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A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

Tom Brokaw · Random House
Pages: 242
Format: Audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change - a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life. Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate life, with a strong marriage...
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Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally

Bob Zmuda · BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

For the first time ever, the two people who knew Andy Kaufman best open up about the most enigmatic artist of our generation.Comedian and Taxi star Andy Kaufman, known for his crazy antics on screen and off, was the ultimate prankster, delighting audiences with his Elvis and Mighty Mouse...
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Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow

Tara Austen Weaver · Ballantine Books
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

For fans of Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves. Peeling paint, stained floors, vined-over windows,...
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So That Happened: A Memoir

Jon Cryer · NAL
Format: Kindle Edition

If it can happen in show business, its happened to Jon Cryer. Now hes opening up for the first time and sharing his behind-the-scenes stories in a warmly endearing, sharply observed, and frankly funny look at life in Hollywood.In 1986, Jon Cryer won over America as Molly Ringwalds loyal...
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Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin

David Kaufman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make...
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Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart

Lisa Rogak · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: eBook

A New York Times Bestseller Since his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart has become one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media. In Angry Optimist, biographer Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to stardom. She follows...
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Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One

Karen Duffy · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain. For two decades, Karen Duffy --New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress-- has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy...
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A pictorial history of Jackson Township : in celebration of the Jackson Township Bicentennial, 1815-2015

Jackson Township Historical Society. · Printed by Bookmasters
Pages: 119

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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

Joan Biskupic · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Kindle Edition

"From a leading judicial biographer comes the untold story of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court justice. To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009--made by President Obama, whose own 2008...
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Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend

Deirdre Bair · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 395
Format: Print book

From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone...
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud

Elizabeth Greenwood · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn.Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

MICHELLE MCNAMARA · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Introduction by Gillian FlynnAfterword by Patton OswaltA masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating...
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