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Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One.
Ginger Zee · Kingswell
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range... |
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A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like
ASHLEY GRAHAM · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoirVoluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been modeling professionally... |
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Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians
Linda Gray Sexton · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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The Sexton family's long love affair with the Dalmatian began in Linda's childhood. There, on a snowy morning in the family home just outside Boston, LInda heard a whimpering coming from the basement. She discovered their first family dog giving birth to a litter. Witnessing the intimate... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION · Knopf
Pages: 126
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard... |
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Audition
Oprah Jackson · Vintage
Format: Kindle Edition
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Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package."And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that "whole package,"... |
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The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Amanda Palmer · Grand Central Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience... |
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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
Jake Halpern · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber,... |
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
Rick Bragg · Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerThe greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis - and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.A monumental figure on the American... |
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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Michael Farquhar · Random House
Format: eBook
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“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington... |
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Lying in Wait: Ann Rule's Crime Files: Vol.17
Ann Rule · Pocket Books
Format: Book
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Ann Rule presents another collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories - drawn from her real-life personal files - in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.MOVING IN FOR THE KILL In this all-new collection of investigative accounts... |
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Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon: Footsteps in the Forest
Sandra Knapp · Natural History Museum, London; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating account of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace's 1848 expedition to the AmazonAlfred Russel Wallace spent almost two years traveling up the Rio Negro, a region few Europeans had explored, collecting natural history specimens. A fire onboard the ship during the return... |
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You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover
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PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein... |
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40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World
Howard G Buffett · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With a foreword by Warren Buffett, 40 Chances is an “inspiring manifesto…both an informative guidebook and a catalyst for igniting real changes” (Booklist) in the struggle against world hunger.If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in the world,... |
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Twelve years a slave
Solomon Northup · Open Road Integrated Media
Format: eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published... |
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