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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

by Darnell L Moore

Published: 2019-02-19

Paperback: 272 pages

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From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a j...

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A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

by Gretel Ehrlich

Published: 1995-06-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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A powerful chronicle of a wounded woman’s exploration of nature and selfAfter nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a painstaking and visionary journey back to the land of the living. With the help of an extraordinary...

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The Dutch House: A Novel

by Ann Patchett

Published: 2019-09-24

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. â??'Do...

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Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

by Eric O'Neill

Published: 2019-03-26

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy.Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI...

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When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel

by Barbara O'Neal

Published: 2019-07-16

Paperback: 352 pages

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From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news…Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Go...

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Coming Up Roses

by Staci Hart

Published: 2019-07-25

Paperback: 287 pages

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Everyone hates parts of their job.Maybe it’s the paperwork. Maybe it’s the day-to-day grind. Maybe it’s that client who never knows what they want, or the guy who always cooks fish in the microwave.But not me. I love every corner of the Longbourne Flower Shop, every flower, every petal, every stem....

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White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness

by Ruth Frankenberg

Published: 1993-08-16

Paperback: 304 pages

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Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular experiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in...

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WA: The Essence of Japanese Design

by Stefania Piotti, Rossella Mennegazzo

Published: 2014-04-14

Paperback: 288 pages

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Explore the enduring beauty of Japanese design through some 250 objects, ranging from bento boxes, calligraphy brushes, and Shoji sliding doors to Noguchi’s Akari lamp, the iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bootle, and a modern‐day kimono designed by Issey Miyake.Printed on craft paper an...

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The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

by Linden MacIntyre

Published: 2019-08-27

Hardcover: 384 pages

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In the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves, up to three storeys high, hit...

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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

by Fumio Sasaki

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo?he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decide...