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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from... |
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America's Secret Aristocracy: The Families that Built the United States
Stephen Birmingham · LP/Lyons Press
Pages: 334
Format: Print book
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America has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy emerged anyway - a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Renowned social historian Stephen Birmingham reveals the inner workings of this aristocracy... |
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The Long Game: A Memoir
Mitch Mcconnell · Sentinel
Pages: 278
Format: Print book
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In October 1984, a hard-charging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for President Ronald Reagan to arrive at a presidential rally in Louisville. In the midst of a tough Senate campaign against an incumbent Democrat, the young Republican hoped Reagan's endorsement would give a much-needed... |
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Out of Idaho
Regina Calcaterra · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival. They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic... |
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
SHERYL SANDBERG · Knopf
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Best SellerFrom Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden... |
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro · Alfred A. Knopf; 1st ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal... |
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Jackson C Frank: The Clear Hard Light of Genius
Jim Abbott · Ba Da Bing Records
Pages: 254
Format: Print book
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The story of Jackson C. Frank is tragic. The victim of a school fire in his youth, struggling with homelessness and mental illness throughout his life, half-blinded in old age before his death in 1999, Frank met continuous obstacles. And yet he enjoyed a shining moment with the release... |
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Robert J Sheffield · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known... |
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The Curious Mister Catesby: A "Truly Ingenious" Naturalist Explores New Worlds
David Elliott · Univ of Georgia Pr
Pages: 425
Format: Hardcover
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In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683-1749) crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to England with paintings of plants and animals he had studied. They sufficiently impressed other naturalists that in 1722 several Fellows of the Royal Society sponsored... |
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Dogs and Their People: Photos and Stories of Life with a Four-Legged Love
Barkpost By Bark & Co. · Putnam
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From the humans that brought you BarkBox (and BarkPost and BarkShop) finally comes Dogs and Their People. Finally, Bark & Co. has tapped the humans at BarkPost, the company's publishing arm, to put into words and photographs the first official BarkBook, capturing the depth, spirit,... |
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No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
Erik Weihenmayer · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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No Barriers is about my journey since coming down from Mt. Everest in 2001, and the path to where I am today. It is the story of my own life, the personal and professional struggles in the pursuit of growth, learning, and family, as well as a dream to kayak one of the world's great... |
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The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
Ben Mezrich · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files,... |
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