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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

Kai Bird · Random House Inc
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded...
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Everyone Is Italian on Sunday

Rachael Ray · Atria Books
Pages: 396
Format: Print book

"This book is the single most important work of my life. It represents decades of enjoying and working with food and the people I love most in this world." - Rachael

If you're like Rachael Ray, you'll agree that there is something comforting and heartwarming...
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Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community

Rachel May · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to play with traditions and take liberties with fabrics, patterns, colors, stitching, and the ways in which they all connect. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles,...
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Last crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson · Crown Publishers
Pages: 430
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller

From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania

On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country...
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Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom

Adam Chandler · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry's largest players has long been...

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The Ladies of The View: How Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, and Their Quarreling Co-Hosts Transformed Daytime TV

RAMIN SETOODEH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.

When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she'd revolutionized morning TV and made household...

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A Fighting Chance

Elizabeth Warren · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 365
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works -- and really doesn't -- in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become...
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The Closer

Mariano Rivera · Little Brown & Co.
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted...
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Fodor's Southern California 2016: With Central Coast, Yosemite, Los Angeles & San Diego

Fodor's · Fodor's
Format: Print book

Beautiful beaches, perfect weather, movie-star glamour...there are so many reasons to visit Southern California that deciding where to go and what to do can be a bit overwhelming. Fodors Southern California takes the guesswork out of choosing the perfect SoCal experience---from picking...
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The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes: A Comprehensive History

Richard Sowers · Not Avail
Format: Paperback

This is the definitive history of thoroughbred racings three premier events, which have never before been explored in such detail. This book gives the history of Americas classic races from the inaugural Belmont Stakes in 1867 through 2013, identifying which equine participants were truly...
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Inside Out: A Memoir

Demi Moore · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.

For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships,...

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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

Gail Sheehy · William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern...
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Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening: A Beginner's Guide to Starting a Healthy Garden

Deborah L. Martin · Rodale Books
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback

When the inspiration hits to start an organic garden, many novices could benefit from a guidebook that speaks directly to their enthusiasm, their goals, and, of course, their need for solid information that speaks a newbie's language--from the most trusted source for organic gardening...
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

Frances Mayes · Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes...
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The Needlepoint Book: New, Revised, and Updated Third Edition

Jo Ippolito Christensen · Touchstone; Revised edition
Format: Print book

The Needlepoint Book is the only needlework guide you'll ever need - now including 436 stitches and 1,680 illustrations.Since its original publication in 1976, The Needlepoint Book has become known as the bible for all stitching enthusiasts - the one resource for every needlepoint aficionado....
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