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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Room to Dream
DAVID LYNCH · Random House
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary... |
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
RUBY LAL · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire.When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in her parents' mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson's... |
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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Richard Ratay · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Part pop history and part whimsical memoir in the spirit of National Lampoon's Vacation - Don't Make Me Pull Over! is a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips - a halcyon era that culminated in the latter part of the twentieth century, before portable DVD players,... |
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The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
JONATHAN SANTLOFER · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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A moving, page-turning chronicle of a husband's loss and the story of a loving, modern marriage"This is deeply moving ... beautifully written and modulated, with a dollop of droll, black humor. It is such an achievement, like running uphill against a strong wind."--Joyce Carol... |
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The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time
LESLIE SCHWARTZ · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, award-winning novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in county jail for a DUI and battery of an officer... |
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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir
Jean Guerrero · One World
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory - between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death ¿Papi, dónde estás? Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood,... |
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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 PattersonBad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account... |
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Eat Cake. Be Brave.
MELISSA RADKE · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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My name is Melissa Radke, and there is a very real chance you have no idea who I am or why I wrote a book. But admit it, you're curious! Even though millions of people seem to like watching my videos bemoaning the trials of parenting, marriage, French braiding, faith, and living life... |
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