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  • With Bloom Upon Them and Also With Blood
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    With Bloom Upon Them and Also With Blood

    The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Awardwinning Indecency comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfiction...
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  • How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis
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    How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis

    "Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror."-Library Journal(starred review)"[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman."-Publishers WeeklyIn World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husbandWacek...
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    Unended
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    Unended

    IGNATZ AWARD Nomination for OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL What prevents you from finishing your life's work?Josh Bayer finds a manuscript of an unfinished play inside his deceased father's desk. The play tells the story of Josh's mother's early death (age...
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    Pill Hill
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    Pill Hill

    Pill Hill, Nicholas Breutzman's darkly funny and utterly heartbreaking memoir, plunges the reader into a world of horrifying Tinder dates, flea markets, lizard people, child protective services, black holes, time travel, and stress-induced psychosis.Nic...
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    42

    Over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems...Welcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams.After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old...
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  • Bardskull
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    Bardskull

    Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: rather, it is...
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    Gaman Perseverance

    This revealing memoir by the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians describes the long journey towards resolution for the historic injustice that deprived Japanese Canadians of their basic human rights during and after World...
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  • The Beauty of Light
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    The Beauty of Light

    A lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art.In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in the months before her death in November 2021, Etel...
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  • Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
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    Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

    A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito - part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy.Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear...
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    Smut Peddler X: Ten Years of Impeccable Pornoglyphics
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    Smut Peddler X: Ten Years of Impeccable Pornoglyphics

    The Smut Peddler library of high-end erotic anthologies is a critically acclaimed collection of impeccable pornoglyphics, but where did it all begin? The very first Smut Peddler mini-comics and anthology absolutely revolutionized erotica in comics,...
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  • The Privilege of the Happy Ending
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    The Privilege of the Happy Ending

    A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal intelligences, gender, and the nature of stories. The Privilege of the Happy Ending collects award-winning writer Kij Johnson's speculative fiction from...
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  • Personal Best
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    Personal Best

    Home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That...
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  • There Is No Blue
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    There Is No Blue

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION THEGLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023THEGLOBE AND MAILBEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023 Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's...
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  • Daddy Lessons
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    Daddy Lessons

    Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening Steacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made them who they are: the Mormon church, an Anglican...
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  • All We Have Is the Story
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    All We Have Is the Story

    Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub...
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    Fashioning the Beatles
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    Fashioning the Beatles

    John, Paul, George, and Ringo were more than great musicians: they were the quintessential fashion icons of one of the most exciting and memorable fashion eras of all time. From their starts in black leather through Sergeant Pepper to Nehru collars and...
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  • The Bold, the Brave, and the Breathless
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    The Bold, the Brave, and the Breathless

    After a normal, healthy, full-term pregnancy, Margaret Moore's parents Anne and Terrence were shocked as a prolapsed umbilical cord left their daughter unable to breathe on her own. Margaret, nicknamed Meg, was not expected to live through the night and...
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  • Straitjackets and Lunch Money
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    Straitjackets and Lunch Money

    Katya Cengel became patient number 090 71 51 at the Roth Psychosomatic Unit at Children's Hospital at Stanford in 1986. She was 10 years old. Overwhelmed by feelings of abandonment, worthlessness and anger at having to care for her depressed father, she...
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  • I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive
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    I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

    'An ode to storytelling itself...A gorgeous and heart-rending story of survival.' - Melissa Febos, author of GirlhoodA moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon...
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    Ask Uncle Jack
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    Ask Uncle Jack

    Ask Uncle Jack is a heartwarming book about a centenarian who shares his wisdom about the importance of nature and kindness. Uncle Jack was born in 1923 and reminds us that no matter where we are in the world, nature is always nearby and has the power to...
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  • On This Day In Roger Federer History
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    On This Day In Roger Federer History

    One of the world' s most well-known and respected athletes, Roger Federer has had a career that ranks among the most celebrated and successful in all of tennis history. This entertaining and illuminating chronicle of Federer' s trophy-laden journey is...
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  • Prince in Comics!
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    Prince in Comics!

    Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artist, all at once author, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. A real showman on stage, songs like " 1999" or " Purple Rain," made him an international star. With his tormented life,...
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    Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra
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    Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

    Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music...
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  • A Mic for All Seasons
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    A Mic for All Seasons

    When Kenny Albert was growing up, family gatherings sounded a lot like a dispatch from the first all-sports radio station. There was his father, Marv, whose voice shaped the sound of modern basketball, and there too were his uncles Al and Steve-a trio of...
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  • Owning the Unknown
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    Owning the Unknown

    Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the...
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  • The Human Scale
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    The Human Scale

    Whether investigating a gruesome triple-murder, a fairy tale marriage gone horribly wrong, or a brilliant con artist, Michael Lista has proven himself one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation. In his belief that crime reporting thrives the...
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  • The Swift Dark Tide
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    The Swift Dark Tide

    What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with another woman?The Swift Dark Tide is a story of selfhood and desire, of careful listening to an ungovernable heart.Part memoir, part love letter, The Swift Dark...
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    Frazetta: World's Best Comics Cover Artist
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    Frazetta: World's Best Comics Cover Artist

    Vanguard continues their trademark Definitive Reference series with Frazetta: World's Best Comics Cover Artist, a sister book to 2022's hit, Frazetta Book Cover Art.While the prior book by illustration and cartooning historian J. David...
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  • The Mahogany Pod
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    The Mahogany Pod

    The Mahogany Pod is a moving portrayal of a joyful love affair that was cut short by a terminal illness after just one exhilarating year and an inspirational account of vulnerability, reconciliation and learning to live fully after loss."Gorgeous ... her...
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  • Freddie
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    Freddie

    Rescued from a puppy mill in 2010, Freddie was a bright light in lives of his human companions and the ultimate muse for biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies to explore the human-animal bond in his books. As Grant helped Freddie overcome the fears and traumas...
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    Josef Koudelka: Next
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    Josef Koudelka: Next

    An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography's most renowned and celebrated artists. Throughout his more than sixty-year-long obsession with the medium, Josef Koudelka considers a remarkable range of photographic subjects - from his...
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  • Iceland Summer
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    Iceland Summer

    An island is a world out of time and place, separated by literal and figurative oceans, where the confines of reality are tenuous and magic may be possible. Iceland-with its relative isolation, enchanting mythologies, creative people, and the...
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    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae
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    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae

    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae is a tribute to the leading icon in music, Bob Marley. In 1975, after meeting Marley in London, photographer Kate Simon gained unique access to the Wailers, capturing intensely personal moments and momentous...
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    The Funny Thing About Death
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    The Funny Thing About Death

    Six years ago, Jo Caulfield was about to go on stage when she found out that her big sister Annie had cancer. Not the best way to start a nationwide comedy tour. But the tour turns out to be a welcome distraction for both sisters. As Jo reports back from...
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    Tomlin
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    Tomlin

    In 2007, at the age of thirty-four, Mike Tomlin was hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Replacing Hall of Famer Bill Cowher-and two years removed from the team's Super Bowl XL victory-there was immense pressure on the first-year head...
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    Creative Producing
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    Creative Producing

    Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producerAs former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum is...
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  • Winter Solstice
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    Winter Solstice

    BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER BOSTON.COM BOOKCLUB SELECTIONA celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor's door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects...
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    My Beautiful Psychosis
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    My Beautiful Psychosis

    What if psychosis is really a wake up call?Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs...until she decides to give them up...and that's when the insomnia starts. After five nights without sleep she ends up in...
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  • The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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    The Life of Charlotte Bronte

    As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was comparatively well. The characters were her...
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  • The Gift of Perspective
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    The Gift of Perspective

    IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Gold Award Winner Environment/Ecology Nautilus Award Silver, Inner Prosperity & Right Livelihood "Lindsey Roy proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that joy and happiness are just on the other side of the mountain...
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  • Mirror Horse
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    Mirror Horse

    English/Canadian indie musician Tamara Williamson offers an unbridled account of a life in the world of horses."A definite read, not only for horse lovers, but anyone whose life has been touched by animals." -Ashley Holzer, Olympian and Grand Prix rider...
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  • The Wrath of Blonde
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    The Wrath of Blonde

    Laura Banks is a triple threat to herself and others as a comedy writer, stand-up and four-time author, with her USA Today Bestseller, "Breaking the Rules" selling a quarter of a million copies. Laura got her first acting break in "Star Trek II: The...
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  • Merle's Musings
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    Merle's Musings

    More than a motivating and authentic story, it's an invitation to observe, listen, and connect the dots to form a deeper understanding for navigating your own story. Manser invites readers to punctuate their lives with grit, fortitude, and unquestionable...
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  • Reflections of an Uncertain Journey
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    Reflections of an Uncertain Journey

    In this candid, vulnerable, and deeply moving memoir, Mike Purdy invites us to walk with him on his unwelcome and uncertain journey as he navigates the uncharted waters of dealing with a lethal cancer - everything from diagnosis and treatments to the...
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  • The River You Touch
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    The River You Touch

    "We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us...
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    Soul Jar
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    Soul Jar

    Too often, science fiction and fantasy stories erase - or cure - characters with disabilities. Soul Jar, edited by author and bookstore owner Annie Carl, features thirty-one stories by disabled authors, imagining such wonders as a shapeshifter on a first...
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  • Happy Forever
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    Happy Forever

    'Mark is one of the most indomitable yet gentle spirits I've ever met. He will always be one of my favorite artists I've ever worked with. And someday when I grow up, I want to be just like him.'Alice Cooper'This book is a puzzle. The outside frame...
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  • The Ambivalent Daughter
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    The Ambivalent Daughter

    The Ambivalent Daughter: Memoir of a Conflicted Caregiver, is the compelling story of a mother and daughter struggling to adjust after the mother has a severe stroke. Suddenly Bethanie is faced with the need to assume responsibility for the care of her...
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Biographies & True Stories | Inspirational Real Life Stories & Books Based on True Events Australia

Discover a powerful collection of inspirational real life stories books and famous Australian biographies to read on BookLoop. Whether you're fascinated by historical figures, inspired by sports legends, or drawn to heroic survival stories, our collection will move you, challenge you, and stay with you.

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