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American Mercenary: The Riveting, High-Risk World of an Elite SEAL Team Operator Turned Hired Gun

Daniel Corbett - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States' most dangerous enemies takes readers inside the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary.. In American Mercenary, Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild...
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El invencible verano de Liliana / Liliana's Invincible Summer (Spanish Edition)

Cristina Rivera Garza - ‎Vintage Espanol
Format: Paperback

PRESELECCIONADA PARA EL NATIONAL BOOKS AWARDS EN LA CATEORIA DE NO FICCIÓN 2023. Incluido en los libros de ficción notables del New York Times de 2023. Este libro es para celebrar el paso de Liliana Rivera Garza por la tierra y para decirle que, claro que sí, lo vamos a tirar. Al patriarcado...
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Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

Mary L. Trump PhD - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family's exile.. Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch's relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy...
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Remember, You Are a Wiley

Maya Wiley - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst, professor, civil rights lawyer and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.. Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and her loved ones, Maya Wiley grew up in a household...
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Life's Too Short: A Memoir

Darius Rucker - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award-winning, Diamond-selling lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish and Country music sensation - told through the remarkable stories of the music that coursed through his life."If I look back at my life and try to see into...
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Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

Brontez Purnell - MCD
Format: Hardcover

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in the truest sense. Reading Ten Bridges I've Burnt, I felt tucked-in with him, along for the intimate ride, and paused only once to write down a part I'd been looking...
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A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

Deb Miller Landau - Pegasus Crime
Format: Hardcover

A riveting narrative that pieces together the life and murder of Black socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan - and the journey to bring her true killer to justice. . The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other...
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System―and Pocketed $40 Million

Tanya Smith - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions - who eventually loses everything that is most important to her. In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shares her deeply personal...
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Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir

Lola Milholland - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

"An affirmation and celebration of our deep and radical connections with the world and each other . . . Reading this book is like finding a friend." - Ruth OzekiA spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning of family and home.Lola...
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Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

Anna Marie Tendler - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"This bookis so many things I didn't know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny's insipid, predictable, infuriating reign." - Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other...
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