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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of TinseltownFrom the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all -- a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating...
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Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Crystal Hefner - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The widow of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner offers a raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, her stolen young adulthood, and her journey to finding internal validation, while providing a rare look into the final days of one of the most influential...
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Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir

Darius Stewart - Belt Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From an exhilarating new voice, a breathtaking memoir about gay desire, Blackness, and growing up.Darius Stewart spent his childhood in the Lonsdale projects of Knoxville, where he grew up navigating school, friendship, and his own family life in a context that often felt perilous. As we learn...
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The Fight Is Here: Volodymyr Zelensky and the War in Ukraine

Simon Shuster - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides.
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My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and televisionBarbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar,...
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Johnny Cash: The Life In Lyrics

Johnny Cash - Voracious
Format: Hardcover

The life of the Man in Black revealed by his lyrics and by rare photographs and ephemera, in a collectible edition featuring 125 of his most iconic songs, authorized by the Cash estate Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed...
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American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy

Aquilino Gonell - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"American Shield is an all-American tale of duty and determination - beautifully told by an immigrant, a veteran, and a patriot." - Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita of the United States House of Representatives. Set against the extraordinary events of January 6, 2021, Aquilino Gonell's...
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Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up In the Royal Family: From the Plantagenets to the Cambridges

Tom Quinn - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges.. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest...
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What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through "lively tales of those who labor and dream in Sin City" (Kirkus) .. "Wild and wonderful ... The magic of Sin City doesn't just happen. Patterson and Seal...
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Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History

Howell Raines - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books.. "It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into...
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