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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

Sylvie Simmons · Ecco
Pages: 570
Format: Print book

The legend behind such songs as Suzanne, Bird on the Wire and Hallelujah andthe poet and novelist behind such groundbreaking literary works as Beautiful Losers and Book of Mercy, Leonard Cohen is one of the most important and influential artists of our era, a man of powerful emotion and intelligence...
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Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story

J. Randy Taraborrelli · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

"Beyonce' Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of 16, she had her first number one record with Destiny's Child. That hit-making trio launched...
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Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker

Doug J Swanson · Viking
Pages: 355
Format: Book

The astonishing story of Benny Binion - a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's...
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Michelle Knight · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times BestsellerMichelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed...
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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, with...
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No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson

Jeff Sparrow · Scribe US
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback

Film star. Singer. Athlete. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time, perhaps, in the words of both...
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice

COLUM MCCANN · Random House
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly...
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Why Religion?: A Personal Story

ELAINE PAGELS · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help...
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The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich

Lara Feigel · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 443
Format: Print book

When Germany surrendered in May 1945 it was a nation reduced to rubble. Immediately, America, Britain, Soviet Russia, and France set about rebuilding in their zones of occupation. Most urgent were physical needs--food, water, and sanitation--but from the start the Allies were also anxious...
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength

Liz Pryor · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year...
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All Happy Families: A Memoir

JEANNE MCCULLOCH · Harper Wave
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families.On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a wedding...
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King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor

PAUL WILLETTS · Crown
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante - the king of Jazz Age con artists - who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling...
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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

Arthur Browne · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department's first black officer. When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City's first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth...
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Running Against the Tide: True Tales from the Stud of the Sea

Captain Lee · Gallery Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the star of Bravo's hit reality show Below Deck, comes Running Against the Tide, the "Stud of the Sea's" first-ever memoir recounting his journey from landlocked Saginaw, Michigan to the high seas, where he has spent more than twenty-five years as a superyacht captain.The...
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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia

Tim Blanning · Random House
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects...
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