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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup · Penguin Classics; Later Printing edition
Format: Paperback
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Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands · Doubleday
Pages: 437
Format: Print book
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
DAWN DAVIES · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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If you're looking for a parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother.This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college... |
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie... |
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Abby Norman · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issuesIn the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly... |
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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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Paul McCartney: The Life
Philip Norman · Little
Pages: 853
Format: Print book
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The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost... |
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters
Fergus Fleming · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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On August 16, 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold." He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel,... |
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Once a cop : the street, the law, two worlds, one man
Corey Pegues · Atria Books
Pages: 308
Format: Print book
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"New Jack City meets Serpico in this provocative memoir of a crack dealer-turned-decorated NYPD officer--a timely reflection on the complex relationship between the police and the communities they are meant to protect. Corey Pegues has lived on both sides of the law. At the height... |
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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
Michael E Kinsley · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers - the largest age cohort in history - are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that... |
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
Edward Jay Epst · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exposé that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American... |
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
GUCCI MANE · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The highly anticipated memoir from Gucci Mane, "one of hip-hop's most prolific and admired artists" (The New York Times) .For the first time Gucci Mane tells his story in his own words. It is the captivating life of an artist who forged an unlikely path to stardom and personal... |
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