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Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter

Geordie Greig · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

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Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image

Joshua Zeitz · Viking
Pages: 400

A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln's White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidantsLincoln's official secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president's...
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The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Joseph J Ellis · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln's...
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What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir

Abigail Thomas · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In her bestselling and beloved memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the tragic loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like It, she writes about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. And it is exhilarating.What comes next? What...
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Little Failure: A Memoir

Gary Shteyngart · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS,...
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Unremarried Widow: A Memoir

Artis Henderson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful memoir, a young woman loses her husband twenty years after her own mother was widowed, and overcomes two generations of tragedy to discover that both hope and love endure. Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming...
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Who Killed My Daughter?

Lois Duncan · Dell; Reprint edition

The best-selling young adult novelist recounts her daughters mysterious shooting death and her own investigation into the crime, describing her use of a psychic to contact her dead child and expose the truth.,
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I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else: My Life on the Street, On the Stage, and in the Movies

Danny Aiello · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Beloved stage and screen actor Danny Aiello's big-hearted memoir reveals a man of passion, integrity, and guts - and lays bare one of the most unlikely success stories ever told.Danny Aiello admits that he backed into his acting career by mistake. That's easy to see when you begin...
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All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life

Andrew M. Cuomo · Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this full and frank memoir—a personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilience—New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along...
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