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Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl and Her Amazing Story of Healing
Christy Wilson Beam · Hachette Books
Pages: 215
Format: Print book
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In time for the motion picture event from the production team that brought us Heaven is for Real-starring Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah-Miracles from Heaven is the inspiring true story of healing and family love.A remarkable memoir of faith, Miracles from Heaven is the true story of one little... |
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West · Hachette Books
Pages: 260
Format: Print book
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Hailed by Lena Dunham as an "essential (and hilarious) voice for women," Lindy West is ferociously witty and outspoken, tackling topics as varied as pop culture, social justice and body image. Her empowering work has garnered a coast-to-coast audience that eagerly awaits SHRILL,... |
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
Anne Sebba · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs... |
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Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay
Lauren Weedman · Plume, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Lauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO's Hung and Looking. She had a loving... |
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Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Richard Brookhiser · Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Hardcover
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Argues that the sixteenth president of the United States was inspired by the Founding Fathers of the nation and struggled to carry on their work throughout his career. |
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Based on a true story
Norm Macdonald · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, SNL veteran, and one of the best stand-up comedians of all time.  As this book's title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life - more or less - from his origins on a farm... |
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Ghostly Encounters: Confessions of a Paranormal Investigator
Jeff Scott Cole · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Mumbled voices in an empty attic, heavy footsteps on the stairs when all in the house are asleep, darting shadows across a darkened room . . . It should come as no surprise that with the dawn of the digital age, people have turned their new technology toward the mysterious stories theyve... |
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If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission
Jo Piazza · Open Road Media
Format: Book
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Veteran reporter Jo Piazza profiles ten extraordinary nuns and the causes to which they have dedicated their lives-from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a brave sister who rescues victims of human trafficking Meet Sister Simone Campbell who traversed the United States challenging... |
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Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer
Michael Smith · Oneworld Publications
Format: Book
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Mr. Smith, in illuminating this unforgettable figure, brings his own considerable scholarship in the field to the story, in addition to access to new archives. - The Wall Street Journal Shackleton has finally received the literary treatment his legendary life deserves. - Booklist An extraordinary... |
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Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
Simon Morrison · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 507
Format: Print book
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An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.On a freezing night in January 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. The crime, organized... |
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Little Failure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyngart · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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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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Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine Drexel
Cordelia Frances Biddle · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Powerful and profoundly moving, Saint Katharine is a book of rich and lively scholarship and of deeply felt devotion. You will not be able to put it down." - Donald Spoto, author of Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi When Katharine Drexel was born in 1858, her grandfather,... |
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Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side
Tyler Henry · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From Tyler Henry, a twenty-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!'s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes Between Two Worlds, a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far."Dying doesn't mean having to say goodbye." Tyler Henry discovered his gift for communicating... |
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Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero
Douglas Perry · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city's soulEliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad's daring... |
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