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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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Isabella: The Warrior Queen

Kirstin Downey · Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity...
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Jo Malone: My Story

Jo Malone · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Known around the world for her eponymous brand of fragrances and now her brand-new venture Jo Loves (soon to debut in the US) , Jo Malone tells the remarkable and inspiring story of her rise from humble beginnings to beloved business success.Jo Malone began her international fragrance...
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir

Nadja Spiegelman · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A memoir of mothers and daughters - and mothers as daughters - traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers,...
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Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker

Thomas Kunkel · Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer - author of Joe Gould's Secret and Up in the Old Hotel - and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history's greatest disappearing acts. Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph...
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Believer: My Forty Years in Politics

David Axelrod · Penguin Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Book Review"A stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years."A New York Times BestsellerDavid Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young journalist investigating city corruption, a campaign consultant guiding underdog candidates against...
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Die Young with Me: A Memoir

Rob Rufus · Touchstone Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In the tradition of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes the incredibly moving true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer and how music was the one thing that helped him get through his darkest days.Punk's not dead in rural West Virginia. In fact,...
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Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America

C. Nicole Mason · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life... So begins Born Bright, C. Nicole...
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Players First: Coaching from the Inside Out

John Calipari · Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: eBook

Now with a new chapter on the Wildcats' legendary comeback in the 2014 Final FourJohn Calipari, one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history, presents the world of college basketball from the coach's chair, unvarnished and straight from the heart. Players First is Calipari's...
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir

Viv Albertine · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Kindle Edition

"Ms. Albertine's book is wiry and cogent and fearless. ... Her book has an honest, lo-fi grace. If it were better written, it would be worse." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Forget Katniss And Tris - Viv Albertine Is Your New Hero." - MTV.comThe Rough Trade #1 Book...
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