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These letters illuminate the revered American author's thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and relationships as never before, serving as a sequel to her beloved books and a snapshot of pioneer life.

Joyce Carol Oates chronicles her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State.

Lindy West 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.

This audio collection presents Pete Seeger's spoken words as he recounts his most engaging stories, narratives, and poems through musical traditions as diverse as African music, the blues, bluegrass, Celtic music, classical guitar, folk, Israeli music, jazz, Native American music, and Tuvan throat singing--taking Pete's wisdom and stories out to new audiences and into a new technological age.

Through his harrowing personal story, Rick Van Warner exposes the common causes of opioid addiction, effective and ineffective ways it has been treated, and how families can walk alongside loved ones who are dealing with the realities of addiction.

Written by Nikola Tesla at the age of sixty-three, this autobiography is a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of a man who may have contributed more to the fields of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead, a man certainly possessed of genius, and one who some consider the most important man of the twentieth century.

Beloved Hollywood icon Dick Van Dyke celebrated his ninetieth birthday in December 2015, yet he still keeps busy entertaining America on television, in movies, on the stage, and on social media. So how does he do it? For the first time, Van Dyke shares his secrets and tips on old age.

This is the true story of two nineteenth-century explorers who discovered 1,500-year-old pyramids and temples in Central America and evidence of an astonishingly sophisticated culture. Their discovery of the Mayan civilization would change Western understanding of human history.

Based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University, artist and author Patti Smith explores the nature of creative invention.

This story of Alex, a famous African Grey parrot, documents his thirty-year relationship with his trainer and the ways in which his life has changed scientific understanding about language and thought.