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Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir
Wendy Davis · Blue Rider Press
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Wendy Davis has had her share of tough fights. Raised by a single mother with a ninth-grade education, Davis began working after school at age fourteen to contribute to the family finances. By the time she was nineteen, she was living in a trailer park with a baby daughter and holding down... |
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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Terry Teachout · Gotham; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops A Life of Louis ArmstrongEdward Kennedy Duke Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth centuryand an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one not even his closest friends claimed to understand... |
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The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
Bela Zombory-Moldovan · NYRB Classics |
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Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World War An NYRB Classics Original The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away,... |
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The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Boris Johnson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth... |
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The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader
Jason Redman · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Decorated US navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman was critically wounded in 2007 while leading a mission against a key al-Qaida commander, when his mobility and assault forces team was ambushed and he was struck by machine-gun fire at point-blank range. During the intense recovery that followed,... |
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My Best Friend's Funeral: A Memoir
Roger W. Thompson · Thomas Nelson |
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There’s a certain kind of lost a boy feels in this world without a father. Tim felt it. I felt it. And we realized our only way out would be together. In an openhearted memoir of faith on the fringe, Roger Thompson meditates on the life and premature death of his best friend and business... |
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On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Jen Lin-Liu · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover |
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A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.Feasting her way through an Italian honeymoon, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked... |
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Epilogue: A Memoir
Will Boast · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Winner, The Rome Prize Will Boast thought hed lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought hed have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism.... |
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The Art of Neil Gaiman
Hayley Campbell · Harper Design
Format: Hardcover |
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With unprecedented access to Neil Gaiman's personal archives, author Hayley Campbell gives an insider's glimpse into the artistic inspirations and musings of one of the world's most visionary writers.Over the last twenty-five years, Neil Gaiman has mapped out a territory in the popular... |
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