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Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household
ADRIAN TINNISWOOD · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house.... |
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Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir
Diana Abu-Jaber · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 267
Format: Paperback
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A "bold, luscious" memoir, "indispensable to anyone trying to forge their own truer path" (Ruth Reichl) .On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday... |
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Racing to the Finish: My Story
DALE EARNHARDT JR · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn't know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He'd dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes - no two are the same.... |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron De Hart · Knopf
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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The first full life - private, public, legal, philosophical - of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews... |
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Sick: A Memoir
Porochista Khakpour · Harper Perennial
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Time Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New BooksGQ Best Nonfiction Book of 2018Bustle's 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 listNylon's 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018Electric... |
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Southern Discomfort: A Memoir
Tena Clark · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a riveting and profoundly moving memoir set in rural Mississippi during the Civil Rights era about a white girl coming of age in a repressive society and the woman who gave her the strength to forge her own path - the black... |
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Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life
Dianna Hunter · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
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A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction... |
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Why Religion?: A Personal Story
ELAINE PAGELS · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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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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Who Is Michael Ovitz?
MICHAEL OVITZ · Portfolio
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one. As the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy, and fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent and helped shape the careers... |
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