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Bad Kid - A Memoir by David Crabb
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback) | Reading Level: General Adult
Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas. In the summer o ...Show more
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that ...Show more
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Sleeper Hit of the Summer... Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey -- dainty, immaculate -- is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complet ...Show more
Hotel Living by Ioannis Pappos
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Recalling both the excess of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the drifting narrator of A Single Man, Ioannis Pappos's debut novel is a portrait of privilege, aspiration, and international finance during the wayward course of the American economy between 9/11 and the 2008 Financial collapse, and is filled wi ...Show more
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) by Michael Wex
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Category: Judaica | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In his "New York Times" bestseller, "Born to Kvetch," author Michael Wex led readers on a hilariously edifying excursion through Yiddish culture and history. With "Just Say Nu," he shows us how to use this remarkable language to spice up conversations, stories, presentations, arguments, and more, when p ...Show more
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Reunited once more, young Alexander Cold and his best friend, Nadia, embark upon a new adventure, following Alex's frighteningly fearless journalist grandmother Kate to a forbidden kingdom hidden away in the frosty peaks of the Himalayas. They seek the fabled Golden Dragon--a sacred statue and priceless ...Show more
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Best Book Of The Year "Time - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - Seattle Times" A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, "Manhood for Amateurs" is the first sustained work of personal writing f ...Show more
Migratory Animals by Mary Helen Specht
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and belonging, Migratory Animals centers on a protagonist who finds herself torn between love and duty.When Flannery, a young scientist, is forced to return to Austin from five years of research in Nigeria, she becomes split ...Show more
Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a pla ...Show more
Plague of Doves: Deluxe Modern Classic by Louise Erdrich
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, generations after the vengeance exacted and the distortions of fact transformed the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation.Part Ojibwe, part white, Evelina Harp is an ambitious young girl prone to fa ...Show more
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
This internationally beloved modern classic, first published in 1978, will be reissued with a tie-in cover to coincide with the groundbreaking three-part PBS miniseries scheduled to air January 10, 11, and 12, 1994--a joint presentation of the prestigious American Playhouse and KQED San Francisco.
Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Satre by Hazel Rowley
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are one of the world's legendary couples. Their committed but notoriously open union generated no end of controversy in their day. Biographer Hazel Rowley offers the first dual portrait of these two colos ...Show more