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Need More Love
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One of the earliest female cartoonists presents a collection of her own daring and inventive artwork from over four decades, including photographs and memorabilia. Color illustrations throughout. 432p.
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Zombie in Love
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When all his efforts to find a sweetheart fail, Mortimer the zombie decides to place an ad in the newspaper. Color illus.32p. (Ages: 4-8).
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In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age
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From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas, a fascinating, revelatory and timely social history of the concept of middle age, from the late nineteenth century when the term “midlife” first entered the dictionary to the present. For the first time in history, boomers, or the middle-aged, make up the largest, richest, and most influential segment of the country. A trillion-dollar economy —the “Midlife Industrial Complex”—has grown up feeding and fueling their needs, w…
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Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery
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When Alexander Theroux decided to accompany his wife – the artist Sarah Son-Theroux – on her Fulbright Scholarship to Estonia, it occasioned this penetrating examination of a country that, for many, seems alien and distanced from the modern world. For Theroux, the country and its people become a puzzle. His fascination with their language, manners, And legacy of occupation and subordination leads him to a revelatory examination of Estonia’s peculiar place in European history. All the whil…
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The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age
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From Beckett to Burroughs, The Story of O to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, an iconic literary troublemaker tells the colorful stories behind the stories. Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway’s moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by WWII, yet the red wine still flowed, the cafes bustled, and the Parisian women found America men exotic and heroic. Index.
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This small, intimate and luminous memoir revisits the most sacred experiences of writer, performer, and visual artist Patti Smith’s early years – with truths so vivid they border on the insurreal. The author entwines her childhood self – and its “clear, unspeakable joy” – with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on New York City’s MacDougal Street, the street of noir cafes. Completed in Michigan, on Smith’s 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymo…
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From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel
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Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of fashion school in the Philippines. But on the brink of fame and fortune, there comes instead a knock on the door in the middle of the night: the flamboyant ex-Catholic is swept to America’s most notorious prison, administered a Qur’an, and locked away indefinitely to discover his link to a terrorist plot. And the more Boy’s faith in American justice is usurped by the Kafkaesque deman…
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Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah: How It Took 13 Years, Extreme Jewish Brewing, and Circus Sideshow Freaks to Make Shmaltz Brewing an International Success
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In this witty and compelling tale of how the nation’s first and only Jewish Celebration beer came to fruition, founder Jeremy Cowan tells the story of Shmaltz Brewing’s evolution from an inside joke into a thriving and award-winning craft brewing company. Divulged are the small-business challenges and marketing strategies that helped Cowan go from hand-squeezing pomegranates and delivering beer in his grandmother’s Volvo to producing two of the most respected and unique craft beer brands …
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Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson
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In the Sixties, Paul Nelson pioneered rock & roll criticism with a first=person style of writing that would later be popularized by the likes of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer as “New Journalism” As co-founding editor of The Little Sandy Review and managing editor of Sing Out!, he’d already established himself, to use his friend Bob Dylan’s words, as “a folk-music scholar” – but when Dylan went electric in 1965, Nelson went with him. During a five-year detour as Mercury Records in the early …
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The soul of the Western World as we know it today is one which owes a great debt to a single day in 1809 in which two men, divided by an ocean, were brought into the world: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. While their lasting influences were often considered unpopular in their day the legendary concepts of evolution and personal freedom have forever altered our lives. In 'Angels and Ages' award-winning author Adam Gopnik provides readers with an illuminating portrait of these two men a…
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Molto Batali: Simple Family Meals from My Home to Yours
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Sharing at the table – that spirit of togetherness is at the heart of Molto Batali, a collection of festive and delicious recipes meant for sharing with friends and family throughout the year. From lush summer salads to hearty winter braises, the seasonal dishes in Molto Batali – all easy to prepare and made with simple ingredients – enliven any dinner table, from a weeknight meal to a holiday celebration. Better yet, the recipes are organized into perfectly paired combinations for stella…
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The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
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THE COMPANION GRAPHIC NOVEL TO WIMBLEDON GREEN Whenever you’re in Dominion, on Milverton Street you will stumble across an arresting array of handsome old buildings. The one with the pink stone façade and the familiar Canadian cartoon characters over the doorway is the Dominion branch of the Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, erected in 1935 and the last standing building of the once prestigious members-only organization. For years, this building, filled with art deco lam…
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Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms
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In an era in which privacy now seems a quaint relic, and self-effacement is a thing of the past, Carmela Ciuraru reminds us this was not always the case. Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame. Biographies have chronicled the lives of pseudonymous authors such as Mark Twain, Isak Dinesen, and George Eliot, but never before have the …
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Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
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This collection of forty (thirty-nine plus one) of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables and tales is populated by people – and monsters and aliens and animals and inanimate objects – motivated by and grappling with the fears and desires that unite all readers alike. In this visionary world, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), octopi leave the sea to collect spoons in small city apartments, and boys and girls and men and women fall down wells and fly through space and fi…
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When She Woke
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Hillary Jordan’s first novel, Mudbound, was the winner of the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction. When She Woke – a powerful re-imagining of The Scarlet Letter – is a timely fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of the not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated, and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed and released back into the population to survive as best they can. In seeking a path t…
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