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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more... |
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NFL Century: The One-Hundred-Year Rise of America's Greatest Sports League
Joe Horrigan · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL's 100th anniversary season.
"I can think of no one better qualified - or more enthusiastic - to chronicle... |
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Condé Nast: The Man and His Empire -- A Biography
Susan Ronald · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Condé Nast's life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York... |
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Thank You for My Service
Mat Best · Bantam
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The unapologetic, laugh-your-ass-off military memoir both vets and civilians have been waiting for, from a five-tour Army Ranger turned YouTube phenomenon and zealous advocate for veterans
Members of the military's special operations branches... |
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Nights in White Castle: A Memoir
Steve Rushin · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Picking up where he left off in his acclaimed memoir Sting-Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin brilliantly captures a bygone era, and the thrills of new adulthood in the early 80s.
It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13-year-old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes... |
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Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL
R. D. Rosen · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making... |
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All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
Sasha Chapin · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"A smart, funny, and slyly profound book about the dark ecstasies of obsessive love. Sasha Chapin is a gentlemanly Gonzo, a dirty Bond, and he writes like a dream."
--Claudia Dey, author of Heartbreaker
Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs... |
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Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
Greg Laurie · Salem Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Join Greg Laurie, pastor and bestselling author of Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an American Icon, as he takes you on a personal journey into the life and legend of Johnny Cash.
At the peak of his career, Cash had done it all - living the ultimate rags-to-riches story... |
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Ian Urbina · Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear... |
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The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
Samantha Power · Dey Street Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy." The Education of an Idealist... |
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Moments of Truth: A Photographer's Experience of Kent State 1970
Howard Ruffner · The Kent State University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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A student journalist's photographic memoir of events surrounding the 1970 Kent State shootings Working as a photographer for the Kent State University student newspaper and yearbook, Howard Ruffner was a college sophomore when the tragic shootings of May 4, 1970, occurred -- a tragedy... |
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Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
Mike Thomson · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege.
Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged... |
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.
Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is... |
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The Life of Lou Reed: Notes from the Velvet Underground
Howard Sounes · Diversion Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty years after the concerts captured on the legendary album 1969: The Velvet Underground Live comes this illuminating biography of Lou Reed.
As band leader of the Velvet Underground and later a successful solo artist, Reed was much more than what the general public came... |
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All the Sweeter: Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care
Jean Minton · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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All the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system. Each of the twelve families interviewed has a dedicated chapter in which at least one representative tells their family's adoption story. Woven through these stories are topical... |
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow · Twelve
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row.
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The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
Peter Gatrell · Basic Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe
Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years. But as we consider the current refugee crisis, acclaimed historian... |
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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
Peter Frankopan · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a new, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.
"All roads used to lead to Rome. Now they lead... |
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Bathsheba Demuth · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between capitalism, communism, and Arctic ecology since the dawn of the industrial age. Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have... |
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"This is history at its most immediate and moving ... A marvelous and memorable book." - Jon Meacham
"Remarkable ... A priceless civic gift ... On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken."... |
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Country Music: An Illustrated History
Dayton Duncan · Knopf
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019
This gorgeously illustrated... |
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius
Bob Batchelor · Diversion Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"The fantastic story of George Remus makes the rest of the 'Roaring Twenties' look like the 'Boring Twenties' in comparison. It's all here: murder, mayhem - and high-priced hootch." - David Pietrusza, author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
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