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A Soldier's Sketchbook: From the Front Lines of World War II
Joseph Farris · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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A Soldiers Sketchbook, an illustrated memoir from a World War II soldier, is drawn from the letters, sketches, snapshots, and mementos of Pvt. Joseph Farris, who left his home of Danbury, Connecticut, and set off to war aboard the U.S.S. General Gordon in October 1944, bound for France... |
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Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography
Richard Stirling · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequaled by any in her time.In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 1965, The Sound of Music made her the most famous woman... |
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Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium
Mark Edward · Feral House
Format: Print book
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"Mark Edward is an equivocator, fibber, and mountebank. Which begs the question: if a liar admits to lying, can he be telling the truth? He is a literate, informative, intellectual, a student of the psychology of humans, a foe of those who would defraud the public for personal gain,... |
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Fat Girl: A True Story
Judith Moore · Hudson Street Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A angst-filled memoir of one woman's obsession with food and one's body offers a poignant coming-of-age story that sets the author's love/hate relationship with food against her painful longing for a family, love, and a sense of belonging. By the author of Never Eat Your Heart... |
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The Rainman's Third Cure: An Irregular Education
Peter Coyote · Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover
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"The rainman gave me two curesAnd he said, 'Just jump right in.'The one was Texas MedicineAnd the other was railroad gin.And like a fool I mixed themAnd they strangled up my mindNow people just get uglierAnd I have no sense of time." --Bob Dylan, "Stuck Inside of Mobile... |
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President Me: The America That's in My Head
Adam Carolla · !t
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
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In President Me, Carolla shares his vision for a different, better America free from big issues like big government down to small problems like hotel alarm clock placement. Running on an anti-narcissism platform, President Carolla calls for a return to the values of an earlier time when... |
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward · Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle AwardNominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardA New York Times Notable Book"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood... |
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The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers
Susan Maushart · Tarcher; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest... |
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Untitled rob sheffield novel.
Robert J Sheffield · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known... |
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I Will Be Complete: A Memoir
Glen David Gold · Knopf
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.Glen David Gold was raised rich, briefly, in southern California at the end of the go-go... |
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Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love
Shirley MacLaine · Atria; 1 edition
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Shirley MacLaine has found a perfect love in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that is Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring of love with no strings attached, Terry has succeeded in doing what no one before her ever has: slowing Shirley's peripatetic... |
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