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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 |
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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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Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Sylvia Jukes Morris · Random House
Format: Hardcover |
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“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die,” Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce’s progress from the early months of World War II, when,... |
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Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
Meryl Comer · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover |
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A New York Times BestsellerEmmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer's Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up... |
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Michelle Obama: A Life
Peter Slevin · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover |
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An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's... |
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Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour
Amy Robach · Ballantine, 2015.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"I have breast cancer." When Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach revealed her shocking diagnosis on live television in November 2013, the seasoned news reporter embarked on the most difficult and illuminating journey of her life. In this intimate memoir she retraces... |
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Talk About a Dream: The Essential Interviews of Bruce Springsteen
Christopher Phillips (Editor), · Bloomsbury Press |
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Bruce Springsteen often prefers to let his music do the talking. His onstage stories and shaggy dog tales have long entertained his fans, but his songs and his guitar provide the most direct line to their hearts. Considering his prominence on the rock 'n' roll landscape, Springsteen... |
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The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · Graywolf Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover |
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities... |
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In This Together: My Story
Ann Romney · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 262
Format: Print book |
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When Mitt and Ann Romney met in their late teens, a great American love story began. And their life together would be blessed: five healthy sons, financial security, and a home filled with joy. Despite the typical ups and downs, they had a storybook life.Then, in 1998, Ann was diagnosed... |
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Linda Tirado · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover |
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One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 - Esquire"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact,... |
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Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story
J. Randy Taraborrelli · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover |
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"Beyonce' Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of 16, she had her first number one record with Destiny's Child. That hit-making trio launched... |
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