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"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite, Lewis sets out to answer...
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Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Karen Pence served as the Second Lady of the United States during one of the country's most tumultuous political seasons. In this inspiring memoir, she tells how, through it all, God gave her peace and purpose"-- Provided by publisher.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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[2023]
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English
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"Tom Weso describes his food culture upbringing in Wisconsin as a member of Menominee Nation and also a member of the Wisconsin citizenry. He lives in cabins, tepees, Madison hippie apartments, a refurbished jailhouse, and across the street from taverns. He hitchhikes across the state, motorcycles, bikes, and is driven in his uncle's fancy sports cars. His warm voice adds color commentary and humor as he samples traditional Indigenous foods, German-influenced...
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Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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The author works to shed light upon the story and life of the mysterious Mexican folk hero Joaquín Murrieta, who inspired the legend of Zorro as he robbed from those reaping gold rush riches and redistributed those taking to the poor.
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Kultur
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[2005]
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English
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"Featuring specially-commissioned footage shot at Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, this ... DVD tells the story of an extraordinary man who re-shaped scientific thinking and left the world an invaluable legacy. The program explores Darwin's personal life, looks at the impact of his work in his own time and on the modern world, and shows how both were profoundly influenced by his surroundings"--Container label.
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Buffalo 8
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2023.
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English
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"The life, contributions, and erasure of America's culinary founding father are explored by food historians, celebrated chefs, experts on race and the African American diaspora. Through their words and the persistence of a curious chef, Ashbell McElveen, the life of America's missing icon comes into focus. Mac & Cheese, French fries, whipped cream, and many other foodie favorites disseminated from a slave kitchen in Charlottesville from the hands...
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"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of...
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"Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions....
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"H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means-now-to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the...
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2023.
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English
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"Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"-- Provided by publisher.
"A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted" and to fill the...
13) Hannah Arendt
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Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise of the Third Reich. After World War II, Arendt became one of the most prominent - and controversial - public intellectuals of her time,...
14) Newton's grace
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Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The story that lies behind the powerful words of one of the most beloved hymns that was developed after an powerful conversion experience during a storm at sea.
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English
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"In this collection, Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled--and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society. He explores the opportunities afforded to Black creatives but also the doors that remain shut or ever-so-slightly ajar; the confounding challenges of dating in a time when social media has made everything both more accessible and more unreliable; and the allure of returning home while still...
16) The Beatles
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Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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This Little Golden Book about The Beatles--four friends from Liverpool who became the best-selling music act of all time--is an inspiring read-aloud for young children, as well as their parents and grandparents who are fans of the Fab Four. Experience Beatlemania all over again when reading about the band--from their humble beginnings to their unforgettable arrival in the U.S."--Amazon.
17) The woman in me
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"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
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Kathy Harding
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©2011
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English
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A historic and true account of nineteen year old Minnie Coffey's move west from North Carolina with her family in 1911. The story chronicles over fifty years in the life of an early Okanogan County, Washington pioneer and her family. Through all the difficult times and hardships, the family always manages to find a way to survive and move on, with many interesting stories and anecdotes to share about growing up on a farm in the 30's, 40's and 50's....
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"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels-poets, novelists, philosophers--who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time. When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right...
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