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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
KERRI RAWSON · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) , tells the nightmarish story of that discovery and of her long journey of faith and healing.In 2005, Dennis Rader... |
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The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
Tommy Tomlinson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Roxane Gay's Hunger, a searing, honest, and candid exploration of what it's like to live as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who decided he had to change his life as he neared the age of fifty weighing in at 460 pounds.When he was almost... |
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition... |
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Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart
Dion Leonard · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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New York Times Bestseller List"Leonard and Gobi's story represents the power of people working together and the profound depth of feeling possible between a man and his dog."--Publishers WeeklyA man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion.Finding... |
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Sense of Occasion
Harold Prince · Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Pages: 343
Format: Hardcover
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(Applause Books) . In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director/producer in the history of the American theater looks back over his seventy-year (and counting!) career. In 1974, Prince released his first book, Contradictions:... |
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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Gordon S. Wood · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures,... |
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Never Grow Up
Jackie Chan · Gallery Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world.Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic... |
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Elizabeth Seton: American Saint
Catherine O'Donnell · Three Hills
Pages: 524
Format: Hardcover
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In 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the United States in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came of age in Manhattan as the city and her family struggled to rebuild themselves after the Revolution,... |
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does... |
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