children in C...

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience - Hardcover

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by Lyndsey Stonebridge (Author)A timely guide on how to live--and think--through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century's foremost opponents of totalitarianism "We are free to change the world and to start something new in it."--Hannah Arendt The violent unease of today's world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism,...

Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II - Hardcover

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by Adam Makos (Author), Marcus Brotherton (Author)From the bestselling author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture, comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivotal battles during the Pacific War, a classic book now expanded with new stories from the flyboys overhead and the home front at war. Following fifteen Marines from Pearl Harbor, through their battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V...

Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II - Hardcover

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by Alex Kershaw (Author)*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II--all Medal of Honor recipients--from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave "Pitch-perfect."--The Wall Street Journal - "Riveting."--World War II magazine - "Alex Kershaw is the master of putting the reader in the heat of the action."--Martin Dugard As the Allies raced to defe...

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by Maya Angelou (Author)Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time.Front JacketTenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear t...

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Paperback

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by Marjane Satrapi (Author)BEST SELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. "A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.... A stark, shocking impact." --The New York Times: "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years" In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satr...

The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard - Paperback

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by Marc Eliot (Author)The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more.Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an extraordinary 63 albums, 38 that made it on to Billboard's Country Top Ten, 13 th...

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal MasterMind Behind the Silk Road - Paperback

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by Nick Bilton (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom--and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything--drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons--free of the government's watchful eye. ...

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by Raynor Winn (Author)"Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."--Entertainment Weekly A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book ConciergeSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDOVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey walking the South West Coast Path in England Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with the...

Four Boys and a Guitar: The Story and Music of The Mills Brothers - Paperback

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by Douglas E. Friedman (Author)FOUR BOYS AND A GUITAR: The Story and Music of the Mills Brothers is the only biography of this famous American singing group. 70 Chart hits over a 37-year period The book tells the group's story from their humble beginnings in Piqua, Ohio to their rise to international stardom. The racial aspects of their story are also covered, especially as they mirrored the racial history of the country over the course of the group's career. Number of Pages: 396 Dimensions:...

The Comedian Harmonists: The Last Great Jewish Performers in Nazi Germany - Paperback

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by Douglas E. Friedman (Author)The remarkable and poignant story of the Comedian Harmonists, an early 1930s German singing group that was forced to disband because three of its members were Jewish. The banning of the group, which enjoyed a level of success in Europe similar to the Beatles in the 1960s, was part of the Nazis' attempt to erase all traces of Jewish life and culture from German society - an early aspect of the Holocaust. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN Publicatio...

Prophet Muhammad: Where the Story Begins - Hardcover

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by Farhana Islam (Author), Eman Salem (Illustrator)This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) childhood and to those who helped raise the man that would, by the will of Allah, lead an entire ummah and be an example for all time.This book introduces readers to Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) very early life, his childhood and to those who helped raise and shape the man that would lead an entire nation and be an example for all time. The Beginnings of Prophet Mu...

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin - Paperback

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by Julia Finley Mosca (Author), Daniel Rieley (Illustrator)NSTA Best STEM Books for K-12 SelectionNSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books SelectionDolly Gray Children's Literature Award RecipientA Mighty Girl Book of the Year If you've ever felt different, if you've ever been low, if you don't quite fit in, there's a name you should know... Meet Dr. Temple Grandin--one of the world's quirkiest science heroes When young Temple was diagnosed with autism, no one expected her to talk, let alone be...

Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd - Hardcover

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by Mike Cormack (Author)The definitive guide to the band offering song-by-song analysis, full chronology and gig guide, full bootleg guide, and exclusive interviews with surviving members Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965, signed with EMI in 1967, and recorded their first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which was released to immediate acclaim in the same year. Since then, the band has released 15 studio albums and sold over 250 million records. Their eighth album, Dark Side of the...

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by Maurizio Serra (Author), Stephen Twilley (Translator)A sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artists and thinkers of his time. Curzio Suckert (1898-1957)--best known by his pen-name Malaparte--was not only a literary master but one of the mystery men of twentieth-century letters. The son of a cosmopolitan German businessman, his mother an...

Have You Heard of Dolly Parton - Board Book

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by Editors of Silver Dolphin Books (Author), Una Woods (Illustrator)Learn about the dazzling Dolly Parton in this adorable board book for little ones with flaps and wheels to turn on each page! Introduce your little ones to the incredible Dolly Parton--a singer, songwriter, philanthropist, style icon, and so much more! This colorful book shows all inspirational work of Dolly Parton with cute text and fun interactive elements like flaps and wheels that allow kids to get Dolly ready for a show,...

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by Wei Tchou (Author)"Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be." --Sam Cohen, author of SarahlandLittle Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns.The chapters move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing. When the author's broth...

Blood Covenant: The Story of the Mafia Prince Who Publicly Quit the Mob and Lived - Hardcover

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by Michael Franzese (Author)Mob boss Michael Franzese had it all--money, power, prestige. From the time he took a blood oath that bound him body and soul to New York's Colombo crime family, Franzese became a force to be reckoned with in organized crime. Named by Vanity Fair as one of the biggest moneymakers in the mob since Al Capone, he quickly crept into the upper echelon of Mafia authority in this country. By the age of thirty-five, he was the youngest mobster listed on Fortune magazine's ...

Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures - Paperback

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by Karen B. Gibson (Author)When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be 19 years before another woman got a chance--cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982--followed by American astronaut Sally Ride a year later. By breaking the stratospheric ceiling, these women forged a path for many female astronauts, cosmonauts, and mission specialists to follow. Women in Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Col...

Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak - Hardcover

$55.00

by Maurice Sendak (Artist), Jonathan Weinberg (Editor), Lynn Caponera (Contribution by)The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time--with previously unpublished archival materialsPublished in conjunction with the eponymous Sendak retrospective touring museums in the United States and Europe in 2022-24, Wild Things Are Happening emphasizes Maurice Sendak's relationship to the history of art and the influences of his art collec...

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality /]csarah McBride - Paperback

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by Sarah McBride (Author), Joe Biden (Foreword by)"A brave, powerful memoir" (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender state senator in U.S. history"The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equality is ever present in this book."--Vice President Kamala Harris "If you're living your own internal struggle, this book can help you find a way to live authentically, fully, and freely. ...

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool - Paperback

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by James Kaplan (Author)The National Bestseller - One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year "A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date." --Los Angeles Times From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artists--Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans--and how they came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind ...