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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

KELLY SUNDBERG · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"It is a hell of a thing to write about brutality and suffering with strength, grace, generosity and beauty. That's precisely what Kelly Sundberg has done in her gripping memoir about marriage and domestic violence. Sundberg's honesty is astonishing, how she laid so much of herself...
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When the Screaming Stops: The Dark History of the Bay City Rollers

SIMON SPENCE · Overlook-Omnibus
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

The shocking story of the boy band that became immersed in the cult-like world of their managerWhat happened to the Bay City Rollers is one of the greatest scandals of the music industry. This unflinching book reveals the dark truth behind "Rollermania," which gripped the UK in the 1970s...
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Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving

Michelle Stevens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist - an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks...
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Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church

Libby Phelps · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

It wasn't until Libby Phelps was an adult, a twenty-five year old, that she escaped the Westboro Baptist Church. She is the granddaughter of its founder, Fred Phelps, and when she left, the church and its values were all she'd known. She didn't tell her family she was leaving. It happened...
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Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

DANIEL WOLFF · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America - woven together in one epic...
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Two's Company: A Fifty-Year Romance with Lessons Learned in Love, Life & Business

Suzanne Somers · Harmony
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In her most personal and inspiring book yet, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Somers shows readers how to shape a healthy, lasting relationship through the lens of her 50-year love affair with her husband, Alan Hamel. For the first time, Suzanne will expose the inner workings of her marriage:...
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The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers

Craig Harrison sniper · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan,...
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir

John Oates · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never...
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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

JAMIE BERNSTEIN · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television...
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Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

Mark Woods · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national...
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime

Cutter Wood · Algonquin Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes the facts aren't the only truth. When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest - her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car - and the residents...
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Viet Thanh Nguyen · Abrams Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches,...
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Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed

Jessica Weisberg · Nation Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice--from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss MannersAmericans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves...
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Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty

LEE EDWARDS · Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Lee Edwards has always been in the forefront of the struggle to restore America, to bring it back to its ancient moorings.?.?.?. Lee has fought hard with uncommon intelligence and resourcefulness. But he has fought fair and always without rancor.?.?.?. Truly, a man for all seasons."...
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The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home

Sally Mott Freeman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 588
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary, real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history - and save one of their own.They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter...
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