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Jo Malone: My Story
Jo Malone · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Known around the world for her eponymous brand of fragrances and now her brand-new venture Jo Loves (soon to debut in the US) , Jo Malone tells the remarkable and inspiring story of her rise from humble beginnings to beloved business success.Jo Malone began her international fragrance... |
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Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir
Hof 's-Gravenhage. · Little A Pages: 252 Format: Hardcover
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Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family's rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would... |
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Go Slow: The Life of Julie London
Michael Owen · Chicago Review Press Pages: 296 Format: Hardcover
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It has been said that the records of singer and actress Julie London were purchased for their provocative, full-color cover photographs as frequently as they were for the music contained in their grooves. During the 1950s and '60s, her piercing blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair, and shapely... |
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The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir
Emma Reyes · Penguin Classics Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death... |
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Julissa Arce · Center Street Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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For an undocumented immigrant, what is the true cost of the American Dream? Julissa Arce shares her story in a riveting memoir.When she was 11 years old Julissa Arce left Mexico and came to the United States on a tourist visa to be reunited with her parents, who dreamed the journey would... |
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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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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne Merkin · Farrar Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly personalaccount... |
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My Days: Happy and Otherwise
Marion Ross · Kensington Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . . Before she was affectionately known to millions as "Mrs. C.," Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet... |
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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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Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
Stuart Jeffries · Verso Pages: 448 Format: Print book
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This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter todayIn 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent... |
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Harry: Life, Loss, and Love
Katie Nicholl · Hachette Books Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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In anticipation of the upcoming royal wedding comes a new in-depth biography of Prince Harry, from royal expert Katie Nicholl--journalist, broadcaster, and author of the bestselling William and Harry and Kate.From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded toddler, Prince... |
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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
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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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Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother's Story
David Payne · Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of August 2015"A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page." - New York TimesIn 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David Payne watched from his rearview mirror as his younger brother, George A., driving behind him in a two-man... |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi · Little, Brown Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee.Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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