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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Abby Norman · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issuesIn the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly...
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The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones

Thomas Asbridge · Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A thrillingly intimate portrait of one of history's most illustrious knights - William Marshal - that vividly evokes the grandeur and barbarity of the Middle Ages William Marshal was the true Lancelot of his era - a peerless warrior and paragon of chivalry - yet over the centuries,...
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The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana

Tony Dokoupil · Random House Inc
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Blow and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Last Pirate is a vivid, haunting and often hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family man who joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and exploded his life in the process. Three decades later, his son came...
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Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War

Kayla Williams · W.W. Norton & Co
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives. Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave,...
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Son of a Gun: A Memoir

Justin St. Germain · Random House
Format: Book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYIn the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermathTombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie...
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By Honor Bound: Two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a Story of Extraordinary Courage

Dick Couch · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In April of 1972, SEAL Lieutenant Tom Norris risked his life in an unprecedented ground rescue of two American airmen who were shot down behind enemy lines in North Vietnam, a feat for which he would be awarded the Medal of Honor--an award that represents the pinnacle of heroism and courage.Just...
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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

Clare Mulley · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The Untold Story of Britain’s First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived...
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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

Emma Brockes · Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"One day I will tell you the story of my life," promises Emma Brockes's mother, "and you will be amazed." Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother's past--stories of a rustic childhood in South Africa, glimpses of a bohemian youth in London--and yet knew...
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As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew

Jen Chaney · Touchstone Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Will we ever get tired of Clueless? Ugh, as if!Acclaimed pop culture journalist Jen Chaney celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the classic film's release in the first book of its kind, weaving together original interviews with writer and director Amy Heckerling; key cast members,...
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Money Sucks: A Memoir on Why Too Much or Too Little Can Ruin You

Michael Baughman · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Book

A funny and touching story about how to deal with the struggles of adulthood, how to live a good life, and how money can complicate it all.Michael Baughman’s hope was to send his oldest grandson off to his first year of college in the fall of 2012 with an informed and thoughtful attitude...
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The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt

David Giffels · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

In The Hard Way on Purpose, David Giffels takes us on an insider’s journey through the wreckage and resurgence of America’s Rust Belt. A native who never knew the good times, yet never abandoned his hometown of Akron, Giffels plumbs the touchstones and idiosyncrasies of a region...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

MICHELLE MCNAMARA · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Introduction by Gillian FlynnAfterword by Patton OswaltA masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating...
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Marc N Peyser · Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
Pages: 332
Format: Print book

A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century. When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter...
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Waking from the Dream: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.

David L Chappell · Random House
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover

The author of A Stone of Hope, called "one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement" by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King's assassination - and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil...
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