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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Michael Farquhar · Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Print book |
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Michael Farquhar doesnt write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwins smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist  Scandal!... |
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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
Helga Weiss · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time. In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. Along with some 45,000 Jews living in the city, Helgas family endured the first wave of the Nazi invasion her father was denied... |
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I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend
Martin Short · Harpercollins
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian." Martin Short takes you on a rich,... |
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Ghost Medicine
David Thurlo · Forge Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Aimee and David Thurlo’s newest mystery Ghost Medicine, featuring Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah.Ella takes all her cases personally, but some cases are more personal than others. The murder of Harry Ute is one of those—not only because Ella and Harry... |
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Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany
Yascha Mounk · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover |
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A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man’s formative years in a country still struggling with its pastAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about... |
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Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Orville Schell · Random House
Format: Hardcover |
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Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today's foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country's rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long... |
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Target JFK: The Spy Who Killed Kennedy?
Robert K Wilcox · Regnery History
Pages: 356
Format: Print book |
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He was born in Buenos Aires and educated in Geneva and Cuba. He was a daring WWII paratrooper who parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day. He was a handsome, charming man who briefly worked as a Hollywood stuntman.He was also a spy who may have killed John F. Kennedy.The shocking new book... |
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Becoming Madame: Inspired by Reminiscences of a road less taken
Ollivia de La VallieÌ€re · Dog Ear Publishing
Pages: 209
Format: Print book |
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Have you ever wished that your life could be more than a treadmill, an endless succession of daily responsibilities coupled with the relentless drive to succeed? You wouldn't be alone. After the completion of a law degree, Ollivia pursued a legal career at a big-city law firm. Ambition... |
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Bleeder: A Memoir
Shelby Smoak · Michigan State University Press; 1 edition |
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I am Caucasian, five foot eleven, have sandy brown hair, blue eyes, and am a tender slip of bone. And I am at the hospital. A coming-of-age memoir for modern times, Bleeder is the incredibly compelling tale of author Shelby Smoak. A hemophiliac, Smoak discovered he had been infected with... |
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Report from the Interior
Paul Auster · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Paul Austers most intimate autobiographical work to dateIn the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers... |
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The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
Frederick Forsyth · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 332
Format: Print book |
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From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever - his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient... |
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Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
Sasha Martin · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 352
Format: Book |
Witty, warm, and poignant, food blogger Sasha Martin's memoir about cooking her way to happiness and self-acceptance is a culinary journey like no other.
Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook - and eat - a meal from every country in the world.... |
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Betwixt and Between
Jessica Stilling · Ig Publishing
Format: Paperback |
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Peter Pan meets The Lovely Bones in this beautifully rendered and emotionally devastating debut novel about where children go when they die. Betwixt and Between follows three intertwining narratives: that of Preston Tumbler, a ten-year-old boy who is poisoned by a neighbor and wakes up in Neverland,... |
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Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom
Allen West · Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover |
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The inspiring life and uncensored views of a veteran, patriot, former Congressman, conservative icon, and warrior for personal liberty… Over the course of the past few decades, Allen West has had many titles bestowed on him, among them Lt. Colonel, U.S. Representative, “Dad,”... |
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