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If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

Jamie Tworkowski - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times BestsellerIn 2006 Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called "To Write Love on Her Arms" about helping a friend through her struggle with drug addiction, depression, and self-injury. The piece was so hauntingly beautiful that it quickly went viral, giving birth to a non-profit...
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Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

MARK C ADAMS - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition.In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds...
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Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime

Debora Harding - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city.Debora survived. She identified her attacker...
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Good in a Crisis: A Memoir

Margaret Overton - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Book

Honest, hopeful, hilarious—the smartest, most knowing account of a woman and the calamities of midlife since Nora Ephron’s wryly humorous Heartburn. During the four years of physician Margaret Overton’s acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and indiscriminately, determined...
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition...
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You Will Not Have My Hate

Antoine Leiris - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris's wife, Hlne Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert...
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Barnum: An American Life

Robert Wilson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichs for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street JournalP. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever...
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Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country

Alex Cuadros - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book

For readers of Michael Lewis comes an engrossing tale of global financial inequality - intertwined with the story of Brazil's wealthiest citizen, Eike Batista - that begins to answer the question: Who exactly are our new hyperwealthy plutocrats, and should we welcome or fear them? When...
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One Life

Megan Rapinoe - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Megan Rapinoe is one of the world's most talented athletes. But beyond her massive professional success on the soccer field, Rapinoe has become an icon and ally to millions, boldly speaking out on the issues that matter most. In recent years, she's become one of the faces of the equal...
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