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Power Forward: My Presidential Education
Reggie Love · Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover |
Reggie Love is a unique witness to history, whose introduction to Washington was working in Junior Senator Barack Obama's mailroom. As "body man" to Obama during his first presidential campaign, Love's job was to stay one step behind the candidate, but think and act three... |
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A Farm Dies Once a Year: A Memoir
Arlo Crawford · Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover |
A Book of the Month for GQ, The New Yorker, and Flavorwire"Beautifully told…In this one season of life, Crawford's writing about the work, people, nature and his family legacy reveals much about a simple life, and reminds us all to appreciate life's riches."--Seattle... |
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Marc N Peyser · Nan A. Talese / Doubleday Pages: 332 Format: Print book |
A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century. When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter... |
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Jung Chang · Knopf; First American Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
A New York Times Notable BookEmpress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s... |
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Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home
Nina Stibbe · Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover |
"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, BernadetteIn 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively... |
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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Tom Robbins · HarperCollins Publishers Pages: 362 Format: Print book |
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels - including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce... |
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
Alysia Abbott · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover |
A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst... |
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I Am Troy Davis
Jen Marlowe · Haymarket Books Format: Paperback |
ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2011, Troy Anthony Davis was put to death by the State of Georgia. Davis’s execution was protested by hundreds of thousands across the globe. How did one man capture the world’s imagination and become the iconic face for the campaign to end the death penalty?I... |
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I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
Lee Grant · Blue Rider Press Pages: 463 Format: Hardcover |
Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legÂendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue "It... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Blanche Wiesen Cook · Viking Pages: 688 Format: Print book |
"Outstanding ... A winning concluding volume in a series that does for Eleanor Roosevelt what Robert Caro has done for Lyndon Johnson." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewThe final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady.Historians, politicians, critics,... |
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Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
Michael Shelden · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchills... |
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