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Radiant Shimmering Light

SARAH SELECKY · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A nuanced satire--both hilarious and disconcerting--that probes the blurred lines between empowerment, spirituality, and consumerism in our online lives.Lilian Quick is 40, single, and childless, working as a pet portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal...
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They Call Me Supermensch: My Amazing Adventures in Rock 'n' Roll, Hollywood, and Haute Cuisine

Shep Gordon · Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied career.

In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of the biggest...

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The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever

JAMIE WRIGHT · Convergent Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

"The reason you love Jamie (or are about to) is because she says exactly what the rest of us are thinking, but we're too afraid to upset the apple cart. She is a voice for the outlier, and we're famished for what she has to say." --Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling...
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Nevertheless: A Memoir

Alec Baldwin · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover


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The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Paul Joseph Fronczak · Howard Books
Pages: 347
Format: Hardcover

The Foundling tells the incredible and inspiring true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered via a DNA test that he was not who he thought he was - and set out to solve two fifty-year-old mysteries at once. Along the way he upturned the genealogy industry, unearthed...
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I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Emily Nussbaum · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

From her creation of the first "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004...
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How to Date Men When You Hate Men

Blythe Roberson · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted...

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You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want

Sarah Knight · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover


You Do You is a down-to-earth, irreverent, and no-holds-barred guide to letting go of the weight of others' expectations and doubling down on your dreams to find real, lasting happiness.
First, bestselling "anti-guru" Sarah Knight taught you to shed unwanted guilt...
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The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts

Charity Tillemann-Dick · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable true story of acclaimed opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick, who received not one but two double lung transplants and went from struggling to draw a single breath to singing at the most prestigious venues in the world.Charity Tillemann-Dick was a vivacious young American...
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Girl Up: Kick Ass, Claim Your Woman Card, and Crush Everyday Sexism

LAURA BATES · Touchstone
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback

Already an international bestseller, this empowering survival guide provides no-nonsense advice on sex, social media, mental health, and sexism that young women face in their everyday life - from one of the emerging leaders in the feminist movement.

They told you that you need to be thin...
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Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving

Mo Rocca · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From popular TV correspondent and writer Mo Rocca, a charmingly irreverent and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who made life worth living.

Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of world leaders, captains of industry,...
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The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment

Dave Eggers · Knopf
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster.

When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank...
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Flowers of Mold & Other Stories

Seong-nan Ha · Open Letter
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

On the surface, Ha Seong-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives.A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory....
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Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity

Iliza Shlesinger · Weinstein Books
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships."Girl Logic" is Iliza's term for the way women obsess over details and situations...
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Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction

Chuck Klosterman · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team...
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