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Saving Sin City: William Travers Jerome, Stanford White, and the Original Crime of the Century

MARY CUMMINGS · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An operatic story of jealousy, obsession, vast fortunes, and moral crusaders set against the glittering backdrop of Gilded Age New York City.The murder of one of the most famous architects of the era, Stanford White -- whose mark on New York City is second to none -- became "The Crime...
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Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon

Iris Apfel · Harper Design
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

"Iris is one of my favorite subjects to photograph. She has four eyes in front and two eyes behind, and that's why she can see things in a round-about way. She flirts with us just enough to make us fall madly in love with her, as she once did to her beloved husband Carl. In the midst...
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The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel

Robert Mazur · Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Robert Mazur spent years undercover infiltrating the Medellín Cartel's criminal hierarchy. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended-some of whom still shape power across the globe-knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they...
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Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

BRETT ARCHIBALD · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." -- The Wall Street JournalIn April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a surf-charter boat, making a night-time crossing of the remote Mentawai Strait off Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle of a storm, ill with...
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Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Claire Harman · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ©2015
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing...
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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound

Daniel Swift · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A captivating biography of Ezra Pound told via the stories of his visitors at St. Elizabeths HospitalIn 1945, the great American poet Ezra Pound was deemed insane. He was due to stand trial for treason for his fascist broadcasts in Italy during the war. Instead, he escaped a possible death...
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Burned: A True Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't

Edward Humes · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving...
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The Individualist - Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations

Todd Rundgren · CLEOPATRA
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Legendary songwriter, guitarist, producer and now an offiical nominee for the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame, Todd Rundgren, pens his first ever autobiography reflecting on both his phenomenal career as well as his rollercoaster of a personal life! Over 200 pages of recollections, structured...
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No One Tells You This: A Memoir

Glynnis MacNicol · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

ELLE's The 30 Best Books to Read This Summer"A piercing examination of what it means both to love grown-up, complicated women - and to be one." -- Rebecca Traister, All The Single Ladies "Glynnis has written a book that is honest, hilarious and raw...it misses nothing."...
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No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

Clara Bensen · Running Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

One Dress, Three Weeks, Eight Countries - Zero BaggageNewly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking...
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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir

ZACK MCDERMOTT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot....
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter

Tom Clavin · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO?the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation...
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All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island

LIZA JESSIE PETERSON · CENTER ST
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px...
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How We Love Is How We Live

Common · Atria Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Common - the Grammy Award-, Academy Award-, and Golden Globe-winning musician, actor, and activist - follows up his New York Times bestselling memoir One Day It'll All Make Sense with this inspiring exploration of how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to take better...
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Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer

PAUL HAM · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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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