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Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar
David Thomas · Zondervan Format: Hardcover
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In Wrestling for My Life, WWE superstar Shawn Michaels shares from his heart about the highs and lows of his life inside the WWE. Included are some never-before-shared stories and an intimate look into his career as well as stories of hunting, family, and faith. With millions of fans, Michaels... |
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
Edward Jay Epst · Knopf Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exposé that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American... |
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel · Simon & Schuster Pages: 241 Format: Print book
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When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo... |
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St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate
Karen Armstrong · New Harvest Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity... |
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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
Joseph Kim · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Pages: 274 Format: Print book
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A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young... |
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Drinking with Men: A Memoir
Rosie Schaap · Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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NPR Best Books of 2013” BookPage Best Books of 2013 Library Journal Best Books of 2013: Memoir Flavorwire 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2013 A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking... |
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasnt content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon... |
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Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission
Bob Drury · Simon & Schuster Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight... |
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The Other Side: A Memoir
Lacy M. Johnson · Tin House Books Format: Paperback
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Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night.... |
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Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit
Mark Hasara · Threshold Editions Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Afghan War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and moral lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, and in their everyday... |
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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life
Sophia Loren · Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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In her first memoir, the Academy Awardwinning actress Sophia Loren tells her incredible life story from the struggles of her childhood in war-torn Naples to her life as a screen legend, icon of elegance, and devoted mother. In her acting career spanning more than six decades, Sophia Loren... |
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Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures
Susan Ronald · St. Martin's Press Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't... |
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Gareth Russell · Simon & Schuster Pages: 464 Format: Print book
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Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political... |
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