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The Folded Clock: A Diary
Heidi Julavits · Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi JulavitsLike many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer)... |
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Dancing with Myself
Billy Idol · Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, Ive put it all down, every bit from the heart.Im going out on a limb here, so watch my back. —Billy Idol... |
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The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
Jonathan Kozol · Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pages: 320
Format: Audiobook
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National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders... |
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Maeve Binchy: The Biography
Piers Dudgeon · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Kindle Edition
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Maeve Binchy's heartwarming tales of love, life, and loss made her one of America's best-loved storytellers. Her novels, which sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic in a way that most authors only dream of. Seared with a truth and honesty... |
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The Killing Kind
M. William Phelps · Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Sprawled in a culvert just off the gravel road like an abandoned doll, she wore only toe socks, a sweatshirt, and a necklace. She was not the killer's first victim. Nor would she be his last.The... |
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Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel . . . and Beyond
George Christie · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As president of the high-profile Ventura charter of the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger's yang. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de facto world leader of the Hells Angels. Christie was the negotiator,... |
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I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir
Kevin Sessums · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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On his 53rd birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspects but, Kevin knew that his rapidly... |
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Million Dollar Arm: Sometimes to Win, You Have to Change the Game
J. B. Bernstein · Gallery Books
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback
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A TRUE STORY OF FINDING THE AMERICAN DREAM . . . ABROAD India is a country with more than one billion people, a fanatical national cricket obsession, and exactly zero talent scouts. There, superstar sports agent J. B. Bernstein knew that he could find the Yao Ming of baseball - someone... |
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Out Came the Sun
Mariel Hemingway · Regan Arts.
Format: eBook
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A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America’s most famous families: the Hemingways.She opens her eyes. The room is dark. She hears yelling, smashed plates, and wishes it was all a terrible... |
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The Lives of Robert Ryan
J.R. Jones · Wesleyan
Format: Hardcover
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The Lives of Robert Ryan provides an inside look at the gifted, complex, intensely private man whom Martin Scorsese called “one of the greatest actors in the history of American film.” The son of a Chicago construction executive with strong ties to the Democratic machine,... |
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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
Tim Townsend · HarperCollins
Pages: 388
Format: Hardcover
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Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions of faith, guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, salvation, and the essence... |
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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."-NPR.orgThe... |
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George W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 43rd President, 2001-2009
James Mann · Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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The controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the war on terrorGeorge W. Bush stirred powerful feelings on both sides of the aisle. Republicans viewed him as a resolute leader who guided America through the September 11 attacks and retaliated... |
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