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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never... |
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Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers
Sean Hepburn Ferrer · Atria Books
Pages: 230
Format: Print book |
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To the world, Audrey Hepburn was the epitome of elegance and grace. With a fragile radiance and natural charm, she restyled the image of the Hollywood glamour girl, becoming an icon of dignity, charity, and goodness. But to her son, she was much more, a woman who invested her heart and soul... |
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John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963
Alan Brinkley · Times Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at homeJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nations chief executive. He was forty-three... |
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Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Shannon Leone Fowler · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took - through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond - to find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand.
In the summer of 2002, Shannon... |
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TREYF: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw
Elissa Altman · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
From the Washington Post columnist and James Beard Award-winning author of Poor Man's Feast comes a story of seeking truth, acceptance, and self in a world of contradiction...
Treyf: According to Leviticus, unkosher and prohibited, like lobster,... |
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Cockroaches
Scholastique Mukasonga · Archipelago Books
Pages: 250
Format: Print book |
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Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth--designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being... |
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Madame President
Helene Cooper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election,... |
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Settle for More
Megyn Kelly · Harper
Pages: 340
Format: Print book |
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Anchor of the number one news show on cable, The Kelly File, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly writes her much anticipated book, a revealing and surprising memoir detailing her rise as one of the most respected journalists working today. From the values... |
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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
CLAIRE DEDERER · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Claire Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages... |
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Will & I: A Memoir
Clay Byars · Farrar
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life. Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly... |
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Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
Manjula Martin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
A collection of essays from today's most acclaimed authors - from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen - on the realities of making a living in the writing world.
In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce... |
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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
Matt Richards · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars. On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson -- the biggest and most... |
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
Joshua Partlow · Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief.... |
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture.
My Own Words... |
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Steven M D Hatch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover |
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Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished... |
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