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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Jeffrey Gettleman · Harper Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize - winning New York Times journalist, comes a memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent yet most beautiful places in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past... |
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Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Deirdre Bair · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Pages: 395 Format: Print book
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From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone... |
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Behind the Scenes
Judi Dench · St. Martin's Press Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in York to her scene-stealing performances as 'M' in the James Bond films, Dame Judi Dench's professional life has consisted of non-stop acting, leading to numerous accolades, including an Academy Award for her performance as Queen... |
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Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Tom Kizzia · Crown; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy... |
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I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend
Martin Short · Harpercollins Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Martin Short takes you on a rich, hilarious,... |
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What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life
Marc Leepson · Palgrave Macmillan Trade Format: Book
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What So Proudly We Hailed is the first full-length biography of Francis Scott Key in more than 75 years. In this fascinating look at early America, historian Marc Leepson explores the life and legacy of Francis Scott Key. Standing alongside Betsy Ross, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Paul... |
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · SmileyBooks Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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The African Americans Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name, which aired on national, prime-time public television in the fall of 2013. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African... |
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How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Cat Marnell · Simon & Schuster Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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From Cat Marnell, "New York's enfant terrible" (The Telegraph) , a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor... |
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90 Church: Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
Dean Unkefer · Picador USA Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORKBefore Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs," there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam... |
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Joy Enough: A Memoir
Sarah McColl · Liveright Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother's image.Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage... |
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Yiyun Li · Random House Pages: 224 Format: Print book
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In her first nonfiction book, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable?"What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?"Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this... |
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Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
Justin Martin · Da Capo Press Format: Hardcover
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In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists— regulars at Pfaff’s Saloon in Manhattan—rightly... |
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The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat
Kevin Flynn · Sterling Pub Co Inc Pages: 416 Format: Print book
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From the archives of The New York Times, 165 years of the most notorious real-life crimes. For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime, its reporters racing alongside tabloids to track the shocking incidents that disrupt daily life. This fascinating... |
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