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Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love

Abby Maslin · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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

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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The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War

Aaron Shulman · Ecco
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A gripping narrative history of Spain's most brilliant and troubled literary family - a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy - set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and beyondIn this absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative, journalist Aaron Shulman takes...
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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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