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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
Karen Abbott - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite... |
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Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias
John Dickie - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious 'ndrangheta,... |
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The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana
Tony Dokoupil - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Blow and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Last Pirate is a vivid, haunting and often hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family man who joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and exploded his life in the process. Three decades later, his son came... |
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Shirley, I Jest!: A Storied Life
Cindy Williams - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Cindy Williams, half of the comedic duo of Laverne & Shirley, has had a wild and lively career in show business. This book is an engaging and heartfelt journey from Williamss blue collar roots to unexpected stardom - from being pranked by Jim Morrison while waiting tables at Whisky a Go Go to starring... |
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Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine
Daniel Halper - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed
Michelle Knight - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their... |
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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
Ali Wentworth - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet... |
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They Call Me Baba Booey
Artie Lange - Spiegel & Grau; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Includes all-new ma-ma-material! ALL NEW CHAPTER: Baba Booey's Afghanistan Journal! and . . . the Shvoogie Buzzer story! One of pop culture's great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell'Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport,... |
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The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Azar Nafisi - Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change peoples lives, by the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in TehranTen years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop... |
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I Regret Nothing: A Memoir
Jen Lancaster - NAL
Format: Hardcover
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she's managed to document her (and her generation's) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have... |
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Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga
Jane C. Beck - University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Print book
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A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison... |
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Gail Sheehy - William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoira chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern... |
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Judy Garland: A Biography
Anne Edwards - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Edwards's biography presents a complete picture of the late actress-and not just the boozing, drug-addicted caricature of a woman central to lesser biographies. We learn, for example, that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially, a generosity that her mother Ethel... |
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Whatever...Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves
Maria Bello - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed actress and dedicated activist shares her personal journey of discovery, and destroys outdated ideas about partnership, love and family that will resonate with anyone in an unconventional life situation.Actress and activist Maria Bello made waves with her essay, "Coming... |
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 19411942
Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House... |
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Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
Michael Signer - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In a time when America is desperately searching for leadership comes this inspiring story of James Madison's coming of age, providing incisive and original insight into the Founding Father who did the most but is known the least. Michael Signer takes a fresh look at the life of our fourth... |
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So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
David Browne - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty years after they first came together and changed the sound of rock 'n' roll, the Grateful Dead remain one of rock's most beloved bands - a musical and cultural phenomenon that spans generations and paved the way for everything from the world of jam bands and the idea of independently... |
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The Light of the World: A Memoir
Elizabeth Alexander - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book
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A deeply resonant New York Times Bestselling memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander. In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling... |
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The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice... |
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Bad Kid: A Memoir
David Crabb - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book
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Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas.... |
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
Frances Mayes - Broadway Books
Format: Hardcover
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Publishers Weekly04/14/2014
Set in the author's "one-mile-square" hometown of Fitzgerald in the backwoods of Georgia, Mayes's (Every Day in Tuscany) latest memoir depicts a childhood of rich meals and drunk, impatient parentsher adoring and violent father and her restless... |
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"-- |
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True Love
Jennifer Lopez - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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In Jennifer Lopez's first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life's most defining periods - the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person... |
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black... |
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Racing Forward: Faith, Love & Triumph Over Loss
Michele Mica Mosbacher - Bright Sky Press
Format: Print book
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Mica Mosbacher was barely hanging on. A single mother of a son, she worked in retail while she established a career as an award-winning writer. Feeling unlucky in romance after two failed marriages, she gave up on her dreams. In her early 40s, she met the love of her life, oilman mogul... |
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Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Richard Brookhiser - Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Hardcover
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Argues that the sixteenth president of the United States was inspired by the Founding Fathers of the nation and struggled to carry on their work throughout his career. |
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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
Michael Morton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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He spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justiceand a second chance at life. On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went... |
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The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America
Joseph Berger - Harper Perennial; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to astonishing proportions, veteran New York Times journalist Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social and political... |
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An Uncomplicated Life: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter
Paul Daugherty - William Morrow
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A fathers exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own.Jillian Daugherty was born with Down syndrome. The day they brought herhome from the hospital,... |
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Criminal That I Am: A Memoir
Jennifer Ridha - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A candid memoir from a talented young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with the convicted drug felon she represents - Cameron Douglas, son of film actor Michael Douglas - and who soon makes the mistake of her life. Or does she?Criminal That I Am is a defense attorney's account... |
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Decoded
Jay-Z - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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From Barnes & NobleT his disarmingly honest autobiography by rap legend Jay-Z is now an enhanced paperback edition, containing new lyrics and annotations.
David Garber
Michiko Kakutanigives the reader a harrowing portrait of the rough worlds Jay-Z navigated in his youth, while... |
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Dog Lived (and So Will I)
Brian Beker - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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Publishers WeeklyDiscouraged by her past and hoping to turn a new leaf, divorced 41-year-old Rhyne vows to follow a convenient "alphabet life," for all she needed was "Alcohol, Books, Coffee, and Dogs." Moving to the suburbs of Los Angeles and casually dating a handsome... |
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Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love
Bret Baier - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Special Heart is a deeply touching personal story told through the eyes of a journalist as he faces the most daunting challenge in life -- far more frightening than reporting from battlefields, infinitely more momentous than interviewing newsmakers of the day: caring for his critically... |
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When the Balls Drop
Brad Garrett - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A refreshingly candid and wickedly funny look at life's second half from Everybody Loves Raymond TV sitcom star and three-time Emmy Award-winning comic Brad Garrett.In this no-holds-barred book of comedic and personal essays, Brad Garrett divulges his hilarious - and irreverently honest... |
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American Outlaw
Jesse James - Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jesse James has led a violent life. He has survived lower depths, faced harder times, and beaten down more private demons than mostand lived to tell his story with honesty, introspection, and humility. His story is raw, real, and comes straight from the heart. Hes tough as nails and riding... |
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Unconditional Honor: Wounded Warriors and Their Dogs
Cathy Scott - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this comprehensive and gorgeously illustrated book, Cathy Scott and Clay Myers, with a foreword by former NBA star Bill Walton, show how service and therapy dogs are having a profound impact on the lives of military personnel injured in action. Not only do our veterans deal with physical... |
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Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers
Scott Bonn - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Book
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For decades now serial killers have taken center stage in the news and entertainment media The coverage of real-life murderers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer has transformed them into ghoulish celebrities Similarly the popularity of fictional characters such as Hannibal The Cannibal... |
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
Richard Wightman Fox - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Even two hundred years after Abraham Lincolns death, we, like Walt Whitman, love the President personally.In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincolns Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright ugly of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very... |
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The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
Steve Osborne - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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"How ya doin?" With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and over a million times on their website) with his hilarious, profane, and touching... |
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The Keillor Reader
Garrison Keillor - Viking Books
Format: Hardcover
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Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done - a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist,... |
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A Hot Glue Gun Mess: Funny Stories, Pretty DIY Projects
Kate Albrecht - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In this beautiful paperback edition featuring French flaps, hugely popular lifestyle blogger, YouTube star, and designer Mr. Kate (Kate Albrecht) offers a stunning collection of step-by-step personal style and home projects - woven in with quirkily hilarious stories and anecdotes.Do you dream... |
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Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty
Robert Lacey - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing, no-holds-barred portrait of the legendary Eileen Ford - the entrepreneur who transformed the business of modeling and helped invent the celebrity supermodel.Working with her husband, Jerry, Eileen Ford created the twentieth century's largest and most successful modeling... |
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The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
Bartholomew H Sparrow - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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For more than thirty years, Brent Scowcroft has played a central role in American foreign policy. Scowcroft helped manage the American departure from Vietnam, helped plan the historic breakthrough to China, urged the first President Bush to repel the invasion of Kuwait, and worked to shape... |
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Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America
Jonathan Darman - Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground. In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these... |
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer - Anchor; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan... |
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And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side
Dana Perino - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times Bestseller1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller From her years as the presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News The Five, Dana Perino reveals the lessons shes learned that have guided her through life, kept her level-headed, and led to her success,... |
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Eleanor Marx: A Life
Rachel Holmes - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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Unrestrained by convention, lionhearted and free, Eleanor Marx 1855-98 was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flauberts Madame Bovary. She pioneered the theater of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers and gas workers trade unions.... |
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This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
Carol Burnett - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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A touching and hilarious memoir by the author of Carrie and Me: A Mother Daughter Love Story, This Time Together is 100 percent Carol Burnett - funny, irreverent, and irresistible. Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The... |
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Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace
Patricia Raybon - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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"Mom, I have something I need to tell you..."They didn't talk. Not for ten years. Not about faith anyway. Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives - the daughter's choice to leave the church, convert to Islam and become... |
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Joan of Arc: A History
Helen Castor - Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world - as never told before.Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French... |
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The astronaut wives club : a true story
Lily Koppel; 3M Company. - Grand Central Publishing
Format: eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They had tea with Jackie Kennedy, appeared on the cover... |
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
D. T. Max - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York TimesIn his revealing new biographyD. T. Max gives us a sympathetic appraisal of Wallace's life and work, tracing the connections between the two, while mapping the wellsprings of his philosophical vision. The book captures the heartbreaking struggle Wallace waged with... |
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Don't Know Much About? the American Presidents
Kenneth C. Davis - Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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Which president broke the law to prevent enslaved people from being freed? Who said, "When the president does it,that means it's not illegal"? Why does America have a president? From the heated debates among the framers of the Constitution in 1787 over an "elected king,"... |
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One click : Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon.com
Richard L Brandt - Portfolio/Penguin
Format: eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: "Buy now with one click."Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff... |
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Battle hymn of the tiger mother
Amy Chua - Penguin Press
Format: eBook
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Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother's exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons, and avoidance of Western cultural practices. |
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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. |
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Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton
Jeff Pearlman - Gotham Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Barnes & NobleWalter Payton (1954-1999) is remembered as the record-setting halfback of the Chicago Bears, but he is also revered as the man who heroically battled a terminal illness that finally brought him. There have been biographies of Payton before, but Jeff Pearlman's Sweetness... |
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Etched in Sand
Regina Calcaterra - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Audiobook
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Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings... |
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
Frances Mayes - Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes... |
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The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved
Christopher Andersen - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers another dramatic installment in the lives of the Kennedys - including new details about JFK Jr., his relationship with his mother, his many girlfriends, and the night of his tragic death.Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen is a master... |
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Even This I Get to Experience
Norman Lear - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written ... An absolute treasure." --Booklist (STARRED)In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced,... |
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The Other Side: A Memoir
Lacy M. Johnson - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night.... |
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Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder
Diane Fanning - Berkley
Format: Book
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It was planned to look like a suicide.But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note—typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint... |
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Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much
Faith Salie - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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From comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, a collection of humorous essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approval. Faith Salie has done it all in the name of validation.... |
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A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer
Scott Andrew Selby - Berkley Caliber
Format: Print book
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As the Nazi war machine caused death and destruction throughout Europe, one man in the Fatherland began his own reign of terror.This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich. For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed... |
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Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams
Margery M. Heffron - Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife and political partner of John Quincy Adams, became one of the most widely known women in America when her husband assumed office as sixth president in 1825. Shrewd, intellectual, and articulate, she was close to the center of American power over many... |
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Billy Joel
Fred Schruers - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, all-access biography of a music legendIn Billy Joel, acclaimed music journalist Fred Schruers draws upon more than one hundred hours of exclusive interviews with Joel to present an unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of the pint-sized kid from Long Island... |
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Fields of Grace: Faith, Friendship, and the Day I Nearly Lost Everything
Hannah Luce - Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable true story of hope, survival, and faith lost and found . . . On May 11, 2012, a small plane carrying five young adults en route to a Christian youth rally plummeted into a Kansas field. Only two survived the crash: twenty-seven-year-old ex-marine Austin Anderson, who would... |
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One Perfect Day: A Mother and Son's Story of Adoption and Reunion
Diane Burke - Skyhorse Publishing,
Format: Print book
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The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to deal... |
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Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
David Ritz - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassinationMartin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times... |
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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific... |
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Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant
Dyan Cannon - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The author is the only child of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. This portrait is of the relationship between a daughter and her father, one of America's most iconic male movie stars. She writes of their life together through her high school and college years until his death in 1986 at the age of eighty-two. |
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Its Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life
Shannon Miller - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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"When the odds were against me, I was always at my best."When she retired at age 19, Shannon Miller did so as one of the most recognizable gymnasts in the country. The winner of seven Olympic medals and the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history, Shannon tells... |
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BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Dave Berg - Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"It was always a pleasure to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Jay and his long-time producer Dave Berg would welcome me to the Green Room, and these moments before the show gave us a chance to laugh. Jay and Dave brought a great spirit and a lot of dignity to late-night television."-Mrs.... |
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
Pat Conroy - Nan A. Talese
Format: eBook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more. Pat Conroy's great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children... |
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Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries
Lorri Glover - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America’s great Founding Fathers—men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate portrait, historian Lorri... |
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Epilogue: A Memoir
Will Boast - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner, The Rome Prize Will Boast thought hed lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought hed have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism.... |
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
John Elder Robison - Broadway Books; 1 edition
Format: Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an... |
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Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran
Barry Meier - Farrar
Format: Print book
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In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantnamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help... |
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Has Anyone Seen My Pants?
Sarah Colonna - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author of Life as I Blow It Sarah Colonna is back with a hilarious, honest look at life in her late thirtiesin all its messy, pants-missing glory. How does a gal with a successful career, great friends, and a razor-sharp wit find herself wandering pants-less through... |
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Mourning Lincoln
Martha Hodes - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons.... |
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American Sniper LP: Memorial Edition
Chris Kyle - HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States... |
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The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
Jane Ridley - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times Book Review
- John Sutherland
Ridley's superb book is the fruit of a decade's immersion in the royal archives, a privilege rarely granted. And her work was all the trickier because, at least in the past,... |
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