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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several...
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Hero of the Empire
Hero of the Empire

Candice Millard

From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime...
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We Were Eight Years in Power
We Were Eight Years in Power

Ta-Nehisi Coates

In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*—including the election of Donald Trump.New York Times BestsellerOne of Time's Top 10 Non-Fiction...
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Grant
Grant

Ron Chernow

The #1 New York Times bestseller.Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review.Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically...
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans

Brian Kilmeade

Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy...
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The Rules Do Not Apply
The Rules Do Not Apply

Ariel Levy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA gorgeous memoir about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention"Cheryl Strayed meets a Nora Ephron movie. You'll laugh, ugly cry, and finish it before the weekend's over."—theSkimmOne of Time's Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of the YearWhen Ariel...
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther

Eric Metaxas

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey." —The Washington PostFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern...
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Promise Me, Dad
Promise Me, Dad

Joe Biden

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller"Promise Me, Dad is a brisk, often uplifting read, a consequence of its author's congenital jollity and irrepressible candor." - Vanity FairA deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014,...
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Brain on Fire
Brain on Fire

Susannah Cahalan

An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped...
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The Disaster Artist
The Disaster Artist

Greg Sestero

New York Times bestseller—now a major motion picture directed by and starring James Franco! From the actor who somehow lived through it all, a "sharply detailed...funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors" (The New York Times): the making of the cult film phenomenon The Room.In...
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