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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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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

Jonathan Allen · Random House Inc
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover

The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent...
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Gifted Hands 20th Anniversary Edition: The Ben Carson Story

Ben Carson M.D. , · Zondervan; 20 Anv edition
Format: Hardcover

In 1987, Dr. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head. Carson pioneered again in a rare procedure known as a hemispherectomy, giving children without hope a second chance at life through...
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Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

Mary J. MacLeod · Arcade Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Kindle Edition

Publishers WeeklyExotic travelogue meets medical adventure in this nostalgic autobiography of an English nurse who left London to embrace the remote Scottish Hebridean island of Papavray. In 1969, the now-octogenarian MacLeod became the isles' medical lifeline, falling in love with...
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Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives

Randi Zuckerberg · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

With Dot Complicated Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement...
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Kings & Queens of Great Britain: Every Question Answered

David Soud · Thunder Bay Press
Format: Hardcover

Fascinating biographies of the British monarchs from the time of Roman Britannia to the present day answer your every question about the countrys aristocracy Details of the kings and queens personalities are the focus with a timeline across the bottom relating the major events of their...
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The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope

Austen Ivereigh · Henry Holt; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religionsAn expansive and deeply contextual work, at its heart The Great Reformer is about the intersection of faith...
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Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

Heather Lende · Algonquin Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Alaskan landscape—so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable—may be the reason the people in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), so often discuss the meaning of life. Heather Lende thinks it helps make life mean more. Since her bestselling first book, If You Lived Here, I’d...
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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

Olivia Laing · Picador
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED THEM?In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol...
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

Kai Bird · Random House Inc
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded...
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