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One by One: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the Shadows of Opioid America

Nicholas Bush · Apollo Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A passionate and heartrending memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America's new health crisis. Behind closed doors, thirty-six million people around the world abuse opioids, three million of them are in the US. Nick...
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Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

Karina Longworth · Custom House
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power...
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Hitler's Wartime Conversations: His Personal Thoughts as Recorded by Martin Bormann

Bob Carruthers · Pen and Sword Military
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

After dinner at the Wolfs Lair it was Hitlers custom to retire to his private quarters where Hitler and his entourage often listened to gramophone records of Beethoven symphonies, selections from Wagner while Hitler would hold forth with lengthy and rambling monologues touching on a wide...
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Ten Years at Hitler's Side: The Testimony of Wilhelm Keitel

Bob Carruthers · Pen and Sword Military
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

In October 1946, Wilhelm Keitel was executed by hanging after being sentenced to death at the Nuremburg Trials. His road to this point was a long and controversial one, from the heady days of the surrender of France, to the eventual fall of Berlin and his subsequent arrest. There were few men better...
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Trump / Russia: The Corruption of a Dealmaker and the Takeover of the White House

SETH HETTENA · Melville House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the model of David Cay Johnston's MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, a shocking examination by an acclaimed investigative journalist of the history of collusion between Russia and the President of the United States.Is Donald Trump the most corrupt president in American history? A celebrated...
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Late-Life Love: A Memoir

SUSAN GUBAR · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging." -- Stephen GreenblattOn Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles...
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Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debates, Causes, and Responses

Jaclyn Schildkraut · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover

This work examines mass shootings in the United States, focusing on events from 1966 to 2016. In addition to providing essential information about each shooting, it surveys underlying causes of such events and potential reforms to prevent future ones.* Helps readers to understand a controversial...
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I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

ABBI JACOBSON · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned to drive across...
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The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

Matt Gutman · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles...
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Lindsey Hilsum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,...
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