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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy

Mike Huckabee · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election!In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York...
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American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague--Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal

John Oller · Da Capo Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Had People magazine been around during the Civil War and after, Kate Chase would have made its Most Beautiful and Most Intriguing lists every year. The charismatic daughter of Salmon P. Chase, Lincolns treasury secretary, Kate Chase enjoyed unprecedented political power for a woman. As her widowed...
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The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power

Jules Witcover · Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

The American Vice Presidency is an all-inclusive examination of the vice presidency throughout American history. Acclaimed political journalist and author Jules Witcover chronicles each of the 47 vice presidents, including their personal biographies and their achievements--or lack thereof--during...
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A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy

Deborah McDonald · ONEWorld Publications
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed...
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Out of Darkness: My Story of Finding True Light and Liberation

Stormie Omartian · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"I have a burning desire to tell people who are hurting that there is a way out of their pain. There is hope for their lives." Stormie Omartian tells her compelling story of a childhood marred by physical and emotional abuse that eventually led her into the occult, drugs, and tragic...
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Whitney and Bobbi Kristina

Ian Halperin · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Shocking new revelations emerge about superstar Whitney Houston and her only daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, in #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian Halperin's account of their tumultuous lives.On July 26, 2015, after nearly six months in a coma, Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of musical...
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Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family

Kathleen Flinn · Viking
Format: Hardcover

A delicious memoir from the author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry  A family history with recipes, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good offers a flavorful tale spanning three generations as Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her New York Times best-seller...
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The Choir Boy: Why I Turned to a Life of Crime with the Whitey Bulger Gang after Being Raped by My Scoutmaster

Eric Schneider · Sartoris Literary Group

"When you begin reading 'The Choir Boy,' dig in and hang on. It's a frightening journey that eventually shows there can indeed be a light at the end of life's darkest tunnels."—Brown Burnett, The Clarion-Ledger Eric Schneider was one of the young victims...
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Old Guy Dad: Weird Shit Happens When You Don't Die Young

Jerry Stahl · Rare Bird Books

Old Guy Dad recounts the adventures of a man who, in the autumn of his years - or at least the pre-autumn - discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. He is going to be a father. Again. Only this time he wants to do it right: no heroin, plenty of low-back pain.A collection of celebrated columns...
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Whistle Stop: How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, and a Little Midwest Gumption Saved the Presidency of Harry Truman

Philip White · ForeEdge
Format: Hardcover

President Harry Truman was a disappointment to the Democrats, and a godsend to the Republicans. Every attempt to paint Truman with the grace, charm, and grandeur of Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been a dismal failure: Truman’s virtues were simpler, plainer, more direct. The challenges...
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