Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society 0316257974, 9780316257978

An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days 9780292792302

From Eudora Welty's memoir of childhood to May Sarton's reflections on her seventieth year, writers' jour

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Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness 9781846945588

In mid argument with a loved one, as we stand unfairly accused, we would much rather be right than happy. As practising

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The guardian of mercy: how an extraordinary painting by Caravaggio changed an ordinary life today 9781628725926, 9781628726305, 1628725923

A contemporary artist explains the famous painting by Caravaggio and describes how it represents the troubled life of th

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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times 9780307597960, 2017015685, 0307597962

"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as D

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An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary 9781911307433, 9781911307457, 9781911307440, 9781911307464, 9781911307488, 9781911307471

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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America 9780698135598, 9780399166662

“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s 9780198021698, 0198021690

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Fo

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The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life

The first definitive biography of the Dalai Lama—a story by turns inspiring, surprising—from an acclaimed Tibetan schola

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The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times 9780525522454, 2019052263, 9780525522447

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An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820-1830 1438464975, 9781438464978

In 1820, Phebe Orvis began a journal that she faithfully kept for a decade. Richly detailed, her diary captures not only

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