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Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days
Javon Beard · Weinstein Books
Format: Hardcover
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Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary at Neverland, Michael Jackson spent his final years moving from city to city, living with his three children in virtual seclusiona futile attempt to escape a world that wouldnt leave him alone. During that time, two men served... |
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Scream: A Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction
Tama Janowitz · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In this darkly funny, surprising memoir, the original "Lit Girl" and author of the era-defining Slaves of New York considers her life in and outside of New York City, from the heyday of the 1980s to her life today in a tiny upstate town that proves that fact is always stranger... |
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The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
Anna Whitelock · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 462
Format: Hardcover
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From the private world of a beloved English queen, a story of intimacy, royalty, espionage, rumor, and subterfugeQueen Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay her bedchamber, closely guarded by the favored... |
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * Newsday... |
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The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living.
Laura Lynne Jackson · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift - and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live more beautifully in the here and now. Laura Lynne Jackson is a wife, a mother, a high school English teacher - and a psychic... |
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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
John Edgar Wideman · Scribner
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till - a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black... |
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No Quarter: The Three Lives of Jimmy Page
Martin Power · Overlook Onmibus
Pages: 698
Format: Print book
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No Quarter: The Three Lives Of Jimmy Page explores the life, times and music of the man behind one of the 20th century's greatest bands: the mighty Led Zeppelin.Using new and exclusive interviews Martin Power tells the full story of Jimmy Page's long career. Starting with the early Sixties... |
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Little Failure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyngart · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS,... |
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 241
Format: Print book
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When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo... |
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Helena Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was.... |
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Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
Simon Morrison · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 507
Format: Print book
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An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.On a freezing night in January 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. The crime, organized... |
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Watch Me: A Memoir
Anjelica Huston · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Following her extraordinary Vanity Fair, evocative The New York Times, magically beautiful The Boston Globe, gorgeously written O, The Oprah Magazine coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom,... |
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A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
Juliet Nicolson · Farrar
Pages: 326
Format: Print book
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A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable womenAll families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation... |
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The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers
Terry McDonell · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From the legendary editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur: a memoir about writers, writing, editing--and the fast-paced, high-stakes life in the publishing business. Over the last four decades, Terry McDonell has been at the helm of some of the most influential beacons of American... |
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Billy Joel
Fred Schruers · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, all-access biography of a music legendIn Billy Joel, acclaimed music journalist Fred Schruers draws upon more than one hundred hours of exclusive interviews with Joel to present an unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of the pint-sized kid from Long Island... |
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