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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

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

"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

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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Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force

Dan Schilling · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of 23 comrades-in-arms.In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot...
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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

Daniel Okrent · Scribner
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

By the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call - the powerful, definitive, and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America close the immigration door to "inferiors" in the 1920s.A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications...
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KD: Kevin Durant's Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest

Marcus Thompson · Atria Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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

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

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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