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Bodies in the Back Garden: True Stories of Brutal Murders Close to Home
Nigel Cawthorne · John Blake
Format: Book
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There is one problem which every killer must face: how to get rid of the body Murderer Dennis Nilsen famously cooked the corpses of his victims and flushed them down the toilet, only to be caught when the sewers blocked up. But his first 12 victims were disposed of in the back... |
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Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Debby Irving · Elephant Room Press
Format: Print book
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For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts... |
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Judy Melinek MD · Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Audio CD
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Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation—performing autopsies,... |
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Books for Living
Will Schwalbe · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from... |
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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Dan Lyons · Hachette Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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"Wildly entertaining ... Lyons has injected a dose of sanity into a world gone mad."--Ashlee Vance, New York Times-bestselling author of Elon MuskFor twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone... |
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Stronger
Jeff Bauman · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 244
Format: Print book
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When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote down seven words:... |
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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience as a fiercely intellectual... |
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Angelic Music: The Story of Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica
Corey Mead · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A jewel of musical history - the story of Ben Franklin's favorite invention, the glass armonica - including the composers who wrote for it (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, among others) ; Dr. Mesmer who used it to hypnotize; Marie Antoinette and the women who popularized it; its decline... |
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A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 365
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works -- and really doesn't -- in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become... |
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I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir
James Webb · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 388
Format: Hardcover
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James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, the classic novel of the Vietnam War - former U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy; recipient of the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart as a combat Marine; and a self-described "military brat" - has written an extraordinary memoir of his early... |
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