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Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald
Suzanne Marrs · Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two authors shared their lives in witty, wry, tender, and at times profoundly... |
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Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
Michael Korda · HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Pages: 785
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's fresh, contemporary single volume historical biography of General Robert E. Lee - perhaps the most famous and least understood legend in American history and one of our most admired heroes.Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers... |
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Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson · Pantheon Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing... |
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Survivor: Memoirs of a WWII Vet
George F Schneider · Outskirts Press
Pages: 344
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Every generation is built upon the backs of those who came before. Time always moves forward. Yet for me, the past will forever remain in the present. I have met heroes. Have eaten with them around a table. Have watched them die. Then returned home to rebuild the world they fought so hard... |
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Unremarried Widow: A Memoir
Artis Henderson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful memoir, a young woman loses her husband twenty years after her own mother was widowed, and overcomes two generations of tragedy to discover that both hope and love endure. Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming... |
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Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To
Annabelle Gurwitch · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along the way.When... |
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Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
Dan Hampton · William Morrow
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation - a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the trailblazing aviators of World... |
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The Plain Choice: A True Story of Choosing to Live an Amish Life
Sherry Gore · Zondervan
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor choices, and at times without hope. A series of terrible mistakes left her feeling wrecked and alone and a sudden tragedy threw Sherry into an emotional tailspin... |
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Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family
Kathy Mckeon · Gallery Books
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover
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An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny - and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from... |
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Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet
Jonathan Schneer · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great... |
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Jonas Salk: A Life
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs · Oxford University Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake... |
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H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
Adam Selzer · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's... |
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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
JOHN HODGMAN · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: eBook
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Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John... |
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Surviving Cancer: Our Voices & Choices
Marion Behr · WWH Press
Pages: 265
Format: Print book
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"Marion Behr has assembled a wonderful collection of pieces that represent a true "collaboration" among many voices, all of whom have a stake in the treatment of breast cancer. The juxtaposition of these voices is unique to this book, and gives the book an alluring rhythm,... |
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