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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover

With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken,...
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Bobby: My Story in Pictures

Bobby Orr · Viking
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The incredible story of the life and phenomenal career of hockey's most legendary superstar, told through never-before-seen photographs.The name Bobby Orr has become synonymous with greatness. With sublime, seemingly effortless grace. With complete dominance over his peers. But also with...
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The Diesel Brothers: A Truckin' Awesome Guide to Trucks and Life

Heavy D · Gallery Books
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover

Feel like somebody hit the brakes on your Diesel Brothers cravings? Discover how you can keep the gas going with this rip-roaring ride behind the scenes of Discovery Channel's popular series Diesel Brothers.In the world of monster trucks, no one builds bigger and more extreme rides - and has more...
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The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret

Eve Haas · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback

A New York Times bestseller, the true story of a girl who learns she's descended from a princess, told with the suspense of a Cold War thriller. "The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life - August your protector." This one sentence was the key to a mystery...
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Wild

Cheryl Strayed · Vintage; Mti edition
Format: Print book

The official movie tie-in edition to the major motion picture, starring Reese Witherspoon and based on this sensational 1 New York Times Bestseller.At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mothers death, her family scattered and her own marriage...
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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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Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side

Tyler Henry · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From Tyler Henry, a twenty-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!'s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes Between Two Worlds, a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far."Dying doesn't mean having to say goodbye." Tyler Henry discovered his gift for communicating...
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling...
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Kind Is the New Classy: The Power of Living Graciously

Candace Cameron Bure · Zondervan
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"The world has a way of defining you if you don't know who you are before you get out there." - Candace Cameron BureAs a woman in today's world, you know what it's like to feel pressure on all sides from clashing cultural expectations. How can you stay true to who God has uniquely...
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Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation

Rabia Chaudry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 410
Format: Print book

*Now a New York Times bestseller*Serial told Only Part of the Story ... In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia...
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946

GARY GIDDINS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 736
Format: Hardcover

"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark...
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Jeffrey Toobin · Doubleday
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress...
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Temple Grandin: Voice for the Voiceless

Annette Wood · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Since Temple Grandin's life story was told in the 15 x Emmy-nominated film Temple Grandin, and since her heartwarming speech at the award ceremony, she has become one of the world's most well-known members of its community.In this fascinating biography, Annette Wood delves deep into Grandin's...
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Being Elvis

Ray Connolly · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

On the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death comes this rocking biography of an iconic artist who fundamentally transformed American culture.Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic...
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Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands

Roger D Hodge · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas?...
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