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The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family
Tom Shroder · Penguin Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A veteran of the Washington Post and Miami Herald among others, Shroder has made a career of investigative journalism and human-interest stories, from interviewing South American children who claim to have memories of past lives for his book Old Souls, to a former Marine suffering from... |
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride's family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite.Sally Ride made history as the first American... |
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M Blow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 242
Format: eBook
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A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place... |
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The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
James McGrath Morris · Da Capo Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Rich in evocative detail--from Paris cafés to Austrian chateaus, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West--The Ambulance Drivers tells the story of two aspiring writers, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, who met in World War I and forged a twenty-year friendship that... |
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
KHIZR KHAN · Random House
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream."Khan's aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands." - Kirkus Reviews In fewer than... |
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Exodus: A Memoir
Deborah Feldman · Plume
Pages: 288
Format: Book
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The author of the explosive New York Times-bestselling memoir Unorthodox chronicles her continuing journey as a single mother, an independent woman, and a religious refugee. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman walked away from the rampant oppression, abuse, and isolation... |
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A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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This bold new history recovers an unknown American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley. In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn · Penguin Press
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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A Long Way Home: A Memoir
Saroo Brierley · Berkley Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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As a little boy in India, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, from Australia, he found his way back. This is what happened in between.Born in a poor village in India, Saroo lived hand-to-mouth in a one room hut with his mother and three siblings ... until at age five,... |
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Bloom: Navigating Life and Style
Estee Lalonde · Appetite By Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From rising YouTube star Estée Lalonde comes a book that's about more than just living the perfect lifestyle; it's about giving readers the confidence to live the lifestyle that's perfect for you.What makes you happy? What makes you you? What defines your style? In Bloom, YouTube... |
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Breakaway Amish: Growing Up with the Bergholz Beard Cutters
Johnny Mast · MennoMedia
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
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I am the grandson of Bishop Sam Mullet, who was arrested for the Amish beard-cutting attacks. This is my story. Beard-cutting attacks on Amish people in the middle of the night. Five incidents. Nine victims. How could members of a Christian tradition known for peace and forgiveness enact... |
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