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LaTonya Yvette · Abrams Image
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and inspired collection of essays and real-world advice on style, beauty, and motherhood from the popular blogger LaTonya Yvette LaTonya Yvette, the blogger and stylist behind the eponymous site, is unapologetically candid about life's trials, including motherhood, love, death,...
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This America: The Case for the Nation

Jill Lepore · Liveright
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This...
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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

Karen Kilgariff · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Book

The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount...
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Howard Stern Comes Again

Howard Stern · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president. Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities - discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality,...
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy

Dan Abrams · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 320
Format: Book

A President on Trial. A Reputation at Stake. ABC News legal correspondent Dan Abrams reveals the story of Teddy Roosevelt’s last stand—an epic courtroom battle against corruption—in this thrilling follow-up to the New York Timesbestseller Lincoln’s...
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Tembi Locke · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street...
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National Geographic Spectacle: Rare and Astonishing Photographs

Mark Thiessen · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An exquisite photo collection showcasing awe-inducing moments from around the world, including the aurora borealis, cities made of neon lights, a great wildebeest migration, a contortionist on display--and more.In life, there are certain sights that are as beautiful as they are unforgettable--from...
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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Katherine Eban · Ecco
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale - The Jungle for pharmaceuticalsMany have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health...
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Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

Bill Geist · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author...
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A Dog Named Beautiful: A Marine, a Dog, and a Long Road Trip Home

Rob Kugler · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An uplifting and unforgettable story of a US Marine, his extraordinary dog, and the road trip of a lifetime.When US Marine Rob Kugler returns from war he had given up not only a year of his life in service to his country, but he had also lost a brother in the fighting as well. Lost in grief,...
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins

Annie Jacobsen · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Surprise... your target.Kill... your enemy.Vanish... without a trace.The untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective,...
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Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times

Scott Pelley · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring memoir from the front lines of history by award-winning 60 Minutes correspondent Scott PelleyDon't ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what's the meaning of you?With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people who discovered the meaning...
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Comedy Sex God

Pete Holmes · Harper Wave
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.Pete Holmes is the host of the hugely successful podcast, You Made...
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Best Perennials for Sun and Shade

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A quick-reference guide to planting perennials for gardeners with little experience and time Choosing perennials for a garden can be a daunting task, considering that there are thousands of choices. Yarrow? Columbine? Aster? To make the selection easier, this guide profiles the easiest-to-grow...
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

Tony Horwitz · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young travel...
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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

Daniel Okrent · Scribner
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

By the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call - the powerful, definitive, and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America close the immigration door to "inferiors" in the 1920s.A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications...
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Cooking with Miss Quad: Live, Laugh, Love and Eat

Quad Webb · Countryman Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

More than 100 delicious recipes from the one-and-only Quad Webb Welcome to Quad's kitchen. Get ready to cook with spirit, eat with gusto, and laugh with abandon. Whether you follow her on Bravo's Married to Medicine, are a regular watcher of Sister Circle, or have tuned into her Cooking...
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Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations

Craig Ferguson · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit. Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact...
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How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

Kate Mulgrew · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents....
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Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution

Michiel Roscam Abbing · Island Press
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

Plastics have transformed every aspect of our lives. Yet the very properties that make them attractive - they are cheap to make, light, and durable - spell disaster when trash makes its way into the environment. Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution is a beautifully-illustrated survey...
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It's Great to Suck at Something: The Exceptional Benefits of Being Unexceptional

Karen Rinaldi · Atria Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Discover how the freedom of sucking at something can help you build resilience, embrace imperfection, and find joy in the pursuit rather than the goal.What if the secret to resilience and joy is the one thing we've been taught to avoid? When was the last time you tried something new? Something...
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The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

Bee Wilson · Basic Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats--and shows us how we can change it for the betterFood is one of life's great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion?Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone...
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No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

Ani DiFranco · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFrancoIn her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling,...
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell · Melville House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our worldNothing is harder to do these...
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A Pebble for Your Thoughts: How One Kindness Rock At the Right Moment Can Change Your Life

Megan Murphy · Mango
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback

#1 Amazon New Release! -- Kindness Rocks as seen on the Today showFans of The Kindness Challenge and the Chicken Soup For The Soul books will love A Pebble for Your Thoughts.A rock for each kindness: It all started with a single stone on a beach in Cape Cod and now spans the globe. The Kindness...
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The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

John E. Douglas · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling...
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It's About Time: The Art of Choosing the Meaningful Over the Urgent

Valorie Burton · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Discover the eternal value of your finite time and intentionally choose the meaningful over the urgent every single day. Reimagine a life that is meaningful, at a pace that is natural, with a load that is doable.Our culture makes it so that even the most organized and efficient among us feels...
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

Gordon H. Chang · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek...
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A Craftsman's Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning

Eric Gorges · Algonquin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The host of TV's A Craftsman's Legacy makes the case that the craftsman's way--the philosophy, the skills, and the mindset--can provide a helpful blueprint for all of us in our increasingly hurried, mass-manufactured world. Today, even as so many of us spend hours in front of screens and in the virtual...
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Cities: The First 6,000 Years

Monica L. Smith · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance.Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and that number is growing....
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The Spectacle of Illusion: Deception, Magic and the Paranormal

Matthew Tompkins · D.A.P.
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The tricks and props of magic and spiritualism: how magicians and psychics fooled the world -- and what scientists can learn from them In The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as practised...
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