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Russian Tattoo: A Memoir
Elena Gorokhova - Simon & Schuster Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Marrow: A Love Story
Elizabeth Lesser - Harperwave Format: Print book
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant - one the donor and one the recipient - begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love.A mesmerizing and courageous... |
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Thorndike Press Format: Large Print Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER [[ LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD [[ Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The... |
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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks - Vintage Books Format: Print book
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A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, BookPage, Slate, Men's JournalWhen Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly... |
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Death Need Not Be Fatal
MALACHY MCCOURT - Center Street Format: Hardcover
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T. J. Stiles - Knopf Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping... |
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West - Hachette Books Format: Print book
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Hailed by Lena Dunham as an "essential (and hilarious) voice for women," Lindy West is ferociously witty and outspoken, tackling topics as varied as pop culture, social justice and body image. Her empowering work has garnered a coast-to-coast audience that eagerly awaits SHRILL,... |
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Sometimes You Have to Cross When It Says Don't Walk: A Memoir of Breaking Barriers
Lesley Visser - BenBella Books Format: eBook
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Lesley Visser is living proof that, no matter where you start, if you are motivated and passionate, your dreams can come true.When Lesley was 11, she told her mother that she wanted to be a sportswriter. The job didn't exist for women in 1964, but her mother - instead of suggesting... |
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Feel Free: Essays
Zadie Smith - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant... |
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
Sandra Cisneros - Knopf Publishing Group Format: Hardcover
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From the author of The House on Mango Street, a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography - an intimate album of a beloved literary legend. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking... |
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Manderley Forever
Tatiana De Rosnay - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier."It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor.... |
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Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
Shaka Senghor - Convergent, 2016. Format: Print book
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In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands.In life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish. Shaka Senghor... |
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8. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Washington... |
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer - Anchor Format: Paperback
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In April a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt McKinley His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless He had given in savings to charity abandoned his car and most of his possessions burned all the cash in his wallet... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)... |
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The Cost of Courage
Charles Kaiser - Other Press (NY) Format: Hardcover
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"The result is a mix of history, biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller." - The Guardian (US) This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer... |
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Kim MacQuarrie - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America's mountain spine, from Charles Darwin to the present day, told by a master traveler and observer.The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker... |
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A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Bronts Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women's Work
Miranda K Pennington - Seal Press Format: Paperback
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How many times have you heard readers argue about which is better, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights? The works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne continue to provoke passionate fandom over a century after their deaths. Bronte enthusiasts, as well as those of us who never made it further than those... |
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Bettyville: A Memoir
George Hodgman - Viking Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A beautifully crafted memoir, rich with humor and wisdom." - Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club"The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is already... |
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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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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders - Da Capo Press Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden - Scribner; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead... |
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Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic
Kevin Grange - Berkley; 1 edition Format: Print book
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A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program - and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles.Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks - that was Kevin Grange's... |
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Bon Appetempt: A Coming-of-Age Story
Amelia Morris - Grand Central Publishing Format: Print book
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When Amelia Morris saw a towering, beautiful chocolate cake in Bon Appetit and took the recipe home to recreate it for a Christmas day brunch she was hosting, it resulted in a terrible (but tasty) mess that had to be served in an oversize bowl. It was also a revelation. Both delicious... |
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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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The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
Steve Osborne - Doubleday Format: Audiobook
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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 tales from... |
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The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir
Alain Mabanckou - New Pressicos Format: Hardcover
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Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When he finally came back to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's southeastern coast, he found a country that in some ways had changed beyond recognition: the cinema... |
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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... |
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The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
Laura Thompson - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist... |
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They Are All My Family: A Daring Rescue in the Chaos of Saigons Fall
John P. Riordan - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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Published for the fortieth anniversary of the final days of the Vietnam War, this is the suspenseful and moving tale of how John Riordan, an assistant manager of Citibanks Saigon branch, devised a daring plan to save 106 Vietnamese from the dangers of the Communist takeover. Riordanwho... |
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Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly
Mick Wall - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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There's a reason why Dave Grohl is known, however naively, as "the nicest man in rock." A reason why millions have bought his Foo Fighters albums and DVDs, his concert and festival tickets. A reason why generations have bought into his story, his dream, his self-fulfilling prophecies.... |
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Mark Twain - University of California Press Format: Hardcover
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The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist's life... |
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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience... |
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First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
Joshua C Kendall - Grand Central Publishing Format: Print book
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Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological make-up.... |
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Sarah Vowell - Riverhead Books Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington's trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette's... |
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Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil
YVETTE MANESSIS CORPORON - Howard Books Format: Hardcover
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Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants - and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness.Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's... |
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White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters
Mary Pflum Peterson - William Morrow Format: Print book
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In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them - television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption, and her battle to rescue her mother, a former nun, from compulsive hoarding.As a successful... |
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Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
David O. Stewart - Simon & Schuster Format: Paperback
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Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant Founding Father and framer of the new nation: "A fascinating look at how one unlikely figure managed to help guide ... a precarious confederation of reluctant states to a self-governing republic... |
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS - Harper Format: Hardcover
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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
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The Wright Brothers
David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown... |
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As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp
Stephen L Moore - Penguin Publishing Group 2016. Format: eBook
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The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II - As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape. In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within... |
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Greenpeace Captain: My Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet
Peter Willcox - Tantor Audio Format: Audiobook
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Peter Willcox has been a captain for Greenpeace for over 30 years. He would never call himself a hero, but he is recognized on every ocean and continent for devoting his entire life to saving the planet. He has led the most compelling and dangerous Greenpeace actions to bring international... |
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
David Leite - Dey Street Books Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite... |
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The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books Format: Print book
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"From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a KGB assassin whose defection to the West changed the face of Cold War espionage" In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets... |
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The Hamilton Collection: The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father
Dan Tucker - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Format: Print book
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The subject of a New York Times best-selling biography and a Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, interest in Alexander Hamilton is at an all-time high. This carefully curated collection of Hamilton's writings gives the reader an intimate glimpse into the mind of our most misunderstood... |
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Guilt by Matrimony: A Memoir of Love, Madness, and the Murder of Nancy Pfister
Nancy Styler - BenBella Books Format: eBook
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"An amazing story about a homicidal web of deceit fueled by mental illness. It is not a typical true-crime tale - it is in a class by itself" (Diane Fanning, author of Bitter Remains) . In 2014, an Aspen socialite was bludgeoned, wrapped in a sheet, and stuffed inside a locked... |
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
Amy Gary - Flatiron Books Format: Print book
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For decades children and their parents around the world have cuddled together to read Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. While the lulling words of these stories have formed nighttime rituals for millions, few know that these classic works were part of a publishing revolution led by Margaret... |
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Mindy Kaling - Three Rivers Press Format: Paperback
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Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers... |
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The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush
John H. Sununu - Broadside Books Format: Hardcover
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In this major reassessment of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, his former Chief of Staff offers a long overdue appreciation of the man and his universally underrated and misunderstood presidency."I'm a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others... |
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Kevin Hazzard - Scribner Format: Print book
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A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life... |
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Lennon on Lennon : conversations with John Lennon
John Lennon - Chicago Review Press Format: NOOK Book(eBook)
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John Lennon was a highly opinionated and controversial figure with a commanding personality and quick wit. He spoke candidly about his intense, sometimes tumultuous relationship with Yoko Ono, his split with the Beatles, his squabbles with Paul McCartney, and just about everything else,... |
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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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Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling - Crown Archetype Format: Print book
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From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal. In Why Not Me?, Kaling... |
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A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz
Goran Rosenberg - Other Press (NY) Format: Hardcover
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This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father's attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August PrizeOn August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured... |
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Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life
Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books Format: Hardcover
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Oprah Winfrey will be the first to tell you, she has had a complicated relationship with food. It's been both a source of delight and comfort for her, but also the cause of an ongoing struggle with her weight. In Food, Health, and Happiness, Oprah shares the recipes that have allowed... |
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs - Picador Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the YearNow a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with... |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson - Vintage Format: Paperback
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This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys... |
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A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories
Norman Maclean - University of Chicago Press Format: Paperback
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From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic.Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, the title novella... |
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Forward : a memoir
Abby Wambach - Dey Street
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Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible. Named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of 2015, the soccer player captured the nation's heart when she led her team to its recent World Cup Championship. Abby is a vocal advocate for women's rights... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1932
Blanche Wiesen Cook - Viking Adult Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere, Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt presents an unprecedented portrait of the towering female figure of the twentieth century. The second volume plunges into the White House years and the Great Depression,... |
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration... |
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Rolling Stones on Air in the Sixties: TV and Radio History As It Happened
Richard Havers - Harper Design Format: Hardcover
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The first official, in-depth history of the Rolling Stones told through the band's television and radio broadcasts - appearance by appearance - published to tie in with the global release of a DVD containing recently discovered, never-before-released footage of the Stones on TV, in front... |
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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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Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life
Glennon Doyle Melton - Scribner Format: Paperback
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Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award The inspiring and hilarious instant New York Times bestseller from the beloved writer, speaker, activist, and founder of Momastery.com whose writing is "like a warm embrace" (FamilyCircle.com) .Glennon Doyle Melton's hilarious... |
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His Father's Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.
Tim Brady - New American Library Format: Print book
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The story of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a fortunate son who proved himself on the battlefields of two world wars.General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born... |
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Find a Way
Diana Nyad - Knopf Format: Print book
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Hillary Clinton said that Find a Way would stay with her through the general election: "When you're facing big challenges in your life, you can think about Diana Nyad getting attacked by the lethal sting of box jellyfishes. And nearly anything else seems doable in comparison."... |
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Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd... |
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I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
Roberto Canessa - Atria Books Format: Print book
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On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the "Old Christians" rugby team - and many of their friends and family members - crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death... |
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Fierce Optimism: Seven Secrets for Playing Nice and Winning Big
Leeza Gibbons - Dey Street Books Format: Hardcover
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Attitude can be sexy - a practical and inspirational guide for using kindness and positivity as a winning strategy from Celebrity Apprentice champion, Hollywood veteran, and New York Times bestselling author Leeza Gibbons.We live in a winner-take-all world, in which only the toughest... |
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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
Seth Meyerowitz - Berkley Caliber Format: Print book
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For fans of Unbroken, the remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom. Bronx-born top turret-gunner... |
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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
Pamela Newkirk - Amistad Press Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit - a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the tradition of The Immortal Life... |
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Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
Aldo Schiavone - Liveright Publishing Corporation Format: Print book
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A world-renowned classicist presents a groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross.The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross?... |
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But Seriously
John McEnroe - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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John McEnroe's long-awaited follow-up to his #1 bestseller He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in history, a tennis legend and a volcanic, mesmerizing presence. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? Fifteen years after his international number-one... |
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The Rocky Mountain National Park reader
James H Pickering - The University of Utah Press Format: Print book
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"A rich literary and historical compendium of the best that has been written about Rocky Mountain National Park Writer Wallace Stegner once wrote that 'No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered.' This collection celebrates one of America's... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938
Blanche Wiesen Cook - Viking Adult Format: Hardcover
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Historians, politicians, feminists, critics, and reviewers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cooks monumental Eleanor Roosevelt as the definitive portrait of this towering female figure of the twentieth century. Now in her long-awaited, majestic second volume, Cook takes readers through... |
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My Fathers Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
Kevin Toolis - Da Capo Press Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Irelands County... |
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Sue Klebold - Crown Format: Print book
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On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's... |
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Wildflower
Drew Barrymore - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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"Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today. Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible... |
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The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
Melissa Fay Greene - Ecco Press Format: Print book
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From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.The Underdogs... |
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Unbreakable: A Navy SEAL's Way of Life
Thom Shea - Little Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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A highly decorated Navy SEAL shares stories of his years of combat experience in Afghanistan, providing leadership insights that will shift your view of yourself and provoke life-altering change. Before leaving for combat in Afghanistan, Navy SEAL Thom Shea promised his wife that he would... |
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
Bruce Feiler - William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition Format: Print book
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Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey—by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel—through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mount Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler's... |
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The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography
Michael Shnayerson - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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Examines the life and career of the New York attorney general and governor.He is tactically brilliant, charismatic, yet also dark, brooding, and vindictive. He is an old-school boss who rules by fear, even as he puts himself forward as the new, 21st-century Democrat. In many ways his story... |
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Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Jon Meacham - Random House, 2015. Format: Print book
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"In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family,... |
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Heroines of Mercy Street
Pamela D. Toler PhD - Little, Brown, 2016. Format: Print book
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A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy StreetHEROINES OF MERCY STREET tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among... |
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Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Irin Carmon - Dey Street Books Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The authors make this unassuming, most studious woman come pulsing to life. . . . Notorious RBG may be a playful project, but it asks to be read seriously. . . . That I responded so personally to it is a testimony to [its] storytelling and panache." - Jennifer... |
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Looking for Hemingway: Spain, the Bullfights, and a Final Rite of Passage
Tony Castro - Lyons Pr Format: Print book
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In 1959, the most famous literary figure of his time set out in the twilight of his life to recapture his early success in the 1920s. The experience tested all the credos of bravery and grace under pressure he had lived by.Just months before turning sixty, Ernest Hemingway headed for Spain... |
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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins - Berrett-Koehler, 2015. Format: Print book
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Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages. New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition... |
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Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Buries His Parents
Bob Morris - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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His mother's last word was his name. His father's was "Wonderful." Together they inspired the title for this true story of love and redemption. Bob Morris was always the entertainer in his family, but not always a perfect son. When he finds his parents approaching the end of their... |
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Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway's Adventures as a World War II Correspondent
Terry Mort - Pegasus Books Format: Print book
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From Omaha Beach on D-Day and the French Resistance to the tragedy of Huertgen Forest and the Liberation of Paris, this is the story of Ernest Hemingway's adventures in journalism during World War II. In the spring of 1944, Hemingway traveled to London and then to France to cover World... |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly... |
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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martins Press Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitts The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret."A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally... |
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Just the Funny Parts: My 30 Years on the Hollywood Jungle Gym
Nell Scovell - Dey Street Books Format: Print book
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Introduction by Sheryl SandbergIf Bossypants and Lean In got drunk and hooked up, their sloppy-sex-love-child would be this juicy and insightful memoir which blows the doors off the male dominated writers' room and offers a scathingly funny account of Hollywood's sexual politics over the last... |
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So Great a Prince
LAUREN JOHNSON - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and original portrait of the year the young Henry VIII assumes the throne, revealing a kingdom at a crossroads between two dynamic monarchs and two ages of history. England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers... |
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
Art Garfunkel - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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"Poetic musings on a life well-lived - one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isnt your typical autobiography. Garfunkels history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." - Bookreporter... |
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Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
Amy Haimerl - Running Press Format: Print book
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Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy.As... |
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Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
Betty Boyd Caroli - Simon & Schuster, 2015. Format: Print book
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"Marriage is the most underreported story in political life and yet is often the key to its success. This is the idea driving a revealing new portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and ballast for Lyndon...[A] biography of a political... |
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A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like
ASHLEY GRAHAM - Dey Street Books Format: Hardcover
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One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoirVoluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been modeling professionally... |
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The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Finn Murphy - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A long-haul mover's rollicking account of life out on the Big Slab.More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he's covered more than a million miles packing, loading, and hauling people's belongings all over America. Known by his trucker... |
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Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director
Gary Vikan - SelectBooks Format: Print book
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Sacred and Stolen is the memoir of an art museum director with the courage to reveal what goes on behind the scenes. It lays bare the messy part of museums: looted antiquities, crooked dealers, deluded collectors, duplicitous public officials, fakes, inside thefts, bribery, and failed exhibitions.... |
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Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Cokie Roberts - Harper Format: Hardcover
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In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
James Neff - Little Brown & Co Format: Hardcover
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One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying... |
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Bon Appetempt: A Coming-of-Age Story (with Recipes!)
Amelia Morris - Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning food blogger describes her chaotic childhood in a Brady Bunch-sized family and a string of ill-fated jobs in her 20s that eventually led to her experimenting in the kitchen as a route to finding a more meaningful life. |
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Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Min Kym - Crown Format: Print book
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The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off - and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice. Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made, her first piece "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star."... |
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
Clinton Romesha - Dutton Books Format: Print book
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The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of "Black Hawk Down "by Mark Bowden and "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. "'It doesn't get better. ' To us, that... |
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Fare Thee Well: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead
Jay Blakesberg - Rock Out Books, 2015. Format: Print book
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A photographic document of the Grateful Dead's final five "Fare Thee Well" concerts in Santa Clara, Ca. and Chicago, Il.. The book follows the final reunion of the "core four" surviving members of the Grateful Dead - Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir-... |
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Randy Roberts - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam - a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult - saw the potential... |
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Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act
Barry Yourgrau - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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The author draws on his experiences as both a hoarder and an investigator to profile subjects ranging from professional decluttering services and anti-hoarding therapy to the brain science behind hoarding and the way clutter affects relationships. |
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A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow
Mike Farris - W W Norton Format: Print book
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Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii.In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant's wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia's mother,... |
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Lena Dunham - Three Rivers Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers... |
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Unlikely Companions: The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor
Laurie Hess - Da Capo Format: Print book
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Whether it's an umbrella cockatoo who's not eating, a depressed chinchilla, a pregnant potbellied pig, or a ferret possibly needing surgery, exotic animal vet Laurie Hess is at the front lines with some remarkable pets-and their equally eccentric, dedicated, and sometimes demanding owners.... |
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Wanted: The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly
Robert M. Utley - Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws'... |
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Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation
Robert J. Norrell - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) , and Roots (1976) . They changed the way white and black... |
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The Stranger Beside Me: The Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Ann Rule - Norton Format: Book
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"As dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight." -- New York TimesTed Bundy was handsome, charming, a brilliant law student, and on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989, he was executed for the murders of three young women, having confessed... |
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Untitled on Becoming a Grandmother
Lesley Stahl - Blue Rider Press Format: Print book
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From one of the country s most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman s life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl s most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching... |
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A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz
Goran Rosenberg - Other Press Format: Hardcover
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This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August PrizeOn August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured... |
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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
Hilary Mantel - Picador Modern Classics Format: Hardcover
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Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed... |
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