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Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him
T. J. English - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime - and law enforcement - that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger... |
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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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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy
Jean Kennedy Smith - Harper
Format: Print book
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In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof.Prompted... |
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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Michael Farquhar - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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Michael Farquhar doesnt write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwins smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist Scandal!... |
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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
WILLIAM MCRAVEN - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Should be read by every leader in America...a book to inspire your children and grandchildren to become everything that they can." --Wall Street Journal"Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national... |
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Teddy and me.
Michael Savage - Grand Central Pub
Format: Print book : English
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"New York Times" bestselling author Michael Savage delivers a heartwarming book about his experiences and relationship with his dog Teddy. Listeners know Teddy as the silent "other host" of "The Savage Nation. " He's at Michael Savage's side during every broadcast,... |
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history - a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh... |
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Love Life
Rob Lowe - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.Rob Low is back with stories he only tells his best... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover
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In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story... |
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.
Hamilton Mary Mann. - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta.... |
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Linda Tirado - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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The real-life Nickel and Dimed - the author of the wildly popular "Poverty Thoughts" essay tells what its 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, which... |
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Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Dave Hill - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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A painfully funny series of autobiographical essays, centered around the relationship between comedian Dave Hill and his dad, in the wake of his mother's death, as father and son redefine their relationship - and Dave, finally, becomes a man. |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times... |
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Forgotten Tales of Michigan's Lower Peninsula
Alan Naldrett - The History Press
Format: Print book
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Some of Michigan's most noteworthy yarns and compelling characters were lost down the corridors of history--until now. Discover the Nain Rouge, that Demon from the Strait," spotted everywhere from the Battle of Bloody Run in 1763 to the Detroit Riot in 1967. Meet folks like Major... |
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No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
Erik Weihenmayer - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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No Barriers is about my journey since coming down from Mt. Everest in 2001, and the path to where I am today. It is the story of my own life, the personal and professional struggles in the pursuit of growth, learning, and family, as well as a dream to kayak one of the world's great... |
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I... |
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John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age
Brian C. Wilson - Wayne State University Press
Format: Hardcover
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John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age follows the spiritual sojourn of John E. Fetzer, a Michigan business tycoon. Born in 1901 and living most of his life in Kalamazoo, Fetzer parlayed his first radio station into extensive holdings in broadcasting and other enterprises, leading... |
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Filthy Rich
James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book
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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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Not Dead Yet
Phil Collins - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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Phil Collins pulls no punches - about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that's inspired his music. In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles' legendary film A... |
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Rise: How a House Built a Family
Cara Brookins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable. After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn... |
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Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal. In Why Not Me?, Kaling... |
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Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things
Amy Dickinson - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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In STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated... |
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The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir
Apricot Irving - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this compelling, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as a missionary's daughter in Haiti during a time of upheaval - both in the country and in her home.Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary's daughter in Haiti - a country easy to sensationalize... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Joseph J Ellis - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book : Biography : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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"The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph... |
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No Land's Man
Aasif Mandvi - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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"It always bothered me that Aasif was more than merely funny-he's also a great actor. Now I've learned he's an amazing storyteller as well, and I am furious . . . but also grateful. Aasif's movement between cultures and genres is what makes him and his story singularly... |
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Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead
Bill Kreutzmann - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound... |
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Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder
Kathryn Casey - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book
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A WALKING NIGHTMARE - IN SIZE-NINE STILETTOS . . .The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston's hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could've prepared him for what he found: a beautiful woman... |
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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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Founding Fathers: The Fight for Freedom and the Birth of American Liberty
K. M. Kostyal - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Kostyal tells the story of the great American heroes who created the Declaration of Independence, fought the American Revolution, shaped the US Constitution--and changed the world. The eras dramatic events, from the riotous streets in Boston to the unlikely victory at Saratoga, are punctuated... |
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The Road to Happiness Is Always Under Construction
Linda Gray - Regan Arts
Format: Hardcover
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To celebrate her 75th birthday, Linda Gray, the iconic star of Dallas and timeless beauty, is sharing her road map to happiness in her revelatory memoir.When Linda Gray, iconic star of Dallas, was twenty years old, a magazine editor coldly rejected her as a model, writing that, perhaps... |
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Presto!: How I Made over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Penn Jillette - Novel Audio
Format: Audiobook
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An unconventional weight loss tale from an unconventional personality. Penn Jillette tells how he lost 100 pounds with his trademark outrageous sense of humor and biting social commentary that makes this success story anything but ordinary. Legendary magician Penn Jillette was approaching... |
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Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman
Mary Lou Sullivan - Backbeat Books
Format: Hardcover
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(Book) . Kinky Friedman has always maintained his Kinkster persona and hidden Richard Friedman from the public eye. Using one-liners, humor, and occasional rudeness, he follows the advice of his friend Bob Dylan to keep an aura of mystery. Author Mary Lou Sullivan spent many contentious... |
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Love's Long Line
Sophfronia Scott - Mad Creek Books
Format: Paperback
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Sophfronia Scott turns an unflinching eye on her life to deliver a poignant collection of essays ruminating on faith, motherhood, race, and the search for meaningful connection in an increasingly disconnected world. In Love's Long Line, Scott contemplates what her son taught her about... |
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Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging
Dick Van Dyke - Weinstein Books
Format: Print book
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Show-business legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better to offer instruction, advice, and humor than someone who's entering his ninth decade with a jaunty two-step? Van Dyke isn't just a born song-and-dance man; his irrepressible belief... |
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The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
Carla Valentine - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A mortician explains the autopsy process - and what it can teach us about the living - with "a morbidly galloping parade of every possible kind of dead body" (New York Times) .. Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems... |
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Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture
MICHAEL G SMITH - Wayne State University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribution to the evolution of architectural style. It is widely believed that celebrated local... |
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The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time
LESLIE SCHWARTZ - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, award-winning novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in county jail for a DUI and battery of an officer of the law.... |
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
Barbara Leaming - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'... |
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Sharp
Michelle Dean - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm -- these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history... |
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John Le Carr - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur - by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,... |
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You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age
Robert J. Wagner - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary actor and bestselling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden ageFor millions of movie lovers, no era in the history of Hollywood is more beloved than the period from the 1930s through the 1950s, the golden age of the studio system. Not only... |
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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
Olivia Laing - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED THEMIn The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol... |
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Michael Sims - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle... |
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The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution
Brent Preston - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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ADVANCE PRAISE "A must-read story told with honesty, humor, and humility by a passionate farmer who reminds us what our food system can and should be about." - Daniel Boulud "Preston uses brilliant storytelling and brutal honesty to describe what it takes to create both... |
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If You Only Knew
M William Phelps - Pinnacle
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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"Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." --Allison Brennan"Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience." --Suspense MagazineWhen Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near... |
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Hitler's Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich
Richard Weikart - Regnery History
Format: Print book
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For a man whom history can never forget, Adolf Hitler remains a persistent mystery on one front - his religious faith. Atheists tend to insist Hitler was a devout Christian. Christians counter that he was an atheist. And still others suggest that he was a practicing member of the occult.None... |
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Chasing Light: Michelle Obama Through the Lens of a White House Photographer
Amanda Lucidon - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best Seller. A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama - many never before seen - coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format. Michelle Obama... |
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Out of Idaho
Regina Calcaterra - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book
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In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival. They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic... |
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Actual Malice
Breton Peace - Ghost Mountain Books
Format: Print book
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Actual Malice is a true crime thriller that will take you through the backrooms of political gamesmanship, deception, and cover-up. If it were a novel, readers would marvel at the rich character development, riveting pace, and often-bizarre twists that make Actual Malice a compelling read.... |
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Kind Is the New Classy: The Power of Living Graciously
Candace Cameron Bure - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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"The world has a way of defining you if you don't know who you are before you get out there." - Candace Cameron BureAs a woman in today's world, you know what it's like to feel pressure on all sides from clashing cultural expectations. How can you stay true to who God has uniquely... |
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The Tank Man's Son: A Memoir
Mark Bouman - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of The Glass Castle and Angela's Ashes comes the most unforgettable memoir you'll read this year!"What did it mean to be the Tank Man's son? To grow up overwhelmed by my father's presence and personality? It was as if I didn't exist, as if I was just... |
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Van: A Memoir of My Father
Kathryn V Den Houter - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Celebrating the greatness of an ordinary life characterized by obedience, faithfulness, and self-sacrifice, Van tells the story of one man's life well lived. As a young boy on the Minnesota prairie, Ben decided he would grow up to be a lawyer. Vivacious, gregarious, and incredibly bright,... |
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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."-NPR.orgThe... |
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Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
Claire Hoffman - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and '90s - a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers.When Claire... |
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Sally Ride: Americas First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, inspiring several generations of women. After a second flight, Ride served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion... |
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Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves
Kat Kinsman - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.Feeling anxious? Can't sleep because your brain won't stop recycling thoughts? Unable... |
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Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
DAWN DAVIES - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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If you're looking for a parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother.This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college... |
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Stronger
Jeff Bauman - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALThe New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing... |
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Derek Jeter: Excellence and Elegance
The New York Times - Triumph Books
Format: Paperback
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After 20 major league seasons—all with the New York Yankees—Derek Jeter is hanging up his spikes at the conclusion of the 2014 campaign. The Yankees’ captain since 2003, the shortstop is considered the greatest Yankee of his generation. Jeter’s Yankees teams won five... |
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Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim
Justin Gifford - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, n Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career... |
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Voyager: Travel Writings
Russell Banks - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half... |
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Kelly Sundberg - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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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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Watch Me: A Memoir
Anjelica Huston - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Following her extraordinary Vanity Fair, evocative The New York Times, magically beautiful The Boston Globe, gorgeously written O, The Oprah Magazine coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom,... |
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
DANIELLE ALLEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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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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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Kathleen DuVal - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's... |
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The Killing Kind
M. William Phelps - Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Sprawled in a culvert just off the gravel road like an abandoned doll, she wore only toe socks, a sweatshirt, and a necklace. She was not the killer's first victim. Nor would she be his last.The... |
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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Blake Bailey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Autobiography' The renowned biographer's unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins - his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown... |
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty... |
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Born on the Bayou: A Memoir
Blaine Lourd - Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of the modern classics The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer and The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, Blaine Lourd's meaningful debut Born on the Bayou is a powerful gothic memoir set in the bayous and oil towns of 1970s Louisiana.In honest, confessional prose, Born on the Bayou... |
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Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart
Scott Stabile - New World Library
Format: Book
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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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Susie's Senior Dogs
Erin O'Sullivan - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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The viral Facebook sensation Susie's Senior Dogs has amassed over 500,000 fans as it advocates for the adoption of elderly dogs. Now Erin Stanton (Susie's owner) has written a heartwarming, compelling collection of "happy ending" adoption stories for our oldest and dearest... |
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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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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
Kelly Corrigan - Ballantine
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized... |
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Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind - Hyperion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia.... |
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Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir
Darryl Mcdaniels - Amistad
Format: Print book
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In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts - one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.As... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed
Michelle Knight - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their... |
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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move... |
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Jenny Nordberg - Crown; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as "dressed up like a boy") is a third kind of child -- a girl temporarily... |
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Amish Confidential
Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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""Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, star of the #1 top-rated Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. From the forbidden joyrides to the senseless shunnings to the colorful family feuds, he shares his frank insider's view... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
Sarah Churchwell - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover
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Kirkus (STARRED review)"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she's earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page."The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame,... |
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Dancing with Myself
Billy Idol - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, Ive put it all down, every bit from the heart.Im going out on a limb here, so watch my back. Billy Idol An early... |
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Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
Peter Ackroyd - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends: perfect for readers who want to know more about the iconic star but who don't want to commit to a lengthy work.He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces,... |
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Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder
Amy Butcher - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their... |
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I Found My Tribe: A Memoir
RUTH FITZMAURICE - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk and When Breath Becomes Air. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband Simon who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other 'tribe'... |
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Too Afraid To Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood
ALI COBBY ECKERMANN - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover
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Stolen from her family as an infant, a prize-winning poet recounts her arduous journey to reconnect with the Aboriginal culture of her birth. In Too Afraid to Cry, Ali Cobby Eckermann - who was recently awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world... |
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Lust & Wonder
Augusten Burroughs - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestsellerLust: 1. intense sexual desire or appetite2.a passionate or overmastering desire or craving3.ardent enthusiasm; zest; relish.Wonder: 1. something strange and surprising; a cause of surprise, astonishment,or admiration2. the emotion excited by what... |
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams - Portfolio Trade; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Everything you want out of life is in that bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out. Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met, including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and two restaurants. So how did he go from... |
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C. White - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of Americas greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant.... |
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On My Own Two Feet: From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
Amy Purdy - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder.In this poignant and uplifting memoir, Dancing With the Stars... |
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
David Leite - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite... |
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
Glennon Doyle Melton - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel... |
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World
Hasia R Diner - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The portrait of a humble retail magnate whose visionary ideas about charitable giving transformed the practice of philanthropy in America and beyond Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most... |
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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Allen Kurzweil - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry,... |
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An Uncomplicated Life: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter
Paul Daugherty - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A father's exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own. Jillian Daugherty was born with Down syndrome. The day they brought her home from the hospital,... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent... |
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Promise me, Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
Joseph R Biden - Thorndike Press
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""Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's... |
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When the Balls Drop
Brad Garrett - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A refreshingly candid and wickedly funny look at life's second half from Everybody Loves Raymond TV sitcom star and three-time Emmy Award-winning comic Brad Garrett.In this no-holds-barred book of comedic and personal essays, Brad Garrett divulges his hilarious - and irreverently honest... |
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Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
Paula Byrne - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle (May 2014) starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode - a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society... |
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Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier's Story
Jon Kerstetter - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier,... |
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
David Ritz - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left... |
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays
Megan Stielstra - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal... |
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Phil Spector: Sound of the Sixties
Sean MacLeod - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Phil Spector is a musician, songwriter and producer whose musical ability and visionary foresight as a producer charted the future of popular music and culture of the late 20th century. He revolutionized recording processes and re-shaped the business and marketing approach of the music... |
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Just Between Us
Mario Lopez - Celebra
Format: Hardcover
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With a star that rose from unforgettable child acting roles, such as A. C. Slater in Saved by the Bell, to the forefront of today's entertainment media, Mario Lopez is nothing short of a pop culture sensation.Now, as he turns forty, Mario looks back on his life with a newfound perspective... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper... |
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Barry Strauss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The exciting, dramatic story of one of history's most famous events - the death of Julius Caesar - now placed in full context of Rome's civil wars by eminent historian Barry Strauss.Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history.... |
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Cosby : his life and times
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy.Far from the gentle... |
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Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Rosemary Sullivan - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin.Born in the early years of the Soviet Union,... |
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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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Bad Blood: The Shocking True Story Behind the Menendez Killings
Don Davis - Graymalkin Media, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Handsome, rich, bronzed champion athletes, Erik and Lyle Menendez were the stunning symbols of the California dream. The sons of a high-powered Hollywood executive and his beautiful wife, they lived in a pampered world of Beverly Hills mansions, swimming pools, and private tennis coaches.... |
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Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE
Gordon Thomas - Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Format: Print book
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They were told that the only crime they must never commit was to be caught. Women of enormous cunning and strength of will, the Shadow Warriors' stories have remained largely untold until now. In a dramatic tale of espionage and conspiracy in World War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II unveils... |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantvnamo detainee.. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantvnamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir
Kelly Grey Carlisle - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Call Girl Confidential: An Escort's Secret Life as an Undercover Agent
Rebecca Kade - Gallery Books, 2014.
Format: Print book
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You've probably heard of Anna Gristina, the notorious "Soccer Mom Madam," who allegedly operated a multimillion-dollar escort service with clients from the Forbes billionaires list to Capitol Hill. But you haven't heard of the woman who helped bring the Soccer Mom Madam... |
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Leggy Blonde: A Memoir
Aviva Drescher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Aviva Drescher, the REAL Housewife of New York City, born and bred in Manhattan, shares her REAL story in this tell-all memoir.She's blond, beautiful, and brazenly honest - one of the boldest cast members of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City and most talked-about stars... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher - Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York... |
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson - Plume Books
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * "A must-read ... Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." -Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad CityA hilarious and timely essay collection... |
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
SHERYL SANDBERG - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Best SellerFrom Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable... |
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Sarah Perry - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal.... |
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Tenement Testaments: Growing up Black in the Civil Rights Movement
Bertrand Brown - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Book
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Martin Luther King Jr. preached equality and my parents were firm believers in his teachings. He preached integration, fair housing and a host of other things. America was in the midst of a civil rights movement and my parents championed his ideals and were on the front lines. We moved... |
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The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine's Front Line
Seamus O'Mahony - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of the dying spend their last days in general hospitals and nursing homes, in the care of strangers. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are often robbed of their dignity after... |
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
Rick Bragg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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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Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles
Sarah K Rich - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The newly discovered illustrated recipes of wildly influential yet unsung designer Cipe Pineles, introducing her delectable work in food and art to a new generation.Not long ago, Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton discovered a painted manuscript at an antiquarian book fair that drew them... |
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