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A Fighting Chance

Elizabeth Warren · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 365
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works -- and really doesn't -- in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become...
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The Good Luck Cat: How a Cat Saved a Family, and a Family Saved a Cat

Lissa Warren · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

Lissa Warren’s father needed a retirement companion while his wife and daughter were at work. Enter Ting, a seven-pound Korat who changed his life, and the life of the family. All kittens are mischievous, but Ting “the cat grenade” was real trouble. She was also smart,...
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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

Olivia Laing · Picador
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED THEM?In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol...
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Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?

Billy Crystal · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable careerBilly Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that...
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Footsteps in the Snow

Charles Lachman · Berkley

NOW A LIFETIME MOVIE CHANNEL DOCUMENTARYIt was a shocking true crime that left two families shattered, and became the coldest case in U.S. history.Who really killed little Maria? The question fueled a real-life nightmare in Sycamore, Illinois...1957. Sycamore, Illinois. Christmas was three...
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Memoir of the Sunday Brunch

Julia Pandl · Algonquin Books

For Julia Pandl the rite of passage into young-adulthood included mandatory service at her familys restaurant where she watched as her fatherwho was also the chefruled with the strictness of a drill sergeant At age twelve Julie was initiated into the rite of the Sunday brunch a weekly madhouse...
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Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land

Robert Crawford · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poetsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. Young Eliot...
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Champion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik

Cathleen Miller · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover

Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the worlds foremost advocate for womens health...
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

Barry Strauss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The exciting, dramatic story of one of history's most famous events - the death of Julius Caesar - now placed in full context of Rome's civil wars by eminent historian Barry Strauss.Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history....
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