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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

Larry Loftis - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist Florida Book Awards Silver Medalist Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, New York Newsday, and on Today! Best Nonfiction Books to Read in 2019 - Woman's Day The Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out This Year - BookBub...
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Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America

Hugh Eakin - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world - and Picasso the most famous artist alive - in the shadow of World War II"Fascinating, eloquent, wonderfully lucid, Picasso's War will change whatever we thought we knew...
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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction.Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner,...
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Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

Wajahat Ali - ‎W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!"This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place...
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Trump / Russia: A Definitive History

Seth Hettena - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

"Hettena is a first-rate reporter and wonderful story-teller, and the tale he tells here is mind-boggling." - Jane Mayer, author of New York Times bestseller Dark Money"Hettena skillfully weaves many threads - most fresh or previously hidden - into a rich tapestry tying together...
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Handcrafted: A Woodworker's Story

Clint Harp - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover‏

While Clint Harp is now known as Chip and Joanna Gaines's go-to table maker on Fixer Upper and a nationally acclaimed artisan, his life has not always been the DIY dream we see on the show. Ten years ago, he played the role of what he thought was a good husband, father, and provider,...
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Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy

Henry Kissinger - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Henry Kissinger, consummate diplomat and statesman, examines the strategies of six great twentieth-century figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy"Leaders," writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, "think and act at the intersection...
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Tanqueray

Stephanie Johnson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York and its #1 bestselling books have captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one story stands apart from the rest...She is a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city...
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Mike Nichols: A Life

Mark Harris - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

One of People's top ten books of 2021 * An instant New York Times bestseller *  Named a best book of the year by NPR and Time A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges - some...
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My Place At The Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris

Alec Lobrano - Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Kindle Edition

In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women's Wear Daily, his main...
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