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The World's Worst Assistant

Sona Movsesian - ‎Plume
Format: Hardcover

From Conan O'Brien's longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a completely hilarious and irreverent how-to guide for becoming a terrible, yet unfireable employee, spilling her trade secrets for minimizing effort while maximizing the rewards....
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Tanqueray

NOT AVAILABLE. - 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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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer

KATHY KLEIMAN - ‎Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Code Girls and Hidden Figures, PROVING GROUND is the untold, World War II-era story of the six American women who programmed the world's first modern computer.After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics...
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I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays

Tom Segura - ‎Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From Tom Segura, the massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-topping podcasts "2 Bears 1 Cave" and "Your Mom's House," hilarious real-life stories of parenting, celebrity encounters, youthful mistakes, misanthropy, and so much more. Tom Segura...
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Game: An Autobiography

GRANT HILL - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey - to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace - made possible above all by a family's loveGrant Hill always had game....
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The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

Diana Marcum - Little A
Format: Paperback

On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the national bestseller The Tenth Island finds enduring hope during cataclysmic times.Atop a hill in the rainforest of Belize, next to the ruins of a fallen civilization, a butterfly farm raises...
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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

PETER BAKER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From top journalists and the bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington, an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency.Revered journalists Peter Baker of TheNew York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker tell the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump...
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A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence

Mary Pipher - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia-a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher-as she did in her New York Times bestseller Women Rowing North-taps...
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An Extravagant Life: An Autobiography Incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper

Stuart Woods - ‎G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the story of his own life from childhood to the present, and chronicles the journey that made him the writer he is today.Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense...
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Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Ada Calhoun - ‎Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted...
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