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The Belspring Road

Robert G Bruce · Robert Bruce
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback

Eight-year old Bobby Bruce and his siblings visited their mother for the last time while she lay dying by her own hand. As a motherless child in Appalachia in 1925, Bobby was thrust into a life beyond his experience and imagination. Moonshine and bootleggers, the Temperance Movement and religious...
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Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service

Gary Sinise · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to cofounder of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company, world-famous actor, and tireless advocate for America's...
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Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace

Laurence Leamer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Where Trump Learned to RuleTo know Donald J. Trump it is best to start in his natural habitat: Palm Beach, Florida. It is here he learned the techniques that took him all the way to the White House. Painstakingly, over decades, he has created a world in this exclusive tropical enclave and favorite...
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity

Nick Bunker · Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin...
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement

Dave Cullen · Harper
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring...
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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

Tom Wright · Hachette Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The "extraordinary" (Financial Times) instant New York Times bestseller exposing how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others--a "must read" (BOOKLIST ) tale of finance run amok and "the heist of the century"...
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Help Me!

Marianne Power · Grove Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books promised....
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Fidel Castro and Baseball: The Untold Story

Peter C. Bjarkman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Few political figures of the modern age have been so vilified as Fidel Castro, and both the vilification and worship generated by the Cuban leader have combined to distort the true image of Castro. The baseball myths attached to Fidel have loomed every bit as large as the skewed political...
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Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out

Jason Rezaian · Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"An important story. Harrowing, and suspenseful, yes - but it's also a deep dive into a complex and egregiously misunderstood country with two very different faces. There is no better time to know more about Iran - and Jason Rezaian has seen both of those faces." - Anthony...
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The Warner Boys: Our Family's Story of Autism and Hope

Curt Warner · Little A
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

An emotional, revealing memoir of one family's life in seclusion - and the love, strength, and faith it took to save it.Seahawks star running back Curt Warner and his wife, Ana, were prominent figures in Seattle in the early 1990s. When they dropped from the public eye after Curt's...
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