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Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life

Oprah Winfrey · Flatiron Books
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover

Oprah Winfrey will be the first to tell you, she has had a complicated relationship with food. It's been both a source of delight and comfort for her, but also the cause of an ongoing struggle with her weight. In Food, Health, and Happiness, Oprah shares the recipes that have allowed eating...
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Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice

Timothy W. Ryback · Knopf; 1st Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal. Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic....
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The Fortress: A Love Story

Danielle Trussoni · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one woman's journey to the other side...
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The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway

Ben Mezrich · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files,...
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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation

Adam Resnick · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people. While courageously admitting to being "euphorically antisocial" and "sick in the head," he allows us to plunge even...
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

Linda Tirado · Putnam
Pages: 195
Format: Book

One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 - Esquire"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would...
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On My Own

Diane Rehm · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him. With John gone, Diane was indeed "on her own," coping with...
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Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow

Charles Moore · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover

In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain's first woman prime minister changed...
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Even This I Get to Experience

Norman Lear · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written ... An absolute treasure." --Booklist (STARRED)In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced,...
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal

Taya Kyle · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband...
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Filthy Rich

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 15
Format: Print book

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth...
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The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

Ed Boland · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 243
Format: Print book

THE BATTLE FOR ROOM 314
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The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy

Masha Gessen · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt,...
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The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between

Hisham Matar · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From the author of "In the Country of Men, "a" "Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father s disappearance. When Hisham...
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President Me: The America That's in My Head

Adam Carolla · !t
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

In President Me, Carolla shares his vision for a different, better America free from big issues like big government down to small problems like hotel alarm clock placement. Running on an anti-narcissism platform, President Carolla calls for a return to the values of an earlier time when...
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