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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
Cary, Lorene · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Lorene Cary's grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew -- even their shared past.From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent "ladysitting"... |
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946
Giddins, Gary · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 736 Format: Hardcover
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"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark... |
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My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search For Home
Dougherty, Michael Brendan · Sentinel Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty delivers a meditation on belonging, fatherhood, and nationalism, through a series of letters to his estranged Irish father.The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up before he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty... |
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KD: Kevin Durant's Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest
Marcus Thompson · Atria Books Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson delivers the definitive biography of one of the most extraordinary basketball players in NBA history - Kevin Durant. The NBA has never seen a player quite like Kevin Durant. Larry Bird wasn't as quick, Magic Johnson... |
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Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
McManus, John C. · Dutton Caliber Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die"This eloquent and powerful narrative is military history written the way it should be." - James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian "Out... |
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Finding Zsa Zsa: The Gabors behind the Legend
Sam Staggs · Kensington Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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For decades, the Gabor dynasty was the epitome of glamour and fairy tale success. But as biographer, film historian, and Gabor family friend Sam Staggs reveals, behind the headlines is a true story more dramatic, fabulous, and surprising than their self-styled legend would have you believe... |
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
Richard Zoglin · Simon & Schuster Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal... |
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Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood
Straczynski, J. Michael · Harper Voyager Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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With an introduction by Neil Gaiman!In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family... |
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