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The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant -- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed,...
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast

Megan Marshall - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet - painfully shy and living out of public...
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder

Carolyn Murnick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Recommended by NPR, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, New York Post, and Bustle A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist - two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered...
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Me

Elton John - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend.Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew...
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy

Phil Keith - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

"A truly inspiring story of courage and triumph." - Nelson DeMilleThe incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American...
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

DANIELLE ALLEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison...
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Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from a Terrifying Cult

CATHERINE OXENBERG - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In this heartbreaking and shocking expos, one of Dynasty's biggest stars lays bare a secretive organization that is holding her daughter hostage and details her mission to save her in this powerful depiction of a mother's love and determination. I am a mother whose child is being...
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Harry: Life, Loss, and Love

Katie Nicholl - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

In anticipation of the upcoming royal wedding comes a new in-depth biography of Prince Harry, from royal expert Katie Nicholl--journalist, broadcaster, and author of the bestselling William and Harry and Kate.From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded...
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Expressions of Place: The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape

John R Kemp - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Print book

Expressions of Place embarks on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Louisiana via the talents of thirty-seven artists located all around the state. Many are acclaimed professionals whose paintings are included in major private and public collections regionally and nationally....
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Maude

Donna Foley Mabry - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book

In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She opened her mouth to say something, but then her face flushed, and she turned her head to look out the window. After a second,...
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Harold Schechter - Little A
Format: Hardcover

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana...
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The Best of Us: A Memoir

JOYCE MAYNARD - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott) In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce...
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Nevertheless: A Memoir

Alec Baldwin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

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To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines

Judith Newman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story...
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A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide

Stephanie Saldana - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book

"Behind every dark moment, there is another hidden world. The trick is to hold out long enough to make it there."When American writer Stephanie Saldaa finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus Road, the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem, she is a new wife...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Mark Twain - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook

"Ive struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked...
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York's City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation

Brad Ricca - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Recipient of the Kirkus Star, Awarded to Books of Exceptional MeritA 2017 True Crime Book for Summer, The New York Times Sunday Book Review"An express train of a story." -Kirkus Reviews"Heroic...her inspiring story demands a hearing."...
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Diana: Case Solved: The Definitive Account That Proves What Really Happened

Dylan Howard - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry." - Letter written by Princess Diana, late 1996 It is a moment that remains frozen...
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Unwifeable: A Memoir

Mandy Stadtmiller - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor...
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The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

Gabriel García Márquez - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction. "I don't want...
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Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

ELIZABETH A SMART - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, My Story -- about being heldin captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive -- with a powerful and inspiringbook about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one's...
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World

Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world. Things My Son Needs...
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Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart

DION LEONARD - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner who crosses paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in China. The lovable pup,...
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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

JAMIE BERNSTEIN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television...
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Unashamed

Lecrae Moore - B&H Publishing Group
Format: Print book

"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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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana...
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The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy

J. Randy Taraborrelli - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised...
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The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony

Rick Moody - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

This program is read by the author.Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage -- an eventful month-by-month account -- in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony.At this story's...
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Bang Bang: My Life in Ink

Bang Bang - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The celebrity tattoo artist takes fans on a tour through his life and art, combining captivating vignettes and stories with more than one hundred color photos.Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Rita Ora, Cara Delevingne, Rihanna, and many more of the hottest celebrities in the world have been seen...
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I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses

Robert Wagner - Viking
Format: Book

Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner's memoir of the great women movie stars he has known.

In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise...

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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

Robert Matzen - GoodKnight Books
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered...
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Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

Jeffrey Melnick - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals...
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We Were Brothers

Barry Moser - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
Format: Print book

Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further...
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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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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

Alison Weir - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised...
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

Anne Boyd Rioux - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world,...
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir

Susan Straight - Catapult
Format: Hardcover

One of NPRs Best Books of the Year"Straights memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the womens stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed...
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography

Lucy Worsley - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

Take a trip back to Jane Austens world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austens childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother...
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Brave Love: Making Space for You to Be You

Lisa Leonard - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

When Lisa Leonard said her marriage vows, she was determined to be the best wife she could be. When her first son was born with a severe disability, Lisa promised herself she would always be the mother he needed. When she began her jewelry business, Lisa committed to giving it her all.Over...
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Through the Eyes of Hope: Love More, Worry Less, and See God in the Midst of Your Adversity

Lacey Buchanan - Charisma House
Format: Print book

Understand how God turns tragic circumstances into something beautiful for His glory, while you love more, complain less, and see God at work in the most unlikely of places. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1, MEV What happens when...
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Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

David J. Skal - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book

A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society.First published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and multifaceted afterlife -- one rivaling even its immortal creation; yet Bram Stoker has remained...
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice

KHIZR KHAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover

This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream."Khan's aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands." - Kirkus Reviews In fewer...
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To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

Edward Larson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of bestselling adventure narratives In the Kingdom of Ice, In the Heart of the Sea, and The Lost City of Z, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson's To the Edges of the Earth brings to life the climax of the age of exploration: in the year 1909 expeditions to the Arctic,...
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Dead in the Water: My Forty-Year Search for My Brother's Killer

Penny Farmer - Diversion Books
Format: Paperback

In this shocking true-crime drama, a forty-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers -- just kids when they witnessed their father commit the brutal act -- to track down a psychopath once suspected as being the Golden State Killer "A real-life page turner...
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A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time

Rob Scheer - Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children.Rob...
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

T Kira Madden - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Frank and funny and powerful and surprising. An utterly gorgeous debut."-Lauren GroffOne of the most anticipated books of 2019--Electric Literature, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Millions, Hyphen, Lit Hub, Nylon, The AV Club, The Advocate,...
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Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back

Melissa Stephenson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Wild, a searing memoir about one woman's road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate...
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Licensed to Lie

Sidney Powell - Sidney Powell
Format: Paperback

This true legal thriller debunks everything the media and the government told us about the Department of Justices destruction and prosecution of the venerable accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch executives who did one business transaction with Enron, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens,...
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Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years

Catherine Newman - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book

A comic and heartwarming memoir about childhood's second act from Real Simple journalist Catherine Newman. Much is written about a child's infancy and toddler years, which is good since children will never remember it themselves. It is ages 4-14 that make up the second act, as Catherine...
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Fire in My Eyes: An American Warrior's Journey from Being Blinded on the Battlefield to Gold Medal Victory

Brad Snyder - Da Capo
Format: Print book

The inspiring story of Brad Snyder's journey from the Naval Academy to Afghanistan, from being blinded by an IED explosion to winning Paralympic gold In Afghanistan, Lieutenant Brad Snyder had one of the world's most dangerous jobs: to find and destroy enemy bombs, as an elite US Navy...
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The Power of a Praying Teen

Stormie Omartian - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Along with Scripture verses and true stories of teens in action, The Power of a Praying® Teen addresses key issues young people face, including puritypeer pressureinsecuritybody/self-imagefriendshipsEach segment of the book concludes with a prayer teens can follow or use as a model...
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Hunting El Chapo: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord

COLE MERRELL - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Cole Merrell and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller - soon to be a major motion picture from Sony - chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American...
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Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

Anne Edwards - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Book

The life of Princess May of Teck is one of the great Cinderella stories in history. From a family of impoverished nobility, she was chosen by Queen Victoria as the bride for her eldest grandson, the scandalous Duke of Clarence, heir to the throne, who died mysteriously before their marriage....
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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

Amaryllis Fox - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughterAmaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford...
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George & Barbara Bush: A Great American Love Story

ELLIE LEBLOND SOSA - Down East Books
Format: Hardcover

Ellie LeBlond Sosa has fond memories of summers spent at her grandparents' Kennebunkport, Maine home. Though that home is a heavily protected compound and her grandparents are George and Barbara Bush, life at the Bush family home was not that different from most American families, with...
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My Love Story: A Memoir

TINA TURNER - Atria Books
Format: Book

Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her career and personal life in this compelling memoir.

 
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The Jolly Roger Social Club: A True Story of a Killer in Paradise

Nick Foster - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book

The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American ex-pat community in Panama--a tale of greed, political history, and murderIn the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five...
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition...
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Long Shot: A Soldier, A Senator, A Serious Sin

Tyler Bridges - The Lisburn Press
Format: Print book

Only in a state whose politics are notoriously wild could a United States senator best known for his involvement in a sex scandal still be considered the odds-on favorite for governor. And only in Louisiana could a small-town lawmaker flip that script with the help of private investigators,...
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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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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books

ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story...
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Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

Marina Abramovic - Crown
Format: Print book

"I had experienced absolute freedom - I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn't matter, that nothing mattered at all - and it intoxicated me."In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramovi's MoMA retrospective for the chance...
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Meghan: A Hollywood Princess

World Trade Press. - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart.
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We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir

Kelly Grey Carlisle - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

"Moving and complex, this is an exquisitely written tale of perseverance and unconditional love. A worthwhile addition to any collection." -- Library Journal, STARRED ReviewA mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both.Kelly...
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In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult

Rebecca Stott - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A father-daughter story that tells of the authors experience growing up in a separatist fundamentalist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller Ghostwalk. Rebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that...
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World

Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until...
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The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer

J REUBEN APPELMAN - Gallery Books
Format: eBook

Enthralling. Gripping. Cinematic. Raw. A cold case murder investigation paced like a podcast, as visually stunning as a film, and as brave and personal as our darkest memoirs. J. Reuben Appelman cracks open one of America's most notorious murder sprees while simultaneously banging the gavel...
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Me: Elton John Official Autobiography

Elton John - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

Elton John’s autobiography left me wanting nothing. Woven with the threads of Elton’s music and the timeline of his story, Me revolves around album releases and the surrounding circumstances. Anyone could see that this man loves his craft because he filled the book...

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Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon

John Lennon - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book

John Lennon was a highly opinionated and controversial figure with a commanding personality and quick wit. And he made a point of living his adventurous life as openly as possible. Whether he was experimenting with LSD, Transcendental Meditation, primal therapy, macrobiotic diets, or recording...
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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Ali Wong - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession,...
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement

Dave Cullen - Harper
Format: Hardcover

On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring...
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Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

Fredrik Backman - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world. Things My Son Needs...
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Craig Brown - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

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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Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific

Bill Lascher - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II - a saga of love, adventure, and danger.On New Year's Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese...
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Flight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy

James Nolan - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Print book

"James Nolan looks back unsparingly on a time few writers have faced with such clarity and compassion. There's suspense and beauty on every page . . ." -- Andrei CodrescuFlight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a wide wingspan. James Nolan, a fifth-generation...
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty

John B. Boles - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Petersons Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John...
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive...
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Filthy Rich

James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth...
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books

PBS - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

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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The Faith of Queen Elizabeth: The Poise, Grace, and Quiet Strength Behind the Crown

Delffs, Dudley - ZONDERVAN ON BRILLIANCE AUDIO


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Julius Chambers: A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights

Richard A Rosen - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Print book

Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936-2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked...
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Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's

B. Smith - Harmony Crown
Format: Print book

"I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It's like I'm talking to my other self - the self...
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Can't Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist

Meredith Goldstein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A disarmingly honest memoir about giving advice when you're not sure what you're doing yourself, by the woman behind The Boston Globe's Love Letters column. Every day, Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein takes on the relationship problems of thousands of dedicated...
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Every Little Step: My Story

Bobby Brown - Dey St.
Format: Print book

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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The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World

Kim Dinan - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book

What Would You Do with a Yellow Envelope?After Kim and her husband decide to quit their jobs to travel around the world, they're given a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away. The only three rules for the envelope: Don't overthink it; share your...
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The Dawn Prayer

MATTHEW SCHRIER - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

"What is your name?" asked General Mohammad. "Matthew," I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means 'dead' in Arabic. On New Year's Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home from Syria, where he'd been photographing the intense...
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The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones

Rich Kienzle - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of the classic Johnny Cash: The Life, this groundbreaking work explores the wild life and extraordinary musical career of "the definitive country singer of the last half century" (New York Times) , who influenced, among others, Bob Dylan, Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris,...
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If You Love Me

Maureen Cavanagh - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Hardcover

A mother's gripping memoir who suddenly finds herself on the front lines the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles substance abuse.
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Nicholas and Alexandra

Robert K Massie - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

The story of the love that ended an empireIn this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs' lives: Nicholas's political navet, Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt...
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted

Laura Caldwell - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity....
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How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

Kate Mulgrew - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents....
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History

Brian Kilmeade - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

The heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.In his now-trademark style, Brian Kilmeade brings alive one of the most pivotal moments in American...
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII

Gareth Russell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political...
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BRAVE

ROSE MCGOWAN - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A voice for generationsRose McGowan...
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Death Over a Diamond Stud: The Assassination of the Orleans Parish District Attorney

Christopher Pena - Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The gripping true story of the first judicial murder of the 20th century is delivered in stunning detail, from the crooks and crevices of the city streets and courthouses, to the very fibers of the hangman's noose. The murder of the newly elected District Attorney J. Ward Gurley sent...
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Sex Object: A Memoir

Jessica Valenti - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerNPR Best Book of 2016"Sharp and prescient ... The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it ... Sex Object is an antidote to the fun and flirty...
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Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman

Robert Hardman - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Written by renowned royal biographer, Robert Hardman, and with privileged access to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, this is a brilliant new portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it.On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest....
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen

Giles Tremlett - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal) , a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia Inquirer | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus Reviews | Library Journal | Bustle | Mother Jones | Real...
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X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?

Kathy Garver - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Hardcover

This enlightening book is the go-to guide for fans for biographical information, rare photos, and interesting trivia about their favorite child stars, shows, series, networks, and the times that defined the shows. Spanning forty years of television history, this book details both the success...
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A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

KERRI RAWSON - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) , tells the nightmarish story of that discovery and of her long journey of faith and healing.In 2005, Dennis Rader...
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life

Laura Thompson - Pegasus Books
Format: Paperback

The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant...
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing

Elissa Altman - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It's the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. "Wise, evocative, and rich...
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Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter

Lis W Wiehl - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl uses new research and first-hand interviews to tell the heart-pounding story of Charles Manson's horrific crimes, the painstaking investigation that followed, and the inspired prosecution that put him away.In...
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You Carried Me: A Daughter's Memoir

Melissa Ohden - Plough Publishing House
Format: Hardcover

Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.After a decade-long search Melissa finally...
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To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio

Neil Young - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

Neil Young took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music - all music - the way it was meant to be heard. Today, most of the music we hear is com-pressed to a fraction of its original sound,while analog masterpieces are turning to dustin record company vaults. As these record-ings...
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Linda Gordon - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos...
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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

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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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father

Peter Stark - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A vivid and groundbreaking portrait of a young, struggling George Washington that casts a new light on his character and the history of American independence, from the bestselling author of AstoriaTwo decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young...
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Hank : the short life and long country road of hank williams

Mark Ribowsky - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country music's founding father.After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams?a frail, flawed man who had become country music's most compelling and popular star?instantly morphed into its first tragic...
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Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes--Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers

Michael Arntfield - Prometheus
Format: Print book

This is the first book to examine murder through the written word--not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that are now a staple of film and television. The authors--a criminologist specializing in cold...
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Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana

Rheta Grimsley Johnson - NewSouth Books; Second Edition edition
Format: Book

These days, much is labeled Cajun that is not, and the popularity of the unique culture's food, songs, and dance has been a mixed blessing. Poor Man's Provence helps define what's what through lively characters and stories. The book is both a personal odyssey and good reporting,...
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Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One.

Ginger Zee - Kingswell
Format: Hardcover

ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range...
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Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance

MIKE SCARDINO - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college student's experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James PattersonBad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account...
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Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent

Simon Read - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Long before his finest hour as Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill emerged on the world stage as a brazen foreign correspondent, covering wars of empire in Cuba, India, the Sudan, and South Africa.In those far-flung corners of the world, reporting from the front lines between...
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A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound

DONNA GASBARRE KRISTINE HYLTON - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Today, Donna Hylton is a groundbreaking advocate for criminal justice reform--she was a featured speaker at the 2017 Women's March on Washington, and she works hand-in-hand with other influential voices such as Eve Ensler, Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow) , and Rosario Dawson to ensure...
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

DARNELL L MOORE - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured...
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Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez

Jose Baez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

The unabridged, inside story of the trial and final days of New England Patriots superstar Aaron Hernandez, by his attorney and New York Times bestselling author Jose Baez ("The best defense lawyer in the country." - Sean Hannity) .When renowned defense attorney Jose...
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The Real Wallis Simpson: A New History of the American Divorce Who Became the Duchess of Windsor

Anna Pasternak - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the center of the most scandalous love affair of the 20th century, but in this surprising new biography, bestselling author Anna Pasternak redeems a women wronged by history with new information revealed by those who were close to the couple - presenting...
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Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life

Susan Senator - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is looming adulthood and all that it entails. In her new book Susan Senator takes the mystery out of adult life on the autism spectrum and conveys the positive message that even though autism adulthood is complicated and challenging,...
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever: Volume 2

JAMES PATTERSON - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series - premiering January 2018HOME SWEET MURDER. Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming...
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All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

Erin Lee Carr - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New York Times journalist David Carr, in this fierce memoir of addiction and sobriety, work and family. Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility....
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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe

Cullen Murphy - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut SchoolFor a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nations top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stones throw of one another...
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Carry on.

Lisa Fenn - Harperwave
Format: Print book

In the spirit of The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights comes a tender and profoundly moving memoir about an ESPN producer's unexpected relationship with two disabled wrestlers from inner city Cleveland, and how these bonds - blossoming, ultimately, into a most unorthodox family - would...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018.A Publisher's Weekly Best...
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Becoming Beyonc: The Untold Story

J. Randy Taraborrelli - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Beyonce' Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of 16, she had her first number one record with Destiny's Child. That hit-making trio launched...
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Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest

M. William Phelps - Kensington
Format: Paperback

A tragic missing person case spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. Intrigue, deception, and serial homicide erupt in the latest real-life thriller by New York Times bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps. In October 2014, after Chris Regan failed to arrive...
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Turning the tables : from housewife to inmate and back again

Teresa Giudice - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

The star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and three-time New York Times bestselling author offers a behind-the-scenes look at life in prison, her marriage, her rise to fame, the importance of her family, and the reality TV franchise that made her a household name in her explosive...
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Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

Clint Hill - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

A rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November.Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history intimately and vividly to life as he reflects on his seventeen years...
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table

Rick Bragg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-five mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic...
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Small Fry

LISA BRENNAN-JOBS - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

LELAND MELVIN - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success.Leland Melvin is the only...
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Confessions of an Undercover Agent: Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life

Charlie Spillers - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover

This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers,...
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The Cookie Cure: A Mother-Daughter Memoir

Susan Stachler - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give upWhen twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by dj vu: the same illness that took her sister's life was threatening to take her daughter's too. Heartbroken but steadfast, Laura pledged...
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The Last Sheriff in Texas: A True Tale of Violence and the Vote

JIM MCCOLLOM - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

A timely and sharply observed examination of a changing America through one small town election Beeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns -- the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches....
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Untitled Memoir

STEPHEN CARTER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York...
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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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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

Kelly Sundberg - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The Liars Club, a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse - examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship,...
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Herbert Hoover: A Life

Glen Jeansonne - New American Library
Format: Book

Orphaned at an early age and raised with strict Quaker values, Hoover earned his way through Stanford University. His hardworking ethic drove him to a successful career as an engineer and multinational businessman. After the Great War, he led a humanitarian effort that fed millions of Europeans...

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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

KAYLEEN SCHAEFER - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A personal and sociological examination--and ultimately a celebration--of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society"Text me when you get home." After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love....
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Pieces of My Mother: A Memoir

Melissa Cistaro - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

"A story that lingers in the heart long after the last page is turned." -- HOPE EDELMAN, bestselling author of Motherless Daughters and The Possibility of EverythingThis provocative, poignant memoir of a daughter whose mother left her behind by choice begs the question: Are we destined...
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You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

PIPER WEISS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir - The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep - that presents an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within Manhattan's exclusive prep-school scene in the early 1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession...
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Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury

Matt Richards - Blue Streak
Format: Print book

For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great...
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King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor

PAUL WILLETTS - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante - the king of Jazz Age con artists - who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling...
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Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith

Cookie Johnson - Howard Books
Format: Print book

In her new memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.On November 7, 1991, basketball icon Earvin "Magic"...
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz- Age America

Karen Abbott - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy"Gatsby-era...
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The Traveling Feast: On the Road and At the Table With America's Finest Writers

RICK BASS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Part Blue Highways, part Tuesdays with Morrie, part Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an epic pilgrimage by acclaimed author Rick Bass, "an American classic" (Newsweek) , to honor and thank his heroes "A literary titan."--New...
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Who's Who 2016

Bloomsbury USA Academic - Yearbooks; 168 edition
Format: Hardcover

Whos Who 2016 is the 168th edition of the worlds longest established and most comprehensive general reference book, brought right up to date for the year ahead. The first autobiographical reference book in the world and, after 168 years, still the most accurate and reliable resource for information...
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir

Betsy Lerner - Harperwave
Format: Print book

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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Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart

Scott Stabile - New World Library
Format: Book

What happens when you fully commit yourself to love? Endless good, insists Scott Stabile, who found that out by overcoming plenty of bad. His parents were murdered when he was fourteen. Nine years later, his brother died of a heroin overdose. Soon after that, Scott joined a cult that...

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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

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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