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After This: When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go?

Claire Bidwell Smith · Avery
Format: Hardcover

In After This, acclaimed author, and therapist Claire Bidwell Smith confronts the question she encounters every day in private practice - what happens after we die? In an exploration of the afterlife that is part personal, part prescriptive - Smith invites us on her journey into the unknown....
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Girl in a Band: A Memoir

Kim Gordon · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story - a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty...
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Worth Fighting For

Dana Vulin · Penguin Random House Australia
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In the early hours of a February morning in 2012, Dana Vulin was the victim of a hideous, unprovoked attack. A woman who'd been stalking and harassing her for weeks - incorrectly and baselessly thinking Dana was having an affair with her estranged husband - burst into her apartment,...
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Tiger Woods

Jeff Benedict · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 490
Format: eBook

Based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woods's life - many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before - a sweeping, revelatory, and defining biography of an American icon.In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous...
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

Kory Stamper · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence,...
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century

William F Jr Buckley · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique...
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Born to Drum: The Truth About the World's Greatest Drummers--from John Bonham and Keith Moon to Sheila E. and Dave Grohl

Tony Barrell · Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The pulse of rock'n'roll - the drummer - finally gets its due in this unique, all-encompassing inside look at the history, artists, instruments, and culture of drumming.Beating the hell out of a drum kit is hard, sweaty, demanding work. Yet instead of being showered with respect,...
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

NICK BILTON · PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported, riveting,...
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

Barry Strauss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The exciting, dramatic story of one of history's most famous events - the death of Julius Caesar - now placed in full context of Rome's civil wars by eminent historian Barry Strauss.Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history....
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Filthy Rich

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 15
Format: Print book

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth...
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How's Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey

David Gregory · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life's most important questions: who do we want to be and what do we believe? While David was covering the White House, he had the unusual...
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs

RACHEL JEFFS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist...
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My Days: Happy and Otherwise

Marion Ross · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . . Before she was affectionately known to millions as "Mrs. C.," Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet...
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My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell · Penguin Books
Pages: 273
Format: Paperback

The first book Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, now the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece PBSWhen the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what...
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Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door

Roy Wenzl · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named BTKfor bind them, torture them, kill themhe slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media....
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