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Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons
Eric Davis · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time. Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen,... |
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Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale
Dan Pearson · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafia. Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's mafia back to prominence in the 1990s.... |
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Yiyun Li · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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In her first nonfiction book, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable?"What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?"Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this... |
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The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central
Christine Pelisek · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 325
Format: Print book
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Christine Pelisek - petite, blonde, Canadian - seems the least likely reporter to have broken the story on the longest running serial killer west of the Mississippi. But in 2008 she did just that with her cover story for LA Weekly, shedding light on a suspected killer of women in South... |
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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
BETH ANN FENNELLY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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"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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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
Amy Gary · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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For decades children and their parents around the world have cuddled together to read Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. While the lulling words of these stories have formed nighttime rituals for millions, few know that these classic works were part of a publishing revolution led by Margaret... |
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Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
Deborah Beatriz Blum · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time. The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge... |
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Mean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned Childhood
Tom Shillue · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the stand-up comedian and host of Fox News' humorous late-night talk show Red Eye, a nostalgic look back at his childhood and the simple American values that shaped his worldview - a portrait of growing up in 1970s America.As a comedian and the host of Red Eye, whip-smart funny... |
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." -- Paula Hawkins, author of Into the Water... |
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We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir
Kelly Grey Carlisle · Sourcebooks
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Moving and complex, this is an exquisitely written tale of perseverance and unconditional love. A worthwhile addition to any collection." -- Library Journal, STARRED ReviewA mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both.Kelly... |
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Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis
Kathryn Sermak · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear. Miss D and Me is a story of two powerful... |
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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
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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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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days. They... |
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
HEATHER HARPHAM · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,... |
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