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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales

Ali Wentworth · HarperCollins
Format: Audiobook

Read by the author - Ali Wentworth 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...
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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War

John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover

John McCain's evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Services...
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My Own Words

Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture.

My Own Words...
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

NICOLE CHUNG · Catapult
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection
An Official Junior Library Guild Selection
An ABA Indies Introduce Selection

"This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story,...
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World

Fredrik Backman · Atria Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world.

Things My Son Needs...
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Grace of Monaco: The True Story

Jeffrey Robinson · Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback

In one of the most famous romances of the twentieth century, Europes most eligible bachelor, Prince Rainier of Monaco, and Americas most beautiful movie star, the Academy Award-winning actress Grace Kelly, fell in love and married against the backdrop of the closest thing the modern world...
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Rivals unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rick Beyer · Hachette Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

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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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York...
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I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son

Kent Russell · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most ferociously brilliant and distinctive young voices in literary nonfiction: a debut shot through with violence, comedy, and feverish intensity that takes us on an odyssey into an American netherworld, exposing a raw personal journey along the way. Locked in battle with...
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The Apology

Eve Ensler · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

From Eve Ensler, author of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century--The Vagina Monologues--and one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Changed the World," comes a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.

Like millions of women,...

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Street Warrior: The True Story of the NYPD's Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him

RALPH FRIEDMAN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

2,000 arrests. 100 off-duty arrests. 6,000 assists. 15 shootings. 8 shot. 4 kills. These are not the performance statistics of an entire NYPD unit. They are the record that makes Detective 2nd Grade Ralph Friedman a legend.

Friedman was arguably the toughest cop ever to wear the shield...

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Born with Teeth: A Memoir

Kate Mulgrew · Little, Brown and Company,
Pages: 306
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences...
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A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz

Goran Rosenberg · Other Press (NY)
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father's attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August PrizeOn August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured...
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The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty and America's Forgotten Military Disaster

Michael M. Greenburg · ForeEdge
Format: Hardcover

At the height of the American Revolution in 1779, Massachusetts launched the Penobscot Expedition, a massive military and naval undertaking designed to force the British from the strategically important coast of Maine. What should have been an easy victory for the larger American force...
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Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius

Laurence Bergreen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

The definitive biography of the impoverished child, abandoned by his parents, who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius whose name still resonates today: Giacomo Casanova.

Today, "Casanova" is a synonym for "great lover," yet the real...
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