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Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq

Morgan Lerette - Knox Press
Format: Hardcover

Guns, Girls, and Greed is an unvarnished, behind-the-scenes, tell-all account of the scathing and dangerous life of mercenaries at war in Iraq.. Experience the world of private contractors conducting high-threat missions for a nascent Iraqi government in the hopes of rebuilding after the fall...
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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. . While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster...
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Kat the Dog: The remarkable tale of a rescued Spanish water dog

Alyson Sheldrake - Tadornini Publishing
Format: Paperback

A CAPTIVATING AND EMOTIONAL STORY OF SURVIVAL AND SECOND CHANCES. Escaping from a wretched existence on a rundown farm, a young Spanish water dog goes on the quest of a lifetime, in search of a family to love her and a place to call home. Follow Kat the Dog as she tells her heart-warming...
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Wild Colts Make the Best Horses: The Intrepid Life of Abigail Adams

Mary Rae Watry Mauch - Xlibris Us
Format: Hardcover

Join an adventure walking in the shoes of Abigail Adams, wife of the second President of the United States, John Adams. Many stepping stones along this journey are first-hand accounts of Abigail's correspondence before, during, and after the birth of her nation. Her forthright, knowledgeable...
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Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Trish O'Kane - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid...
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Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

Savannah Guthrie - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection and "does not require us to ignore... the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past it." This openhearted offering inspires. - Publishers WeeklyMostly...
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Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely Life

Richard Paul Evans - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays.. Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul...
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Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

Lisa G. Bailey - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor,Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.. Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic...
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Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

Brontez Purnell - MCD
Format: Hardcover

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in the truest sense. Reading Ten Bridges I've Burnt, I felt tucked-in with him, along for the intimate ride, and paused only once to write down a part I'd been looking...
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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of TinseltownFrom the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all -- a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating...
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