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American Heroes: From the #1 bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the authors of Walk in My Combat Boots, "American Heroes is a gripping collection of firsthand accounts ... capturing the indomitable spirit of our nation's finest" (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List series) .. U.S. soldiers who served...
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System―and Pocketed $40 Million

Tanya Smith - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions - who eventually loses everything that is most important to her. In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shares her deeply personal...
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The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

Dan Slepian - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men. In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were serving...
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

Rob Sheffield - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop's most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns...
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All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

Fred C. Trump - Gallery Books
Format: Audio CD

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name.. For the record ... Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless...
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Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

Glory Edim - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl."She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right...
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The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

Paul Landis - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns. Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial...
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Carson the Magnificent

Bill Zehme - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A much-anticipated biography - twenty years in the making - of the entertainer who redefined late-night television and reshaped American culture.. In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine writer: an interview with Johnny Carson - the only one he'd...
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John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.. Born into...
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Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras

Sarah Chapelle - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Dazzling. Incomparable. Unforgettable. The definitive book of Taylor Swift's fashion evolution. This gorgeous hardcover edition has gilded gold edges, foiled cover accents and colored endpapers. For Taylor Swift, fashion and music go hand-in-hand -- each playing a powerful role in shaping...
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