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Jon Meacham
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement
An unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength—including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis “Jon Meacham . . . has done about the...
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Sara Maitland
A Book of Silence
A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives―“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” ( Independent , UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara...
$17.95
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Art Wolfe
Photographs from the Edge: A Master Photographer's Insights on Capturing an Extraordinary World
Legendary nature photographer Art Wolfe presents an intimate, behind-the-scenes guide to the experiences, decisions, and methods that helped him capture images from some of the most exciting locations across the globe. In Photographs from the Edge , you'll discover the secrets behind forty y...
$20.36
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Tom McCarty
Picket Line: No Nerds - No Birds The strike that grounded Boeing's planes.
On February 9, 2000, the largest white-collar strike in the private sector in U.S. labor history was called against the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington. The engineers and technicians represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) IFPTE Local 2001 walked a...
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Richard H. Minear
Hiroshima: Three Witnesses
"I'll search you out, put my lips to your tender ear, and tell you. . . . I'll tell you the real story--I swear I will."--from Little One by Toge Sankichi Three Japanese authors of note--Hara Tamiki, Ota Yoko, and Toge Sankichi--survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima only to shoulder an appal...
$33.06
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Riaan Marshall
Sucker Punch
The working-class white neighbourhood of Randgate, in the far west of metropolitan Johannesburg, is tightly knit by its underdog pride. What is not visible or audible from the front porches of neighbours soon becomes gossip. Likewise, this proud community knows all about life s punches and rock-hard...
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Sam Shepard
Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark (Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University)
Sam Shepard was arguably America’s finest working dramatist, as well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including True West , Fool for Love , and Buried Child . Shepard also appeared in more than fifty films, be...
$15.11
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Andy Spinoza
Manchester unspun: How a city got high on music
At the end of the 1970s, Manchester seemed to be sliding into the dustbin of history. Today the city is an international destination for culture and sport, and one of the fastest-growing urban regions in Europe. This book offers a first-hand account of what happened in between. Arriving in Manchest...
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Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” ( The New Yorker ) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by th...
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Alison Lurie
Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
Alison Lurie , one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with w...
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Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White Signs of the Times Articles, Book III of III
FOR SOME forty years, an article from the pen of Ellen White appeared in nearly every issue of the weekly magazine The Signs of the Times. The magazine was started in 1874 by her husband James in the city of Oakland, California. It began with a similar purpose for the West Coast that The Advent Revi...
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Dave Lowry
Sword and Brush: The Spirit of the Martial Arts
This moment of perfect clarity that is the force behind all the traditional Japanese arts—from archery to flower arranging—is celebrated here in Dave Lowry's exploration of the common principles shared by calligraphy and the martial arts. Forty-two examples of Lowry's calligraphy, accompanied ...
$11.02
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Albert Warren Tillinghast
Gleanings from the Wayside
Gleanings from the Wayside, a new book of A.W. Tillinghast essays, reveals more of the secrets of the legendary golf course designer. In this the third and final book of his writings and drawings, supplemented by photography of the courses he describes, the best is saved for last. Like the two earl...
$70.00
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Stephen Schneck
Letting Be: Fred Dallmayr's Cosmopolitical Vision
This volume gathers essays by fourteen scholars, written to honor Fred Dallmayr and the contributions of his political theory. Stephen F. Schneck's introduction to Dallmayr's thinking provides a survey of the development of his work. Dallmayr's “letting be,” claims Schneck, is much akin to his r...
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Danielle Steel
Fall from Grace: A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything—her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells’s perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowe...
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Muhammad Taqi Usmani
The Islamic Laws of Animal Slaughter: A Discussion on the Islamic Laws for Slaughtering Animals & a Survey of Modern-Day Slaughtering Methods
There is a growing sense of concern today among consumers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, about the healthfulness of what they eat. Health food stores have gained a prominent status in the US, and many consumers review every last ingredient listed in a food item's nutritional facts list to ensure that...
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Don Natelborg
All Things Through Him: The True Story of Tony and Donna Cannon Large Print Edition
LARGE PRINT EDITION: In 1995, Tony Cannon was involved in a motorcycle accident at the age of forty-two, in which he wasn't expected to survive. The doctors said his injuries were so severe that the entire right half of his brain and some other minor regions were left entirely without function. The...
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Lindsey Hilsum
Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution
A vivid and astonishing reckoning with the Gaddafi regime, from one of our most acclaimed and gifted international journalists The fall of Muammar Gaddafi, who was for forty-two years the great autocrat-madman on the world stage, is among the past decade’s most dramatic turning points. In Lindsey...
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Piers Paul Read
Alive
#1 New York Times Bestseller “No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one’s own life and its value.” —  New Republic Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds—the C...
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Myshel Wilkins
Arise, Shine, and Conquer: 40 Days of Courage for Women – Listen to God’s Voice and Find Victory
Step boldly into your victory in Christ. As we journey through life, we face attacks from all sides. Overwhelming fear, doubt, and despair threaten to push us onto our knees. In Arise, Shine, and Conquer , Myshel Wilkins reminds us that, though we may fall, our knees are the perfect place to come...
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