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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
Eric Jager · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled... |
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Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit
Mark Hasara · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Afghan War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and moral lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, and in their everyday... |
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
Matthew Dennison · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three... |
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When in French: Love in a Second Language
Lauren Collins · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier - a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean... |
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Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
Sands Hall · Counterpoint
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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"I could not put down this book -- it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." -- Karen E. Bender, author of Refund In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. Her time... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House
Pages: 440
Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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It's Okay to Laugh:
Nora McInerny Purmort · Dey Street Books
Pages: 274
Format: Print book
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"An emotional rollercoaster of the highest order...It's Okay to Laugh is that rare gem of a read, equal parts heartwarming and hysterical, that'll make you laugh out loud, only to leave you tearing up a few pages later. I can't recommend it highly enough." - Lincoln Thompson,... |
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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
Michael Tisserand · Harpercollins
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged - and the deep secret he explored through his art.The creator of the greatest comic strip in history finally gets... |
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Organized Crime
Jim Whiting · Eldorado Ink
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Book by Whiting, Jim |
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
SARAH KRASNOSTEIN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes... |
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To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story... |
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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story
CECILE RICHARDS · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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To Make Change, You Have to Make Trouble From Cecile Richards - president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and a "heroine... |
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Trump and Me
Mark Singer · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race - in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants - he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.It... |
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I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
Touré · Atria Books; Original edition
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated journalist, TV personality, and award-winning author Touré investigates one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures in contemporary American culture PRINCE Drawing on new research and enlivened by Tourés unique pop-cultural fluency, I Would Die 4 U relies on surprising... |
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