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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Cumming, Laura · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village - and how that event reverberated her own family and her art for decades.In the fall of 1929,...
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Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep

Erin Carlson · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A captivating and inspiring portrait of legendary actress Meryl Streep and her work, Queen Meryl explores the fearless icon's trailblazing roles in film, her feminist activism, and the indelible mark she's left on pop culture.Meryl Streep is the most celebrated actress of our time....
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Edison

Morris, Edmund · Random House
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only...
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Face It

Harry, Debbie · Dey Street Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A MULTILAYERED MEMOIR FROM A MULTIFACETED ARTISTAs a musician, an actor, a muse, an icon, the breadth of Debbie Harry's impact on our culture has been matched by her almost Sphinx-like reticence about her inner life. Through it all - while being acclaimed as one of the most beautiful...
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Year of the Monkey

Smith, Patti · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti...
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Rachael Ray 50: Memories and Meals from a Sweet and Savory Life: A Cookbook

Rachael Ray · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

America's favorite self-taught cook opens up about the most memorable moments of her life in this candid memoir-inspired cookbook featuring 125 all-new recipes. "No matter the recipe, each of us changes a dish by our own preparation of it. It's the same with stories - once...
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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Julie Andrews · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria. In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted...
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Permanent Record

Edward Snowden · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward...
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Untitled: A Memoir

Emily Doe · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose letter to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

A. N. Wilson · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth.For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height...
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