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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy
Jean Kennedy Smith · Harper
Pages: 262
Format: Print book
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In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof.Prompted... |
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
KHIZR KHAN · Random House
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream."Khan's aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands." - Kirkus Reviews In fewer than... |
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In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger... |
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Touching the Dragon: And Other Techniques for Surviving Life's Wars
James Hatch · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief; master naval parachutist (four Bronze Stars with Valor, Navy and Marine Corps Medal recipient, etc.) ; fighter in 150 missions (Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Africa) ; expert military dog trainer and handler whose SEAL dogs were partners... |
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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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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN · Random House
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly... |
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Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
Doug J Swanson · Viking
Pages: 355
Format: Book
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The astonishing story of Benny Binion - a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's... |
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader
Robert Middlekauff · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind... |
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Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
Jace Clayton · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In 2001, Jace Clayton was an unknown DJ who recorded a three-turntable, sixty-minute mix called Gold Teeth Thiefand put it online to share with his friends. Within months, the mix became an international calling card, whisking Clayton away to a sprawling, multi-tiered nightclub in Zagreb,... |
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A young man's moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen,... |
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Madame President
Helene Cooper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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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, she demolished... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird · Random House
Pages: 696
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
KAPKA KASSABOVA · Graywolf Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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"Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free." -- Peter PomerantsevIn this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border... |
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Beautiful Bodies
Kimberly Rae Miller · Little A
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling and beloved author of Coming Clean, a brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food.Like most people, Kimberly Rae Miller does not have the perfect body, but that hasn't stopped her from trying. And trying. And trying some more. She's... |
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