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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Allen Kurzweil · Harpercollins
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The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry,... |
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Joan Biskupic · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover |
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To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009-made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable-flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto... |
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Invisible Killer: The Monster Behind the Mask
Diana Montane , · Titletown Publishing, LLC; 1 edition |
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When detectives respond to a crime scene in Orlando, Florida, during the ""summer of hurricanes"" in 2004, they find Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters in the garage of Michelle Jones' home, his niece. Inside the house, they find a scene of horror that reminds... |
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Chanel Bonfire: A Memoir
Wendy Lawless · Gallery Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In her stunning memoir, Wendy Lawless tells the often heartbreaking tale of her unconventional upbringing with an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother—a real-life Holly Golightly turned Mommie Dearest—and the uncommon sense of resilience that allowed her to rise above it all.Georgann... |
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Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back
Elisha Cooper · Pantheon
Pages: 146
Format: Print book |
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Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children s books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment,... |
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The Murder Code: A Novel
Steve Mosby · Pegasus
Format: Hardcover |
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Winner of the Crime Writersx Association Dagger in the Library AwardnbspThe American debut of CWA Dagger winner Steve Mosby who delivers a riveting psychological crime novel in the vein of Ian Rankin and Denise MinaDetective Inspector Andrew Hicks thinks he knows all about murder However... |
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Dark Days: A Memoir
D. Randall Blythe · Da Capo
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover |
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Lamb of god vocalist D. Randall Blythe finally tells the whole incredible story of his arrest, incarceration, trial, and acquittal for manslaughter in the Czech Republic over the tragic and accidental death of a concertgoer in this riveting, gripping, biting, bold, and brave memoir.On June... |
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Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days
Javon Beard · Weinstein Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary at Neverland, Michael Jackson spent his final years moving from city to city, living with his three children in virtual seclusiona futile attempt to escape a world that wouldnt leave him alone. During that time, two men served... |
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Alison Weir · Ballantine Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMany are familiar with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of England and the celebrated reign of his daughter, Elizabeth I. But it is often forgotten that the life of the first Tudor queen, Elizabeth of York, Henrys mother and Elizabeths grandmother,... |
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