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Take Off Your Shoes: One Man's Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back

Ben Feder · Radius Book Group
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The Eat, Pray, Love for busy executives, Take Off Your Shoes invites the reader to join a journey of self-rediscovery. A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Ben Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years of business success. Unsettled by his insight...
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Coco Chanel

Isabel Sanchez Vegara · Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

In this new series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. The first book follows Coco Chanel, from her early life in an orphange--where...
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir

Plum Johnson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 279
Format: Hardcover

A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three...
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Waco: A Survivor's Story

David Thibodeau · Hachette Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the siege at Waco, and a tie-in to the upcoming Spike TV mini-series, an updated reissue of the critically acclaimed A PLACE CALLED WACO by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.For the first time ever, a survivor of the Waco massacre tells the inside...
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Nobody's Son: A Memoir

Mark Slouka · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down," Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past.Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist...
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

Edward Jay Epst · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

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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Tell Me More: And 11 Other Important Things I'm Learning to Say

KELLY CORRIGAN · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place "Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth...
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy

William Doyle · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, during a chaotic nighttime skirmish amid the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri barreled through thick fog and struck the U.S. Navy's motor torpedo boat PT 109, splitting the craft nearly in half and killing two American...
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation

BRAD RICCA · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman...
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Not Worth Saving: How a Severely Handicapped Boy Transformed Lives

Ann L. Joyner · Ann L Joyner
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Doctors told a young mother that her unborn child's life was Not Worth Saving. With the determination that mother found through faith, Matthew thrived, and he did live. He spoke without talking; he loved, laughed, and made friends - all without ever saying a single word. Matthew was a light...
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The Shattered Lens: A War Photographer's 81 Days of Captivity in Syria -- A Story of Survival

JONATHAN ALPEYRIE · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Discover a gripping and harrowing tale of war and torture from the man who lived it in this powerful memoir by the celebrated war journalist who not only documented over a dozen conflict zones worldwide but was also captured and held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013.Capturing history was Jonathan...
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Based on a true story

Norm Macdonald · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, SNL veteran, and one of the best stand-up comedians of all time.   As this book's title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life - more or less - from his origins on a farm...
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Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home

Joe Klein · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

This is the true story of two decorated combat veterans linked by tragedy, who come home from the Middle East and find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country.In Charlie Mike, Joe Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-than-life war heroes...
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My Salinger Year

Joanna Rakoff · Vintage
Format: Book

Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. At twenty-three, after leaving graduate...
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Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

Roy Jr Blount · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, "We lived. We ate."Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most cherished comic writers. He's been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from "a work of art" (Robert...
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