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Blindsided: The True Story of One Man's Crusade Against Chemical Giant DuPont for a Boy with No Eyes

James L. Ferraro · Gildan Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

In 1996, an unprecedented decade-long courtroom battle was waged in Florida to help bring justice and hope to the family of a young boy born with no eyes after his mother was doused outside of a local u-pick farm by a chemical fungicide believed to have caused his birth defect and the birth...
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Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure

Amy Kaufman · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

*A New York Times Bestseller*The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America's favorite guilty pleasure.For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers' lives. Since...
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Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood

Andrew Rannells · Crown Archetype
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York City

When Andrew Rannells...
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Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity

Rebecca Shriver Davis · University of Georgia Press
Pages: 165
Format: Hardcover

This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the country. This book...
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The Missing Piece: Finding the Better Part of Me: A Love Journey

Rob Hill · Atria Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who has suffered pain, disappointment, or a broken heart, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Rob Hill, Sr. shares the transformational personal story of his struggles and the invaluable lessons those difficult challenges have taught him about looking within to find the power...
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In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire

PETER HELLMAN · The Experiment
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

True crime pairs well with fine wine in this astonishing story of a con man who rides his gift for tasting wine to the highest reaches of society - and then comes crashing down

In Vino Duplicitas marks a new, notorious legend in wine: the story of Rudy Kurniawan, a 20-something...
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Trump as President: The Inside Story of His First Years in the White House

Doug Wead · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here is finally a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talking openly, on the record. In Trump as President, Doug Wead offers a sweeping, eloquent history of President Donald J. Trump's first years in the White...
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The Real Tales of Hoffmann: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece

Michael Kaye · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 565
Format: Hardcover

Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade...
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Murphy's Law: My Journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to Investigative Journalist

Jack Murphy · Threshold Editions
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Punisher and Lone Survivor, a heart-pounding military memoir from a former Army Ranger sniper and Special Operations weapon sergeant-turned-journalist about the incredible highs and devastating lows of his career. Growing up in small New York...
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The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand

Geoff Dyer · University of Texas Press
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover

Garry Winogrand - along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander - was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world's foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand's work for many years. Modeled on John...
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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice

WILLIE PARKER · 37 INK
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor...
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John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World

Jason Louv · Inner Traditions
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive look at the life and continuing influence of 16th-century scientific genius and occultist Dr. John Dee * Presents an overview of Dee's scientific achievements, intelligence and spy work, imperial strategizing, and his work developing methods to communicate with angels...
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Movie Nights with the Reagans: A Memoir

Mark Weinberg · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares an intimate, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency - told through the movies they watched together every week at Camp David.

What did President Ronald Reagan think of Rocky IV? How did the Matthew...
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The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles: A Memoir by Françoise Hardy

FRANOISE HARDY · Feral House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"I was for a very long time passionately in love with her, as I'm sure she's guessed. Every male in the world, and a number of females also were, and we all still are." -- David Bowie"Françoise was the ultimate pin-up of most hip bedroom walls, and I know for a fact...
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents

RICHARD FORD · Ecco
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love

How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty,...

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