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When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People
Gaffigan, Jeannie · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In a book that is The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat, Jeannie Gaffigan, writing partner and wife of bestselling author/comedian Jim Gaffigan, writes with humor and heart about the pear-sized brain tumor she had removed, the toll it took on her enormous family, and the priceless lessons she learned... |
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All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1863
Blumenthal, Sidney · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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Volume III of Sidney Blumenthal's "magisterial" and "masterful" biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, brings the prairie lawyer out of his wilderness into the presidency. Lincoln rises from defeat and obscurity to become the Commander-in-Chief who strikes... |
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
Everitt, Anthony · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built... |
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir
David Fajgenbaum · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure - and became a champion for a new approach to medical research."An extraordinary memoir . . . It belongs with Atul Gawande's writings and When Breath... |
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All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
Chapin, Sasha · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"A smart, funny, and slyly profound book about the dark ecstasies of obsessive love. Sasha Chapin is a gentlemanly Gonzo, a dirty Bond, and he writes like a dream."--Claudia Dey, author of HeartbreakerSasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert... |
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After the Lost Franklin Expedition: Lady Franklin and John Rae
Baxter, Peter
Format: Hardcover
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The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalized generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain's history of polar exploration.In... |
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Inside Out: A Memoir
Moore, Demi · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight - or the headlines.Even... |
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Year of the Monkey
Smith, Patti · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti... |
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Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
Brennan, Jake · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history.You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know... |
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