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Filling Her Shoes: A Memoir of an Inherited Family

Betsy Graziani Fasbinder · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

On the day that she decided to marry a widower -- also a long-time friend -- Betsy Graziani Fasbinder knew that she wasn't only gaining a husband, she was inheriting a son. Unlike many stepmothers, Betsy didn't have to struggle with an ex, or court battles, or the weekend shuffle...
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The Spy's Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia

Bryan Denson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

"A haunting book as fast paced and as exciting as the best spy novel . . . and it's all true." - Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanInvestigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son co-conspirators...
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Born with Teeth: A Memoir

Kate Mulgrew · Little, Brown and Company,
Pages: 306
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences...
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman · Doubleday Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA's Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While...
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Candice Millard · Doubleday
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime...
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Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

Nigel Cliff · Harper
Pages: 452
Format: Print book

Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of the American and Russian people, and eased tensions between two superpowers on the brink of nuclear...
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Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life

Eve MacDonald · Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into Rome's own heartland to fight the Second...
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Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters

Diane Jacobs · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters.   “Never sisters loved each other better than we.”—Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June...
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Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza

Colin Atrophy Hagendorf · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Over the course of two years, a twenty-something punk rocker eats a cheese slice from every pizzeria in New York City, gets sober, falls in love, and starts a blog that captures headlines around the world--he is the Slice Harvester, and this is his story. Since its arrival on US shores...
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Toscanini: Musician of Conscience

HARVEY SACHS · Liveright
Pages: 992
Format: Hardcover

On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life is unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini -- recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth...
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

Dan Hampton · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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Hank : the short life and long country road of hank williams

Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country music's founding father.After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams?a frail, flawed man who had become country music's most compelling and popular star?instantly morphed into its first tragic...
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Five Years in Heaven: The Unlikely Friendship that Answered Life's Greatest Questions

John Schlimm · Image
Format: Hardcover

What is heaven on earth? The answer lies in this true story of one young man's journey to find hope and purpose with the help of an unlikely teacher--a compassionate and wise old nun, whom the world had long-forgotten. By the time Harvard-educated John Schlimm turned 31 years old, he had worked...
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The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin

Tracey Helton Mitchell · Seal Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good. With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, The Big Fix tells...
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

Sarah Churchwell · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 399
Format: Hardcover

Kirkus (STARRED review)"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she's earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page."The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame,...
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