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Broadway’s Bravest Woman
This collection of plays, fiction, and journalistic essays by Sophie Treadwell provides an engaging portrait of one of America’s most innovative yet neglected feminists. Broadway’s Bravest Woman: Selected Writings of…
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Confessions of a Tax Collector
Twelve years ago, Richard Yancey answered a blind ad in the newspaper offering a salary higher than what he’d made over the three previous years combined. It turned out that…
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Dizzy
Dizzy Gillespie secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of music. More important is that he was one…
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Edge Jumper
Lynn Fenster Smith began writing in her journals over thirty years ago. She always felt in life she was meant to do something but did not know what. Those journals…
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Elia Kazan
Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and…
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Everything About Me Is Fake . . . And I’m Perfect
The supermodel and author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller No Lifeguard on Duty tackles the perils of looking perfect and offers commonsense advice about how to feel good about…
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Flood Stage and Rising
What could be safer than Grand Forks, North Dakota, settled on the vast, flat plain of the Red River? There’d be no danger unless the whole town went under water….
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Foothold on a Hillside
In a style reminiscent of the master storytellers of yore, Charless Caraway recounts the story of his life, as a man and a boy, on small farms in Saline and…
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Freud
Often referred to as “the father of psychoanalysis,” Sigmund Freud championed the “talking cure” and charted the human unconscious. But though Freud compared himself to Copernicus and Darwin, his history…
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From Third World to First
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving…