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Summary: From the Publisher: Michigan once led the country in the number of lighthouses, and they're still a central part of the mystique and colorful countryside of the state. What even the region's lighthouse enthusiasts might not know is the rich history of female lighthouse keepers in the area. Fifty women served the sailing communities on Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior, as well as on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aztext Press 2009
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Summary: "An original journalistic work covering Justin Trudeau's years as prime minister to date, with behind-the-scenes insights from inside sources, showing what kind of man and PM he is, and how his government operates."--
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Summary: Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: We are lucky. For most of us, famine, plague, economic depression, and other life-threatening catastrophes are the stuff of history books. We’re living in an era with the highest-ever rates of longevity, education, and wealth. Cars drive us home as our phones entertain us before we arrive to food delivered to the front door. We have it all! But there’s just one side effect. We no longer have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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Summary: "This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when--if the dream is realized--a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge. Marwan Muasher, former...
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Summary: "From professor of psychology at U. C. Berkeley and one of the foremost experts on the science of emotions comes a groundbreaking and essential exploration into the history, science, and understanding of awe, and a guide for how we might all cultivate a deeper sense of awe and transform our lives and our world Awe, one of the most elusive emotions, is hard to pin down. How do we begin to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: "Like tying a Windsor knot or brewing a perfect cup of coffee, knowing how to hang art on your wall is a hallmark of everyday style and nuts-and-bolts know-how. The where, what, and whys of hanging art are an overlooked, under-appreciated line of inquiry. Most of us simply wing it with a quick eyeball and a swing of the hammer. How hard can it be? we think. What can go wrong? The answer, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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Summary: A Kerouac scholar traces the true adventures behind the twentieth century classic novel and discusses the real-life inspirations for the novel's memorable characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2007
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Summary: This title examines the role and theme of Biblical allusions in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Matrix, Lord of the Flies, and The Lion King. It features four analysis papers that consider Biblical allusions, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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Summary: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1991
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Summary: "Though Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most beloved figures in American history and millions of people visit the Lincoln Memorial each year, few are familiar with the intriguing stories behind this national monument. In authoritative yet friendly text and handsome watercolor illustrations, this volume reveals fascinating facts about the monument's design and construction, historic events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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Summary: "Discover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Summary: "In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it couldn't be ignored. Qandeel had courted attention and outrage with a talent for self-promotion that earned her comparisons to Kim Kardashian--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter and former prisoner of the pro Assad militia presents a revisionist account of the Syrian Civil War that incorporates previously unpublished details about the origins and persistence of its human atrocities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1996
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Summary: "Patric Richardson, aka the "Laundry Evangelist," reveals his revolutionary methods for cleaning clothes-and making laundry loads more fun. Doing laundry is rarely anyone's favorite task. But to Patric Richardson, laundry isn't just fun-it's a way of life. After years of running Laundry Camp at the Mall of America for thousands of eager learners, he's ready to share his tips, tricks, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Summary: The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets, takes the young Adolf Hitler from birth through his adolescence. En route, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, and his sisters and brothers. tapestry of unforgettable characters, "The castle in the forest" delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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Summary: Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
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Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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Summary: "Describes stock cars and stock car racing, including safety features and NASCAR rules governing races"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2013