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The Way I Heard It

Rowe, Mike · Gallery Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful...
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Rachael Ray 50: Memories and Meals from a Sweet and Savory Life: A Cookbook

Rachael Ray · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

America's favorite self-taught cook opens up about the most memorable moments of her life in this candid memoir-inspired cookbook featuring 125 all-new recipes. "No matter the recipe, each of us changes a dish by our own preparation of it. It's the same with stories - once...
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bryson, Bill · Doubleday
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.Bill Bryson once again...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth

Shakespeare, William · Benediction Classics
Pages: 84
Format: Hardcover

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest, darkest and most violent tragedy. Although initially written to interest and perhaps flatter James I, it has established its place among the world's great tragedies.
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Red Birds

Hanif, Mohammed · Grove Press, Black Cat
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial...
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Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America

Poniewozik, James · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A generational work that, using television, reframes America's identity through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president.In the tradition of great cultural figures like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, New York Times chief television critic James...
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Harbart

Bhattacharya, Nabarun · New Directions
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

This beloved cult novel -- about a young man who makes a business of relaying messages from the dead -- is now in a sparkling English translation Poor, poor, hard-luck Herbert Sarkar: born into a fancy Calcutta family but cursed from birth (his philandering movie director father is killed...
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Randall Munroe · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "How To will make you laugh as you learn ... With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification,...
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A Woman First: First Woman: The Deeply Personal Memoir by the Former President

Mandel, David · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this brave, beautiful, revealing, and deeply personal memoir, Selina Meyer, one of our most beloved former presidents, tells her own extraordinary story.Born and raised deep in the American heartland of God-fearing suburban Maryland, young Selina Eaton learned to love her country and her fellow...
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The Sopranos Sessions

Seitz, Matt Zoller · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire,...
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