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America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Steven M. Gillon · Dutton
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America's Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of their decades-long friendship...
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More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

Welteroth, Elaine · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own termsThroughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings...
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Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World

Jeff Gordinier · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for reinvention, for creative breakthroughs, and for connection. Feeling...
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Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change

Comstock, Beth · Currency
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From one of today's foremost innovation leaders, an inspiring and practical guide to mastering change in the face of uncertainty. The world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE. But confronting...
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The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump's Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired--and Inaugurated

Allen Salkin · All Points Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A Rosetta Stone for understanding Donald Trump's style, mindset, and every action, made up of over one hundred interviews with his closest associates over the last 15 years.To his critics, Donald Trump is an impulsive, undisciplined crackpot who accidentally lucked into the presidency....
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Callahan, Maureen · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PDMost of us have never heard...
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Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State

Charles A. Gardner · Citadel
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The Prison Break, the Manhunt, the Inside Story In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's North Country, launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double...
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Darkness to Light: A Memoir

Lamar Odom · BenBella Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock bottom depths. Desperation and elation. Sometimes in the same hour. Oh, and don't forget power . . . and the struggle for it. There has never been an athlete quite like Lamar Odom. And there has never...
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On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard

Jennifer Pastiloff · Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how hearing loss taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness. Centered...
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In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids

Rieder, Travis · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A bioethicist's eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal - a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.Travis...
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