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Tiger Woods

Jeff Benedict · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 490
Format: eBook

Based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woods's life - many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before - a sweeping, revelatory, and defining biography of an American icon.In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous...
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Rise: How a House Built a Family

Cara Brookins · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable.

After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn...

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Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime

Ben Blum · Doubleday
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account." - Jennifer Senior, New York Times

Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other

Alex Blum...
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

DANIEL MENDELSOHN · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece.

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate...
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Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

Sands Hall · Counterpoint
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"I could not put down this book -- it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." -- Karen E. Bender, author of Refund

In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology....

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Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black

Alan Light · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

An illustrated biography of Johnny Cash that tells his life story through never-before-seen personal photographs and memorabilia from the Cash family

Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black is a Cash biography like no other. It reveals Cash's personal and professional...
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We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out

Annie E Clark · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From young activists at the forefront of the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses, a collection of survivor stories that will connect with students and inform and inspire us allAcross the U.S. student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college...
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The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

JENIFER LEWIS · Amistad
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The "Mega Diva" and legendary star of Black-ish looks back on her memorable journey to fame and the unforgettable life lessons she learned along the way.

Jenifer Lewis keeps it real in this provocative and touching memoir by a mid-western girl with a dream whose journey...

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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...

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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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Ernest Hemingway: A New Life

James M Hutchisson · The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

To many, the life of Ernest Hemingway has taken on mythic proportions. From his romantic entanglements to his legendary bravado, the elements of Papa's persona have fascinated readers, turning Hemingway into such an outsized figure that it is almost impossible to imagine him as a real...

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The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir

JIMMY WEBB · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Jimmy Webb's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He's the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping...

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The Temporary Bride A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran

Jennifer Klinec · Twelve
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

For fans of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a true story of forbidden love set against the rich cultural and political backdrop of modern-day Iran. Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her thirties, she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment and travel...
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York's City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation

Brad Ricca · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover

Recipient of the Kirkus Star, Awarded to Books of Exceptional Merit
A 2017 True Crime Book for Summer, The New York Times Sunday Book Review

"An express train of a story." -Kirkus Reviews
"Heroic...her inspiring story demands a hearing."...
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More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

Elaine Welteroth · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms

Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering...
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