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Warrior: Audrey Hepburn
Robert Matzen - GoodKnight Books
Format: Hardcover
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Warrior: Audrey Hepburn completes the story arc of Robert Matzen's Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II. Hepburn's experiences in wartime, including the murder of family members, her survival through combat and starvation conditions, and work on behalf of the Dutch Resistance,... |
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Mid-Life Ex-Wife: A Diary of Divorce, Online Dating, and Second Chances
STELLA GREY - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Nora Ephron meets Bridget Jones's Diary in Guardian columnist Stella Grey's heartrendingly honest, witty memoir about her online odyssey to find real love in a virtual world. "The literary equivalent of the When Harry Met Sally line, 'tell me I'll never be out there... |
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Michael J. Fox - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike... |
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Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
Joseph Pfeifer - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown Manhattan on the morning of 9/11, he had no idea that his life was about to change forever. A few moments later, he watched the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Pfeifer, the closest FDNY... |
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Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden
Alain Baraton - Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistFor gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds,... |
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history - a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh... |
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Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back
Elisha Cooper - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children s books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment,... |
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Conversations with McCartney
Paul Du Noyer - The Overlook Press
Format: Print book
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The intimate portrayal of one of the most famous men in music, more than half of which is in McCartney's own words.In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London. They asked him to interview the star; McCartney and Du Noyer had met once before and enjoyed... |
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A Place Called Home: A Memoir
DAVID AMBROZ - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover
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There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care, offering a window into what so many kids living in poverty... |
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Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
Renata Calverley - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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September, 1939. Przemysl, Poland. No one has explained to three-year-old Renatka what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is away with the Polish Army, that her beautiful Mamusia is no longer allowed to work at the university, and that their frequent visitors—among them Great... |
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