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There is life after college.

Jeffrey Selingo · William Morrow
Pages: 297
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating...
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The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History

Darrin Lunde · Crown
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A captivating new account of how Theodore Roosevelt's lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement and determined his legacy as a founding father of today's museum naturalism No U.S. president is more popularly associated with nature...
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Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour

Richard Zacks · Doubleday
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain's late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy - and revived his world-class sense of humorMark Twain, the highest-paid...
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Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back

Nathan Bomey · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

What happens when an iconic American city goes broke?At exactly 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history -- the Motor City had finally hit rock bottom. But what led to that fateful day, and how did the city...
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No Map to This Country: One Family's Journey through Autism

Jennifer Noonan · Da Capo
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Part of the torture of autism is that the future is so impossibly unsure. Your child might become a fully functioning member of society and appear no different than anyone else, even if he does have to look at mouths instead of eyes and can't stand to give his own kids a bath....
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No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin · National Geographic
Pages: 223
Format: Print book

Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life - both in outer space and on earth - in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz...
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What I Told My Daughter: Lessons from Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women

Nina Tassler · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In What I Told My Daughter, entertainment executive Nina Tassler has brought together a powerful, diverse group of women - from Madeleine Albright to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from Dr. Susan Love to Whoopi Goldberg - to reflect on the best advice and counsel they have given their daughters either...
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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

Laura Cumming · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story - part art history and part mystery - of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial...
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

Joshua Hammer · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven.In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger...
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Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The First Unsolved Murder of the Victorian Age

Paul Thomas Murphy · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A vivid and violent investigation into the first unsolved murder case of the Victorian Era, by the author of the New York Times Notable Book Shooting Victoria.On April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London's remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling on a muddy...
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