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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

Linda Ronstadt · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ’70s....
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Sovereign Ladies: Sex, Sacrifice, and Power--The Six Reigning Queens of England

Maureen Waller · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of authors Antonia Fraser and David Starkey, Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names.  In the last millennium there...
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The Faraway Nearby

Rebecca Solnit · Viking Adult; First Edition edition

This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is a fitting companion to her beloved A Field Guide for Getting Lost In this exquisitely written new book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make...
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Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last

Lee Lipsenthal · Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This book is a culmination of what I’ve learned. I hope it will open the door for you to embrace your humanity, accept uncertainty, and live a life of gratitude. —from Enjoy Every Sandwich As medical director of the famed Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Lee Lipsenthal...
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Settle for More

Megyn Kelly · Harper
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

Click Here For the Autographed Copy Anchor of the number one news show on cable, The Kelly File, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly writes her much anticipated book, a revealing and surprising memoir detailing her rise as one of the most respected journalists working today. From the values...
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy

SHERYL SANDBERG · Knopf
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Best SellerFrom Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden...
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Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road

Willie Nelson · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville,...
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The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia: Corn Sugar and Blood

Rick Porrello · Barricade Books
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback

First published in September 2004, one of Barricade's best-selling true crime titles is coming back in print in paperback to coincide with the film release of "To Kill The Irishman". With a new Introduction by the author, The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia is the fascinating...
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War

David Laskin · Harper; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

“The Long Way Home is a riveting remembrance of the Great War by a master writer…. Deeply compelling.” — Douglas Brinkley “Moving, revealing, and lovingly researched, this book is a must read, and a great read, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas-meaning...
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The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog

Jen Lancaster · NAL
Format: Hardcover

One would think that with Jen Lancasters impressive list of bestselling self-improvement memoirs—Bitter Is the New Black Bright Lights, Big Ass Such a Pretty Fat Pretty in Plaid My Fair Lazy and Jeneration X—that she would have it all together by now.One would be wrong. Jens still a little...
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Lessons in Becoming Myself

Ellen Burstyn · Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Pages: 453
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful story of a woman's search for a deeper understanding of herself, Ellen Burstyn explores the unexpected paths her life has taken in this unflinchingly honest, moving, and inspirational memoir. Ellen Burstyn has always defied expectations. Born in Detroit during the Depression,...
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The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers

Virginia Spencer Carr · University of Georgia Press
Pages: 676
Format: Paperback

The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s....
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