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Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, and Solves Her Lady Problems

Rhoda Janzen · Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

What does it mean to give church a try when you haven't really tried since you were twelve? At the end of her bestselling memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen had reconnected with her family and her roots, though her future felt uncertain. But when she starts dating...
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The Rough Guide to the Royals

Rough Guides · Rough Guides; Original edition
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Just in time for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 celebrating Queen Elizabeths sixtieth year of rule, The Rough Guide to the Royals offers background and insight into one of the worlds oldest monarchies — plus plenty of juicy stories. This entertaining Rough Guide casts a quizzical eye over...
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.

When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth...
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

Julie Powell · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Childs Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking...
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The Stonewall Reader

New York Public Library · Penguin Classics
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.

June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which...
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The Cupcake Diaries: Recipes and Memories from the Sisters of Georgetown Cupcake

Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

In The Cupcake Diaries, founders of the Georgetown Cupcake franchise, bestselling authors and former stars of the hit TLC series DC Cupcakes, authors Katherine Kallinis and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne inspire readers with more than 30 delicious cupcake recipes and life lessons that led to their...
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The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

Sara G. Forden · William Morrow; 1st edition
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The startling and dramatic true story behind the murder of Maurizio Gucci, and the rise, fall, and rise again of the Gucci dynasty. The House of Gucci tells a riveting story of high fashion, high finance, and heartrending personal tragedy.
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The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables: The Enchanting Island that Inspired L. M. Montgomery

CATHERINE REID · Timber Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

Anne of Green Gables is a worldwide phenomenon that has sold over fifty million copies and inspired numerous films, plays, musicals, and television series. It has turned Prince Edward Island into a multimillion-dollar tourist destination visited by hundreds of thousands of people...
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Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

Heike B. Gortemaker · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely...
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Lee and Grant

Robert Tilton · D Giles Ltd
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

The first major reassessment of the lives, careers and historical impact of Lee and Grant by comparing them over an extended period of time, presenting information on their families and including hundreds of illustrations on their uniforms, letters, rare
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The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia

Alex Perry · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias - and how they risked everything to bring it down.

The Calabrian Mafia - known as the 'Ndrangheta - is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world,...

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The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron

Howard Bryant · Pantheon
Pages: 600
Format: Hardcover

In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry (Hank) Aaron's reputation has only grown in magnitude. But his influence extends beyond statistics, and at long last here is the first definitive biography of one of baseball's immortal figures.

Based on meticulous research...

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Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander

Phil Robertson · Howard Books; Nineteenth Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty® star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business.LIVING THE DREAM Duck calls - though the source of his livelihood - are not what makes...
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard Phillips Feynman PH.D. · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover

Only once in a great while does a scientist/adventurer like Richard Feynman pass by; even rarer is there a record in his own words, such as the record Feynman leaves here, of the wonders that abounded his life.
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