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Records the experiences of a free-lance writer who embarked on a zany journey into the drug culture. This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Records the experiences of a free-lance writer...
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West has rocked readers in work published everywhere from The Guardian to GQ to This American Life. She is a catalyst for a national conversation in a world where not all stories are created equal and not every body is treated with equal respect. SHRILL is comprised of a series of essays that bravely shares her life, including her transition from quiet to feminist-out-loud, coming of age in a popular culture that is hostile to women (especially fat,...
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Overview: When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson's long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising...
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In his most intimate book yet, O'Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and bestselling author. Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family, his neighborhood, his church, and his schools, and how his views on America's proper role in the world emerged from covering four...
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BenBella Books, Incorporated
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[2020]
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English
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"In The Drudge Revolution, investigative journalist and author of Newtown: An American Tragedy Matthew Lysiak pulls back the curtain on the world's most powerful journalist, for the first time telling the inside story of how one man's visionary belief in the potential of the internet, coupled with the post-Fairness Doctrine growth of conservative talk radio and the rise of cable news and social media, created the perfect storm that seized the narrative...
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An assessment of the decades before Ernest Hemingway's suicide reveals the key life moments that occurred on board his beloved boat, "Pilar," from celebrations with friends and romantic liaisons to the dissolutions of marriages and withdrawals from society.
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Dey St, an imprint of William Morrow
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[2022]
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English
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"Sweetbitter meets Brotopia in a story of self-discovery and breaking barriers as a female journalist during the second wave of tech by award-winning investigative reporter and former CNN Senior Tech Correspondent Laurie Segall. A misfit herself, Segall gained entrance to New York’s burgeoning tech scene, with its limitless cash flow and parties populated by geeks-turned-billionaires. Back at the news desk, she rose through the ranks at CNN, while...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2021]
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English
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The husband of the late legendary journalist reflects on her career as a trailblazer for women as well as her private life, tenacious devotion to helping others, and roles as wife, mother, advocate, and historian.
13) Mark Twain
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Kultur
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[2005].
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English
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Twain as a humorist was master of the techniques of exaggeration. Sensitive to the sound of language, he introduced colloquial speech into American fiction. Titles include: Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Huckleberry Finn, and others.
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Norah Vincent's last book left her emotionally drained. Suffering from severe depression, Vincent felt she was a danger to herself. On the advice of her psychologist she committed herself to a mental institution. Out of this raw and overwhelming experience came the idea for her next book. She decided to get healthy and to study the effect of treatment on the depressed and insane "in the bin," as she calls it. Vincent's journey takes her from a big...
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2017.
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The star news anchor recalls her career-risking decision to speak out against sexual harassment in the workplace, shares the stories of women who have faced similar challenges, and outlines recommendations from lawyers, psychologists, and other professionals on how to resist injustice.
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2021.
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"As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head thousands of times as I'm stabbing the embroidery myself....
19) When in French
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Books on Tape
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[2016]
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English
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Describing how the author decided to learn French in order to get closer to her husband, an effort marked by the complexities of the language, the nature of French identity, and her growing appreciation for French-specific communication nuances.
20) Empty: a memoir
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"Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is the story not only of loosening the grip of her compulsion but of moving past her shame and learning to tell her secret."--
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