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No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run
Tyler Wetherall · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of growing up on the run -- and what happens when it comes to a stop."Lucid, tender, exquisitely re-imagined, and compulsively readable." -- Jessica Nelson, author of If Only You People Could Follow Directions"In this wondrous and richly detailed coming of age story,... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands · Doubleday
Pages: 437
Format: Print book
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Remember the Sweet Things: One List, Two Lives, and Twenty Years of Marriage
Ellen Greene · William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Remember the Sweet Things isn’t merely a love story. It is a manual for healthy living, told with searing honesty and profound tenderness, and poignancy that touches you on virtually every page.”—Wayne Coffey, New York Times bestselling author of The Boys of Winter Ellen... |
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Fire Lover: A True Story
Joseph Wambaugh · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, the acclaimed author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may have been, according to U.S. government profilers, "the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth... |
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
David Bellos · Farrar
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the world's most popular novel Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full... |
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Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin: A Memoir
Nicole Hardy · Hyperion
Format: Book
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When Nicole Hardy's eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy's essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with... |
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Dominique Moceanu: An American Champion An Autobiography
Dominique Moceanu · New York, New York, U.S.A.
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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At thirteen, Dominique Moceanu burst into the gymnastic spotlight by becoming the youngest U.S. national gymnastics champion ever. Her awesome performance at all the major 1995 U.S. competitions, and at the World Championships, wowed the crowds - and won her countless medals. Now, at only... |
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Humans of New York: Stories
Brandon Stanton · Macmillan
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller.
In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project - to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The photos he took and the accompanying interviews became the blog Humans of New York. In the first... |
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France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child
Katherine Pratt · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the coauthor of My Life in France, a revealing collection of photographs taken by Paul Child that document his and Julia Child's years in France Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia... |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alan Brinkley · Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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"No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more difficult times. Roosevelt... |
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