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Little, Brown and Company
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Bronx-native Bernard Slotnick's mantra was that everyone deserved a good defense. And he was the best defender out there. A bold strategist in the courtroom, and a doting husband and father of four at home, 'Liberty's Last Champion' proudly stood up for the unpopular and the controversial. Known for his sharp mind (and his sharp suits), Slotnick, anointed the best criminal lawyer in the United States by The American Lawyer, had a remarkable legal...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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xii, 772 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Based on more than two hundred interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins' extensive personal archive, 'Saxophone Colossus' is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. The story of Sonny Rollins--innovative, unpredictable, larger than life--is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny's own narrative is as timeless and timely as...
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Appears on list
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"From the best-selling author behind My Weird School: a quirky new biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Muhammad Ali was so terrified of flying on planes he would bring a parachute? Or that he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom? Bet you didn't know that he had an official sweat-taster to determine how salty his sweat was after each match! Siblings Paige and Turner do-and they've collected...
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NubeOcho
Pub. Date
septiembre 2022.
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53 pages : color illustrations, map on pages 3 and 4 of the cover and facing flyleaves ; 30 cm
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Desde los mares de China hasta las costas de Nueva York, desde la antigua Grecia hasta el siglo XX, todas estas mujeres pirata inspiraron a Daniela: Artemisia de Halicarnaso, Teuta de Iliria, Awilda, Jeanne de Belleville, Grace O Malley, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Ching Shih, Sadie Farrell y Lai Choi San. ¡Descubre junto a Daniela a las mujeres pirata más intrépidas de la hisotira!
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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478 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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'Amazon Unbound' is an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. From the author of 'The Everything Store'.
87) Pelosi
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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xix, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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She's the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It's a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party--even...
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MTV Entertainment Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Through a series of essays, poems and comics, thirty creators--including Melissa de la Cruz, Edmund Lee, Nathan Ramos-Park and Ellen K. Pao--give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity.
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Aguilar
Pub. Date
c2019.
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765 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Semblanza del artista español más influyente de las últimas 5 décadas. En la noche que cumplía veinte años, un accidente de coche en una carretera de Madrid cambió para siempre la vida de un joven lleno de sueños. Aquel muchacho, inmóvil durante más de un año y medio en una cama de hospital, se abrazó a una guitarra como única válvula de escape. Desde su cama, sin saberlo, Julio Iglesias construiría una de las historias de conquista...
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Almuzara
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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"Premio Goya al Mejor Actor (1990) por su trabajo en ¡Ay, Carmela!, la extensa trayectoria de Andrés Pajares -es actualmente el decano de los actores cómicos españoles- brinda un recorrido por la época más gloriosa del cine y teatro españoles en el pasado siglo. Tras sus inicios como actor cómico en salas de fiestas y en las compañías musicales de Antonio Machín, Manolo Escobar y Tony Leblanc, y compartiendo el escenario con figuras como...
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
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112 pages cm.
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"Temple Grandin wasn't officially diagnosed with autism until she was in her 40s, but she knew at an early age that she was different from her family and classmates. She couldn't show affection, she acted out when noises or other stimuli overwhelmed her,and she only felt comfortable when spending time with the animals on her aunt's ranch. But instead of seeing her differences as limitations, Temple used them to guide her education and career in animal...
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Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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296 pages ; 22 cm.
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"History has often ignored men who loved men, women who loved women, and people who lived outside gender boundaries. Lee Wind examines primary source letters, poems, and more to rethink the lives and loves of historical figures"--
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Trope Industries LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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112 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Iconic Composers highlights the origin and contributions of some of the world's most remarkable and gifted composers throughout history. Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko along with concise, engaging bios by Nicholas Csicsko and Emi Ferguson celebrate a diverse group of composers from the past 1000 years. Iconic Composers features historical giants of music like Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven alongside 20th-century...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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224 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Bad Girls Throughout History features some of the fiercest women of all time - the famous, the infamous, and the ones you haven't even heard of yet. Explore the notable works, impressive feats, and striking portraits of these wild women from around the globe who challenged the status quo"--
96) Barack Obama
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Barack Obama is famous for his meteoric rise to the presidency of the most powerful country in the world--the United States. This is the story of how he realized his dreams--a story of success, resilience, and perseverance that enabled him to become one of the most admired leaders the world has ever seen.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
304 pages
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"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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x, 339 pages ; 25 cm
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In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Her great-grandmother...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
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xx, 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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This collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. Sebald weaves their lives and art with his own migrations and rise in the literary world. Here are people gifted with talent and courage yet in some cases cursed by fragile and unstable natures, working in countries inhospitable or even hostile to them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is conjured on the verge of physical and mental...
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