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Russian Tattoo: A Memoir

Elena Gorokhova - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

Wendy Holden - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too - a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer's Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied...
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Manderley Forever

Tatiana De Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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

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

#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

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

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

"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

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

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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Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Nathaniel Philbrick - Viking
Format: Print book

"Valiant Ambition may be one of the greatest what-if books of the age - a volume that turns one of America's best-known narratives on its head." - Boston Globe"Clear and insightful, it consolidates his reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative...
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Bettyville: A Memoir

George Hodgman - Viking
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Saigon’s Fall

John P. Riordan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

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

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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The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!: The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation

Alan Hirsch - Counterpoint Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

In 1961, a thief broke into the National Gallery in London and committed the most sensational art heist in British history. He stole the museum's much prized painting, The Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya. Despite unprecedented international attention and an unflagging investigation,...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Mark Twain - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

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

"[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

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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Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

Clint Hill - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Sarah Vowell - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

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

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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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

Brian Kilmeade - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

"The challenges we face today are not so different from Jeffersons, and weve much to learn from his boldness and from the courage of the marines and sailors who died to protect their country." (Brian Kilmeade) This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged...
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White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters

Mary Pflum Peterson - William Morrow
Format: Print book

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

"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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Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

Susan Ronald - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't...
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The Hamilton Collection: The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father

Dan Tucker - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book

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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Where a Man Stands: Two Different Worlds, An Impossible Situation, and the Unexpected Friendship that Changed Everything

Carter Paysinger - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

When Beverly Hills High School welcomed a skinny boy from the other side of the tracks, no one knew just how life-changing the decision would be, not just for Carter Paysinger but for all of Beverly Hills.Carter grew up hearing his parents say, “Don’t just strive to be good....
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Among Heroes: A U.S. Navy SEAL's True Story of Friendship, Heroism, and the Ultimate Sacrifice

Brandon Webb - NAL; First Edition/First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Now from Brandon Webb, Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times bestselling author, comes his personal account of the eight friends and fellow SEALs who made the ultimate sacrifice. "Knowing these great men - who they were, how they lived, and what they stood for - has changed my life....
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Guilt by Matrimony: A Memoir of Love, Madness, and the Murder of Nancy Pfister

Nancy Styler - BenBella Books
Format: eBook

"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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot - Harper
Format: Print book

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America's greatest untold story: the United States'...
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A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories

Norman Maclean - University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback

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

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

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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More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia

Claude Knobler - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

In this heartwarming and hilarious memoir, Claude Knobler describes how he learned the hard way that the apple actually can fall far from the tree—and that’s Okay. Already the biological parents of a seven-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, Claude Knobler and his wife...
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Leaving Before the Rains Come

Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

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

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

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

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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Where a Man Stands: Two Different Worlds, An Impossible Situation, and the Unexpected Friendship that Changed Everything

Carter Paysinger - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

"When Beverly Hills High School welcomed a skinny boy from the other side of the tracks, no one knew just how life-changing the decision would be, not just for Carter Paysinger but for all of Beverly Hills. Carter grew up hearing his parents say, 'Don't just strive to be good....
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His Father's Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.

Tim Brady - New American Library
Format: Print book

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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Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto

Tilar J Mazzeo - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler - the "female Oskar Schindler" - who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during...
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Find a Way

Diana Nyad - Knopf
Format: Print book

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

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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Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams

Jen Bricker - Baker Books

Born without legs, champion gymnast, performer, and motivational speaker Jen Bricker offers readers the hope that they truly can overcome any obstacle when they learn to confront life with humble acceptance, a commitment to live on mission, and a never-say-can't attitude.
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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

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

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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Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Linda Hirshman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An account of the intertwined lives of the first two women to be appointed to the Supreme Court examines their respective religious and political beliefs while sharing insights into how they have influenced interpretations of the Constitution to promote equal rights for women.
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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France

Seth Meyerowitz - Berkley Caliber
Format: Print book

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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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The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer: The True Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Thom Hatch - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this thrilling narrative history of George Armstrong Custers death at the Little Bighorn, award-winning historian Thom Hatch puts to rest the questions and conspiracies that have made Custers last stand one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Whilenumerous historians...
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Sue Klebold - Crown
Format: Print book

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

"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

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

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

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

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

"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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Seven Seasons in Siena: My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People

Robert Rodi - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditionschiefly the spectacular...
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Heroines of Mercy Street

Pamela D. Toler PhD - Little, Brown, 2016.
Format: Print book

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

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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How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Building a Happy Marriage

Jo Piazza - Harmony
Format: Paperback

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled...
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Looking for Hemingway: Spain, the Bullfights, and a Final Rite of Passage

Tony Castro - Lyons Pr
Format: Print book

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

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

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

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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Gotti's Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia

George Anastasia - Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster - "one of the most respected crime reporters in the country" (60 Minutes) - comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the unique viewpoint...
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Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"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

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

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

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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My Life with Wagner: Fairies, Rings, and Redemption: Exploring Opera's Most Enigmatic Composer

Christian Thielemann - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

My Life with Wagner chronicles his ardent personal and professional engagement with the great composer, whose work has shaped his thinking and feeling from early childhood. Thielemann retraces his journey around the world with Wagner from Berlin to Bayreuth via Venice, Hamburg, and Chicago...
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man

Art Garfunkel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"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

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

"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

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

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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A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth

Rita Gabis - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past: prior to immigration he had fought the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before...
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Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director

Gary Vikan - SelectBooks
Format: Print book

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

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

"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

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

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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The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS

Bill Harlow - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell...
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Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Min Kym - Crown
Format: Print book

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

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

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

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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The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

Julie Checkoway - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

For readers of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes the inspirational, untold story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids...
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Seven Seasons in Siena: My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People

Robert Rodi - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditionschiefly the spectacular...
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The Stranger Beside Me: The Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Ann Rule - Norton
Format: Book

"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

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

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

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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