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Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption

Vanessa McGrady · Little A
Format: Hardcover

From a story first told in the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomes more than a new daughter into her home.After two years of waiting to adopt - slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair - a miracle finally...
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Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap

Judy Goldman · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads...
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Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service

Gary Sinise · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to cofounder of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company, world-famous actor, and tireless advocate for America's...
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II

Adam Makos · Ballantine Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner's journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel - and forge an enduring bond with his enemy. When Clarence Smoyer...
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement

Dave Cullen · Harper
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring...
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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician -- or so she thinks.When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When...
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The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation

Jodie Patterson · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the story of a family's history and transformation. As an African American growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1970s, when neighborhoods defined people,...
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The Warrior Code: 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You

Tee Marie Hanible · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From American Grit co-star, former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible comes the story of how she became a warrior...and how you can do it too.In The Warrior Code, entrepreneur, philanthropist, reality star and retired Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible serves up eleven principles...
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

Julie Yip-Williams · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more - a powerful exhortation to the living. That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle....
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter

Tom Clavin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation...
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