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Sidelined: Overcoming Odds through Unity, Passion, and Perseverance

Chuck Pagano · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

Chuck Pagano, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has become one of the most inspiring, intriguing personalities in the game of football. Only three games into his rookie season in 2012, Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia, sidelined by the side effects chemotherapy and months of recovery....
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America

Jack Barsky · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

One decision can end everything . . . or lead to unlikely redemption.Millions watched the CBS 60 Minutes special on Jack Barsky in 2015. Now, in this fascinating memoir, the Soviet KGB agent tells his story of gut-wrenching choices, appalling betrayals, his turbulent inner world, and the secret...
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Barn Find Road Trip: 3 Guys, 14 Days and 1000 Lost Collector Cars Discovered

Tom Cotter · Motorbooks International
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Great collector cars are still out there--just waiting to be found!Sadly, there is very little reality in reality TV. That wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that these shows are the only TV shows for the barn-find collector car aficionado.Barn Find Road Trip is the antidote to all the manufactured...
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Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want

Tess Vigeland · Harmony
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Until recently, Tess Vigeland was a longtime host with public radio's Marketplace; it was a rewarding, high-status job, and Tess was very good at it - but she'd begun to feel restless. Without any definite, clear sense of what she wanted to do next (but an absolute certainty that...
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous...
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Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer

PAUL HAM · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

By looking deeply into the Führer's childhood, war experiences, and early political career, this rigorous narrative seeks to answer this question: How did the early, defining years of Hitler's life affect his rise to power? When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years...
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed

Paul Stanley · Fourth Estate
Pages: 462
Format: Hardcover

In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story...
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How to Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything so They Can Achieve Anything

Erin Falconer · North Star Way
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Erin Falconer, editor in chief and co-owner of the highly respected self-improvement site Pick the Brain (with over 1.8 million monthly page views) , shows overscheduled, overwhelmed women how to do less so that they can achieve more.Women live in a state of constant guilt: that we're...
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders

Lindsey Pollak · HarperBusiness; Original edition
Format: Book

The author of Getting from College to Career reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows them how to make the next step: becoming a leader.We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from...
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The Not So Subtle Art of Being A Fat Girl: Loving the Skin You're In

Tess Holliday · Bluestreak
Pages: 295
Format: Hardcover

Plus-­size supermodel Tess Holliday's passionate plea for modern women, whoever they are, is to be comfortable in their own skin. In her first book, she shares her powerful personal story and offers inspiration and tips to women everywhere that will help them not merely survive, but thrive...
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Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California

Gregory Orfalea · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junípero Serra left his position...
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Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings

James Crawford · Picador
Pages: 566
Format: Hardcover

An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin TowersBuildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents...
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Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership

Janice Marturano · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover

The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. By the thousands, they seek...
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The Constitution: An Introduction

Michael Stokes Paulsen · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From war powers to health care, freedom of speech to gun ownership, religious liberty to abortion, practically every aspect of American life is shaped by the Constitution. This vital document, along with its history of political and judicial interpretation, governs our individual lives...
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Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government

Mike Lee · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Senator Mike Lee tells the story of the Founders whose warnings about the dangers of an all-powerful federal government helped shape our Constitution--but are being ignored today. Today, most Americans are familiar only with the "big names" associated with the Founding - Washington,...
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