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Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

Stanton, Maureen · HighBridge Audio
Format: Hardcover

The "mesmerizing . . . daring and important"* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus IIIFor Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line ("If you don't...
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Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist

Andrew Robinson · Yale University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life - first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully...
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

Isha Sesay · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

"It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha Sesay's indispensable and gripping account of the brutal abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists provides a stark...
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The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America

Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep researchReaders around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's...
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Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch

Jacobs, Alexandra · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The ebullient, troubled life of a Broadway legend who became a heroine to a younger generationStill Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch's life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway's great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression...
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The King's War: The Friendship of George VI and Lionel Logue During World War II

Conradi, Peter · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Following the New York Times bestselling The King's Speech, this eagerly anticipated sequel takes King George VI and his confidant and speech therapist Lionel Logue into the darkest days of World War II. The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September...
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Enough: Notes From a Woman Who Has Finally Found It

Ahern, Shauna M. · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

For women everywhere, a collection of fierce and often funny personal essays on finding enough, from writer Shauna M. Ahern, of Gluten-Free Girl fame.Like so many American women, Shauna M. Ahern spent decades feeling not good enough about her body, about money, and about her worth in this...
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Hitler: A Biography

Peter Longerich · Oxford University Press
Pages: 1344
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimes

Acclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography....
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Me: Elton John Official Autobiography

Elton John · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend.Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew...
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Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

John Hodgman · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, leaves vacation behind and gets back to work as a still somewhat famous person . . . and then loses his jobAfter spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent,...
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