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A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

Blake Ellis · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this spellbinding true story, a pair of award-winning CNN investigative journalists track down the mysterious French psychic at the center of an international scam targeting the elderly and emotionally vulnerable, resulting in an exposé of one of the longest running cons in history.While...
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Another Good Dog: One Family and Fifty Foster Dogs

CARA SUE ACHTERBERG · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A warm and entertaining memoir about what happens when you foster fifty dogs in less than two years -- and how the dogs save you as much as you save them. When Cara felt her teenaged children slipping away and saw an empty nest on the horizon, she decided the best way to fill that void...
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Olivia de Havilland and the Golden Age of Hollywood

Ellis Amburn · Lyons Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its most iconic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author's meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the Delacorte Press in 1973. Amburn also...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Jane Sherron De Hart · Knopf
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover

The first full life - private, public, legal, philosophical - of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews...
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A Song for the River

Philip Connors · Cinco Puntos Press
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover

From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season -- a story of calamity and resilience in the world's first Wilderness.A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness...
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Napoleon: A Life

Adam Zamoyski · Basic Books
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed...
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My Love Story: A Memoir

TINA TURNER · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening and compelling memoir.From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner...
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A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

KURT EICHENWALD · Ballantine Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy - his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive, but to thrive.As a college...
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

NATHANIEL PHILBRICK · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant AmbitionIn the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British...
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A Dream Called Home: A Memoir

Reyna Grande · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and national bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for belonging, a writing career, and a home built of more than words and dreams.A Dream Called Home is the follow up to Reyna...
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