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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience as a fiercely intellectual... |
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A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany
Sigrid MacRae · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat—and a riveting tale of survival in wartime GermanySigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents’ intercontinental love... |
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Kidnapped: The Tragic Life of J. Paul Getty III
Charles Fox · Picador
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback
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This title was previously published as Uncommon YouthThe true account behind the glamorous life and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973, as seen in Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World and Danny Boyle's TrustJ. Paul ("Little Paul")... |
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud
Elizabeth Greenwood · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 246
Format: Print book
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A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn.Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find... |
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
William F Jr Buckley · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique... |
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Sharkbait: A Flight Surgeon's Odyssey in Vietnam
Guy S. Clark · BookBaby
Pages: 628
Format: Hardcover
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In early 1966, Dr. Guy Clark received orders to go to Vietnam, and upon arrival that June was assigned to be a flight surgeon at Cam Ranh Bay Air Force Base, on the South China Sea. Thus began a year-long assignment that would find Clark flying more than ninety bombing missions over Vietnam... |
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
DARNELL L MOORE · Nation Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured... |
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The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics
Barton Swaim · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and hilarious look inside the spin room of the modern politician: a place where ideals are crushed, English is mangled, people are humiliated, and the opportunity for humor is everywhere.Everyone knows this kind of politician: a charismatic maverick who goes up against the system... |
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Unashamed
Lecrae Moore · B&H Publishing Group
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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"If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from theirrejection. " Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.... |
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The Best "Worst President": What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama
Mark Hannah · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and renowned New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake give Barack Obama the victory lap he deserves in this compendium that takes the president's critics head-on and celebrates the president's many underappreciated triumphs.Barack Obama's... |
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What Jackie Taught Us
Tina Santi Flaherty · Perigee Trade; Rev Exp edition
Format: Book
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She was a woman of confidence and passion who drew on a remarkable wealth of self-knowledge and a sense of purpose to cope with extraordinary public demands and overwhelming private needs. What Jackie Taught Us offers insights from the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis about how to live... |
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