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Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy, 1918-1951

Michael Holroyd · Random House
Pages: 545
Format: Hardcover

When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment...
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The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom

Blaine Harden · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American handsIn The Great Leader and the Fighter...
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

Kate Bolick · Crown
Format: Hardcover

"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"--
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The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader

Jason Redman · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

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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Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"

Jerome Loving · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America.Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence...
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

PAMELA PAUL · HENRY HOLT
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her lifeFor twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books...
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My Best Friend's Funeral: A Memoir

Roger W. Thompson · Thomas Nelson
Format: Book

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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Death of a Nightingale

Lene Kaaberbol · Soho Crime; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

From the Nordic noir duo who brought you The New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase comes a chilling new thriller with a mystery seventy-years in the making.Nina. Natasha. Olga. Three women united by one terrifying secret. But only one of them has killed to keep it.Natasha Doroshenko,...
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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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Lifesaving Lessons: Notes from an Accidental Mother

Linda Greenlaw · Viking
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature - a newly adopted teenage daughterLinda Greenlaw isn't a woman who shies away from a challenge - a nationally renowned swordfish boat captain made famous in the film The Perfect Storm, Greenlaw is also a bestselling...
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Chasing the Amish Dream: My Life as a Young Amish Bachelor

Loren Beachy · Herald Press
Format: Print book

Life in author Loren Beachy's Amish community brims with old-fashioned box socials, smart-alecky students, and pranks involving pink duct tape and black pepper. Meet the young women who manage to be late for church twice in one day and the man who plans to fight drowsiness by jogging beside...
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Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir

STEVE RUSHIN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhoodIt's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons...
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The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

Frederick Forsyth · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 332
Format: Print book

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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No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet

Molly Knight Raskin · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It’s the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years...
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