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A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like
Ashley Graham · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoirVoluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been modeling professionally... |
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The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis
Richard Schwartz · RSB Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover
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As the Statue of Liberty stood unlit and unloved by American politicians in 1886, one of her saviors was creating a theatrical sensation at New York's Fourteenth Street Theatre. Actor M.B. Curtis, who had achieved overnight success in Sam'l of Posen, a groundbreaking play that transcended... |
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling... |
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The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
Roger Cohen · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history - a story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.In this luminous memoir, award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. As he follows them... |
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You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery
Mamrie Hart · Plume
Format: Paperback
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***A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***A riotously funny collection of boozy misadventures from the creator of the YouTube series, "You Deserve a Drink"Mamrie Hart is a drinking star with a Youtube problem. As host of the bawdy cult-hit, "You Deserve a Drink," Hart has been... |
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Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
Kevin Winkler · Oxford University Press
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
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Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in... |
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Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz
FRED HERSCH · Crown Archetype
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch. His prodigious talent as a sideman - a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson - blosÂsomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that... |
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All the Ways We Kill and Die: An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
Brian Castner · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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The search for a friend's killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed.The EOD - explosive ordnance disposal - community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been... |
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * Newsday... |
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Almost Gone: Twenty Days and One Chance to Save Our Daughter
John Baldwin · Howard Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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This is the never-before-told, riveting true story about a teenage Christian girl who was seduced online by a charming young Muslim man from Kosovo, and her father who ultimately worked with the FBI to save her from disappearing forever.The Baldwins were a strong Christian family, living... |
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
Taya Kyle · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband... |
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
J W Ocker · Countryman Press
Pages: 338
Format: Print book
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Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history -- the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 -- transformed it into... |
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The Last Escaper
Peter Tunstall · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting untold story of the legendary World War II bomber pilot, “cooler king,” and arch escape artist The product of a lifetime’s reflection, The Last Escaper is Peter Tunstall’s unforgettable memoir of his days in the British Royal Air Force and as one of the most... |
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