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Coming Ashore: A Memoir
Catherine Gildiner · ECW Press
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback |
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Picking up her story in the late '60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London's swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh... |
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In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
Joseph Luzzi · Harper Wave; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning - a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating... |
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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
Ali Wentworth · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover |
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The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet... |
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Good mourning
Elizabeth Meyer · Gallery Books, 2015.
Pages: 280
Format: Print book |
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"In this funny, insightful memoir, a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City{u2019}s Upper East Side. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country--where not even... |
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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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White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters
Mary Pflum Peterson · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback |
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In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them - television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption, and her battle to rescue her mother, a former nun, from compulsive hoarding.As a successful... |
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A Fine Romance
Candice Bergen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover |
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In the follow-up to Knock Wood - her bestselling "engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecating autobiography" (The New York Times) - Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling... |
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Cosby: His Life and Times
Mark Whitaker · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy. Far from the gentle worlds... |
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All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life
Andrew M. Cuomo · Harper
Format: Hardcover |
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In this full and frank memoir—a personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilience—New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along... |
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On Pluto : inside the mind of Alzheimer's
Greg O'Brien; Lisa Genova; David Shenk · Codfish Press
Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats |
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This is a book about living with Alzheimer’s, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor—a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease.Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.—and... |
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