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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
WILLIE PARKER - 37 INK
Format: Print book
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In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor... |
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Going Somewhere: A Bicycle Journey Across America
Brian Benson - Plume
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Brian has a million vague life plans but zero sense of direction. So when he meets Rachel, a self-possessed woman who daydreams of bicycling across the States, he decides to follow her wherever she'll take him. Brian and Rachel soon embark on a ride from northern Wisconsin to Somewhere... |
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The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
Frederik Obermaier - Oneworld Publications
Format: Print book
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"With precision and purpose, THE PANAMA PAPERS is what 'Follow the Money' means." - Bob Woodward, The Washington PostLate one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels,... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper... |
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Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian
Bob Saget - It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House, and as the charming wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos. And then there are the legions of fans who can't get enough of his scatological, out-of-his-mind... |
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Betsy Lerner - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast... |
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Gold Buckles Productions Gold Buckles Dont Lie Hardback Book
Freddie Whitefield - Self Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A classic American adventure. Freds story is as gritty and intense as the man himself. For the first time, this rodeo legend tells of his roller coaster ride to eight gold buckles, including a personal story that rivals any fiction, and absolutely no one has heard all the details until... |
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Robin
Dave Itzkoff - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams - a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork &... |
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Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
Jason Porath - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog. Well-behaved women seldom make... |
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Too Young for the Times
George Trojan - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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George Trojan's life changed forever on September 1, 1939, when German forces bombarded his hometown of Lwow, Poland. With Russia quickly siding with the German invaders, Poland fell in twenty-nine days. For the next two years, Lwow was under Russian control. George's brother... |
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
PATRISSE KAHN-CULLORS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born."This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized... |
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Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side
Tyler Henry - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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From Tyler Henry, a twenty-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!'s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes Between Two Worlds, a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far."Dying doesn't mean having to say goodbye." Tyler Henry discovered his gift... |
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud
Elizabeth Greenwood - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn.Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find... |
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The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know
Laura Volpintesta - Rockport Publishers; First Edition, First edition
Format: Paperback
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Learning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of fashion design, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language - the definitions, function, and usage. The Language of Fashion Design provides students and fashion designers... |
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Jon Ronson - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed one on the street today. These are people who have no empathy, who are manipulative, deceitful, charming, seductive, and delusional. The Psychopath Test is the New York Times bestselling exploration of their world... |
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Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
Sean Parnell - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell's stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan.Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen... |
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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Terry Teachout - Gotham; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops A Life of Louis ArmstrongEdward Kennedy Duke Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth centuryand an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one not even his closest friends claimed to understand... |
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Settle for More
Megyn Kelly - Harper
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
Anchor of the number one news show on cable, The Kelly File, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly writes her much anticipated book, a revealing and surprising memoir detailing her rise as one of the most respected journalists working today. From the values... |
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Sally Ride: Americas First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, inspiring several generations of women. After a second flight, Ride served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion... |
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There Is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce
Thomas Sugrue - Are Pr
Format: Hardcover
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This book -- which contains many photos of Edgar Cayce, his family, and close friends -- is the complete, original biography of the best-documented psychic in America. It tells the story of how he discovered his astounding psychic gifts and what led him to a life dedicated to helping others.... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. "Consistently intelligent and funny ... The book succeeds wonderfully." - The New York Times... |
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Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!
Karen Gravano - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal. Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared... |
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Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Deirdre Bair - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone... |
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The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
Kevin Lacz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle. Experience his deployment, from his first mission to his first kill to his eventual successful return to the United States to play himself in the Oscar-nominated... |
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Reshaw: The Life and Times of John Baptiste Richard
Jefferson Glass - High Plains Pr
Format: Book
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John Baptiste Richard known as Reshaw the French pronunciation of his last name was both an adventurer and an opportunist. The early American West was changing fast, and Richard jumped on opportunities before most men even realized they existed.He was a fearless adrenaline junkie, always... |
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Take This Man: A Memoir
Brando Skyhorse - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 One of NBC Newss 10 Best Latino Books of 2014 From PENHemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a boys turbulent childhood growing... |
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Presidents: Washington to Bush
Sam J. Patrick - Greenwich House
Format: Book
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1989, extra-large, oversize hardcover volume (of a title first published in 1969) , Greenwich House / Crown, NY. 10 3/4" x 14 1/4", 91 pages. The full-color portraits, Washington through George Bush, are by a talented man named Sam J. Patrick. 41 Presidents are covered in detail,... |
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Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon
Iris Apfel - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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"Iris is one of my favorite subjects to photograph. She has four eyes in front and two eyes behind, and that's why she can see things in a round-about way. She flirts with us just enough to make us fall madly in love with her, as she once did to her beloved husband Carl. In the midst... |
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Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Pamela Hicks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A magical memoir about a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kellys pinup, and a grandmother... |
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Dan Hampton - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh's death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known... |
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Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson
Barbara Ransby - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Eslanda Essie Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalins Russia, and China two months... |
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Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee - David R Godine
Format: Paperback
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One of eight children, Laurie Lee was born in 1914, in Slad, Gloucestershire, then a remote corner of England. As his father was absent, the large family--five children from his father's first marriage and three from his second one was brought up by his capable mother. "We lived... |
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Child Star: An Autobiography
Shirley Temple Black - Mcgraw-Hill; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With amazing clarity and total recall, Shirley Temple Black vividly describes her experiences as a child actress. Despite abuses by exploitive studio executives, her talent and perseverance could not be thwarted; before long she was making movies with the top stars of the day. And her memoirs... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Michelle Knight - Weinstein Books; First Trade Paper Edition, domestic edition
Format: Print book
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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their... |
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The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
Catherine Burns - Crown
Format: Print book
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From storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best ever told on their stagesCarefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, All... |
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A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science
Sarah Gray - HarperOne
Format: Print book
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A donor mother's powerful memoir of grief and rebirth that is also a fascinating medical science whodunit, taking us inside the world of organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation and cutting-edge scientific research.When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was diagnosed... |
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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And Then She Killed Him
Robert Scott - Kensington
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Miriam Giles ran away to Colorado to bury her violent past - but this seductive, charismatic widow had a dark side that could never stay buried. After finding the "sugar daddy" she was looking for in Alan Helmick, her new marriage seemed happy. Then, two years later, Alan met a gruesome... |
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Its All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the Worlds Family Tree
A. J. Jacobs - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family - where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "Family of Humankind.".... |
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Year of No Sugar: A Memoir
Eve O Schaub - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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For fans of the New York Times bestseller I Quit Sugar or Katie Couric's controversial food industry documentary Fed Up, A Year of No Sugar is a "delightfully readable account of how [one family] survived a yearlong sugar-free diet and lived to tell the tale...A funny, intelligent,... |
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The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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In this superb work of literary true crime - a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense - a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us."Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia?... |
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American Heroes: On the Homefront
Oliver North - Threshold Editions; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Heroes Proved, a moving and inspirational chronicle of our national heroes' sacrifices and triumphs in Iraq and Afghanistan, after their return to the homefront.Combat-decorated Marine Oliver North delivers a riveting firsthand account of the extraordinary... |
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
SARAH KRASNOSTEIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes... |
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Everybody's Got Something
Robin Roberts - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's... |
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Unashamed
Lecrae Moore - B&H Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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"If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from theirrejection. " Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.... |
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Raising Trump: Family Values from Americas First Mother
Ivana Trump - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children - Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka - and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up.. As her former husband serves as the 45th President of the United States, his children have also... |
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Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir
Amber Tozer - Running Press
Format: Print book
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"Sober Stick Figure is a memoir from stand-up comedian Amber Tozer, chronicling her life as an alcoholic and her eventual recovery -- starting with her first drink at the age of seven -- all told with the help of childlike stick figures. Amber writes and illustrates the crazy and harsh... |
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Maeve Binchy: The Biography
Piers Dudgeon - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Maeve Binchy's heartwarming tales of love, life, and loss made her one of America's best-loved storytellers. Her novels, which sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic in a way that most authors only dream of. Seared with a truth... |
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The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader
Jason Redman - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Decorated US navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman was critically wounded in 2007 while leading a mission against a key al-Qaida commander, when his mobility and assault forces team was ambushed and he was struck by machine-gun fire at point-blank range. During the intense recovery that followed,... |
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Confessions of a Mediocre Widow: Or, How I Lost My Husband and My Sanity
Catherine Tidd - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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I spent my 11th wedding anniversary planning my husband's funeral. If I could just figure out how to make that rhyme, it would be the beginning of a great country song. Involuntarily single. That's the true story of where Catherine Tidd finds herself just three weeks after turning... |
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
PETER MAYLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife,... |
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Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
Kelley French - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head... |
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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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Paris Letters
Janice MacLeod - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times bestsellerFinding love and freedom in a pen, a paintbrush...and ParisHow much money does it take to quit your job?Exhausted and on the verge of burnout, Janice poses this questions to herself as she doodles on a notepad at her desk. Surprisingly, the answer isnt as daunting... |
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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
Sheila Kohler - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS"A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." - The BBC"An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." - PeopleWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister... |
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The Heavy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Dara-Lynn Weiss - Ballantine Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mothers unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting. When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weisss daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew... |
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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Richard Lyman Bushman - Knopf; First Edition. states edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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Joseph Smith, America’s preeminent visionary and prophet, rose from a modest background to found the largest indigenous Christian church in American history. Without the benefit of wealth, education, or social position, he published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three;... |
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Rise: How a House Built a Family
Cara Brookins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable. After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn... |
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Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
Jack Devine - Sarah Crichton Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A sophisticated, deeply informed account of real life in the real CIA that adds immeasurably to the public understanding of the espionage culture--the good and the bad." --Bob WoodwardJack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold... |
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When in French: Love in a Second Language
Lauren Collins - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier - a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean... |
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Masha Gessen - Riverhead Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world.Handpicked as a successor... |
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Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
Caroline Paul - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed.... |
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Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Dani Shapiro - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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“Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.”From the best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, meditation... |
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Farther Away: Essays
Jonathan Franzen - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination,... |
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Linda Ronstadt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ’70s.... |
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Soap Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laundresses 1802-1876
Jennifer J Lawrence - High Plains Press
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Women have always followed the troops, but military laundresses were the first tobe carried on the rolls of the U.S. Army. They traveled and lived alongside thesoldiers during two of the most important conflicts in United States history: theCivil War and the war on the western frontier.A... |
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God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Victoria Sweet - Riverhead Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt,... |
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary true story of the black detective who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the major motion picture written and directed by Spike Lee, and produced by Jordan Peele.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado... |
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A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works - and really doesn't.As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school... |
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Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, Father Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gangs in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of radical kinship.In his first... |
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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Robert Kanigel - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Book
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The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.
Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children,... |
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today. More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant... |
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Every Little Step: My Story
Bobby Brown - Dey St.
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic... |
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016 An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016 A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 An NPR 2016's Great Read A Boston Globe Best Book... |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times... |
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Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
Poe Ballantine - Hawthorne Books
Format: Book
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Fans of Truman Capotes In Cold Blood and John Berendts Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will embrace Poe Ballantines Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere. Poe Ballantines Free Rent at the Totalitarian Hotel included in Best American Essays 2013, and for well over twenty... |
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The Still Point of the Turning World
Emily Rapp - Penguin Press HC, The; 1 edition
Format: Large print book
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Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign... |
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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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The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine's Front Line
Seamus O'Mahony - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of the dying spend their last days in general hospitals and nursing homes, in the care of strangers. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are often robbed of their dignity after... |
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Promise me, Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
Joseph R Biden - Thorndike Press
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""Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's... |
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A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
Juliet Nicolson - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable womenAll families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation... |
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Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
Anna Pasternak - Ecco
Format: Print book
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The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya - the true tragedy behind the timeless classicWhen Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life... |
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John Le Carr - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur - by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,... |
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Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
John Boessenecker - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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"Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his proper place alongside such fabled lawmen as Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. Here is a grand adventure story, told with grace... |
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Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family
Kathy Mckeon - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny - and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from... |
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner.
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir.... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT" OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT" THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"January 1961: President... |
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Coming Clean: A Memoir
Kimberly Rae Miller - New Harvest
Format: Hardcover
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Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattans Upper West Side. You would never guess that Kim grew up behind the closed doors of her familys idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging... |
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Once a Cop: My Journey from Former Crack Dealer to the Highest Ranks of the NYPD
Corey Pegues - Atria Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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New Jack City meets Serpico in this provocative memoir of a crack dealer-turned-decorated NYPD officer - a timely reflection on the complex relationship between the police and the communities they are meant to protect.Corey Pegues has lived on both sides of the law. At the height of the 1980s... |
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Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Aspen Matis - William Morrow & Co
Format: Print book
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Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada - a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents... |
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Chickens in the Road: An Adventure in Ordinary Splendor
Suzanne McMinn - HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Suzanne McMinn, a former romance writer and founder of the popular blog chickensintheroad.com, shares the story of her search to lead a life of ordinary splendor in Chickens in the Road, her inspiring and funny memoir.Craving a life that would connect her to the earth and her family roots,... |
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Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
Chandler O'Leary - Sasquatch Books
Format: Print book
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This gorgeously illustrated letterpress-inspired book combines feminist history with a vision for a better future. Based on the beloved Dead Feminists letterpress poster series, this illuminating look at 27 women who've changed the world features a foreword by Jill Lepore, author of The... |
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Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation
Rabia Chaudry - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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*Now a New York Times bestseller*Serial told Only Part of the Story ... In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained... |
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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Blake Bailey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Autobiography' The renowned biographer's unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins - his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown... |
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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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William McKinley: The American Presidents Series: The 25th President, 1897-1901
Arthur M. Schlesinger - Times Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacyBy any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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Catherine the great & potemkin : the imperial love affair
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Vintage
Format: Print book
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From the author of "The Romanovs" a vivid account of history's most successful political partnership as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin wildly flamboyant and sublimely... |
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
Mark Sundeen - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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The radical search for the simple life in today's America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound... |
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Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin
David Kaufman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make... |
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence,... |
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Minding the manor : the memoir of a 1930s English kitchen maid
Mollie Moran - Lyons Press,
Format: Print book
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"Born in 1916 in Norfolk, Mollie Moran is one of the few people still alive today who can recall working "downstairs" in the golden years of the early 1930's before the outbreak of WWII. She provides a rare and fascinating insight into a world that has long since vanished.... |
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The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir
George Estreich - Tarcher; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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"[An] elegantly written, unsentimental memoir." - PEOPLE MAGAZINE [PEOPLE's Pick of the Week]Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Award represents "Better Books for a Better World" - the Silver Award in the category of Parenting /Family.When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance... |
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Don't Look Behind You: Ann Rule's Crime Files #15
Ann Rule - Pocket Books
Format: eBook
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I'LL BE WATCHING YOU Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent - a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don't... |
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JFK Jr., George, & Me: A Memoir
Matt Berman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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If George magazine was about "not just politics as usual," a day at the office with John F. Kennedy Jr. was not just business as usual. John handpicked Creative Director Matt Berman to bring his vision for a new political magazine to life. Through marathon nights leading up to George's... |
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A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis
Devin Brown - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback
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C. S. Lewis is one of the most influential Christian writers of our time. The Chronicles of Narnia has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and all Lewis's works are estimated to sell 6 million copies annually. At the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Lewis expert Devin Brown... |
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Ankle High and Knee Deep: Women Reflect on Western Rural Life
Gail L. Jenner - TwoDot; First edition
Format: Paperback
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Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house. Ankle High and Knee Deep collects... |
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My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir
Tia Torres - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster... |
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
HANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB - Two Dollar Radio
Format: Paperback
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism... |
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New Englands intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed womens sense of how they could think and live her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American... |
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Heavy: A Memoir of Wyoming, BMX, Drugs, and Heavy Fucking Music
J. J. Anselmi - Rare Bird Books, a Barnacle Book
Format: Paperback
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In twenty heavy chapters, this book chronicles Anselmi's experiences growing up as a straight edge, BMX-riding metalhead in Rock Springs, Wyoming, a place with one of the highest per capita suicide rates in the United States. His grandpa was a well-known businessman and politician in the area,... |
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Your Life and Times
Stephen Arthur - Genealogical Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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With Your Life And Times, an oral history handbook, as a guide you will be able to record your life experiences on tape simply by answering questions that will lead you, step by step, through the precious moments of your life. When finished, you will have completed the oral history of your... |
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Heart: An American Medical Odyssey
Dick Cheney - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For as long as he has served at the highest levels of business and government, Vice President Dick Cheney has also been one of the world’s most prominent heart patients. Now, for the first time ever, Cheney, together with his longtime cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, MD, shares the very... |
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books
PBS - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series... |
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Anya Von Bremzen - Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment... |
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Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors
George W. Bush - Crown/Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant collection of oil paintings and stories by President George W. Bush honoring the sacrifice and courage of America's military veterans. With Forewords by former First Lady Laura Bush and General Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Growing out of President... |
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Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
Isabel Vincent - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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"I loved every moment of this book . . . Everyone deserves their own Edward--and everyone deserves to read this book." - Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of Brain on Fire When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave,... |
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Series of Catastrophes and Miracles, A: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
Mary Elizabeth Williams - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death - and be restored to life.. After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma - a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer - journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock.... |
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The End - A Love Story: A Love Story; a Memoir by Elizabeth Schlessman Bentson
Libby Bentson - Tate Publishing
Format: Paperback
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She is hunched over, a humpback dragging her left leg and missing a front tooth; she's just skin and bones. He still has a sparkle in his eye but stumbles very slowly behind his rollator. Nearing the end of life, it's hard to imagine that this old couple was once young and in love.... |
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Craig Brown - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon... |
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Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life
Melissa Joan Hart - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Melissa Joan Hart explained it all—from dating to bullies—in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more viewers as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, Melissa tells the frank and funny... |
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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 Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worlds attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude... |
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Jonathan Sperber - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived Between his birth in and his death sixty-five years later Karl Marx became one of Western civilizationxs most influential political philosophers... |
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Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier's Story
Jon Kerstetter - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier,... |
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Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
Sandeep Jauhar - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist. Hoping for the stability... |
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Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
Deepak Chopra - New Harvest
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiring story of two brothers who immigrated to America from India and took very different paths to becoming world-renowned healers and teachers. At a time when America is fiercely divided on the issue of immigration, Brotherhood tells the story of two brothers who pursued the American... |
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Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet
Heather Poole - William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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Real-life flight attendant Heather Poole has written a charming and funny insiders account of life and work in the not-always-friendly skies Cruising Attitude is a Coffee Tea or Me for the st century as the author parlays her fifteen years of flight experience into a delightful account... |
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C. S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
Alister McGrath - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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ECPA Christian Book Award Winner Non-FictionFifty years after his death C S Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions His legacy remains varied and vast He was a towering intellectual figure a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia... |
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Man Up!: Tales of My Delusional Self-Confidence
Ross Mathews - Grand Central Publishing; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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As a young kid growing up in a farm town, Ross Mathews might as well have wished for a pet unicorn or a calorie-free cookie tree to grow in his front yard. Either of those far-fetched fantasies would have been more likely to come true than his real dream: working in television in Hollywood,... |
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Lady Gaga: The Unauthorized Biography
Christian Guiltenane - Michael O'Mara
Format: Paperback
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A biography of the pop star details her rise from misunderstood musician to one of the most influential women in the worldToday one of the most successful music stars in the world, Lady Gaga fast became a household name after the release of her first album, The Fame, in 2008. This... |
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The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare
Don Davis - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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They smelled the foul odors. They heard the power saw buzzing in the dead of night but neighbors never imagined the horrors happening right next door.The hot sultry night of July 22, 1991 was one the tenants of the Oxford Apartments would never forget. A panic stcricken young man--a pair... |
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One from the Hart
Stefanie Powers - Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The career of Stefanie Powers is one of so many stage, screen, and television credits that her name alone recalls memories as varied as her roles—on screen and off. From movie roles including John Wayne’s daughter in McLintock! and Lana Turner’s rival in Love Has Many... |
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Small Fry
LISA BRENNAN-JOBS - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father... |
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The Long Awakening: A Memoir
Lindsey O'Connor - Revell
Format: Hardcover
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On a crisp October day in 2002, Lindsey O'Connor woke from a 47-day medically induced coma. She heard her ecstatic husband's voice and saw his face as she emerged from the depths of unconsciousness. She was bewildered by the people around her who looked so overjoyed and were so thoroughly... |
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
Alysia Abbott - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst... |
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32 Yolks: From My Mothers Table to Working the Line
Eric Ripert - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best sellerHailed by Anthony Bourdain as "heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and inspiring", 32 Yolks is the brave and affecting coming-of-age story about the making of a French chef, from the culinary icon behind the renowned New York City restaurant Le Bernardin.Named... |
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story
PIETRO BARTOLO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the man hailed as "the doctor on the front lines of the migrant crisis" (CNN) . For 25 years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo has run the lone medical clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa. In that time he has rescued, welcomed, and cared for many of the hundreds... |
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Instant Mom
Nia Vardalos - HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family."Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a headlock. So she made a choice that... |
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Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music
John Fogerty - Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival.Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced... |
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
Del Quentin Wilber - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good... |
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
Niki Kapsambelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure... |
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House of Darkness: House of Light- The True Story, Vol. 1
Andrea Perron - AuthorHouse; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Roger and Carolyn Perron purchased the home of their dreams and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The Arnold Estate, located just beyond the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island seemed the idyllic setting in which to raise a family. The couple unwittingly moved their five young daughters... |
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Strange History Bonnie Clyde
J. E. Treherne - Stein & Day; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the true story of Bonnie Parker (1910-1934) and Clyde Barrow (1909-1934), a young sociopathic Southern couple gunned down by authorities after a two-year crime spree that left twelve people dead. This history cuts through hype and mythology and examines the outlaws' liberal... |
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
JOHN MCPHEE - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined... |
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Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first authoritative biography - featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs - of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.Forty-five years... |
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