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1) Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era

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Leamer, Laurence

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"'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' Barbara 'Babe' Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister) -- they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. These women captivated and enchanted Capote -- and at times, they infuriated him as well. He befriended them,...

2) Dear mom and dad: a letter about family, memory, and the America we once knew

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"A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents"--

3) Surrender: 40 songs, one story

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, New Book

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"Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender...

4) Teddy and Booker T. : how two American icons blazed a path for racial equality

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Kilmeade, Brian

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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...

5) Buy back your time : get unstuck, reclaim your freedom, and build your empire

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"Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and growing rich: Time How you use your free time will make or break your success. The secret? It's not about working harder or finding more time to do work. It's about designing the freedom to engage in the high-value work that brings you energy and fulfillment. This is at the heart of the message that has made Dan Martell the world's most popular SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) coach. Now,...

6) Kingdom, the power, and the glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism

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For millions of conservative Christians, America is their kingdom--a land set apart, a nation uniquely blessed, a people in special covenant with God. This love of country, however, has given way to right-wing nationalist fervor, a reckless blood-and-soil idolatry that trivializes the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Alberta retraces the arc of the modern evangelical movement, placing political and cultural inflection points in the context of church teachings...

7) Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts : stories and recipes from five generations of black country cooks

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Wilkinson, Crystal

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"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; There were an abundance of ancestors stirring, measuring, and braising with her. These...

8) A libertarian walks into a bear: the utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears)

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Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew

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"Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality. Public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter: meek suggestions...

9) The hundred years' war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017

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Khalidi, Rashid

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, New Book

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A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.

10) Ghost dogs: on killers and kin

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During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and...

11) The comfort of crows: a backyard year

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Renkl, Margaret

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eBook, Kindle, New Book

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"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons -- from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring -- what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy...

12) The Blue Zones secrets for living longer: lessons from the healthiest places on earth

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"This illustrated guide to the Blue Zones includes lessons, top longevity foods and behaviors, and a surprising new Blue Zone"--

13) 1623: pilgrims, pipe dreams, politics & the founding of New Hampshire

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Robinson, J. Dennis

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"Shrouded in myth, mystery, and misinformation, the true story of New Hampshire's founding family has never been fully told--until now. Why do we know so little about David and Amias Thompson of Plymouth, England? And why is what we think we know so often wrong? Barely three years after the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts, a wholly different plan for America was in play. Popular journalist J. Dennis Robinson exhumes the facts and connects the dots...

14) Mostly what God does: reflections on seeking and finding his love everywhere

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Guthrie, Savannah

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Persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection.

15) Supercommunicators: how to unlock the secret language of connection

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Duhigg, Charles

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eAudiobook, New Book

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"We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works? Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand--some by intuition, some by hard-won experience--that there is a science to...

16) Cooking with scraps : turn your peels, cores, rinds, and stems into delicious meals

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Hard, Lindsay-Jean

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"A whole new way to celebrate ingredients that have long been wasted. Lindsay-Jean is a master of efficiency and we're inspired to follow her lead!" -Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, cofounders of Food52 In 85 innovative recipes, Lindsay-Jean Hard-who writes the "Cooking with Scraps" column for Food52-shows just how delicious and surprising the all-too-often-discarded parts of food can be, transforming what might be considered trash into...

17) Blood : the science, medicine, and mythology of menustration

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The New York Times best-selling author of The Vagina Bible offers empowering, period-positive, no-nonsense facts about the science, medicine and myths surrounding menstruation.

18) Killing the witches : the horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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eAudiobook, New Book

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"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...