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Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance
MIKE SCARDINO · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college student's experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James Patterson
Bad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account... |
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Learning to Drive
Katha Pollitt · Random House Trade Paperbacks; Mti Rep edition
Format: Print book
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Learning to Drive Now a major motion picture starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben KingsleyCelebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection... |
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Small Fry
LISA BRENNAN-JOBS · Grove Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's... |
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Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
Louis Zamperini · Harpercollins
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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American hero Louis Zamperini shares his wisdom, values, lessons, secrets, and other insights gleaned from his remarkable experiences in this powerful and inspiring book.Louis Zamperini's struggle to survive the unimaginable - brought to life in his autobiography Devil at My Heels and in Laura... |
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The Italians
John Hooper · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart
MASSIMO VACCHETTA · Rodale Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A feel-good memior of a man and his hedgehog Massimo Vacchetta, an Italian veterinarian specializing in large animals, is recently divorced and feeling heartbroken and depressed -- until the day that someone brings an orphaned baby hedgehog into his clinic. As the tiny hedgehog... |
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Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
Nikki Marie Taylor · Ohio University Press
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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The story of Margaret Garner - the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery - has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Garner's... |
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Outsider in the White House
Bernie Sanders · Verso
Pages: 346
Format: Print book
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The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders's campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take... |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York... |
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Let Me Tell You about Jasper . . .: How My Best Friend Became America's Dog
Dana Perino · Twelve
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author of And the Good News Is... Dana Perino is back with stories of friends, family, and how America's love for a dog named Jasper is a place where even political opponents can find common ground.
Dana Perino is a popular and beloved host on Fox's The Five,... |
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The Prime Ministers, from Robert Walpole to Margaret Thatcher
George Malcolm Thomson · William Morrow & Co
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
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A series of illuminating vignettes tracing the development of the primeministerial role in Britain explores the character and politics of the forty-eight men and one woman who have held the post from 1721 to 1980 |
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My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead · Crown Publishers
Pages: 293
Format: Print book
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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most... |
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