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Unmasked

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Published to coincide with his seventieth birthday, a memoir by revered, award-winning composer, producer, and impresario of some of the most recognized musicals in the history of theater, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Evita. In Unmasked, internationally acclaimed composer...
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Mother Angelica Her Grand Silence: The Last Years and Living Legacy

Raymond Arroyo · Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"Even now, I still meet with Mother in memory and in spirit. And though I miss her physical presence, the writing of this work has allowed me to once again spend long hours with her and share her essence with others. This final book in the canon captures the last bittersweet years...
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

Sue Monk Kidd · Viking
Pages: 282
Format: Print book

An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughterSue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter,...
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength

Liz Pryor · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year...
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The Devil at Genesee Junction: The Murders of Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formicola, 6/66

MICHAEL BENSON · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 394
Format: Paperback

Today you'd call Ballantyne suburban, but back then, at the start of the summer of 1966, it was country - just a cluster of houses, some of them shacks, on or near Ballantyne Road, in the Town of Chili, NY. And while June 25 started like any other day it would end in a nightmare....
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House of Cash: The Legacies of my Father, Johnny Cash

John Carter Cash · Insight Editions
Format: Print book

House of Cash is an unprecedented look at the life and inspirations of the Man in Black, by none other than his namesake son, John Carter Cash. Gathering together previously unpublished photographs, lyrics, art, notes, and recollections from the Cash family archives, John Carter paints...
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Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

Amanda Knox · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit.In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment.After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted...
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To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

Edward Larson · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of bestselling adventure narratives In the Kingdom of Ice, In the Heart of the Sea, and The Lost City of Z, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson's To the Edges of the Earth brings to life the climax of the age of exploration: in the year 1909 expeditions to the Arctic,...
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Rush of Heaven: One Woman's Miraculous Encounter with Jesus

Ema McKinley · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

Ema, give me your hand. These were the words Jesus spoke to Ema on Christmas Eve--the night He straightened her crooked foot, hand, neck, and spine, and restored her mobility. Easter weekend, eighteen years earlier, an ordinary workday turned into a nightmare when Ema McKinley passed out and was left...
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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows

Brian Castner · Doubleday; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal...
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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light

Carlos Santana · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendIn 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years...
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The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings

John M. Adams · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Egypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt. At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world;...
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