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The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World's Best-loved Novelist

Rebecca Smith · Bloomsbury
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's...
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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival

Jeffrey Gettleman · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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