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Bettyville: A Memoir
George Hodgman · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A beautifully crafted memoir, rich with humor and wisdom." - Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club"The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is already funny, and George... |
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Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir
Claire McCaskill · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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The female senator from Missouri shares her inspiring story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexist slings, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies - and finding joy along the way.Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women... |
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The ordinary spaceman : from boyhood dreams to astronaut
Clayton C Anderson · University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Pages: 348
Format: Print book |
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"A memoir chronicling Clayton Anderson's quest to become an astronaut. From his childhood to working for NASA, and then eventually becoming an astronaut"--"What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover |
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Patrick J. Buchanan · Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover |
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Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962... |
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Beloved Strangers: A Memoir
Maria Chaudhuri · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 199
Format: Hardcover |
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One of Maria Chaudhuri's early memories growing up in Dhaka was planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Home was not an especially unhappy place, but in Maria's family, joy was ephemeral. With a mother who yearned for the mountains and the solitariness and freedom to pursue... |
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Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
Mara Wilson · Penguin Books
Pages: 259
Format: Print book |
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""Growing up, I wanted to BE Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight."--Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City "Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking, Where Am I Now? reminds you that no matter how unique your life is, some things bind us all together."... |
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Behind the Scenes
Judi Dench · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in York to her scene-stealing performances as 'M' in the James Bond films, Dame Judi Dench's professional life has consisted of non-stop acting, leading to numerous accolades, including an Academy Award for her performance as Queen... |
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Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart
Lisa Rogak · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover |
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With his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart became one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media. Biographer Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to stardom. She follows him from his early days growing up in New Jersey,... |
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 258
Format: Print book |
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New York Times Bestseller"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's... |
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