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Becoming
Michelle Obama · Crown Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American... |
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Back in the Game: The Majority Whip's Remarkable Fight for His Life
Steve Scalise · Center Street Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Back in the Game is the inspiring story of how a massive political assassination at baseball practice for Republican members of Congress was narrowly avoided, and how the Majority Whip fought his way back to the People's House. On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field for the annual... |
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Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon · Scribner Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer.... |
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The White Darkness
DAVID GRANN · Doubleday Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover
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By the New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed... |
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She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
Jill Soloway · Crown Archetype Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning series Transparent, a poignant memoir of personal transformation set against the profound cultural upheaval and shifting power dynamics that continue to shape our society.In She Wants It, Jill Soloway takes us on a patriarchy-toppling... |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
Robert Dallek · Viking Pages: 704 Format: Hardcover
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR"We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation's entire history" - Nigel Hamilton, Boston Globe"Meticulously researched and authoritative"... |
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
Roland Philipps · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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The first full biography of one of the twentieth century's most notorious spies.Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring, yet the full extent of this shrewd, secretive man's betrayal... |
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A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson
Laura Thompson · Pegasus Books Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of the notorious "Ilford murder" by the New York Times bestselling author of The SixThe death penalty is never without its ethical conflicts or moral questions. Never more so than when the person being led to the gallows may very well be innocent of the actual... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana · Knopf Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged... |
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Maxwell King · Abrams Press Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted... |
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