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New 700 - 900s/Travel Non-Fiction Books 700 Art, Design, Sports, and Recreation 800 Literature and Poetry 900 Geography, Travel, and History |
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Cinema speculation
by Quentin Tarantino
The celebrated contemporary filmmaker and obsessive movie
lover presents his first work of non-fiction combing film criticism,
film theory and personal history in an entertaining and insightful discussion of the films he first saw in the 1970s.
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The Comedians in cars getting coffee book
by Jerry Seinfeld
Hand-picking the keenest insights and funniest exchanges from
84 episodes of the groundbreaking streaming series, this
gorgeously designed and carefully curated book collects casual
yet intimate conversations with the funniest people alive, becoming
the most important historical archive about the art of comedy ever amassed.
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The philosophy of modern song
by Bob Dylan
In this first book of new writing since winning the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan offers his extraordinary insight
into the nature of popular music through a series of essays that
double as meditations and reflections on the human condition.
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Opera : the definitive illustrated story
by Alan Riding
From its origins in the 17th-century courts of Italy to live
screenings in public spaces today, Opera: The Definitive
Illustrated Story follows the history of opera from Monteverdi's
L'Orfeo in 1607, to Cosi fan Tutte, La Bohème, and modern operas
such as Brokeback Mountain. It explains musical terminology, traces historical developments, and sets everything in a cultural context.
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My hygge home : how to make home
your happy place
by Meik Wiking
Inspired by Danish design and traditions, this inspiring new
book, featuring tips based on new research from The Happiness
Institute in Copenhagen, shows you how to turn your home into a
cozy sanctuary no matter how much space you have or what your budget is.
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Seeing like an artist : what artists
perceive in the art of others
by Lincoln Frederick Perry
Drawing heavily on examples from the European tradition of art,
and interweaving his own artistic journey as a painter, the author, through 11 essays, provides new ways of seeing and appreciating
art, making viewing paintings and sculptures a more powerfully
enriching experience.
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It's not tv : the spectacular rise, revolution, and future of HBO
by Felix Gillette
Through the visionary executives, showrunners and producers, two veteran media reporters reveal HBOs ascent, its groundbreaking influence on American business, technology, and popular culture and its increasingly precarious position in the very market it created.
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Lessons With Clay : Step-by-step
Techniques for Colorful Designs in
Hand-thrown and Hand-built Tableware
by Melisa Dora
Explore the best practices for using clay and different glazes—and
even how to make your own glazes. Learn tips for troubleshooting
and advice for photographing and selling your finished work. Once you've mastered the techniques, use them to create mugs, plates,
bowls, serving dishes, vases, and more. Melisa Dora makes it easy
for you to design and create ceramic pieces that will adorn your
home and brighten your life
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Let's do it : the birth of pop music :
a history
by Bob Stanley
The prequel to Bob Stanley's celebrated Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, this
new volume is the first book to tell the definitive story of the
birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end
of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern
pop age.
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This is what it sounds like : what the
music you love says about you
by Susan Rogers
One of the most successful female record producers of all time and
an award-winning professor of cognitive neuroscience leads readers
to musical self-awareness, explaining that we each possess a unique listener profile based on our brains natural response to seven key dimensions of any song.
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The art of pickleball: fifth edition
by Gale Leach
Pickleball is a fun, fast-paced game that is gaining popularity around
the world because it's easy to learn and can be played by all ages.
This book describes everything from equipment to tournament
strategy in straightforward, conversational language that will
benefit novice and seasoned players alike.
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The Office BFFs : tales of The Office
from two best friends who were there
by Jenna Fischer
Expanding on their Office Ladies podcast, two beloved The Office
co-stars, and close friends in real life, share everything from what
it was like in the early days as the show gained traction to walking
their first red carpet to how their lives have changed when they
became moms.
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Novelist as a vocation
by Haruki Murakami
In this highly personal look at the craft of writing, an internationally
best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares his own
creative process as well as his thoughts on the sparks of creativity
that inspire other writers, artists and musicians.
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The world record book of racist stories
by Amber Ruffin
The host of The Amber Ruffin Show and writer/cast member on
NBCs Late Night with Seth Meyers and her sister present a hilarious, intergenerational look at the absurdity of everyday racism as
experienced across age, gender and appearance.
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Still no word from you :
notes in the margin
by Peter Orner
This brilliant interconnected collection of essays and intimate
stories, melding the lived life and the reading life, is the acclaimed
fiction writers highly personal take on literature alternates with his
own true stories of love and loss.
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The life of crime : detecting the
history of mysteries and their creators
by Martin Edwards
In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of
Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators traces
the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the
present, offering brand-new perspective on the world's most
popular form of fiction.
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The search for the genuine : nonfiction, 1970-2015
by Jim Harrison
Written with his trademark humor, compassion and zest for life, this definitive collection of the late writers essays and journalism, some never before published, muses on everything from grouse hunting fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit.
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Personality and power : builders and destroyers of modern Europe
by Ian Kershaw
Chronicles the modern era, which saw the emergence of individuals
who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death, while attempting to understand these rulers
and the times in which they lived that allowed them such
unrestrained and murderous power and what brought that
era to an end.
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A message from Ukraine : speeches,
2019-2022
by Volodymyr Zelensky
An urgent call to arms from the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courage in the face of the Russian invasion has inspired the world
and turned him overnight into a global beacon of democracy.
Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with
his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's story through the words of its president.
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The Nazi conspiracy : the secret plot to
kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
by Brad Meltzer
In this gripping true story of daring rescues, body doubles and
political intrigue, the New York Times best-selling authors of The
First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy reveal the Nazis plans
to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill, an assassination
plot that would have changed history.
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The intimate city : walking New York
by Michael Kimmelman
A cultural, architectural, and historical guide to twenty walks around and through New York, led by the NYT chief architecture critic during the height of COVID-19. As New York came to a standstill in March of 2020, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians, writers, engineers, and city planners, and invited them to take him on a walk. As the chief architecture critic for the New York Times, he was no stranger to the city.
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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery
in an American family
by Kerri K. Greenidge
Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered
figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged
lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists
in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most
influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings
of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives.
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A line in the world : a year on the North Sea Coast
by Dorthe Nors
An author chronicles her year-long exploration of the North Sea
Coast from Skagen, Denmark to the Wadden Sea Islands, tracing
the area's history, geography, and culture, and reflects on her
ancestral ties to the region.
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My travels with Mrs. Kennedy
by Clint Hill
Opening an old steamer trunk for the first time in 50 years,
retired Secret Service agent Clint Hill finds forgotten photos,
handwritten notes, personal gifts and treasured memories that
capture the experience of traveling with Jacqueline Kennedy as
the entire world was falling in love with her.
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Out here on our own : an oral history of an American boomtown
by J. J. Anselmi
J.J. Anselmi’s Out Here on Our Own tells the story of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly high per-capita suicide rate—yet a place that has proved remarkably resilient.
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On every tide : the making and remaking of the Irish world
by S. J. Connolly
This sweeping history of Irish migration, starting in the 18th century, shows how emigrants became a force in world politics and religion as they helped settle new frontiers, industrialized the West, spread Catholicism globally and ultimately, helped make the modern world.
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Russia : revolution and civil war, 1917-1921
by Antony Beevor
Drawing upon the most up-to-date scholarship and archival research, this gripping narrative forms the complete picture of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe between 1917 and 1921, a struggle that became a world war by proxy, as told through the eyes of those individuals who experienced it firsthand.
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The abyss : nuclear crisis Cuba 1962
by Max Hastings
An award-winning journalist reevaluates the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history, seeking to explain the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans and Americans, and recreate the heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance.
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Our America : a photographic history
by Ken Burns
Assembling images that best embody 200 years of the American experience, some from renowned photographers and by others who worked in obscurity, an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker shares images of our country's natural beauty, of war and civil conflict and of communities drawing together across lines of race and class.
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The last campaign : Sherman, Geronimo, and the War for America
by H. W. Brands
A best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the lives of two war chiefs, General William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo, over the course of the 1870s and 1880s during which they confronted each other in the final battle for the American West.
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The divider : Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
by Peter Baker
Based on unprecedented access to key players, two top journalists
and the best-selling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington tell
the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war
with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale.
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The Mosquito Bowl : a game of life
and death in World War II
by Buzz Bissinger
This extraordinary, never-before-told story of WWII follows two
U.S. Marine Corps regiments, comprised of some of the greatest
football talent, as they played each other in a football game in
the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal known as The Mosquito Bowl
before they faced the darkest and deadliest days at Okinawa.
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The story of Russia
by Orlando Figes
Based on a lifetime of scholarship, this fresh approach to the
thousand years of Russia's history discusses the national
mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped how
Russians think about their past and how the country thinks and
acts today.
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Indigenous continent : the epic
contest for North America
by Pekka Hämäläinen
This nation's history and self-understanding have long depended
on the notion of a "colonial America," an epoch that supposedly
laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hämäläinen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless
"victims" of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled
North America well into the 19th century.
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Starry messenger : cosmic perspectives
on civilization
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, an
astrophysicist discusses the scientific palette that sees and paints
the world differently, sharing insights on resolving global conflict
to reminders of how precious it is to be alive in a universe
stimulating a deeper sense of unity for us all.
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Into the great emptiness : peril and survival on the Greenland ice cap
by David Roberts
"y 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed Gino), a 23-year-old explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious journey to the east coast of Greenland and its vast and forbidding interior. Their mission: chart and survey the region and establish a permanent meteorological base 8,000 feet high on the ice cap. That plan turned into an epic survival ordeal when August Courtauld, manning the station solo through the winter, became entombed by drifting snow. David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), draws on firsthand accounts and rich archival materials to tell the story of this daring expedition and of the ingenious young explorer at its helm"
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Asian American histories of the United States
by Catherine Ceniza Choy
This history of Asian migration, labor and community formation in the U.S. emphasizes how the Asian American experience is essential to any understanding of both our history and current day crises.
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Nothing to fear : FDR's inner circle and
the hundred days that created modern America
by Adam Cohen
A dramatic account of the first one hundred days of FDR's
presidency traces the transformation that took place throughout
the federal government in the wake of unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and poverty levels, in a history that also cites the
pivotal contributions of the thirty-second president's inner circle.
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The Chicago outfit
by John J. Binder
Presents a history of the Chicago Outfit, detailing its role in the development of the city's organized crime scene as well as the
political and corporate protection it secured in order to become
one of the most successful crime families.
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Graceland Cemetery : Chicago stories, symbols, and secrets
by Adam Selzer
One of Chicago's landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery
chronicles the city's sprawling history through the stories of its
people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam Selzer
presents ten walking tours covering almost the entirety of the
cemetery grounds. While nodding to Graceland's famous figures,
Selzer also leads readers past the vaults, obelisks, and other
markers that call attention to less recognized Chicagoans.
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Empires of the Normans : conquerors
of Europe
by Levi Roach
Empire of the Normans tells the extraordinary story of how the descendants of Viking marauders in northern France came to
dominate European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern politics.
It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce pirates, of fortunes
made and fortunes lost.
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Life on the Mississippi : an epic American adventure
by Rinker Buck
The author of the New York Times best-seller The Oregon Trail,
building an authentic wooden flatboat from a bygone era, casts
off down the Mississippi river, charting his own geographical and emotional journey, while providing a satisfying work of history.
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The fifth act : America's end in Afghanistan
by Elliot Ackerman
Using the dramatic rescue efforts in Kabul as his framework, a
New York Times best-selling author presents this powerful and
dramatic eyewitness account in which he weaves a personal history
of the wars long progression, beginning with the initial invasion
in the months after 9/11.
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Tales from the Borderlands : Making and Unmaking the Galician Past
by Omer Bartov
Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the diverse communities of migrants who settled there for centuries and were murdered or forcibly removed from the borderlands in the course of World War II and its aftermath.
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The road trip book:
1001 drives of a lifetime
by Darryl Sleath
For anyone who has fallen under its spell, a car represents freedom
and adventure. For decades, the American tradition of the road trip
has been bound up with the idea of new possibilities and new
horizons. This book is an indispensable guide to the most beautiful, breathtaking, extraordinary, and fun road trips the world has to offer. Complete with road trips varying in length and level of challenge
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Nein, Nein, Nein! : One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a
Bus Tour of the Holocaust
by Jerry Stahl
Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens
of Stahl’s own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang
polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz.
Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip.
Get on the bus.
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Fodor's 2023 essential Italy
by Robert Andrews
Recommends attractions, lodging, restaurants, shopping, and
nightlife in Rome, Venice, Florence, and the places in between
these cities.
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Fodor's essential Hawaii
by Karen Anderson
Whether you want to hike a volcano in Maui, relax on Waikiki
Beach, or attend a luau, the local Fodor's travel experts in Hawaii
are here to help! Fodor's Essential Hawaii guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you
need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of
your time.
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Fodor's Florence & Tuscany : With Assisi & the Best of Umbria
by Liz Humphreys
A travel guide to Florence and Tuscany that offers unique
experiences and hidden treasures only known to locals and
those who venture off the beaten path from touring
Brunelleschi's Dome, to the best wineries and most interesting
shopping. Illustrations. Maps.
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Fodor's Essential Caribbean
by Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications
A comprehensive guide to visiting the Caribbean, from the best
coral reefs to parasailing, dining, boat charters and enjoying
gorgeous sunsets with tips to beat the crowds, self-guided
walking tours and the best places to stay and dine.
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Fodor's Venice
by Nick Bruno
A travel guide to Venice that features multiple itineraries, maps,
and carefully curated, honest recommendations from locals to make
the most of your trip while exploring Piazza San Marco or taking a gondola ride through the canals.
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Fodor's London 2023
by Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications
This comprehensive and updated guide to exploring London from
the renowned travel guide series discusses must-see attractions,
offers tips to beat the crowds, and looks at the best places to stay
at and dine.
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Corsica : Lists for Your Perfect Trip
by Dk Eyewitness
Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Corsica has to offer and ensuring that you don’t miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Corsica is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.
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Fodor's Essential Germany
by Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications
Fully redesigned, a newly revised travel guide to Germany offers
multiple itineraries, detailed maps, honest recommendations and
tips from locals whether you want to sail down the Rhine, attend Octoberfest in Munich, or explore the Black Forest.
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Fodor's Essential Australia
by Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications
A detailed and comprehensive travel guide helps visitors see and experience all the exciting sights Down Under with multiple
itineraries, maps, trip-planning tools and honest recommendations
from Sydney's Harbor Bridge to the Great Barrier Reef and the
rugged Outback.
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