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The beautiful unwanted
Chris Kaposy reflects on parenting his son with Down syndrome in the midst of a supposed disappearance of people with this condition. Writing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy presents decades-old bioethical controversies, revealing the prehistory that has shaped current ...
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Le moment était venu pour quelqu'un comme lui
Dans cette biographie finement ciselée du premier ministre acadien Louis J. Robichaud, du Nouveau-Brunswick, Donald J. Savoie trace le portrait d’un homme particulièrement apte à répondre au besoin d’une transformation politique et sociale difficile et durable.
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My peerless story
From factory to corner office – how a Canadian men’s tailored suit entrepreneur developed his company into a leader in the industry.
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A russian jew of bloomsbury
A stirring account of the early-twentieth century, Jewish émigré life, and English and Russian letters, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury casts new light - and shadows - on the giants of English modernism.
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Chronic conditions
Chronic Conditions captures myriad ways in which the chronic conditions the sufferer. Karen Engle explores, through personal experience as well as research in medical history, literature, and art, how it feels to become attuned to the rhythms of ongoing physical pain.
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The hollow tree
The Hollow Tree is one person's testament to the power of indigenous culture to heal. Herb Nabigon's healing journey guided him to a life of kindness, honesty, courage, and humility.
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Orwell, second edition
"It is doubtful that any book provides a better foundation for a full understanding of Orwell's unique and troubling vision." Washington Post.
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My heart's best wishes for you
The life and times of a celebrated Roman Catholic priest, archbishop, and author.
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Pipelines and permafrost
Through an examination of the little-known scientific problems involved with the megaprojects of the seventies, Peter Williams shows how crucial it is that the place of scientific research in modern society be recognized by government, industry and public alike. This is a topical, provocative yet...
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The oil has not run dry
A Catholic theologian - praised by some and denounced by others - tells the story of his involvement in the renewal of the Catholic Church.
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Stephen leacock
Gerald Lynch offers new insights into the work of a popular Canadian humourist in Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity. He considers Leacock's satire to be the result of a combination of two traditions - toryism and humanism - and examines the relation between Leacock's theory of humour and his v...
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I can only paint
For Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and defined her work. This book recovers a body of work that stands as a unique and enduring portrait of the effects of the Great War.
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Sir john george bourinot, victorian canadian
John Bourinot's advice on constitutional issues was sought by governors general and prime ministers but, because it was generally given behind the scenes, Canadian history books and biographies of late nineteenth-century statesmen give him little if any credit. In Sir John George Bourinot, Victor...
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Jessie luther at the grenfell mission
Strongly influenced by the arts and crafts movement, the New England artist Jessie Luther began her crafts career as director of the Labor Museum at Hull House, Chicago, at the invitation of the social reformer Jane Addams. In 1906, she was recruited by Dr Wilfred Grenfell, the medical missionary...
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Up and to the right, second edition
The first-ever look at one of Canada's greatest growth investors and champions of entrepreneurship.
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The war diary of clare gass
The diary of a nurse who served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in France during the First World War.
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Harrison mccain
The story of the man, his roots, his business genius, and how his company “went global” before globalization.
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Frontiers and sanctuaries
The life of Madzy Brender à Brandis (1910-1984) - her experiences in war, as an immigrant and pioneer, wife and mother, writer and painter, and an invalid - exemplifies the challenges faced by women in the twentieth century. In a vivid retelling of her mother's story, Marianne Brandis chronicles ...
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Leo
"My relationship with the Bronfmans has been compared to that of Tom Hagen's consiglière to the Corleone family in The Godfather - I was a surrogate son and adviser to the father and a friend and counsellor to the sons. I was brought into the family as an outsider and became privy to its secrets....
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A touch of fire
The life of a multi-talented colonial woman, hospital administrator, and literary innovator.
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Hilary putnam
While Hilary Putnam's work on theories of meaning, semantic content, the nature of mental phenomena, interpretations of quantum mechanics, theory-change, logic, and mathematics is crucial to recent and future developments in philosophy, the scope and volume of his writings and his radical re-thin...
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Thomas attwood
Thomas Attwood (1783-1856), a Birmingham banker, played a prominent role in many of the important controversies in England during the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote and published extensively, appeared as a witness before three Parliamentary committees, held a seat in the House of ...
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A black american missionary in canada
“Hilary Neary makes a major contribution to scholarship by placing the reader in conversation with Chambers’s letters, thereby making available an untold story as a voice once silenced comes to life.” Noel Leo Erskine, Emory UniversityLewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Can...
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Beyond vision
In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory In...
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What it means to write
An intimate and worldly adventure into the heart of language, learning, and getting lost.
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Ten thousand crossroads
Recognised as the father of palliative care in North America, Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern for the whole person facing incurable illness. This intimate memoir reflects the personal journey of the physician who changed end-of-life care in North America.
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A grand adventure
A riveting account of two people's adventures, perseverance, and discoveries.
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Professional heckler
A candid biography of one of the most influential editorial cartoonists in recent Canadian history.
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Wrestling with life
A story of survival and renewal from Auschwitz to success in sport and business.
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Haldane
A new biography of a towering figure in twentieth-century British and Canadian politics, revealing his relevance for our contemporary crises.
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Giuliano de' medici
Unfairly maligned for over five centuries, Giuliano de’Medici at last receives his first major and sustained biography.
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Newfoundland rhapsody
A new perspective on the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador told through the life of Frederick R. Emerson.
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Le retour à la bière… et au hockey
Un regard personnel sur la quête d'un homme paisible afin de transformer Molson en un brasseur de classe mondiale.
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Thumper
A political life well-lived that propelled Canada forward for the ages.
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To make a killing
To Make a Killing chronicles the life of Arthur Cutten, the grain and stock market speculator who made a fortune during the 1920s and was later vilified by the Roosevelt administration as one of the “banksters” responsible for the Great Depression.
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And we go on
And We Go On is a nuanced response to the trauma of war, suffused with an interest in the spiritual and the paranormal not found in other war literature. Long out of print, it is a true lost classic that arguably influenced numerous works in the Canadian literary canon, including novels by Robert...
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Hunters on the track
A detailed account of the controversial Scottish whaling master – authorized by Lady Franklin, yet dismissed by the Admiralty – who led the first of the Franklin searches.
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Margaret macdonald
"As a pioneer in her field who helped pave the way for women to participate in the Canadian military, Margaret Macdonald's story is one worth reading." Canadian Military History
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Unlikely insider
When too may political leaders around the world are consolidating power by playing on divisions and stoking fear, Unlikely Insider, a memoir by former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin, shows a way forward for Canada. It comes as a welcome reminder of the value of public service as...
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A knight in politics
The story of an imperial statesman and military reformer who modernized Canada's armed forces.
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Who was doris hedges?
A lively biography of Canada's first literary agent and her efforts to forge a writing career in Montreal.
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Worldwise
Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century; his writings are an account of a life lived across continents and languages, and at flashpoints of history. Worldwise brings together a wide range of Roditi’s writings, focusing renewed attention on the polygot writer, cr...
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Jackson's wars
A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada’s best-known artists, Jackson’s Wars follows A.Y. Jackson’s education and progress as a painter at home and in Europe. Douglas Hunter captures the life of a complex man and the crucial events and relationships behind the creation of Ca...
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Queen of versailles
The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at ...
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James clarke hook
In James Clarke Hook Juliet McMaster tracks the life and career of the brilliant yet underappreciated Victorian painter, from his rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling studentship in Florence and Venice, and his work as a historical painter, to the discovery of his métier...
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More richly in earth
Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differe...
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The dillon era
Douglas Dillon advocated for evolution and reform over radicalism and placed the national interest above party interest. With exclusive access to the family’s archive, in The Dillon Era Richard Aldous sets fresh eyes on a well-documented period in American history, unfolding a deeply influential ...
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Letters from the afterlife
Letters from the Afterlife chronicles the experiences of writers Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson, Holocaust survivors from Poland, as they adjusted to life in their adopted countries of Canada and Sweden.
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I'm from bouctouche, me
Donald Savoie grew up in a small Acadian village and went on to become an accomplished writer and academic whose books have profoundly affected Canadian public policy and public administration. I'm from Bouctouche, Me is not only his story but a story about Canada, the Acadian people, and the evo...
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Flora!
In Flora!, co-authored by Geoffrey Stevens, the politician and humanitarian Flora Isabel MacDonald tells her amazing journey, from her childhood in Cape Breton through her years in backroom politics and elected office, ending with her exceptional humanitarian work in war-torn Afghanistan and othe...
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Fatal glamour
A detailed account of the trajectory of Rupert Brooke’s life and the workings of his psychology.
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And harmony abound
Morley Calvert’s Suite from the Monteregian Hills is cherished by brass players globally and performed hundreds of times annually, making Calvert perhaps the most performed Canadian composer outside the country. And Harmony Abound is a fascinating picture of Calvert’s contribution to musical comp...
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Agent of change
Huda Mukbil shares her experiences as a Black Arab-Canadian Muslim intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Her dazzling account reveals how racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia undermine not only individuals, but institutions and the national interest – and how address...
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Jane austen's transatlantic sister
A revealing account of a naval officer's young wife, her life during the Napoleonic Wars, and her influence on Jane Austen's fiction.
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Blatant injustice
Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer's memoir exposes this bleak period in the British and Can...
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Other endings
Weaving together personal memoir with in-depth research, Other Endings explores why organ transplantation is presented in a triumphalist narrative of medical progress and happy endings while stories of the anguish endured by people involved with waitlist deaths remain untold.
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An american princess
How a New Englander became a princess, made literary history, and helped create Italy’s most romantic garden.
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Humboldt’s mexico
A study of a gifted scientist and visionary who embodies the spirit of adventure and discovery.
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From the vilna ghetto to nuremberg
In 1944, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. He was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg to write a memoir. From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg returns readers to a moment when the scale of the Holocaust was first co...
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Forget not
A fascinating journey into the history of an exiled Anglo-Quebec family against the backdrop of three generations and more than a century of Canadian and international social, political, and business history.
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Lord mansfield
The life and times of the great eighteenth-century judge and statesman, whose legacy continues to influence Anglo-American law and society.
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Seeking our eden
One woman's dreams of establishing a utopian colony and her fight for women's equality.
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Smitten by giraffe
In Smitten by Giraffe the noted zoologist and feminist Anne Innis Dagg reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns, offering an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of academia, and the rise...
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Friend beloved
Friend Beloved invites readers to enter the imaginative worlds of two ambitious young scientists: Marie Carmichael Stopes, the paleobotanist who found international fame as a birth control advocate and feminist icon, and Charles Gordon Hewitt, the housefly expert who became one of Canada's trailb...
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The canny scot
A revealing biography of one of twentieth-century Nova Scotia's most prominent religious figures.
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Congo solo
Emily Hahn was one of the most prolific and enduring writers at The New Yorker - her first byline appeared there in 1929, her last in 1996. She was also the author of fifty-three books, and, had her 1933 travel memoir, Congo Solo, not been published in a censored version during the darkest days o...
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France in the world
André Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.
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Thomas d'arcy mcgee, volume 1
A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D'Arcy McGee is best known for his prominent role in Irish-Canadian politics, his inspirational speeches in support of Canadian Confederation, and his assassination by an Irish revolutionary who accused him of betraying hi...
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A complex fate
The first biography of one of the most provocative and influential American journalists and historians of the twentieth century.
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Empire and ireland
How the liberal imperialist Hamar Greenwood filled his controversial role as chief secretary for Ireland.
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The embattled general
A re-evaluation of a controversial Canadian general that overturns much of what is known about him.
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Ghost stories
Judith Adamson’s memoir reveals the questions Adamson asked as she researched her biographies of literary luminaries, and the personal challenges she faced along the way. Uncovering new information about her famous subjects, from Graham Greene to Max Reinhardt, Ghost Stories is a fascinating acco...
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The woman who mapped labrador
The definitive Hubbard, combining her previously unpublished diary, a full biography, and new maps that break down her daring canoe trip day by day.
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Across greenland's ice cap
In the summer of 1912, four young scientists sledded across 640km of untracked snow and ice, crossing central Greenland from west to east for the first time. This minor classic of exploration literature by the expedition’s leader, Alfred de Quervain, is a sympathetic portrayal of life in remote c...
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Toronto edwardian
Frank Darling gained prominence as the principal of Darling & Pearson Architects, designing a plethora of bank buildings in the early twentieth century. Toronto Edwardian positions Darling, whose work aligned with national ambitions and Britain’s global imperial project, as a leading figure o...
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Patriot-improvers
When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society (APS). In this “first systematic attempt to collec...
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Cómo entrar a una cárcel / like walking into prison
Un extenso memorial literario sobre el arte, el encarcelamiento y la persecución política en la Cuba revolucionaria. A través de recuerdos fragmentados, reflexión histórica y narrativa autobiográfica, el poeta y ensayista Néstor Díaz de Villegas reconstruye su juventud como artista y escritor d...
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Little book of chloé
Romantic, cool and glamorous, the Chloé woman embodies the bohemian femininity that the fashion house has become known for.From the carefree romanticism of their relaxed silhouettes to their cult status leather goods, Chloé has appealed to the modern woman since its inception in 1952. Founded by ...
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The complete history of the sas
Specializing in covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism and hostage rescue, the SAS is one of the world's most famous, feared and respected elite fighting forces. This book tells the full, fascinating story of the regiment, from formation in the sand dunes of Africa during World War II to presen...
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Benjamin franklin, swimmer
Using Benjamin Franklin’s love of swimming, this illustrated publication examines his life, times, and strong, inventive personality through a lens that historians have previously overlooked. Through swimming, Franklin interacted with family, friends, and acquaintances and gained entree into Brit...
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La chica de nadie: mi historia de supervivencia y lucha por la justicia / nobody’s girl: a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice
#1 bestseller del New York Times. Las memorias inolvidables de la fallecida Virginia Roberts Giuffre, la mujer que se atrevió a enfrentarse a Jeffrey Epstein y Ghislaine Maxwell. El mundo conoció a la fallecida Virginia Roberts Giuffre como la víctima más abierta y valiente de Jeffrey Epstein y ...
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Hattie mccray - sojourners for justice poster 11x17
Hattie McCray - Sojourners for Justice Poster 11x17 Charles Guerand, a twenty-seven-year-old off-duty police officer, sexually harassed and then murdered Hattie McCray, a Black fourteen-year-old dishwasher. McCray lived with her widowed mother Moorilellia on a racially integrated block in downto...
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On thin ice
I woke to a metallic rasp as the small hatch in the cell door swung open. ‘Walker!’ barked a guard. ‘Bweestra!’ Be quick! As I neared the door, a pair of handcuffs were brandished. I presented my wrists through the hatch, palms upward. The dense, gun-grey steel was heavy and cold to the touch. Wh...
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What a house can hold
"Writers only know how to begin," Laura Childs Gill declares in one of her many attempts to trace the origin of the desires that upended her comfortable life. Did it begin when she asked B. to get a beer? Or was the impulse inherited along her paternal side, a lineage of writers who'd also fallen...
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Disenchanted
How your expectations are shattered is as formative as the truth that replaces them. // In the essays of Disenchanted, Kaycie Hall catalogues the most acute shocks of disillusionment to reclaim the complexity and depth of her experiences — a stake for identity and sense-making that has found new ...
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Cbk: life, style, legacy
Known for her throwaway chic style, effortlessly cool 90s streetwear and elegant yet pared back red-carpet attire, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy is forever fashion royalty.The Calvin Klein PR rose to prominence when she married JFK Jr in 1996, becoming akin to an all-American people's princess. Often ...
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In your eyes i see my words
Perfect for gift giving, the complete three-volume boxed set of In Your Eyes I See My Words gives readers an extraordinary opportunity to understand the vision of Pope Francis Volume 1 (1999–2004)Pope Francis is a first in many ways: the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit, the first F...
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The judges of the new york court of appeals
New York’s Court of Appeals is the highest court in the state, created in 1847 to articulate statewide principles of law in the context of deciding particular lawsuits. Focusing on broad issues of law rather than individual disputes, the Court now consists of seven judges—one chief judge and six ...
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In the shadow of genius
Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York TimesIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative. She takes the reader on a unique journey by recalling he...
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Counter institution
Counter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and El Bohio--that have been used by activists as their headquarters to launch various actions over the past forty years.
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Hugo black
The extraordinary story of a man who bestrode his era like a colossus, Hugo Black is the first and only comprehensive biography of the Supreme Court Justice of thirty four years, (1886-1971). Once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Black became one of the most celebrated and important civil libertaria...
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Over the green hill
Originally published in Germany in 1997, Lotte Strauss's Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43, was begun in 1975 as a letter to her daughter. It took twenty years to write the complete story, and by then, was no longer a letter, but a book. Lotte Strauss was born one year before ...
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Hollywood eden
Now in paperback — from surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Byrds, and the Mama’s & the Papa’s, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the Califor...
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Between the river and the sea
In this powerful illustrated memoir, Hillel Cohen—journalist, political activist, and a leading expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—sets aside cultural bias and professional neutrality to trace his own travels through the West Bank as a youth. Fervent and naive, the teenage Cohen wanders t...
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