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The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
Maude Julien - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, a memoir to be read in one breathless sitting that will leave you astonished by the courage and creative power of even the most neglected soul. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into... |
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My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food
Lidia Bastianich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling cookbook author, beloved and award-winning television personality, and hugely successful restaurateur--a heartwarming, emotional, revelatory memoir told with all her hallmark warmth and gusto.Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city... |
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
MAYA JASANOFF - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Enlightening, compassionate, superb" - John Le CarrA visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing todayMigration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism... |
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'74 and Sunny
A. J. Benza - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A surprisingly tender coming-of-age story of a close-knit yet tough Sicilian-American family that accepts and welcomes a young boy struggling to understand himself - by the former Daily News (New York) gossip columnist and E! television host.A.J. Benza's distinctive blend of wit,... |
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The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust
Laura Smith - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventureAt twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fianc, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard... |
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Angela Merkel: Europes Most Influential Leader (The Definitive Biography)
Matthew Qvortrup - Duckworth
Format: Paperback
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*Updated to include her final months in office* - 2021s most pertinent biographyMatthew Qvortrups definitive and insightful biography of Angela Merkel is essential reading for anyone interested in current affairs, the fate of Europe, or simply the story of a truly remarkable woman. Updated... |
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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
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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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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Issa Rae - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black... |
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Joan of Arc: A History
Helen Castor - Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world - as never told before.Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French... |
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Had I Known: A Memoir of Survival
Joan Lunden - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this brave and deeply personal memoir, one of America's most beloved journalists, mother, and New York Times bestselling author speaks candidly about her battle against breast cancer, her quest to learn about it and teach others, and the transformative effect it's had on her life.When... |
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The Comfort Food Diaries
Emily Nunn - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.One life-changing night, reeling from... |
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Catalina Island
Jeannine L Pedersen - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Throughout its history, the 76-square-mile island of Catalina has played host to Native Americans, smugglers, otter hunters, ranchers, miners, entrepreneurs, vacationers, movie stars, and nature enthusiasts. William Wrigley Jr. (of chewing-gum fame) bought the island in 1919 and later... |
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." -- Paula Hawkins,... |
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Charlemagne
Johannes Fried - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating... |
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Donna Bell's Bake Shop: Recipes and Stories of Family, Friends, and Food
Pauley Perrette - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The heartwarming story of how NCIS star Pauley Perrette and her two best friends created a Southern-style bake shop in Manhattan - a celebration of love and friendship with gorgeous photographs and delicious recipes.Nestled in the heart of midtown New York is a little shop with a big story.... |
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J Ellis - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady... |
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Marc N Peyser - Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
Format: Print book
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A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century. When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter... |
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Bad Kid: A Memoir
David Crabb - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book
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Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas.... |
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Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness
Lisa Appignanesi - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial. A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors.... |
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Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Nell Stevens - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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A whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with wry writing advice, Bleaker House is a story of creative struggle that brilliantly captures the self-torture of the writing life. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but life kept getting in the way.... |
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Mark Twain - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist's life... |
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To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,... |
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Life with my Father Glen Campbell
Debby Campbell - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Glen Campbell began his musical career as the recording session guitar player to many of the 1960s biggest stars including Sonny Cher, the Mamas The Papas, The Beach Boys, and Elvis Presley. He transitioned to film with John Wayne in 1969s True Grit, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination.... |
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN - BALLANTINE
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution - from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even... |
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The Book of Love: Improvisations on a Crazy Little Thing
Roger Rosenblatt - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love.In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations - romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak,... |
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His Father's Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.
Tim Brady - New American Library
Format: Print book
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The story of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a fortunate son who proved himself on the battlefields of two world wars.General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born... |
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A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything
Alex Sheshunoff - NAL
Format: Book
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From the author of a lot of emails and several Facebook posts, a laugh-out-loud, true story of how a quarter-life crisis led to adventure, freedom, and love on a tiny island in the Pacific. In his mid-twenties, Alex Sheshunoff had his own internet start-up and had made national news. But he was also... |
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
LENORA CHU - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors' PickIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bb, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system... |
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
Anthony M. Amore - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons... |
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Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
Sands Hall - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"I could not put down this book -- it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." -- Karen E. Bender, author of Refund In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology.... |
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Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard
STEPHEN TAYLOR - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and unconventional figure, Anne Barnard lived a life that might have been the outline of a novel by her contemporary, Jane Austen, or by Edith Wharton.She was born in Scotland in 1772, lived at the heart of Georgian society, and yet defined herself by defiance of convention.... |
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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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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
Hunter S Thompson - Modern Library
Format: Book
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First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas... |
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Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
Alice Waters - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened... |
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The Cost: My Life on a Terrorist Hit List
Ali Husnain - Zondervan
Format: Print book
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Born into a prominent Shia Muslim family in Pakistan, Ali had it all - prestige, security, wealth, social status. The Cost is the extraordinary story of his dramatic encounter with Jesus that would change everything. That life-altering choice to follow Jesus would turn Ali from a typical... |
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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Leah Lax - She Writes PR
Format: Paperback
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In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story--beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline... |
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Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer’s Search for Wonder in the Natural World
Leigh Ann Henion - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love "What a cool and fascinating ride. Leigh Ann Henion has tackled one of the great questions of contemporary, intelligent, adventurous women: Is it possible to be a wife and mother and still explore the world?... |
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American Sniper: Memorial Edition
Chris Kyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States... |
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The Clash: The Only Band That Mattered
Sean Egan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When considered in a broader social context, The Clash stand as one of the most important musical acts in rock history. Original punks who transcended the music’s minimalist origins, The Clash lived and breathed the idea that they could change the world with their art. In The Clash:... |
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
Art Garfunkel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"Poetic musings on a life well-lived - one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isnt your typical autobiography. Garfunkels history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." - Bookreporter... |
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Abby Norman - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issuesIn the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly... |
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The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act
Alex Prud'homme - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The enchanting story of Julia Child's years as TV personality and beloved cookbook author--a sequel in spirit to My Life in France--by her great-nephew Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much deeper. Now, her great-nephew and My Life in France... |
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Ernest Hemingway: A New Life
James M Hutchisson - The Pennsylvania State University Press
Format: Print book
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To many, the life of Ernest Hemingway has taken on mythic proportions. From his romantic entanglements to his legendary bravado, the elements of Papa's persona have fascinated readers, turning Hemingway into such an outsized figure that it is almost impossible to imagine him as a real person.... |
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Dying: A Memoir
CORY TAYLOR - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply affecting meditation on dying and a wise tribute to lifeAt the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor's retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience -- the vulnerability... |
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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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No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Rachel Pearson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating... |
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The Glass Eye: A memoir
Jeannie Vanasco - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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For fans of Maggie Nelson and Meghan O'Rourke, Jeannie Vanasco emerges as a definitive new voice in this stunning portrait of a daughter's love for her father and her near-unraveling after his death.A Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers PickA Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book of FallAn... |
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Dani Shapiro - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass... |
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Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows
John Lahr - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of John Lahr's New Yorker profiles and reviews that are "the nearest we get to modern theatre history" (The Spectator) .Joy Ride throws open the stage door and introduces readers to such makers of contemporary drama as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn,... |
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Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner
Charles E. Neu - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand... |
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Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice
Emily Winslow - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book
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In the vein of Alice Sebold s Lucky, comes a compelling, real-life crime mystery and gripping memoir of the cold case prosecution of a serial rapist, told by one of his victims. On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at hisapartment in Brooklyn.... |
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The Fortress: A Love Story
Danielle Trussoni - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one womans journey to the other side... |
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Randy Roberts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam - a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult - saw the potential... |
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The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
Dalai Lama - Riverhead Hardcover; 10 Anv edition
Format: Book
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An updated edition of a beloved classic, the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler. Nearly every time you see him, he?s laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He?s the Dalai Lama,... |
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Frida Kahlo at Home
Suzanne Barbezat - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover
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Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, La Casa Azul and other places Frida Kahlo called home, on her life and work.La Casa Azul, now one of the most visited museums in Mexico City, was the artist's birthplace and the home where she grew... |
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Power Forward: My Presidential Education
Reggie Love - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Reggie Love is a unique witness to history, whose introduction to Washington was working in Junior Senator Barack Obama's mailroom. As "body man" to Obama during his first presidential campaign, Love's job was to stay one step behind the candidate, but think and act three... |
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The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities... |
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Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
Cookie Johnson - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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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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Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon
John Lennon - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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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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Good mourning
Elizabeth Meyer - Gallery Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"In this funny, insightful memoir, a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City{u2019}s Upper East Side. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country--where not even... |
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A Paris Year: My Day-to-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World
Janice MacLeod - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman's French sojourn in the world's most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris... |
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The Kardashians: An American Drama
JERRY OPPENHEIMER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich comes a blockbuster unauthorized biography of one of the most famous and ubiquitous family dynasties in contemporary culture: The Kardashians. Secrets and scandals of the Kardashians, so closely held that not even hard core fans have... |
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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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Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
HARVEY SACHS - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life is unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini -- recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth... |
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Yeonmi Park - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape. Park's family was loving... |
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The Toltec Art of Life and Death: A Story of Discovery
Miguel Ruiz - HarperElixir, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A HarperElixir BookThe beloved teacher of spiritual wisdom and author of the phenomenal New York Times and international bestseller The Four Agreements takes readers on a mystical Toltec-inspired personal journey, introducing us to a deeper level of spiritual teaching and awareness.In 2002,... |
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
Don Piper - Revell
Format: Paperback
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In the ten years since 90 Minutes in Heaven was published, millions of people worldwide have read the incredible true story of Don Piper's experience with death and life--and in reading they have found their own lives changed.After a semi-truck collided with Don Piper's car, he was pronounced... |
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Larry Tye - Random House
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive... |
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Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece
Andrew Levy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, which turns on its head everything we thought we knew about America's favorite icon of childhood.In Huck Finn's America, award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern... |
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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience... |
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Anderson Cooper - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing... |
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Moriz Scheyer - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist.... |
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The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
MARY S LOVELL - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the bestselling The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family brings her trademark brio and relish to the charming and fascinating world of the Chteau de l'Horizon on the French RivieraThe Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked... |
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Media Lynching: The Persecution of Michael Skakel
Robert F Kennedy - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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In 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also fifteen, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation,... |
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Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer
M WILLIAM PHELPS - Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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"Anyone can become a killer under the right circumstances - even you." For the first time, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of "Raven," the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark Minds - and tells... |
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The Valley of the Shadow of Death: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption
Kermit Alexander - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read for anyone concerned with how drugs and gangs ravaged Los Angeles." - Los Angeles Times "A deeply moving story of one man's pain and hard-won peace...This is a special book." - BOOKLIST (starred review) In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star... |
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Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story - a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty... |
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Girl in the Dark: A Memoir
Anna Lyndsey - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Haunting, lyrical, unforgettable, Girl in the Dark is a brave new memoir of a life without light. Anna Lyndsey was young and ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. Then what started as a mild intolerance to certain kinds of artificial light... |
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The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist
Tanya Byron - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping, unforgettable, and deeply affecting story of a young clinical psychologist learning how she can best help her patients, The Skeleton Cupboard is a riveting and revealing memoir that offers fascinating insight into the human mind. In The Skeleton Cupboard, Professor Tanya Byron... |
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Lost Destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London
Alan Axelrod - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover
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On August 12, 1944, Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., heir to one of America's most glamorous fortunes, son of the disgraced former ambassador to Great Britain, and big brother to freshly minted PT-109 hero JFK, hoisted himself up into a highly modified B-24 Liberator bomber. The munitions... |
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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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Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China
Eddie Huang - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the author of Fresh off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork. Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. Hed written a best-selling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places... |
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The Cancer Survivors Club: A Collection of Inspirational and Uplifting Stories
Chris Geiger - Oneworld Publications; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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"An inspiring compilation for anyone struggling with cancer. Readers will find comfort and even a few laughs in the pages. " - Library JournalThe Cancer Survivors Club brings together firsthand accounts of ordinary people who have beaten cancer. They are old and young, their... |
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The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
Ben Mezrich - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files,... |
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The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice... |
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Make Trouble
John Waters - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and anyone seeking happiness and success on their own terms. When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, the speech went viral, in part... |
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The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
Tracy Daugherty - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published... |
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Whatever...Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves
Maria Bello - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed actress and dedicated activist shares her personal journey of discovery, and destroys outdated ideas about partnership, love and family that will resonate with anyone in an unconventional life situation.Actress and activist Maria Bello made waves with her essay, "Coming... |
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Russian Tattoo: A Memoir
Elena Gorokhova - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of A Mountain of Crumbs, a brilliant and illuminating BookPage portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey to show how the ties that hold you back can also teach you how to start over. Elena Gorokhova moves to the US in her twenties... |
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Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir
Claire McCaskill - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The female senator from Missouri shares her inspiring story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexist slings, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies - and finding joy along the way.Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women... |
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Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gabrielle Hamilton - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald * Newsday * The Huffington Post * Financial Times * GQ * Slate * Men's Journal * Washington Examiner * Publishers Weekly... |
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Movie Nights with the Reagans: A Memoir
Mark Weinberg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares an intimate, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency - told through the movies they watched together every week at Camp David.What did President Ronald Reagan think of Rocky IV? How did the Matthew... |
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Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire
Tim McBride - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Floridas Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation
Rena Pederson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Aung San Suu Kyi -- Burma's "woman of destiny" and one of the most admired voices for freedom in the world today -- comes alive through this brilliant rendering of Burma's tumultuous historyAward-winning journalist and former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson... |
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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
Michael Tisserand - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOKFINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN BIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYIn the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator... |
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The Joy Plan: How I Took 30 Days to Stop Worrying, Quit Complaining, and Find Ridiculous Happiness
Kaia Roman - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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As a mother, a wife, and a businesswoman, Kaia Roman always had a plan. But when her biggest plan, the business she cofounded, collapsed, Kaia found herself crushed by depression. And what felt even worse was that, with a husband and two kids relying on her to get out of bed, she didn't... |
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Books for Living
Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new?... |
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Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Artemis Joukowsky - Beacon
Format: Print book
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Official companion to the Ken Burns film premiering September 20, 2016, on PBS tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to undertake dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving... |
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Dying to Wake Up: A Doctors Voyage into the Afterlife and the Wisdom He Brought Back
Rajiv Parti M.D. - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Paperback
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A rare glimpse into heaven, hell, and previous lives. Dr. Rajiv Partis near-death experience brought him on a journey through the afterworld, leading to a spiritual awakening that transformed his career, his lifestyle, and even his fundamental beliefs. Before his near-death experience,... |
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American Dreamer: My Life in Fashion & Business
Tommy Hilfiger - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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In this tale of grit and glamour, setbacks and comebacks, business and pop culture icon Tommy Hilfiger shares his extraordinary life story for the first time. Few designers have stayed on top of changing trends the way Tommy Hilfiger has. Fewer still have left such an indelible mark on global... |
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Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir
ALICE ANDERSON - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away is a deeply poignant memoir set in a post-Katrina Mississippi. Alice Anderson is returning to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home that she'd carefully cultivated for her husband, Dr. Liam Rivers, and their... |
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
HEATHER HARPHAM - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,... |
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Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Buries His Parents
Bob Morris - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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His mother's last word was his name. His father's was "Wonderful." Together they inspired the title for this true story of love and redemption. Bob Morris was always the entertainer in his family, but not always a perfect son. When he finds his parents approaching the end of their... |
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All the Money in the World
JOHN PEARSON - William Collins
Format: Paperback
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Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom of grandson Paul Getty - is now a major motion picture, directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay written by David Scarpa and starring Michelle Williams,... |
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Helen Keller: The Story of My Life and Selected Letters
Helen Keller - Chartwell Books
Format: Print book
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Despite the fact that scarlet fever rendered Helen Keller deaf, blind, and mute when she was only 19 months old, she grew into a prolific and opinionated writer in her adulthood. A poetic pacifist, Keller wrote extensively on issues of social justice and morality with boundless optimism.... |
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How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir
Kate Christensen - Islandport Press
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by her bold move to Maine and New Hampshire, as well as the slow-food movement that has re-energized sustainable farming, NYT bestselling author Kate Christensen turns her blockbuster talent to telling the story of the hardship and happiness that has sustained her adopted home... |
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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Brett Morgen - Insight Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Kurt Cobain, legendary lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Nirvana, the flagship band of Generation X, remains an object of reverence and fascination for music fans around the world. For the first time, his story will be told in Brett Morgens Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck, a fully authorized... |
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Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir
Jillian Lauren - Plume
Format: Print book
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"A punk rock Scheherazade" (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from harem member to PTA member ... In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience... |
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Guardian of the Golden Gate: Protecting the Line Between Hope and Despair
Kevin Briggs - Ascend Books LLC
Format: Hardcover
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The wind was gusting around the Golden Gate Bridge on a March afternoon in 2005 when a 22-year-old man climbed the railing, convinced he and this world would be better without each other. He put himself on a thin beam 220 feet above the Pacific Ocean. The man had just lost his job and felt... |
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Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
Hannah Hart - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hannah Hart's new book is a roaring, beautiful, and profoundly human account of an extraordinary life." - John Green "Hannah shares her truth with an honesty that is inspiring - one that makes me believe her when... |
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Linda Tirado - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback
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The real-life Nickel and Dimed - the author of the wildly popular "Poverty Thoughts" essay tells what it's like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire "DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed,... |
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Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It
Brittany Gibbons - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Told through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, a hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body, no matter what size you are from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead... |
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I Regret Nothing: A Memoir
Jen Lancaster - NAL
Format: Hardcover
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she's managed to document her (and her generation's) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have... |
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Helena Kelly - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was.... |
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Lincolns Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W. Sears - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac. The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals... |
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Getting Real
Gretchen Carlson - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of Gretchen Carlsons lawsuit against former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, her memoir of her time at Fox - working alongside Megyn Kelly, Bill OReilly, Steve Doocy, and other prominent conservative news personalities - is more relevant than ever.. In this candid memoir,... |
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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 General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Waco: A Survivor's Story
David Thibodeau - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback
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Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the siege at Waco, and a tie-in to the upcoming Spike TV mini-series, an updated reissue of the critically acclaimed A PLACE CALLED WACO by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.For the first time ever, a survivor of the Waco massacre tells the inside... |
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Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One
Karen Duffy - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain. For two decades, Karen Duffy --New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress-- has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy... |
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Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders
Cole Cohen - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"A spirited, wry, and utterly original memoir about one woman's struggle to make her way and set up a life after doctors discover a hole the size of a plum in her brain. The summer before she was set to head out-of-state to pursue her MFA, twenty-seven-year-old Cole Cohen submitted... |
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older... |
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Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 19261966
Kenneth Womack - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Maximum Volume offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. George Martin's working-class childhood and musical influencesprofoundly shaped his early career in the BBC's Classical Music department and as head of the EMI Group's Parlophone... |
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Just the Funny Parts: My 30 Years on the Hollywood Jungle Gym
Nell Scovell - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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Introduction by Sheryl SandbergIf Bossypants and Lean In got drunk and hooked up, their sloppy-sex-love-child would be this juicy and insightful memoir which blows the doors off the male dominated writers' room and offers a scathingly funny account of Hollywood's sexual politics over the last... |
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Hillary the Other Woman
Dolly Kyle - Wnd Books
Format: Print book
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You think you know Hillary and Bill Clinton pretty well. After all, they have been in the public eye from Arkansas to the White House and beyond for over forty years. Dolly Kyle met former president Clinton (Billy as she calls him) on a Hot Springs golf course when she was eleven and he was almost... |
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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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9 1/2 Narrow: My Life in Shoes
Patricia Morrisroe - Gotham
Format: Hardcover
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A funny, poignant coming-of-age memoir told through the shoes that she wore. From baby booties to orthopedic brogues (and all the high and low heels in between) shoes mark important rites of passage, reminding us of both the good and bad times: the road not taken, the prince that got away,... |
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The Best of Us: A Memoir
JOYCE MAYNARD - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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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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