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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House
Pages: 440
Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind---and Doubt Freed My Soul
Amir Ahmad Nasr · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Amir Ahmad Nasr is a young Muslim man with something explosive in his hands: a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the power to help ignite a revolution and blow apart the structures of ignorance and politicized indoctrination that too often still imprison the Muslim mind. Part... |
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Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons
Eric Davis · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time. Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen,... |
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Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend
Michael Munn · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Many of the stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Unfortunately, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles... |
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Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet
Todd Wilkinson · Lyons Press; First edition
Format: Book
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View Last Stand's video trailer! A highly regarded environmental journalist turns his attention to one of the most compelling personalities in American business. Last Stand gives us a new, unexpected lens through which to view a previously unsung hero of conservation and offers... |
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The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski
Samantha Geimer · Atria Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this searing and surprising memoir, Samantha Geimer, “the girl” at the center of the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case, breaks a virtual thirty-five-year silence to tell her story and reflect on the events of that day and their lifelong repercussions. March 1977,... |
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Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 289
Format: Print book
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Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified - who the hell does Melissa think she is? That... |
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Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian
Bob Saget · It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House, and as the charming wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos. And then there are the legions of fans who can't get enough of his scatological, out-of-his-mind... |
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George W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 43rd President, 2001-2009
James Mann · Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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The controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the war on terrorGeorge W. Bush stirred powerful feelings on both sides of the aisle. Republicans viewed him as a resolute leader who guided America through the September 11 attacks and retaliated... |
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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Leah Lax · She Writes PR
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story--beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York Times Bestseller * "Bright... |
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