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If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
Jamie Tworkowski - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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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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Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime
Debora Harding - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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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