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Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation
Rabia Chaudry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 410
Format: Print book
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*Now a New York Times bestseller*Serial told Only Part of the Story ... In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia... |
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Relentless: The Stories behind the Photographs
Neil Leifer · University of Texas Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Neil Leifer is the best-known sports photographer of the past half century. Beginning in 1960, his pictures have regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, and, most often, Sports Illustrated and Time, and his photographs... |
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The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir
D. Watkins · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, but told by the man who lived it, THE COOK UP is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade portrayed in The Wire and an incredible story of redemption. The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore,... |
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Dani Shapiro · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry... |
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Danger Close: My Epic Journey as a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
Amber Smith · Atria Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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The inspiring and riveting first-ever memoir of active combat by a female helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan.Amber Smith flew into enemy fire in some of the most dangerous combat zones in the world. One of only a few women to fly the Kiowa Warrior helicopter - whose mission, armed... |
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Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
Michael Shelden · Ecco Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional... |
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Testimony
Robbie Robertson · Crown
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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On the 40th anniversary of The Band's legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century.... |
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Ruth Reichl · Penguin Press HC, The; 1st Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover
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This delicious new volume of Ruth Reichls acclaimed memoirs recounts her adventures in deception, as she goes undercover in the worlds finest restaurants. Reichl knows that to be a good restaurant critic, you have to be anonymous, but when she signs up to be the most important restaurant... |
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The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
Ben Mezrich · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files,... |
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I feel like going on : life, game, and glory
Ray Lewis · Touchstone, 2015.
Pages: 266
Format: Print book
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The legendary Baltimore Ravens linebacker assesses the state of football while recounting his troubled youth, his rise to athletic fame, and the allegations that threatened his NFL career.Lewis, Baltimore Ravens linebacker and one of the greatest defensive players of his generation, holds... |
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