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Bush

Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 808
Format: Print book

Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious...
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Churchill : A Life

Martin Gilbert · RosettaBooks, 2014.
Pages: 1088
Format: eBook

Written by master historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert, this masterful single-volume work weaves together the detailed research from the author's eight-volume biography of the elder statesman, and features new information unavailable at the time of the original...
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever

James Patterson · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover

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Confessions of a Mediocre Widow: Or, How I Lost My Husband and My Sanity

Christina Rasmussen · Sourcebooks
Format: Kindle Edition

Publishers Weekly10/28/2013 At 31, the author of this heartfelt and surprisingly humorous memoir is the happily married mother of three children under the age of five. In the very first pages, however, her world turns upside down when her 34-year-old husband dies from a brain injury following...
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Your life isn't for you : a selfish person's guide to being selfless

Seth Adam Smith · Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014.
Format: eBook

"Following up on his monster blog post "Marriage is Not for You" (30 million views and coverage in broadcast and online media worldwide) , Smith shows how the philosophy of living for others he put forward in that post applies to all areas of life"--
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The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World

Gulwali Passarlay · HarperOne
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival - of a twelve-year-old boy's traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West - that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time."To risk my life had to mean something....
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Yogi: The Life & Times of an American Original

Carlo DeVito · Triumph Books
Pages: 412
Format: Print book

A major authoritative biography of one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game - and the greatest living New York Yankee - presents Yogi Berra as he has never been seen before. Sifted from more than 4,000 newspaper and magazine articles, interviews, papers, and hundreds of memoirs...
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Raising Trump

NOT AVAILABLE. · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In Raising Trump, Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children - Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka - and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up.As her former husband takes his place as the 45th President of the United States,...
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The Autobiography of a Yogi: The Classic Story of One of India's Greatest Spiritual Thinkers

Yogananda, Paramahansa · Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pages: 379
Format: Hardcover

As a young man Paramhansa Yogananda embarked on a quest to find his spiritual master, which he did in the form of Swami Sri Yukteswar -- together they achieved 'a oneness of silence, words seemed the rankest superfluities'. A mixture of biography and scholarly reflections on the deepest...
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Dani Shapiro · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life.What makes us who we are?...
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The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors

CARLA VALENTINE · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise. Using...
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Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Billy Jensen · Sourcebooks
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller. Audiobook available now. Pre-order the hardcover version, available August 13, 2019.Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect?Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating...
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Twelve years a slave

Solomon Northup · Open Road Integrated Media
Format:  eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats

A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published...
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The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

Lucy Worsley · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The history of the evolution of the traditional English murder, from Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to the cozy crimes of the Golden Age. Murder -- a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this...
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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

Nabeel Qureshi · Zondervan
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, now expanded with bonus content, Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity, complete with friendships, investigations, and supernatural dreams along the way.Providing an intimate window into a loving Muslim home, Qureshi shares...
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