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Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love
Abby Maslin · Dutton Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered - and they learned to love again. When Abby Maslin's husband, TC, didn't make it home... |
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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Matti Friedman · Algonquin Books Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it's all true. The four spies at the center of this story were part... |
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On the Back of a Turtle: A Narrative of the Huron-Wyandot People
Lloyd E. Divine Jr. · Trillium Pages: 440 Format: Hardcover
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On the Back of a Turtle is an all-inclusive history of the Huron-Wyandot people - from before the creation of the Great Island, now called North America, to the present day. No other full-length history of the Huron-Wyandot people exists. Presented in a conversational, easy-to-read style,... |
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Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer
Sue Nelson · Chicago Review Press Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to complete NASA's 1961 Women in Space program. Funk breezed through the rigorous physical and mental tests, her scores beating those of many of the male candidates - even John Glenn. Just one week before Funk was to enter... |
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The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
William J. Burns · Random House Pages: 512 Format: Hardcover
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From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic) - a man who served five presidents and ten secretaries of state - comes an impassioned argument for the enduring value of diplomacy in an increasingly volatile world. Over the course of more than three decades... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas · Random House Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's... |
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Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob
Patrick Picciarelli · St. Martin's Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Hollywood Godfather is Gianni Russo's over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked... |
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
Cara Robertson · Simon & Schuster Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology - the trial of Lizzie Borden - based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence.The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When... |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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