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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling... |
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What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
Alan Light · Crown, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. From music journalist and former... |
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Betsy Lerner · Harperwave
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast... |
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Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One.
Ginger Zee · Kingswell
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range... |
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Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Nell Stevens · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with wry writing advice, Bleaker House is a story of creative struggle that brilliantly captures the self-torture of the writing life. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but life kept getting in the way.... |
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A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
Errol Morris · Penguin Press HC, The; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Jeffrey MacDonald, a Green Beret doctor, called the police... |
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Death Need Not Be Fatal
MALACHY MCCOURT · Center Street
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America
Daniel Connolly · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In a green town in the middle of America, a bright 18-year-old Hispanic student named Isaias Ramos sets out on the journey to college.Isaias, who passed a prestigious national calculus test as a junior and leads the quiz bowl team, is the hope of Kingsbury High in Memphis, a school where... |
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The Hospital Always Wins: A Memoir
Issa Ibrahim · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 279
Format: Print book
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Issa Ibrahim's memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to a horrific family tragedy, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly twenty years. Raised in an idyllic creative environment,... |
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Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
Katherine Ramsland PhD · Foreedge
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself "B.T.K."... |
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At Balthazar: The New York Brasserie at the Center of the World
Reggie Nadelson · Gallery Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Explore New York restaurant Balthazar and everything that makes it iconic in this brilliantly revealing book that celebrates the brasserie's twentieth anniversary. Keith McNally, star restauranteur, gave author Reggie Nadelson unprecedented access to his legendary Soho brasserie, its staff,... |
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Leila's Secret
Kooshyar Karimi · Penguin Random House Australia
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Born in a slum, Kooshyar Karimi transformed himself into an award-winning writer as well as a successful doctor, whose conscience won't let him turn away the unmarried women who beg him to save their lives by ending pregnancies that would see them stoned to death. One of those women... |
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