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Unmasked
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER · Harper Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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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
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"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
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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
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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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House of Cash: The Legacies of my Father, Johnny Cash
John Carter Cash · Insight Editions Format: Print book
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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 Gathering together previously unpublished photographs, lyrics, art, notes, and recollections from the Cash family archives, John Carter paints...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
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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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Rush of Heaven: One Woman's Miraculous Encounter with Jesus
Ema McKinley · Zondervan Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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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