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Great Lives in Graphics: Stephen HawkingGreat Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. Using bright infographics, this book presents over 250 facts about Stephen Hawking, the world-famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist and author of...
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Give Me This Mountain'Give Me This Mountain' is the autobiography of Dr. Helen Roseveare, well-known missionary doctor and author. She worked in the north-eastern province of the Belgian Congo with the Heart of Africa Mission in the 1950's and 60's. Physical dangers and her personal ambition in...
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The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, AgainThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of...
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It's Her Story Josephine Baker: A Graphic NovelA graphic novel for children ages 7 to 10. Josephine Baker left a segregated America in 1925 and became the most famous entertainer in Paris, France. She went on to be the first Black woman to star in a movie, a volunteer spy during...
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Epic Athletes: Kevin DurantIn Epic Athletes: Kevin Durant, award-winning sports journalist Dan Wetzel tells the inspirational true-life story of an NBA superstar in this thrilling biography for young readers Featuring comic-style illustrations by Marcelo Baez In 2016, Kevin Durant shocked the basketball world when he decided to...
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A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam MemoirThe 40th anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir--featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick--with a new foreword by Kevin Powers In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground...
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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a PhotographerThe definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs.Diane Arbus brings to life the full story...
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Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964Author: Paul Genoni, Tanya DalziellPublisher: Monash University PublishingPublished: 11/05/2018Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00dISBN: 9781925523096About the AuthorPaul Genoni works with the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University. Tanya Dalziell works in English and Cultural Studies at...
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Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus StoryFinalist for the Track and Field Writers of America's 2018 Armory Foundation Book AwardTyus proves as winning a storyteller as she was a runner...The 'a' in Wyomia is silent, but thankfully, the woman who owns that name is not.--New York Times Book ReviewTigerbelle offers...
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe inThe New York Times Best Seller When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a "fringe" campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an Independent senator...
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The Life and Times of Alexander TwilightSince 2020 Alexander Twilight Day has been celebrated as a state holiday in Vermont. Who is Alexander Twilight and how did he achieve this unique honor? Twilight was born in Vermont in 1795 and became an indentured servant at the age of eleven to...
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Stumbling Into Grace: Confessions of a Sometimes Spiritually Clumsy Woman"Lisa's fine grasp of Scripture and love for the Lord make her a trustworthy teacher, yet we learn from her own hard-earned lessons as well. She speaks and writes from a place of understanding, as she clings to God's hand, giving us the privilege...
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Paul Farmer: Servant to the PoorBill Gates has called Paul Farmer one of the most amazing people he has ever met. CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta says that "if pure altruism exists in humans, it probably looks a lot like Dr. Paul Farmer."In Paul Farmer, Servant to the...
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Martin Luther: Renegade and ProphetFrom "one of the best of the new Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. "Magnificent."--The Wall Street Journal "Penetrating."--The...
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Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of MiraclesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "In this dramatic page-turner, Raymond Arroyo has captured the life and lessons of Mother Angelica, a woman who may well be the patron saint of CEOs."--Lee Iacocca, The Iacocca Family Foundation, former CEO of the Chrysler Corporation In 1981,...
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ConfessionsA new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whether on a well-curated shelf or...
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The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in PicturesFrom ND Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivating, honest illustrated memoir that finds him turning an important corner in his creative journey--and inviting readers along for the ride.In a collection of essays and personal mini-comics that span eight...
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Fame: Ariana GrandeFrom an early age, it was clear that Ariana Grande-Butera would be a star. From the small stage of a local theatre in Boca Raton, Ariana honed her craft. Following in the footsteps of her Broadway-star half-brother, Frankie, she quickly rose to stardom. Read...
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Negra. La Vida Desconocida de Claudette ColvinA few months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, kicking off the U.S. civil rights movement, making headlines around the world and becoming an enduring symbol of the fight for dignity and equality, another...
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Christ the Life: A Gospel PsalmThe Life of Christ As It's Never Been Told Before Every scene, in wondrous prose, comes to life anew in this powerful book. How might a literary artist write the incomparable story of Christ for our time? God said so much in the life...
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