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In Search of Pharrell Williams
In Search of Pharrell Williams

Paul Lester · Overlook Press
Format: Paperback

A groundbreaking biography of rapper and producer Pharrell Williams. Pharrell Williams is one of the biggest names on today's top 40 charts. He's won eleven Grammys (and immeasurable attention for his Grammys fashion choices) , been nominated for an Oscar, and is about to begin...
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The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me: An Aristocratic Family, a High-Society Scandal and an Extraordinary Legacy
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me: An Aristocratic Family, a High-Society Scandal and an Extraordinary Legacy

Sofka Zinovieff · Harper
Format: Hardcover

This beguiling tale of a scandalous ménage à trois among England's upper classes is a high society love story that combines memoir and biography into a fascinating, heady read in the vein of The Bolter and Portrait of a Marriage.Among the glittering stars of British society, Sofka...
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Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America

Jeff Chu · Harper
Format: Hardcover

Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christians Pilgrimage in Search of God in America is part memoir and part investigative analysis that explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America.The quest to find an answer is at the heart of Does...
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What W. H. Auden Can Do for You
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You

Alexander McCall Smith · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been...
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Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World
Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World

Kirsten Gillibrand · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words Decisions are being made every day in Washington, and if you are not part...
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This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith & Life
This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith & Life

Gavin MacLeod · Thomas Nelson; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable life, career, and faith journey of the star of The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. For 16 years, millions of Americans welcomed Gavin MacLeod into their living rooms every Saturday night. This veteran of stage and screen transformed himself from a seasoned character...
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The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Streetwise Cat
The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Streetwise Cat

James Bowen · St Martins Pr
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

Bob Fever has swept the globe, with A Street Cat Named Bob vaulting its way to #7 on The New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale. With rights sold to 27 countries around the globe and a top spot on the British bestseller list for more than a year, this book has been a smashing...
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Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age

Allen Barra · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they...
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Love Life
Love Life

Rob Lowe · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.Rob Low is back with stories he only tells his best...
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Geronimo
Geronimo

Robert M. Utley · Yale University Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a figure of mythical proportion today. This thoroughly researched biography...
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Beethoven: The Man Revealed
Beethoven: The Man Revealed

John Suchet · Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable...
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Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder
Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder

Kathryn Casey · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A WALKING NIGHTMARE - IN SIZE-NINE STILETTOS . . .The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston's hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could've prepared him for what he found: a beautiful woman...
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Simpler: The Future of Government
Simpler: The Future of Government

Cass R. Sunstein · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Simpler government arrived four years ago It helped put money in your pocket It saved hours of your time It improved your childrens diet lengthened your life span and benefited businesses large and small It did so by issuing fewer regulations by insisting on smarter regulations and by eliminating...
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