Aspects (Academic)/Life Writings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
$21.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more–including Krakauer’s–in guilt-ridden disarray.
“A harrowing tale o… [more below]- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 19 1999
- ISBN10: 0385494785
- Language: English
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Orr: My Story
$18.00 Read moreHockey legend Bobby Orr tells his story, from his Ontario childhood to his years with the Bruins and Blackhawks to today in this New York Times bestselling sports memoir.
Bobby Orr is often referred t- Author: Orr, Bobby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 042527702X
- Language: English
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An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
$21.99 Add to cartTravel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield’s “enthralling” bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate).
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged n- Author: Hadfield, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0316253030
- Language: English
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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
$18.00 Read moreFrom the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth.
- Author: Shalev, Meir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 080521240X
- Language: English
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Ordinary Light: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own un… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0345804074
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles
$19.95 Read moreThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain’s journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts… [more below]
- Series: Notebook
- Author: de Vito, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1579129978
- Language: English
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Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
$27.99 Add to cartMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial o
- Author: Mockett, Marie Mutsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352293
- Language: English
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Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef
$64.95 Add to cartNever Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to three-michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana and the twenty-five year career of its chef, Massimo Bottura, ‘the Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs’.
- Author: Bottura, Massimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0714867144
- Language: English
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”
With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Al
- Author: Allison, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149303538X
- Language: English
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Stand Up Straight and Sing!
$15.95 Add to cart“Norman offers a broad and global perspective on life, the arts, and spirituality . . . Inspiring.” – Booklist
In Stand Up Straight and Sing!, Jessye Norman recalls in rich detail the strong women wh- Author: Norman, Jessye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0544484053
- Language: English
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Delancey
$18.99 Read moreThe New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: “You’ll feel the warmth from this pizza oven…cheerfully hones… [more below]
- Author: Wizenberg, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1451655118
- Language: English
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Holding Silvan: A Brief Life
$16.95 Read moreIn the opening of “Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, ” Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for “observation” when he won’t stop crying. Withi… [more below]
- Author: Wesolowska, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 098600071X
- Language: English
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
$26.00 Add to cartIn 2010, the French mathematician C dric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof that he devised with his close collaborator Cl ment Mouhot
- Author: Villani, Cédric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536678
- Language: English
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I Left It on the Mountain
$21.99 Add to cartOn his fifty-third birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights–… [more below]
- Author: Sessums, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1250078180
- Language: English
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One Hundred Thousand Hearts: A Surgeon’s Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartThe pioneering surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley performed his first human heart transplant in 1968 and astounded the world in 1969 by conducting the first successful implantation of a totally artificial hear
- Author: Cooley, Denton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 0999731874
- Language: English
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Coming Ashore: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartNow in trade paper Written with the same spirit and wit as the bestselling Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, Coming Ashore is the third and final volume of Catherine Gildiner’s memoir series… [more below]
- Author: Gildiner, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1770412565
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor’s Story
$27.95 Add to cartFour hours. That was the amount of time between looking down the barrel of a gun and finding myself free along a silent highway lined by cotton fields. In the time period that seemed eternal, my uniqu… [more below]
- Author: Berk, Steven L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0896726932
- Language: English
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Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
$25.25 Add to cartPopulated by an oddball cast of characters, this book chronicles one man’s determined effort–occasionally with hilarious results–to follow the stream that runs by his house to its elusive source.
Aut… [more below]
- Author: Roorbach, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1608933938
- Language: English
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The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year
$21.99 Add to cartWhen Spring Warren told her husband and two teenage boys that she wanted to grow 75 percent of all the food they consumed for one year, and that she wanted to do it in their yard, they told her she wa
- Author: Warren, Spring
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1580053408
- Language: English
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The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
$19.99 Add to cartThe riveting New York Times bestseller about a young man who built more than 250 schools around the world–and the steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
Adam Braun began wor- Author: Braun, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1476730636
- Language: English
