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When Saint Francis Saved the Church: How a Converted Medieval Troubadour Created a Spiritual Vision for the Ages

Jon M. Sweeney · Ave Maria Press
Format: Hardcover

Jon M. Sweeney, author of numerous popular books on St. Francis as well as the recent bestseller The Pope Who Quit, offers a surprising new look at the world's most popular saint, showing how this beloved, but often-mythologized character created a spiritual vision for the ages and may very...
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Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs

Yukari Iwatani Kane · HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

Draws on more than two hundred interviews with current and former executives, business partners, Apple watchers, and others to present a look at the state of Apple two years after the death of Steve Jobs and offer clues to its future."Former Wall Street Journal technology...
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

Jessica Fechtor · Avery Publishing Group
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly...
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Watch Me: A Memoir

Anjelica Huston · Scribner
Pages: 389
Format: Print book

Following her "extraordinary" (Vanity Fair) , "evocative" (The New York Times) , "magically beautiful" (The Boston Globe) , "gorgeously written" (O, The Oprah Magazine) coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes...
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Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment

Dr. Robert K Musil · Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover

InRachel Carson and Her Sisters Robert K Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new contemporary audience Rachel Carson was the first...
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The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

Gabriel Sherman · Random House
Pages: 538
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRA deeply reported journey inside the secretive world of Fox News and the life of its combative, visionary founder. When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics...
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

Robert L O'Connell · Random House
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape - and the American character. America's first "celebrity"...
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Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

Bill McDermott · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today's most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders. In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott--the co-CEO of the world's largest business software company, SAP--chronicles how relentless optimism, hard...
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The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer

Gary L. Stewart · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerA San Francisco Chronicle BestsellerSoon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider...
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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir

Kelly Corrigan · Ballantine
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic...
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