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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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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