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Nefertiti and Cleopatra: Queen-Monarchs of Ancient Egypt
Julia Samson · Barnes & Noble Books
Pages: 150
Format: Book
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A vivid account of two female pharaohs; beautiful Nefertiti (1367-1350 BC) and mysterious Cleopatra (51-30 BC) . Both politically adept, they also distinguished themselves in their love for the greatest men of their day: Nefertiti for the sun-worshipping Akhenaten, and Cleopatra for Julius... |
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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
Joseph Kim · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 274
Format: Print book
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A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young... |
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The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution
ROGER STONE · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Theodore White's landmark books, the definitive look at how Donald J. Trump shocked the world to become president From Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, comes... |
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer · Gallery Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family
EMILY JANE FOX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President's children. She's developed a personal relationship with Ivanka and has cultivated sources close to Eric, Donald Jr., and Tiffany. She has scoured... |
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive... |
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The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
JONATHAN SANTLOFER · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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A moving, page-turning chronicle of a husband's loss and the story of a loving, modern marriage"This is deeply moving ... beautifully written and modulated, with a dollop of droll, black humor. It is such an achievement, like running uphill against a strong wind."--Joyce Carol... |
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A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
Mary Elizabeth Williams · National Geographic
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death - and be restored to life.After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma - a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer - journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock.... |
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Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
Christina Rickardsson · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir of one woman's fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given.Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history:... |
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42 acres of memories 2nd edition
Mrs Mary Dudo Bucklin · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
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A series of short stories about growing up on a farm in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula in the 1940's and 50's. |
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence,... |
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946
GARY GIDDINS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 736
Format: Hardcover
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"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark... |
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Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
Michelle Stevens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist - an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks... |
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