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Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food

Hood, Ann · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls.From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood...
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Alexievich, Svetlana · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana Alexievich's...
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America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Steven M. Gillon · Dutton
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America's Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of their decades-long friendship...
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Howard Stern Comes Again

Howard Stern · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president. Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities - discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality,...
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Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World

Jeff Gordinier · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for reinvention, for creative breakthroughs, and for connection. Feeling...
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From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir

Beck Dorey-Stein · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House." - The New York Times "Obama administration memoirs are rolling in, but in a refreshing twist From the Corner of the Oval swaps policy for good old-fashioned workplace...
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Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't

Edward Humes · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving...
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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species

Marybeth Lima · LSU Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

This candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana's avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of 300 species of birds. Bisected...
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Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton

Tilar J. Mazzeo · Gallery Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's early days. Fans fell in love...
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The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy

J. Randy Taraborrelli · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous...
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