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Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home
Alison Singh Gee · St. Martin's Press
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How far would you travel for love? In her sparkling memoir, journalist Alison Singh Gee learns that love, riches, and a place to call home can be found in the most unexpected places. Alison Singh Gee was a glamorous magazine writer with a serious Jimmy Choo habit, a weakness for five-star... |
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M Gates · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 618
Format: Hardcover |
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left... |
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The Undertaker's Daughter
Kate Mayfield · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover |
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What if the place you called "home" happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir evocative of Six Feet Under and The Help, with a hint of Mary Roach's Stiff.The first time I touched... |
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan · Scribner
Format: Hardcover |
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An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worlds attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude... |
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Becoming Mr. October
Reggie Jackson · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years—1977 and 1978—when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legendIn the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A’s dynasty, which... |
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Sidelined: Overcoming Odds through Unity, Passion, and Perseverance
Chuck Pagano · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover |
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Chuck Pagano, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has become one of the most inspiring, intriguing personalities in the game of football. Only three games into his rookie season in 2012, Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia, sidelined by the side effects chemotherapy and months of recovery.... |
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There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me
Brooke Shields · Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir. Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom,... |
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden · Scribner; First Edition edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood attended grade school and Smith College together, spent nine months on a grand tour of Europe in 1910, and then, bored with society luncheons and chaperoned balls and not yet ready for marriage, they went off to teach the children of homesteaders... |
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