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The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
Ben Mezrich · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files,... |
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Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine
Daniel Halper · Broadside Books
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Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they... |
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds... |
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Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty
Jerry Oppenheimer · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
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From the founders of the international health-care behemoth Johnson Johnson in the late 1800s to the contemporary Johnsons of today, such as billionaire New York Jets owner Robert Wood Woody Johnson IV, all is revealed in this scrupulously researched, unauthorized biography by New York... |
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Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words
Maeve Binchy · Knopf
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Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans.Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they... |
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Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist’s Memoir
Annita Perez Sawyer · Santa Fe Writer's Project
Format: Print book |
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Annita Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transfered,... |
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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Amanda Vaill · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 436
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A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil WarMadrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe -- a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" -- six people meet and find their... |
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The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader
Jason Redman · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Decorated US navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman was critically wounded in 2007 while leading a mission against a key al-Qaida commander, when his mobility and assault forces team was ambushed and he was struck by machine-gun fire at point-blank range. During the intense recovery that followed,... |
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