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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir

Sherman Alexie · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of the most anticipated books of 2017--Entertainment Weekly and Bustle A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True...
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Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook

Clive James · Yale Univ Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were - and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving...
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The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide

John Brooks · Scribner, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director,...
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Arbitrary Stupid Goal

Tamara Shopsin · MCD
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world -- when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life." -- Miranda JulyIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara...
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression

David Leite · Dey Street Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite...
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The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty

Elizabeth L Silver · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Set against the unexplained stroke of the author's newborn daughter, this stunning, unflinchingly honest memoir is an thought-provoking reflection on uncertainty in medicine and in life.Growing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine....
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Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey

Nicola Tallis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A significant retelling of the often-misunderstood tale of Lady Jane Grey's journey through her trial and execution -- recalling the dangerous plots and web of deadly intrigue in which she became involuntarily tangled, and which ultimately led to a catastrophic conclusion. "Good people,...
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Out of Idaho

Regina Calcaterra · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival. They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic...
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The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Graham Balfour, Sir · Palala Press
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright...
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted

Laura Caldwell · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity....
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The Comfort Food Diaries

Emily Nunn · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.One life-changing night, reeling from her beloved...
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Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

Carolyn Porter · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man's fate during World War II.Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle...
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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

BETH ANN FENNELLY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband's sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." -- from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses...
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Toscanini: Musician of Conscience

HARVEY SACHS · Liveright
Pages: 992
Format: Hardcover

On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life is unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini -- recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth...
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Confidential Source Ninety-Six: The Making of America's Preeminent Confidential Informant

C.S. 96 · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE NINETY-SIX, the man who goes by the pseudonym Roman Caribe recounts the harrowing life he's lead as the most successful confidential informant in the history of U.S. law enforcement. A onetime mastermind narcotics distributor, Caribe first saw the tragedies caused...
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