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The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
Liza Rodman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter - the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked - took her and her sister... |
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Long Way Home
Cameron Douglas - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the scion of Hollywood royalty--son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas--a moving, often shocking, ultimately inspiring memoir detailing his struggle to regain his dignity, humanity, and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison.Cameron... |
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Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
Antonio Michael Downing - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Growing up as a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad -- raised by his indomitable grandmother, Miss Excelly, and her King James Bible -- Antonio Michael Downing is steeped in the legacies of his scattered family, the vibrant culture of the island, and the weight... |
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Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne
Christopher Andersen - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of William and Kate and The Day Diana Died takes a compulsively readable look into the relationships and rivalries of Queen Elizabeth, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Kate Middleton.One has been famous longer... |
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Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
Paul Holes - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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Paul Holes is a natural criminal profiler with a talent for describing how the process works. In his book, Unmasked, he marches the reader into the real world of criminal behavior and blends his forensic expertise with his unfiltered personal life experiences as he tackles... |
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents
RICHARD FORD - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty... |
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father, Survival and What Remains
Neumann, Ariana - SCRIBNER BOOKS CO
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In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family... |
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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
Bono. - Knopf
Format: Book
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Bono - artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained... |
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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Skip Hollandsworth - Henry Holt and Co., 2016.
Format: Print book
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A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin... |
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