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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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Strays: A Lost Cat, a Homeless Man, and Their Journey Across America
BRITT COLLINS · Atria Books Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other.Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse... |
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So Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam
Karin Esterhammer · Prospect Park Books Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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After job losses and the housing crash, the author and her family leave L.A. to start over in a most unlikely place: a nine-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into windows, generously share their barbecued rat,... |
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla · Farrar Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionaryLike one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible... |
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DIRTY WARS AND POLISHED SILVER
LYNDA SCHUSTER · Melville House Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster felt certain life was happening elsewhere. And as soon as she graduated from high school,... |
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Read Between the Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom
JENELLE EVANS · Post Hill Press Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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Jenelle Evans shares the raw emotional stories of her youth that helped shape the woman she has become, all drawn from her childhood diary. From her appearances on 16 and Pregnant and then Teen Mom 2, Jenelle Evans's life was put on display for all to see, and all to judge. Everyone... |
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Beautiful Bodies
Kimberly Rae Miller · Little A Pages: 234 Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling and beloved author of Coming Clean, a brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food.Like most people, Kimberly Rae Miller does not have the perfect body, but that hasn't stopped her from trying. And trying. And trying some more.... |
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They Call Me Pudge: My Life Playing the Game I Love
Ivan Rodriguez · Triumph Books Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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With 14 All-Star appearances, 13 Gold Gloves, a Most Valuable Player Award, and, of course, a World Series ring, Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez has more than earned his spot in Cooperstown as one of the best Major League catchers of all time. In They Call Me Pudge, Rodriguez tells the story... |
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Under My Helmet: A Football Player's Lifelong Battle with Bipolar Disorder
Keith O'Neil · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 248 Format: Hardcover
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An athlete's battle with mental illness. Ever since he was a child, Keith O'Neil wanted to play football. Born on the same day that his father, Ed O'Neil, was cut from the New England Patriots, football was all Keith could think about . . . aside from his anxiety. Offered a scholarship... |
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A Stone of Hope: A Memoir
Jim StGermain · Harper Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young black man who himself was a lost cause - until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.Born into abject poverty in Haiti,... |
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