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Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938
Blanche Wiesen Cook · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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Historians, politicians, feminists, critics, and reviewers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cooks monumental Eleanor Roosevelt as the definitive portrait of this towering female figure of the twentieth century. Now in her long-awaited, majestic second volume, Cook takes readers through... |
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Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience
Eileen Cronin · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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MERMAID: A Memoir of Resilience was chosen as one of Oprah's Best Memoirs of the Year (2014).MERMAID is included in the February O Magazine's selection "10 Titles to Pick Up Now.A gorgeously crafted memoir about resilience, family, and forging your own way, by a woman born... |
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
GABRIELLE UNION · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,... |
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Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother
Jamie Brickhouse · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"A blisteringly funny, wrenching account of wrestling way too close to-and later loose from-booze, sex and drugs and his adorable, infuriating mother. Bravo!" -Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars' Club "Whoever said you can't get sober for someone... |
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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
Judith Mackrell · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
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By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex - all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the Great War and stride into the future in one deft, stylized gesture. The women... |
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Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
Andrea Di Robilant · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy... |
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
David Ritz · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left... |
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever: Volume 2
JAMES PATTERSON · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
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Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series - premiering January 2018HOME SWEET MURDER. Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent.... |
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 258
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's... |
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Stronger
Jeff Bauman · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALThe New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs,... |
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"-- |
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