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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
Catherine Hewitt · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secretComtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by Édouard Manet and inspired Émile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future... |
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir
Amanda Lindhout · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace... |
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Riley Unlikely: With Simple Childlike Faith, Amazing Things Can Happen
Riley Banks Snyder · Zondervan
Pages: 151
Format: Print book
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Riley Unlikely is the inspiring story of Riley Banks, who first traveled to Kenya at age 13, and has been back every year since bringing backpacks of school supplies and hygiene kits for young girls, developing relationships and friendships, and is currently, as a young millennial, raising... |
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward · Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle AwardNominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardA New York Times Notable Book"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood... |
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Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
Maria Mutch · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover
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In this soul-stirring debut memoir, Maria Mutch explores the miraculous power that care and communication have in the face of the deep, personal isolation that often comes with disability. A chronicle of the witching hours between midnight and six a.m., this meditative book takes place... |
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Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery
Sally Cline · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
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Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade - immortalized on film... |
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A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer
Scott Andrew Selby · Berkley Caliber
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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As the Nazi war machine caused death and destruction throughout Europe, one man in the Fatherland began his own reign of terror.This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich. For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed... |
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My Accidental Jihad
Krista Bremer · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways her marriage would change... |
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James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano
Dan Bischoff · St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Pages: 258
Format: Print book
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James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor who died, in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best--and most defining--actors of his generation. The book is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, the star's... |
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
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A Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, and BookPage Best Book of 2014 A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014 An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands · Doubleday
Pages: 437
Format: Print book
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
JOHN BANVILLE · Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.As much about the life of the city as it is about a life... |
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Rise: How a House Built a Family
Cara Brookins · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable. After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself.... |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)... |
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