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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life
LAURA THOMPSON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant... |
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How to Get Out of Your Own Way
Tyrese Gibson · Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY is organized into a series of fundamental questions that helped Tyrese redefine who he was as a human being, and evolve into a new man. Tyrese stresses that life becomes infinitely richer when one takes the time to know him or herself and understand the true... |
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My First Ladies: Twenty-Five Years As the White House Chief Floral Designer
Nancy Clarke · Sellers Publishing, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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In this book Nancy Clarke reveals the touching, funny, and illuminating story of what it was like to serve under six administrations and to help each first lady find her own personal style when it came to planning flower designs, state dinners, and holiday festivities in the White House.... |
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While They're Still Here: A Memoir
Patricia Williams · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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After a lifetime of strained bonds with her aging parents, Patricia Williams finds herself in the unexpected position of being their caregiver and neighbor. As they all begin to navigate this murky battleground, the long-buried issues that have divided their family for decades -- alcoholism,... |
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On Broken Wings
Vera James · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
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Vera James attended Allegheny Community College in Pittsburgh, Pa. and Chattahoochee Valley Community College in Phenix City, Alabama. She is a former Surgical Technologist having worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Napa, San Francisco and San Jose, California. She has been a Bible School... |
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The Fortress: A Love Story
Danielle Trussoni · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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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 Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust
Laura Smith · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventureAt twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiancé, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard... |
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Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
Melvin I Urofsky · Pantheon Books
Pages: 955
Format: Print book
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The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court-a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit. Louis Dembitz... |
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Escape from Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt
Michael Benson · ForeEdge
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade - two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude... |
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
Frances Mayes · Broadway Books
Format: Kindle Edition
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Publishers Weekly04/14/2014
Set in the author's "one-mile-square" hometown of Fitzgerald in the backwoods of Georgia, Mayes's (Every Day in Tuscany) latest memoir depicts a childhood of rich meals and drunk, impatient parents—her adoring and violent father and her restless... |
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Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
Kelley French · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head... |
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Without Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel
Daryl Easlea · Overlook Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Peter Brian Gabriel may have started out as a high profile rock performer with a penchant for theatrical costumes, but he was never going to age in the traditional rock manner. Neither becoming a parody of his past self nor endlessly seeking self-consciously new images, instead he took... |
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
DARNELL L MOORE · Nation Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured... |
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