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Backstage Pass
Paul Stanley · HarperOne Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author and front man and rhythm guitarist of KISS grants fans an all-access backstage pass to his personal life and shows them how to pursue a rock 'n' roll lifestyle of their own, offering hard-won advice from a music legend.In this follow-up to his popular... |
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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
ANN HOOD · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 186 Format: Hardcover
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A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story... |
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
Laurie Gwen Shapiro · Simon & Schuster Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great... |
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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein
JAMIE BERNSTEIN · Harper Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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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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Consequence: A Memoir
Eric Fair · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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A man questions everything--his faith, his morality, his country--as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay) "Remarkable... Both an agonized confession and a chilling expose of one of the darkest... |
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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
LENORA CHU · Harper Pages: 347 Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors' PickIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education... |
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
GABRIELLE UNION · Dey Street Books Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,... |
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Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal
Jonathan Green · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. The use of crack cocaine surged, replacing heroin as the high of choice. Drug dealers claimed... |
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Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol
Steve Jones · Da Capo Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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Ask anyone who knows about music and they'll tell you: without Steve Jones, punk rock would not exist. This is not hyperbole. The prototypical street-urchin-turned-Sex-Pistols-guitarist was the inspiration for and creator of the punk movement, which started shaking the culture in late... |
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 248 Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive... |
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Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer
PAUL HAM · Pegasus Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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By looking deeply into the Führer's childhood, war experiences, and early political career, this rigorous narrative seeks to answer this question: How did the early, defining years of Hitler's life affect his rise to power? When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years... |
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No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run
Tyler Wetherall · St. Martin's Press Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of growing up on the run -- and what happens when it comes to a stop."Lucid, tender, exquisitely re-imagined, and compulsively readable." -- Jessica Nelson, author of If Only You People Could Follow Directions"In this wondrous and richly detailed coming of age story,... |
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You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
PIPER WEISS · William Morrow Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir - The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep - that presents an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within Manhattan's exclusive prep-school scene in the early 1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession... |
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The Book of Separation
TOVA MIRVIS · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life.... |
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