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Bella's Gift: How One Little Girl Transformed Our Family and Inspired a Nation

Rick Santorum · Thomas Nelson

Rick and Karen SantorumÆs inspiring story of life with Bella, their special-needs youngest child  Four days after Rick and Karen Santorum welcomed their eighth baby into the world they were given the devastating news that their little girl, Bella, was going to die. The full story...
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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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Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

Michael Korda · HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Pages: 785
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's fresh, contemporary single volume historical biography of General Robert E. Lee - perhaps the most famous and least understood legend in American history and one of our most admired heroes.Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers...
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

ROXANE GAY · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. "Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your...
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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!

Nicholas Carlson · Twelve
Format: Hardcover

When Yahoo hired Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California headquarters. On them there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge...
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Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

Edgar USMC Harrell · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 189
Format: Hardcover

The Inspiring Story of a World War II Hero's Miraculous Survival at SeaJuly 30, 1945--The USS Indianapolis and its 1,196-man crew is making its way toward a small island in the South Pacific. The ship is sailing unescorted, assured by headquarters the waters are safe. It is midnight,...
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Michael Jordan: The Life

Roland Lazenby · Little, Brown and Company; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"It's not every day that I'm blown away by a book about a sports figure. But MICHAEL JORDAN: THE LIFE, by Roland Lazenby, ranks up there with the very best: The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger, and Joe DiMaggio by Richard Ben Cramer. The depth...
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41: A Portrait of My Father

George W Bush · Crown Publishing Group
Format: Kindle Edition

George W Bush the rd President of the United States has authored a personal biography of his father George H W Bush the st President Forty-three men have served as President of the United StatesCountless books have been written about themBut never before has a President told the story...
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Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned

Alvin Townley · Thomas Dunne Books, 2014.
Pages: 418
Format: Print book

Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award in HistoryDuring the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of North Vietnamese guards and interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda....
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Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge UniversityTara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains...
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Death Row Chaplain: Unbelievable True Stories from America's Most Notorious Prison

Mark Schlabach · Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

From a former criminal and now chaplain for the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors, comes a riveting, behind-the-bars look at one of Americas most feared prisons San Quentin. Reverend Earl Smith shares the most important lessons hes learned from years of helping inmates discover...
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Men in Green

Michael Bamberger · Simon & Schuster
Format: Kindle Edition

Instant New York Times Bestseller Maybe the best golf book Ive ever read. —Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal Surprisingly candid...Bamberger doesnt flinch at portraying the Tours earthier aspects...But the book is overwhelmingly a love song. —John Paul Newport, The Wall Street Journal...
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First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women

Susan Swain · PublicAffairs
Format: eBook

A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians for C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image. This book provides an up-close historical look at these fascinating women who survived...
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