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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

Amy Schumer · Gallery Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,...
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Hillary's America

Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America...
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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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I Was a Child: A Memoir

Bruce Eric Kaplan · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

I Was a Child is an illustrated memoir by Bruce Eric Kaplan, the renowned New Yorker cartoonist. Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as BEK, is one of the most celebrated and admired cartoonists in America. I Was a Child is the story of his childhood in suburban New Jersey, detailing the small...
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A Work in Progress: A Memoir

Connor Franta · Keyword Pr Atria
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From award-winning vlogger and entrepreneur Connor Franta comes this collectible hardcover edition - complete with a brand-new bonus chapter - of his New York Times bestselling memoir, A Work in Progress, which was selected by Forbes as a Top 5 Breakthrough Book of 2015 and won the Goodreads...
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A Perfect Score: The Art, Soul, and Business of a 21st-Century Winery

Craig Hall · Center Street
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A lively husband and wife team recounts their twenty-year climb from amateur winemakers to recipients of an almost unheard-of perfect score from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.Kathryn and Craig Hall launched themselves head first into Napa Valley 20 years ago with the purchase of an 1885...
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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully

Allen Kurzweil · Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry,...
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Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption

Tim Downs · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Back Cover:"The account of Dr. Chung and his family will inspire you to believe in second chances and miracles and the God who gives them both."-Max Lucado, New York Times best-selling authorMy name is Vinh Chung.This is a story that spans two continents, ten decades, and eleven...
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

Martin Dugard · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of one of history's greatest adventures - and a study of the seven character traits all great explorers share.In 1856, two intrepid adventurers, Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel a geographical unknown:...
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