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My Journey
Donna Karan · Ballantine Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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In this candid memoir, featuring a foreword by Barbra Streisand, renowned designer Donna Karan shares intimate details about her lonely childhood, her four-plus decades in the fashion industry, her two marriages, motherhood, and her ongoing quest for self-acceptance and spiritual peace.... |
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Everybody's Got Something
Robin Roberts · Grand Central Publishing; Lrg edition Format: Hardcover
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"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's... |
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Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard
STEPHEN TAYLOR · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and unconventional figure, Anne Barnard lived a life that might have been the outline of a novel by her contemporary, Jane Austen, or by Edith Wharton.She was born in Scotland in 1772, lived at the heart of Georgian society, and yet defined herself by defiance of convention.... |
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The Radical King
Cornel West · Beacon Press Format: Hardcover
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A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic... |
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books Pages: 320 Format: Book
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"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." - Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? "A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page... |
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Bush
Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster Pages: 808 Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian
Bob Saget · It Books Format: Hardcover
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Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House, and as the charming wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos. And then there are the legions of fans who can't get enough of his scatological, out-of-his-mind... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills · Penguin Group USA Pages: 278 Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee,... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House Pages: 440 Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story
Robyn Doolittle · Penguin Group Pages: 367 Format: Hardcover
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His drug and alcohol-fuelled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy. Toronto mayor Rob Ford's personal and political troubles have occupied centre stage in North America's fourth-largest city since news broke that drug dealers were selling a videotape... |
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Make It Reality: Create Your Opportunity, Own Your Success
Cris Abrego · Celebra Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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The creator and producer of several mega-hit television series, including The Surreal Life, Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, and Charm School, shares his incredible journey of making it to the top - and how you can too. "No one paves the road for you. You have to create your own path.... |
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Flyover Lives: A Memoir
Diane Johnson · Viking Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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"Smart . . . perceptive . . . Flyover Lives is a memoir of the Midwest sure to charm readers." - Maureen Corrigan, NPRFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape... |
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The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe · Dey Street Books Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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In this superb work of literary true crime - a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense - a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us."Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia?... |
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN · BALLANTINE Pages: 464 Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution - from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even his grandfatherly... |
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