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Guantánamo Diary

Mohamedou Ould Slahi · Little, Brown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

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...
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A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

Robyn Crawford · Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times Bestseller!

After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story.

Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with...
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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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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.

When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth...
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The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature

Bill Goldstein · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 351
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys...

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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

NICK BILTON · PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road.

In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly...
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Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

Mitch Albom · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of Memoir

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays...

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In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter

Angalia Bianca · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Before Angalia Bianca became one of Chicago's foremost authorities on violence interruption and prevention, receiving international recognition and a Resolution for Bravery from the City of Chicago, she was a criminal, a master manipulator, and a brilliant con artist. Bianca spent twelve...
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin · Liveright
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2016
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016
An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016
A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016
A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016
An NPR 2016's Great Read
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip

Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

The fascinating story of two American giants--Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist...
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Good Taste: Simple, Delicious Recipes for Family and Friends

Jane Green · Penguin Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

A lush and gorgeous guide to all things food and entertaining from Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of Jemima J, The Beach House, and Falling.

Jane Green's life has always revolved around her kitchen...

... from inviting...
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In Pieces

Sally Field · Simon & Schuster UK
Pages: 416
Format: eBook

'A memoir as soulful, wryly witty, and lyrical as it is candid and courageous ... Eye-opening and deeply affecting ... Arresting in its dark disclosures, vitality, humour, and grace, Field's deeply felt and beautifully written memoir illuminates the experiences and emotions on which...
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Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

Brooke McAlary · Sourcebooks
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover

Free yourself from the frantic and embrace the joy of slow...

"After reading this book, you'll have an amazing list of ingredients that can help you create a meaningful life, too!" -- The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus

"Finally, a slow...

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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women

Marianne Monson · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 198
Format: Print book

Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades...
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