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Imperfect: An Improbable Life
Jim Abbott · Ballantine Books; 1 edition
Format: Kindle Edition
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“Honest, touching, and beautifully rendered . . . Far more than a book about baseball, it is a deeply felt story of triumph and failure, dreams and disappointments. Jim Abbott has hurled another gem.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Man ... |
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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
William J. Mann · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the imageOnscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine... |
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Lions of the West
Robert Morgan · A Shannon Ravenel Book; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America's westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one another, and collectively impact history. Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary,... |
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Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward
Lisa Niemi Swayze · Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of The Time of My Life (written with her husband Patrick Swayze) a remarkable, new account of grief, loss, caregiving, and moving on, with never before revealed stories of the Swayzes’ final months together. Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother’s... |
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Country Girl: A Memoir
Edna O'Brien · Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Country Girl is Edna OBriens exquisite account of her dashing barrier-busting up-and-down life--National Public RadioWhen Edna OBriens first novel The Country Girls was published in it so scandalized the OBriens local parish that the book was burned by its priest OBrien was undeterred... |
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Thornton Wilder: A Life
Penelope Niven · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." —James Earl Jones, actor"Comprehensive and wisely fashioned….This book is a splendid and long needed work."—Edward... |
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
Emily Parker · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities unsuccessfully try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. And in Russia, a lone blogger rises to become one of the most prominent opposition... |
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Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Greg Lawrence · Thomas Dunne Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassiss lifeher nineteen-year editorial career History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady the nations tragic widow the millionaires wife and of course the quintessential embodiment... |
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Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness
Dominique Browning · Atlas
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved author Dominique Browning, a humorous and moving book about losing a job and winning a life.In November 2007, former editor in chief of House & Garden magazine Dominique Browning experienced what thousands have since experienced. She lost her job. Overnight, her driven,... |
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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
Karen Abbott · Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller "Sin in the Second City" returns with the gripping and expansive story of America's coming-of-age--told through the extraordinary life of Gypsy Rose Lee and the world she survived and conquered.A pair of sister... |
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Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
Rifqa Bary · WaterBrook Press
Format: Hardcover
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"After four years of hiding my faith from my family, I knew that it was time. I wrote with shaky hands, 'Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I refuse to deny him ... .' There was no turning back now. I had to get out of that house if I wanted to live. Was this worth risking... |
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