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Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Shannon Leone Fowler · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took - through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond - to find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand.In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler,... |
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Sybrina Fulton · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 331
Format: Print book
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Trayvon Martin's parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement. On a February evening in 2012, in a small town in central Florida, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking... |
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Rivals unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Rick Beyer · Hachette Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry.The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across... |
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Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
Melissa Stephenson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Wild, a searing memoir about one woman's road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate reaction... |
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Jenny Nordberg · Crown
Pages: 353
Format: eBook
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An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girlIn Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune.... |
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Morgue: A Life in Death
Vincent Dimaio · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 268
Format: Print book
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Forensic science is booming. TV dramas, books and movies have made morgues cool. Complex technology and intricate research can take curdled blood, bone shards, and flakes of skin and turn them into justice. And Vincent Di Maio, MD, son of a famous New York City medical examiner, is one of the lions... |
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Unwifeable: A Memoir
Mandy Stadtmiller · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor and brilliant wit.My... |
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Power Forward: My Presidential Education
Reggie Love · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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A Washington Post bestseller, Power Forward is a compelling professional coming-of-age story from Reggie Love, the man who spent more time with Barack Obama during his historic first campaign and term than anyone else.Reggie Love is a unique witness to history, whose introduction to Washington... |
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,... |
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Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart
Lisa Rogak · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller Since his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart has become one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media. In Angry Optimist, biographer Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to stardom. She follows... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy · Little
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
BECKY AIKMAN · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"You've always been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, having just outrun the police in a car chase and locked an officer in the trunk of his own car. "This is just the first chance you've had to express yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw... |
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PDMost of us have never heard... |
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Wild and Precious Life
Deborah Ziegler · Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard - a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor - this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter's spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year of life as she chose her right to die with... |
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