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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
Liz Pryor · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year... |
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Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things
Amy Dickinson · Hachette Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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In STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice... |
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Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale
Dan Pearson · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafia. Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's mafia back to prominence in the 1990s.... |
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Heimlich's Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation
Henry J. Heimlich · Prometheus Books
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
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Here, in his own words, is the story of one of the twentieth century's most creative medical innovators, Dr. Henry Heimlich. The thoracic surgeon is best known for having developed the Heimlich Maneuver, the world's easiest-to-learn and most universally known method to save people... |
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Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
Jed Perl · Knopf
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved... |
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The Book of Separation
TOVA MIRVIS · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life.... |
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Helen Thorpe · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 397
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) , and "masterful" (BOOKLIST ) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives,... |
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Every Little Step: My Story
Bobby Brown · Dey St.
Pages: 326
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic... |
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The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power
Jules Witcover · Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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The American Vice Presidency is an all-inclusive examination of the vice presidency throughout American history. Acclaimed political journalist and author Jules Witcover chronicles each of the 47 vice presidents, including their personal biographies and their achievements--or lack thereof--during... |
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Killings
Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings,... |
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Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
Holly FitzGerald · Vintage
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride - the wildest - down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles... |
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Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil
YVETTE MANESSIS CORPORON · Howard Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants - and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness.Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's... |
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