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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing - and one of the most decorated journalists of our time - twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue"I read everything he writes. Every time he writes...
 
 
The Art of Teaching Children: All I Learned from a Lifetime in the Classroom

PHILLIP DONE - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Kindle Edition

An essential guide for teachers and parents that's destined to become a classic, The Art of Teaching Children is one of those rare and masterful books that not only defines a craft but offers a magical reading experience.After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher...
 
 
Putin

PHILIP SHORT - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear...
 
 
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Meera Shah - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover‏

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling" - Cecile Richards, author ofMake TroubleAt a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the importanceofempathy, finding community and motivating...
 
 
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Ada Calhoun - ‎Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted...
 
 
Unprotected: A Memoir

Billy Porter - ‎Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter...
 
 
They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action

EDWARD GROSS - ‎St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

There have been iconic moments in the action movie genre over the years, but nothing has come close to matching the kinetic, balletic gun-fu of the John Wick films.In They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun-Fu and The New Age of Action,...
 
 
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

ISAAC FITZGERALD - ‎Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the SeasonA BookPage Most Anticipated Book of 2022"Any fool can confess. It's the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation."-MARLON...
 
 
Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America

Hugh Eakin - Crown
Format: Kindle Edition

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world - and Picasso the most famous artist alive - in the shadow of World War II"Fascinating, eloquent, wonderfully lucid, Picasso's War will change whatever we thought we knew...
 
 
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

Mark T. Esper - ‎William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration.From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through...