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Lead Sister : The Story of Karen Carpenter: A Times Book of the Year
O'Brien, LucyBonnier Books UK 2023When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the 'lead sister' of the band. This designation stuck and Karen liked it so much that she had a...
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Be My Baby : A Memoir
Spector, Ronnie; Waldron, VinceMacmillan Audio 2022 Unabridged"This heartfelt, brilliantly narrated memoir — with an introduction by Keith Richards — is one of the best I have ever listened to." -Washington Post "...actress Rosie Perez steppe...
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Burning Boy : The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Auster, PaulHenry Holt and Co. 2021A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography...
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Summer Sons
Mandelo, LeeTor Publishing Group 2021Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddi...
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The Two Towers
Tolkien, J. R. R.HarperCollins Publishers 2021 UnabridgedThis brand-new unabridged audio book of The Two Towers, the second part of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, is read by the BAFTA award-winning actor, direc...
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On Freedom : Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Nelson, MaggieGraywolf Press 2021Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shond...
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Pop Song : Adventures in Art & Intimacy
Pham, LarissaCatapult 2021"A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex...
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Homo Irrealis : Essays
Aciman, AndréMacmillan Audio 2021 UnabridgedThis program includes an introduction read by the author. The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of...
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain : In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Saunders, GeorgeRandom House Publishing Group 2021NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and wh...
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Adrianne Geffel : A Fiction
Hajdu, DavidW. W. Norton & Company 2020This never-before-told story of the life and work of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon is "a revealing—and at times hilarious—satire of the music business, fame, and the cult of pe...
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Being Lolita : A Memoir
Wood, AlissonMacmillan Audio 2020 UnabridgedThis program is read by the author. A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn...
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Toni Morrison : The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
MELVILLE HOUSEMelville House 2020“Knowledge is what’s important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.” — TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews — inclu...
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Antkind : A Novel
Kaufman, CharlieRandom House Publishing Group 2020The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New Y...
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This Book Is Anti-Racist : 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work
Jewell, TiffanyFrances Lincoln Children's Books 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featured by Oprah's Book Club on the Anti-Racist Books for Young Adults list curated by best-selling author Jacqueline Woodson A USA TODAY Bestsell...
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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers : Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power
Doyle, SadyMelville House 2019Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop culture offers “provocative and incisive” commentary on society’s fear of female rage...
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I Like to Watch : Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Nussbaum, EmilyRandom House Publishing Group 2019From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. “...
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Happening – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Ernaux, AnnieFitzcarraldo Editions 2019In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failu...
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The Source of Self-Regard : Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Morrison, ToniKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2019Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9...
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Almost Nothing : The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski
Karpeles, EricNew York Review Books 2018A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-ce...
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Women & Power : A Manifesto
Beard, MaryProfile 2017An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda a...