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By My Hands: A Potter's Apprenticeship (a Memoir) - Hardcover

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by Florian Gadsby (Author)The internet's favorite potter opens up about his life and craft in this inspiring, stunningly photographed ode to the beauty of small things that brighten life's daily rituals. Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection--and as his skill has grown, he has shared his work online, inspiring millions with his meditative videos of gorgeous pottery. Based at a studio in North London, he releases three new collec...

Echoes from Confinement: A Legal Fighter's Road to Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Ndem B. Oduu (Author)In Echoes from Confinement, Jack Ndem Oduu transforms personal struggle into a searing critique of America's legal machinery. Drawing from years of incarceration and fortified by his academic journey-Associates, Bachelor's, and Master's degrees in Criminal Justice, and doctoral candidacy in Public Administration and Policy-Oduu dismantles the myths of fairness within the courtroom and prison walls.This book is not only a memoir of survival ...

Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian - Paperback

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by Leonora Neville (Author)Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First Crusade. Anna Komnene: the Life and Work of a Medieval Historian investigates the relationship between Anna's self-presentation in the Alexiad and the story of her bloodthirsty ambition. It begins by asking why women ...

Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) - Paperback

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by Dan Ozzi (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLERAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, Our Band Could Be Your Life."--New York Times Book ReviewA raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore's growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they "sell out" and find mainstream fame, or break beneath ...

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by Megan Stine (Author), Who Hq (Author), John O'Brien (Illustrator)Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as they say, is history. It is undeniable that President Barack Obama has changed the United States but so has Michelle Obama, the self proclaimed "Mom in Chief." This compelling, easy-to-read biography is illustrated by New Yorker a...

The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz - Paperback

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by Eti Elboim (Author), Sara Leibovits (Author), Esther Frumkin (Translator)'You are no longer a number' Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside. Sara Leibovitz, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger on the train with her family. They spent their final moments together on the platform in Auschwitz before their horrific fates were s...

Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences - Paperback

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by Jedidiah Jenkins (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . . "Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000-mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of a parent-child bond and to wrestle with a love that hurts."--Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two Kingdoms LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of ...

Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo: Bilingual English-Spanish - Paperback

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by Monica Brown (Author), Rafael L?pez (Illustrator)*A Pura Belpr? Honor Book!*In this vibrant bilingual picture book biography of musician Tito Puente by award-winning author-illustrator team Monica Brown and Rafael L?pez, readers will dance along to the beat of the mambo king's life.Tito Puente loved banging pots and pans as a child, but what he really dreamed of was having his own band one day. From Spanish Harlem to the Grammy Awards--and all the beats in between--this is the true life st...

The Cross and the Switchblade - Paperback

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by David Wilkerson (Author), John Sherrill (Author), Elizabeth Sherrill (Author)The dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope... David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God: go to New York City to speak to seven young gang members on trial for murder. But something much greater was to come. Once in New York, David was inspired to stay fo...

A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead - Paperback

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by Dennis McNally (Author)Now in paperback, the history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist--a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads and for students of rock and the counterculture of the 1960s. 75 photos.Front JacketThe complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist-a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of ro...

Tune in: The Beatles: All These Years - Paperback

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by Mark Lewisohn (Author)Now in paperback, Tune In is the New York Times bestseller by the world's leading Beatles authority - the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the band that revolutionized music. The Beatles have been in our lives for half a century and surely always will be. Still, somehow, their music excites, their influence resonates, their fame sustains. New generations find and love them, and while many other great artists come and go, the Beatles are beyond eclipse. ...

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now - Paperback

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by Maya Angelou (Author)Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou's latest unforgetta...

The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames - Paperback

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by Kai Bird (Author)The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important...

Cut!: How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized Animation - Hardcover

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by C. E. Winters (Author), Matt Schu (Illustrator)Long 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 Schu, STEM meets the arts in this engaging nonfiction picture book biography about Lotte Reiniger. Cut! is an exceptional choice for classrooms and for fans of Hidden Figures, I Dissent, and the Questioneers books. In the 1920s, when young women had...

My First Five Husbands...and the Ones Who Got Away: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Rue McClanahan (Author)Rue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played. Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house "thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town," Rue developed her two great passions--theater and men--at an early age...

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)

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Report copyright infringementby Bethany Joy Lenz (Author)A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free. In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the hit drama One Tree Hill. Her career was about to take off, but her personal life was slowly beginning to unravel. What none of the show's millions of ...

No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks - Paperback

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by Ed Viesturs (Author), David Roberts (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. "From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading."--Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Pla...

Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay - Paperback

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by Lars Horn (Author)Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn's adept hands, the collection takes shape as a unified book: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries, and antiquities serve as interludes between long...

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration - Paperback

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by Alejandra Oliva (Author)A 2023 Indie Next List Pick A Summer/Fall 2023 Adult Indies Introduce Pick A 2023 Roxanne Gay Audacious Book Club Pick Winner of the 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. In Rivermouth, Oliva focuses on the physical spaces ...

Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite - Paperback

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by Suki Kim (Author)A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea h...

Nina: A Story of Nina Simone - Hardcover

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by Traci N. Todd (Author), Christian Robinson (Illustrator)A 2022 Coretta Scott King Book Award Honoree! This luminous, defining picture book biography illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Christian Robinson, tells the remarkable and inspiring story of acclaimed singer Nina Simone and her bold, defiant, and exultant legacy. Cover may vary. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in small town North Carolina, Nina Simone was a musical child. She sang before she talked and learned to play piano at a very young...

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific - Paperback

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by Robert Leckie (Author)"A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who--somehow--survived."--Tom HanksSee Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we f...

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery - Paperback

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by Henry Marsh (Author)Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? With astonishing compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the ...

Dave the Potter (Caldecott Honor Book): Artist, Poet, Slave - Hardcover

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by Laban Carrick Hill (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)A Caldecott HonorA Coretta Scott King Award WinnerAn award-winning celebration of an American heroDave was an extraordinary artist, poet, and potter living in South Carolina in the 1800s. He combined his superb artistry with deeply observant poetry, carved onto his pots, transcending the limitations he faced as a slave. In this inspiring and lyrical portrayal, National Book Award nominee Laban Carrick Hill's elegantly simple text and ...

Mi Little Golden Book Sobre Frida Kahlo (My Little Golden Book about Frida Kahlospanish Edition) - Hardcover

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by Silvia López (Author), Elisa Chavarri (Illustrator)Una biografía Little Golden Book acerca de la pintora mexicana Frida Kahlo, escrita para niños de edad preescolar. Este Little Golden Book capta la esencia de Frida Kahlo para los más pequeños lectores. Desde como superó enfermedades, fue una de pocas niñas admitidas a su escuela en México, y alcanzó a ver sus pinturas expuestas en museos, el libro sirve de inspiración a futuros pioneros, así como a sus padres. Presenta un informativo text...

Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing - Hardcover

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by Kay Haring (Author), Robert Neubecker (Illustrator)Iconic pop artist Keith Haring comes to life for young readers in this picture book biography lovingly written by his sister This one-of-a-kind book explores the life and art of Keith Haring from his childhood through his meteoric rise to fame. It sheds light on this important artist's great humanity, his concern for children, and his disregard for the establishment art world. Reproductions of Keith's signature artwork appear in scenes bol...

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Lucinda Williams (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this "bracingly candid chronicle" (The Wall Street Journal). "[Williams's] memoir transmutes the wisdom, pain, and hard-won joy of her life into stories that stick with you."--Vogue A WASHINGTON POST AND ROLLING STONE B...

The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game - Hardcover

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by Georgia Cloepfil (Author)"A memoir by a soccer player turned writer"--Author BiographyGeorgia Cloepfil is a writer and former professional soccer player from Oregon. Her work has appeared in The Yale Review, The New York Times Magazine, n+1, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Idaho and works at Whitman College. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.84 x 8.28 x 5.46 IN Publication Date: July 16, 2024

What Is the Story of Dracula? - Paperback

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by Michael Burgan (Author), Who Hq (Author), David Malan (Illustrator)Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most beloved--and frightening!--characters of our time. Find out how Dracula--a smooth-talking count with a dark secret--became the infamous creature we all know and fear. From appearances in films and animated features to interpretations as a Muppet and breakfast cereal mascot, Dracula has been the inspiration for many other fictional vampires and is now an established figure in pop...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Schlund (Author)Flying is one thing . . . but landing in one piece is another thing altogether.Every Rocketman is destined to crash. But only some are willing to fly again. Ever since he was a kid, Dan Schlund was showman-but not the kind pulling rabbits from hats. It was adrenaline he was after, and that meant spectacular feats of physical daring. To Dan, he was just a thrill-seeking entertainer having a blast. To others, he was right in between daredevil ...

The Sole Man: Jan Matzeliger's Lasting Invention - Hardcover

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by Shana Keller (Author), Stephen Costanza (Illustrator)In 1873, at the age of 21, Jan Ernst Matzeliger immigrated to America, having left all that was familiar behind in South America. He arrived with hopes and dreams of a bright future in this new country. Though Jan had no formal training, he was highly skillful with tools and machinery, having worked in his father's mechanic shops. But no one wanted to hire a Black immigrant who didn't speak English. Yet Jan didn't give up. He finally got...

Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir - Hardcover

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by Zo? Bossiere (Author)A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that captures the author's experience coming of age in a Tucson, Arizona, trailer park. Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zo?'s world is one of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled paloverde trees. With the family's move to Cactus Country RV Park, Zo? has been given a fresh start and a new, shorter haircut. Although Zo? doesn't have the words to...