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Imperfect: An Improbable Life

Jim Abbott · Ballantine Books; 1 edition
Format: Kindle Edition

“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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Cronkite

Douglas Brinkley · HarperCollins Publishers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite.An acclaimed author and historian, Brinkley has drawn upon recently disclosed letters, diaries, and other artifacts at the recently opened Cronkite Archive to bring...
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NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven

Graham Lord · T. Dunne Books
Pages: 370
Format: Book

For more than 40 years, David Niven portrayed onscreen the impeccable values of a lost breed of English gentlemen - handsome, elegantly dressed, well-mannered, and utterly charming. Yet behind those twinkling eyes, Niven was often deeply unhappy. From the death of his father when Niven...
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Too Good to Be True: A Memoir

Benjamin Anastas · Little A / New Harvest
Format: Hardcover

When he was three, in the early 1970s, Benjamin Anastas found himself in his mother’s fringe-therapy group in Massachusetts, a sign around his neck: Too Good to Be True. The phrase haunted him through his life, even as he found the literary acclaim he sought after his 1999 novel,...
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South and West: From a Notebook

JOAN DIDION · Knopf
Pages: 126
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard...
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Known and Strange Things: Essays

Teju Cole · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A transcendent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief Teju Cole is the rare writer whose work can stir conversation among opinion makers and become a viral sensation with the general public. Cole's debut essay collection is sure...
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Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp · The Dial Press
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, brave, and moving memoir of one woman's struggle with alcoholism, a disease that affects fifteen million Americans each year."It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because love was destroying everything I cared about, I had to fall out." So begins...
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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama

Michael D'Antonio · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise...
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Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom

Pattie Mallette · Revell
Format: Kindle Edition

Most people only know her as Justin Bieber's mom, but Pattie Mallette has had an incredible journey of her own. Many people have heard of her son's rags to riches triumph. A few know she was a teen mom who had to overcome a drug and alcohol addiction. Even fewer know the rest of her story.Now,...
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True Crime: an American Anthology

Harold Schechter · Library of America
Pages: 788
Format: Print book

Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime writing became a dominant genre in American writing. True Crime: An American Anthology offers the first comprehensive look at the many ways in which...
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Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

Sean Parnell · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell's stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan.Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen...
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From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars

VIRGINIA GROHL · Seal Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

While the Grohl family had always been musical-the family sang together on long car trips, harmonizing to Motown and David Bowie-Virginia never expected her son to become a musician, let alone a rock star. But when she saw him perform in front of thousands of screaming fans for the first...
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