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Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church
Lauren Drain · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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-Now a New York Times bestseller- Youve likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps youve seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year... |
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Too Good to Be True: A Memoir
Benjamin Anastas · Little A / New Harvest
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
Elizabeth Letts · Ballantine Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNovember the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horsesmdasha drab white former plow horse named Snowmanmdashand his rider, Harry de Leyer. They were the longest... |
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The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun
Robert Greenfield · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The Last Sultan is the definitive biography of a man who changed popular culture throughout the world. As the founder and head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun signed andor recorded many of the greatest musical artists of all time, among them Ruth Brown Big Joe Turner Ray Charles Bobby... |
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
Scott Douglas · Da Capo Press
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional "shush," vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney's contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd... |
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Grant
Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 781
Format: Hardcover
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Arguing that Grant has been underrated by historians, a celebrated biographer and author of John Marshall: Definer of a Nation seeks to correct the record with this new assessment of the celebrated Civil War general and Reconstruction-era president. 20,000 first printing. |
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Robin Kelley · Free Press
Format: Book
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THELONIOUS MONK is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist’s struggle to “make it” without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century. To his fans, he was the ultimate... |
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The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation
Melissa Rivers · Crown Archetype
Pages: 284
Format: Print book
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Joan Rivers was known all over the world - from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities... |
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