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A Fine Romance
Candice Bergen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the follow-up to Knock Wood - her bestselling "engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecating autobiography" (The New York Times) - Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling... |
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Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
Leah Carroll - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother,... |
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George W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 43rd President, 2001-2009
James Mann - Times Books
Format: eBook
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The controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the war on terrorGeorge W. Bush stirred powerful feelings on both sides of the aisle. Republicans viewed him as a resolute leader who guided America through the September 11 attacks and retaliated... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper... |
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Stronger
Jeff Bauman - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From Barnes & NobleOn April 15th, 2013, Jeff Bauman had a very simple plan: He would stand near the finish line and cheer on his girlfriend and her two friends as they finished the Boston Marathon. Just a day later, the victim of the first of the two bombs had no legs. In this unforgettable... |
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Joan Biskupic - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009-made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable-flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto... |
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Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
Joshua Zeitz - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln's White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidantsLincoln's official secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president's... |
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Five Days in November
Clint Hill - Gallery Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Don’t miss the New York Times bestseller Five Days in November, where Secret Service agent Clint Hill tells the stories behind the iconic images of those five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s assassination, published for the 50th anniversary of his death.On November 22, 1963,... |
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Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
Frank McLynn - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols, describes Temujin's rise from boyhood outcast to becoming Genghis Khan, and provides the most accurate and absorbing... |
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Crash and Burn
Artie Lange - Touchstone; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran comedian and radio personality Artie Lange turns an unflinching eye and his signature wit on his perilous descent into drug addiction, life-threatening depression, and ultimately, his recovery, in the follow-up to his hilariously raw debut, 1 New York Times bestseller Too Fat to Fish.... |
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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
Matt Richards - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson -- the biggest and most influential music... |
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Tolstoy's False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov
Alexandra Popoff - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This new book from the critically acclaimed author of THE WIVES 2012 and SOPHIA TOLSTOY A BIOGRAPHY 2010 sheds light on one of the most unusual relationships in literary history, which has been steeped in secrecy for more than a century. On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg... |
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My Salinger Year
Joanna Rakoff - Vintage
Format: Book
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Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. At twenty-three, after leaving graduate... |
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
Wendy Ruderman - Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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When Benny Martinez walks into the offices of the Philadelphia Daily News in 2008 to speak with reporter Wendy Ruderman, the paper is on the brink of bankruptcy. What he tells Wendy and her colleague Barbara Laker is too shocking to ignore: his career as a confidential informant for a member... |
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Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.THEIR NAMES ARE FAMILIAR.THEIR STORIES ARE NOT.Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? Credit... |
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Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
C. Nicole Mason - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life... So begins Born Bright,... |
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I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia
Eileen Cronin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Just twenty-two years old, Su Meck was already married and the mother of two children in 1988 when a ceiling fan in the kitchen of her home fell from its mounting and struck her in the head. She survived the life-threatening swelling in her brain that resulted from the accident, but when... |
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My Generation: Collected Nonfiction
William Styron - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A vital, illuminating collection of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's elegant, passionately engaged nonfiction My Generation is the definitive gathering of William Styron's nonfiction, exposing the core of this greatly gifted, highly convivial, and profoundly... |
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Tim Weiner - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Audiobook
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A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait... |
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Larry Tye - Random House
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive... |
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Beloved Strangers: A Memoir
Maria Chaudhuri - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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One of Maria Chaudhuri's early memories growing up in Dhaka was planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Home was not an especially unhappy place, but in Maria's family, joy was ephemeral. With a mother who yearned for the mountains and the solitariness and freedom to pursue... |
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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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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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.; Mti edition
Format: eBook
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone... |
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Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
Nick Davies - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover
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At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voicemail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for The Guardian, knew... |
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days.... |
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All the Gallant Men: An American Sailors Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
Ken Gire - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor"An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage." - Readers DigestIn this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona survivor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl... |
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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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I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir
Kevin Sessums - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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On his 53rd birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights: Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspects; but, Kevin knew that... |
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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
John Rizzo - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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From the "most influential career lawyer in CIA history" (Los Angeles Times) an unprecedented memoir filled with never-before-told stories from his thirty-year career at the center of the U.S. government's intelligence program (1976-2009).In 1975, fresh out of law school and working... |
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Jim Henson: The Biography
Brian Jay Jones - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGEFor the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson He was a gentle dreamer whose... |
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Practice to Deceive
Ann Rule - Pocket Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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From “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule comes the New York Times bestselling mystery novel of drama, greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an eerie island in the Pacific Northwest. Nestled in Puget Sound and accessible only by ferry, Whidbey Island... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION - Knopf
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:... |
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The Young T. E. Lawrence
Anthony Sattin - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate biography of the years that turned T. E. Lawrence into Lawrence of Arabia.Lawrence of Arabia's heroism during the Arab revolt and his disgust at the subsequent betrayal of the Arabs in the postwar negotiations have become the stuff of legend. But T. E. Lawrence’s... |
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Linda Ronstadt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ’70s.... |
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Jay Barbree - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, Americas modern hero, historys most famous space traveler, and the first man to walk on the moon. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time... |
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Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Sylvia Jukes Morris - Random House
Format: Book
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"I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die," Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce's progress from her arrival on Capitol Hill through her career... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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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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Dancing with Myself
Billy Idol - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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Chosen by Rolling Stone as one of the 10 Best Music Books of 2014 "That's what I'm talking about ... Of all these memoirs, Dancing With Myself was the only one that stimulated my envy - made me want to be Billy Idol for five minutes ... .He's a genuine romantic, writing... |
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Alison Weir - Ballantine Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMany are familiar with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of England and the celebrated reign of his daughter, Elizabeth I. But it is often forgotten that the life of the first Tudor queen, Elizabeth of York, Henrys mother and Elizabeths grandmother,... |
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Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Tom Kizzia - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Into the WildmeetsHelter Skelterin this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with... |
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Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident
Bill Ayers - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Publishers WeeklyIn this witty and spirited follow-up to Fugitive Days, Weather Underground cofounder Ayers chronicles his return to society after years on the lam as well as life after being branded a "terrorist" by Sarah Palin during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign,... |
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Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith
Joe Perry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Joe Perry's New York Times bestselling memoir of life in the rock-and-roll band Aerosmith: "An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and roll's greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in" (Slash) .Before the platinum records or the Super... |
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Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the ConfederacyHistory has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations.... |
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President Lincoln Assassinated!!: the Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr:
Harold Holzer - Library of America; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the 150th anniversary, Harold Holzer The Civil War in 150 Objects presents an unprecedented firsthand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures... |
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Exodus: A Memoir
Deborah Feldman - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. She was determined to forge a better life for herself, away from the rampant oppression, abuse, and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg,... |
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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John McCain’s evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed... |
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Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land
Robert Crawford - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poetsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. Young Eliot... |
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On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Norton Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBEANDKIRKUS REVIEWSFrom acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon Nelson Rockefellerone of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century. Fourteen years in the making,... |
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Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Charles Marsh - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive... |
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Let the Tornado Come: A Memoir
Rita Zoey Chin - Simon & Schuster; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning poet comes this riveting, gorgeous memoir about a young runaway, the trauma that haunted her as an adult, and the friendship with a horse that finally set her free.When she was eleven years old, Rita began to run away. Her father's violence and her mother's... |
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The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered
Laura Auricchio - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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The Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and became the French hero of the American Revolution. In this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune... |
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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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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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Girl in the Dark: A Memoir
Anna Lyndsey - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Haunting, lyrical, unforgettable, Girl in the Dark is a brave new memoir of a life without light. Anna Lyndsey was young and ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. Then what started as a mild intolerance to certain kinds of artificial light... |
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understandingof Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth a poor cobblers son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band... |
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Little Failure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyngart - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Advanced Readers Copy edition
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN... |
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Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last
Patience Bloom - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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Who knows the ins and outs of romance better than a Harlequin editor? A surprising and exhilarating look into Patience Bloom's unexpected real-life love story.At some point, we've all wished romance could be more like fiction. Patience Bloom certainly did, many times over. As a teen... |
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and "reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian" (BOOKLIST ) .At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects... |
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Russian Tattoo: A Memoir
Elena Gorokhova - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of A Mountain of Crumbs, a brilliant and illuminating BookPage portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey to show how the ties that hold you back can also teach you how to start over. Elena Gorokhova moves to the US in her twenties... |
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Johnny Cash: The Life
Robert Hilburn - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The national bestseller celebrated as the ultimate Johnny Cash biography....Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep. -- Rolling StoneIn this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cashs extraordinary... |
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I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak - Spiegel & Grau; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the authors parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy-Maszks parents, Hanna and Aladr, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministrya vocal anti-Fascist... |
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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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88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary
Robert L. Grenier - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The "first" Afghan War, a CIA war in response to 9/11, was directed by the CIA Station Chief in Islamabad. It put Hamid Karzai in power in 88 days. "If you want an insider's account of the first American-Afghan War, you can't do better than this ... Important reading... |
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Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.
Delia Ephron - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, sisterhood, movies, and family. In Losing Nora, she deftly captures the rivalry, mutual respect, and intimacy that made up her relationship... |
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Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.
Marion Barry Jr. - Strebor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most powerful cities in the world.Known nationally as the disgraced mayor caught on camera smoking crack... |
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Jill Lepore - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly... |
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Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son
Penny Junor - Grand Central Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the British royal family, has had a colorful... |
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Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
Mr. Michael Haas - Yale University Press; First Edition /First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third... |
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At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
Thich Nhat Hanh - Parallax Pr
Format: Print book
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This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking, inspiring, and enjoyable to read. Collected here for the first time, these stories span the author's life. There are stories from Thich Nhat Hanh's childhood... |
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Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde
Jennie Garth - Penguin Group USA
Format: Book
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For the first time ever, Jennie Garth is putting it all out there, sharing her joys and her sorrows, her successes and her failures, with candor and a surprising, even bawdy, sense of humor. From her sudden rise to fame as a golden-haired teen beauty, to recently redefining herself as a single... |
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Not My Father's Son: A Memoir
Alan Cumming - Dey Street Books
Format: Paperback
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In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.A beloved star of stage, television, and film—“one of the most... |
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never... |
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The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
Bela Zombory-Moldovan - NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback
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Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World War An NYRB Classics Original The budding young Hungarian artist Bla Zombory-Moldovn was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing... |
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Goebbels: A Biography
Peter Longerich - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda. In life, and in the grisly manner of his death, Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. By the end, no one in the Berlin... |
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Levels of Life
Julian Barnes - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn this elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir, Julian Barnes has written about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved... |
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My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal... |
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On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Norton Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND KIRKUS REVIEWSFrom acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller - one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century. Fourteen years in the making,... |
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Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852
Rory Muir - Yale University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover
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In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story... |
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The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
Dee Williams - Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life. More than ten years ago, a near-death experience abruptly reminded sustainability advocate and pioneer... |
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today. More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant... |
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Little Failure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyngart - Random House
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS,... |
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Stepdog
Mireya Navarro - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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Stepdog is the hilarious and heartwarming tale of a woman who has finally met the man of her dreams - and the dog of her nightmares. Winner of the June 2015 Elle Readers PrizeLots of dogs eat shoes, bite people, destroy furniture . . . but Eddie tried to destroy a marriage.After... |
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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland
Beau Riffenburgh - Viking; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild BunchThe operatives of the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling... |
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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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Love Life
Rob Lowe - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.Rob Low is back with stories he only tells his best... |
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Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
Hannah Hart - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hannah Hart's new book is a roaring, beautiful, and profoundly human account of an extraordinary life." - John Green "Hannah shares her truth with an honesty that is inspiring - one that makes me believe her when... |
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Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds
Kara Richardson Whitely - Seal Press
Format: Paperback
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Kara knew she could reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. She had done it once before. That's why, when she failed in a second attempt, it brought her so low. As she struggled with food addiction and looked for ways to cope with feelings of failure and shame, Kara's weight shot to more... |
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Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
David Axelrod - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review"A stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years."A New York Times BestsellerDavid Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young journalist investigating city corruption, a campaign consultant guiding underdog candidates against... |
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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Sheila McCauley Keys - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero - "the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother... |
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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Michael B Oren - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMichael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States - a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East - provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship... |
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You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age
Robert J. Wagner - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary actor and bestselling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden ageFor millions of movie lovers, no era in the history of Hollywood is more beloved than the period from the 1930s through the 1950s, the golden age of the studio system. Not only... |
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Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
Cookie Johnson - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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In her new memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.On November 7, 1991, basketball icon Earvin "Magic"... |
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Jim Henson : the biography
Brian Jay Jones - Ballantine Books
Format: eBook
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"For the first time ever--a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only... |
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Pat and Dick: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage
Will Swift - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Plutarch Award for Best Biography, "the most humanizing portrait of the Nixons we're likely to have" (Douglas Brinkley) is a sweeping depiction of the turbulent fifty-three-year marriage of Richard and Pat Nixon.When Americans remember the controversial... |
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I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
Howard Norman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1ST edition
Format: Book
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“A bracing and no-nonsense memoir, infused with fresh takes on love, death, and human nature.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review As with many of us, the life of acclaimed novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of “arresting strangeness.” Yet few of us connect... |
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The Good Luck Cat: How a Cat Saved a Family, and a Family Saved a Cat
Lissa Warren - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lissa Warren’s father needed a retirement companion while his wife and daughter were at work. Enter Ting, a seven-pound Korat who changed his life, and the life of the family. All kittens are mischievous, but Ting “the cat grenade” was real trouble. She was also smart,... |
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Divine Fury: A History of Genius
Darrin M. McMahon - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Library Journal11/15/2013
There have been many studies of the idea of genius, but a signal virtue of this new account is its comprehensiveness. Rather than start in the 18th century, when the modern idea of genius emergedas an exceptional quality located not in God but in manor with the 19th-century... |
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Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
Nina MacLaughlin - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist--'Carpenter's assistant : women strongly encouraged to apply'--despite being a Classics... |
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen - Broadway Books
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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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Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President
David S. Heidler - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation's first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them. In 1789,... |
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Jay Barbree - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Much has been written about Neil Armstrong Americas modern hero and historys most famous space traveler Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neils life... |
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Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
Justin Martin - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists— regulars at Pfaff’s Saloon in Manhattan—rightly... |
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Jesus: The Human Face of God
Jay Parini - New Harvest; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jay Parini brings a lifes worth of contemplation on Jesus to the first volume in ICONS, a series of brief, thought-provoking biographies edited by James Atlas. In Jesus, Parini turns the powerful narrative skill hes wielded over the course of a four-decade career to a figure whos dominated... |
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A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
Philip Shenon - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th centurys most controversial murder investigationThe questions have haunted our nation for half a century Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy?... |
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn - Audible Studios
Format: Hardcover
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An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful... |
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride’s family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys’ club to a more inclusive elite.Sally Ride made history... |
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