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Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds
Leslie Carroll - NAL Trade
Format: Print book
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The author of Notorious Royal Marriages presents some of history's boldest, baddest, and bawdiest royals. The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the most rotten of apples: über-violent autocrats Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible... |
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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
Andrew Graham-Dixon - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of John Richardsons Picasso, a commanding new biography of the Italian masters tumultuous life and mysterious death. For four hundred years Caravaggios 1571-1610 staggering artistic achievements have thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory-the murder of Ranuccio... |
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As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp
Stephen L Moore - CALIBER
Format: Print book
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The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II - As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape. In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within... |
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The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty
J Randy Taraborrelli - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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THE HILTONS is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary ideas and unyielding will established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry. But outside the boardroom, Conrad struggled with... |
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts--From FDR to Obama
Mel Ayton - Regnery History
Format: Book
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In American history, four U.S. Presidents have been murdered at the hands of an assassin. In each case the assassinations changed the course of American history.But most historians have overlooked or downplayed the many threats modern presidents have faced, and survived. Author Mel Ayton... |
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never... |
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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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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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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
Sarah Gristwood - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule - whether they were on the throne or behind the scenes, women held unprecedented power for more than a hundred years. From Isabella of Castile, her daughter Katherine of Aragon, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici,... |
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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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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Suki Kim - Crown Pub
Format: Print book
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland.... |
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Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
David Giffels - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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"A lifetime's worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son" (Kirkus Reviews) - the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking... |
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The Girl's Guide to Homelessness: A Memoir
Brianna Karp - Harlequin
Format: Paperback
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Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse, Karp stayed focused on her dream of a steady job and a home of her own. By age twenty-two her dream... |
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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 Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Izzeldin Abuelaish - Walker & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine... |
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None Wounded, None Missing, All Dead: The Story of Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Chris Enss - TwoDot; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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On May 17, 1876, Elizabeth Bacon Custer kissed her husband George goodbye and wished him good fortune in his efforts to fulfill the Army’s orders to drive in the Native Americans who would not willingly relocate to a reservation. Adorned in a black taffeta dress and a velvet... |
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Dancing for the Devil: One Woman's Dramatic and Divine Rescue from the Sex Industry
Anny Donewald - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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An explosive memoir of transformation from a high-end stripper and escort who hit rock-bottom, turned to God, and left the sex trade to found Eve’s Angels, a ministry reaching out to women in the sex industry.Growing up as the daughter of an NCAA Championship-winning basketball coach... |
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I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star
Judy Greer - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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You know Judy Greer, right? Maybe from The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, Carrie, Arrested Development, or The Descendants. Yes, you totally recognize her. And, odds are, you already feel like she’s your friend. In her first book of essays, I Don’t Know What You Know... |
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Kris Jenner . . . And All Things Kardashian
Kris Jenner - Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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You think you know her . . . The Kardashians are famous for letting it all hang out. Whether theyre moving cross-country, settling a family feud, dealing with heartbreak, or just having fun with one another, their lives are utterly relatable. No wonder America cant get enough. But what... |
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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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You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,... |
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever
JAMES PATTERSON - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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In deze aantekening gaan we in op de uitzondering van de aftrekuitsluiting van werkkleding en persoonlijke verzorging voor artiesten, presentatoren en sporters (aant. 14.1) en de relatie van de aftrekuitsluiting van deze kosten in het tweede lid, onderdeel c en de uitzondering voor artiesten,... |
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Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Randy Christensen M.D. - Broadway Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr Randy Christensen Trained as a pediatrician he works not in a typical hospital... |
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Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy
MR DAVID CANNADINE - OXFORD UNIV Press
Format: Print book
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Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier of the twentieth century, Thatcher has been the subject... |
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture.My Own Words... |
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The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra
Eliot Weisman - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Henry Bushkin's Johnny Carson comes THE WAY IT WAS: My Life with Frank Sinatra, a candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life, told by his long-time manager and friend, Eliot Weisman.Eliot Weisman worked with Frank Sinatra... |
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My Accidental Jihad
Krista Bremer - Workman Pub Co
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways her marriage would change... |
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Being Elvis
Ray Connolly - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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On the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death comes this rocking biography of an iconic artist who fundamentally transformed American culture.Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic... |
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I Hear She's a Real Bitch
Jen Agg - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"A terrific, beautifully written, frank, and funny memoir, and a compelling argument for pulling down the long outdated system of 'bro' culture that has dominated the industry since what feels like the beginning of time." - Anthony BourdainFrom the moment she opened her first... |
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Double Play
Ben Zobrist - B&H Books
Format: Hardcover
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All-Star player Ben Zobrist (Tampa Bay Rays), considered one of the best all-around players in baseball, writes about the importance of his faith, life, and athletic career in Double Play. Written with his wife, Christian singer Julianna Zobrist, and MikeYorkey, best-selling author of Every... |
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No Surrender: A World War II Memoir
James Sheeran - Berkley Hardcover; 1st Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Nazis caught him, but they couldn't hold him-a gripping WWII memoir from a D-Day paratrooper and American hero. A paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, James Sheeran was just a kid when he floated into Normandy on D-Day-only to be captured soon afterward by the Germans. Escaping from... |
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
Jessica Fechtor - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly... |
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Son of Real Florida: Stories from My Life
JEFF KLINKENBERG - University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover
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As stories about "Florida Man" inspire wild headlines in the news, Florida's most beloved chronicler is here to show that the state is more than the stereotypes. Award-winning journalist Jeff Klinkenberg has explored what makes Florida unique for nearly half a century, and Son of Real... |
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Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto
Lesley Hazleton - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging - and ultimately the most honest - stance toward the mysteries of existence. One in four Americans reject any affiliation with organized religion, and nearly half of those under thirty describe themselves... |
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The Garner Files: A Memoir
James Garner - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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After suffering physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother Garner left home at fourteen He became Oklahomas first draftee of the Korean War and was awarded with two Purple Hearts before returning to the United States and settling in Los Angeles to become an actor Working alongside some... |
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Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far
Bristol Palin - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When her mother Sarah Palin became the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in Bristol Palin was instantly propelled into the national spotlight becoming the focus of intense public and national media scrutiny at the age of seventeen In Not Afraid of Life she shares with readers for the first... |
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Marrow: A Love Story
Elizabeth Lesser - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant - one the donor and one the recipient - begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love.A mesmerizing and courageous... |
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A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
Jennet Conant - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Childs experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services OSS in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved... |
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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation
Adam Resnick - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people. While courageously admitting to being "euphorically antisocial" and "sick in the head," he allows us to plunge... |
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Olivier
Philip Ziegler - MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover
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A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered... |
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Joan Biskupic - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009-made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable-flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto... |
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The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
ADM James G. Stavridis USN - Naval Institute Press
Format: Hardcover
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After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "Renaissance admiral." A U. S. Naval Academy graduate with a master's degree and doctorate from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University,... |
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Catching the Sky
Colten Moore - 37 INK/Atria
Format: Print book
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A transcendent story about risk and the pursuit of happiness, family, and the bond between brothers.Dust and prairie were abundant on the Texas Panhandle, the land that gave birth to generations of Moores. But instead of working the landor the cattle that fed upon it, the Moore brothers,... |
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I Was a Dancer
Jacques D'Amboise - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most... |
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Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo
Betty White - Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Americas sweetheart, impassioned lifelong animal welfare advocate, and New York Times-bestselling author Betty White offers intimate and funny stories about her animal friends at the zoo, enhanced by gorgeous four-color photographs. , |
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The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
NIKKI MEREDITH - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. At their murder trial the following year, lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi described the two so-called Manson Women as "human... |
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Felix Frankfurter and His Times: The Reform Years
Michael E Parrish - Free Pr
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Explores the years before Frankfurter's Supreme Court appointment and details such subjects as his tenure as a Harvard Law professor and his advisory relationship with Wilson and Roosevelt. |
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I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
Annabelle Gurwitch - Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Actress and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with I See You Made an Effort, a book of essays so wickedly funny it may make you forget your last birthday. Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the slyly subversive O, The Oprah Magazine Gurwitch confronts the various... |
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Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean
Richard Logan - Berkley; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Alone is the extraordinary account of Terry Jo Duperrault, who, at age eleven, survived four days on a raft in the middle of the ocean after her family was brutally murdered aboard a chartered sailboat. |
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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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Lion
Saroo Brierley - New American Library
Format: Print book
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First it was a media sensation. Then it became the #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it's Lion, a major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara. This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google... |
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Meant To Be: A True Story of Might, Miracles and Triumph of the Human Spirit
Ms. Roslyn Franken - 10-Q Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In MEANT TO BE, author Roslyn Franken reveals the unforgettable true story of her parents, John and Sonja Franken - two unlikely survivors of World War II. While John, a young Dutch naval recruit in the Dutch East Indies, is captured at sea by the Japanese and must fight for his life... |
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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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Snowden
Luke Harding - Vintage
Format: Print book
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The official movie tie-in edition to Oliver Stone's major motion picture, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It began with a tantalizing, anonymous email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought... |
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The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
Rafia Zakaria - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women An Indies Introduce Debut Authors Selection For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country's former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been... |
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Marked for Death: My War with Jim Jones the Devil of Jonestown
Timothy Oliver Stoen - Timothy Oliver Stoen
Format: Print book
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"I have Tim Stoen... in my psyche tonight... I'm a man filled with rage... I could kill him. I could really kill him. Literally kill him... I got the man that'll get him. All I got to do is say the word, 'Go. '... Tim Stoen... hasn't made a move in the United States,... |
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Whitey: The Story of Rear Admiral E. L. Feightner, A Navy Fighter Ace
Peter B Mersky - Naval Institute Press
Format: Hardcover
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Whitey is the first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.S. Navy aces, and one of the Navy's most respected officers of any period. Following a typical American, mid-western boyhood, Whitey Feightner was in the vanguard of the huge group of young men thrust... |
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Happy Chaos: From Punky to Parenting and My Perfectly Imperfect Adventures in Between
Soleil Moon Frye - Dutton Adult
Format: Hardcover
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From Punky to parenting Soleil Moon Frye shares insightful realistic in-the-trenches parenting advice inspiration and fun Enthusiastic spunky and positive Punky Brewster was the quintessential eighties kid Nearly thirty years later Soleil Moon Frye-the adorable girl who played her on TV-is... |
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Appetites: A Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain - Ecco
Format: Print book
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Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family... |
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My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life
Peter Gethers - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A funny, moving memoir about a son's discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and lovePeter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes.... |
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The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal
Carol Belanger Grafton - Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General "Wild Bill" Donovan as "the... |
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A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning
Cathy Curtis - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Blanche Wiesen Cook - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Outstanding ... A winning concluding volume in a series that does for Eleanor Roosevelt what Robert Caro has done for Lyndon Johnson." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewThe final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady.Historians, politicians,... |
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The NFL's Top 100
James Buckley - Thunder Bay Press
Format: Book
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They are the names that football fans will never forget. They played for the Chicago Bears. The New York Giants. The Pittsburgh Steelers. They were quarterbacks, wide receivers, and running backs. Some played for five or six seasons, others for as many as eighteen or nineteen. Some started... |
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Brielle and Me: Our Journey with Cytomegalovirus and Cerebral Palsy
Kerith Stull - Fugue Publishing
Format: Book
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Brian and Kerith had plans for their family. That all changed six weeks into the pregnancy of their second child when Kerith got chicken pox. Fears flooded their lives for months. When she was eight months pregnant, they received more bad news. Their baby was also affected by a completely... |
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A Long Way Home: A Memoir
Saroo Brierley - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback
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As a little boy in India, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, from Australia, he found his way back. This is what happened in between.Born in a poor village in India, Saroo lived hand-to-mouth in a one room hut with his mother and three siblings ... until at age five,... |
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Starkishia: Estrella
Starkishia - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book
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Starkishia Estrella is a story about a little girl who grew up too fast to feel the grass wear thin under the soles of her shoes. Abuse thickened her skin, yet her nightmares were as dark as they were real. The library became her sanctuary where stories took her to another place and time.... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy - Little
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Hillary's America
Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America... |
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And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
Meaghan O'Connell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most anticipated books of 2018 -- Esquire, Elle, Nylon, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, GoodReads, The Millions, BookRiot, The Week."The biggest compliment of all: I used several hours of daylight childcare hours reading this book, just because I didn't want to put it down."... |
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Loitering with Intent
Peter O'Toole - Hyperion; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The popular actor describes his youth in northern England, his father, his mother, the difficulty of a wartime childhood, the impression of the war, his education, and his introduction to drama. |
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Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office
Zack O'Malley Greenburg - Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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Some people think Jay-Z is just another rapper. Others see him as just another celebrity/mega-star. The reality is, no matter what you think Jay-Z is, he first and foremost a business. And as much as Martha Stewart or Oprah, he has turned himself into a lifestyle. You can wake up to the local... |
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H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
Adam Selzer - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's... |
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
Eric Jager - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled... |
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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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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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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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They made America great : --31 endearing legacies worth heeding today --
Rick Rhodes - Heron Island Guides
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Spanning more than 250 years of history, this work is a collection of 31 heartwarming stories of fellow Americans who have traveled that road behind us. Some people here are well known. Others presented here are lesser known, but also have contributed to our American Legacy. Harry Truman... |
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography
Rob Lowe - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked... |
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His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir
Dan Jenkins - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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From Dan Jenkins - one of America's most respected and acclaimed sportswriters and author of the bestselling novels Semi-Tough and Dead Solid Perfect - comes a colorful, sentimental, hilarious, and cantankerous memoir about his lifelong journey through the world of sports. "Sometimes,... |
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The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self
VICTORIA PRICE - Ixia Press
Format: Hardcover
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After a tumultuous period of crisis, Victoria Price rebuilt her life by embracing a daily practice of joy, healing childhood wounds and reconnecting to the example set by her father Vincent, the famed actor. Her journey involved stepping away from externalities and into her father's... |
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The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
Laura Tillman - Scribner, 2016.
Format: Book
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In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime - the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville,... |
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KaBOOM!: How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play
Darell Hammond - Rodale Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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KaBOOM! is the powerful, uplifting journey of a man who grew up in a group home with his seven brothers and sisters and went on to build a world-class nonprofit that harnesses the power of community to improve the lives of children.In 1995, Darell Hammond read an article in the Washington... |
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My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir
Domingo Martinez - Lyons Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. His first book shockingly ended with his fianc Stephanie... |
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Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
Bill Hayes - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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"If you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York--which is to say, New Yorkers--will take care of you."Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But,... |
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The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL
Eric Greitens - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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The Hearts and the Fist shares one man's story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service.... |
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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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My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir
Noelle Hancock - Ecco
Format: Book
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After losing her high-octane job as an entertainment blogger, Noelle Hancock was lost. About to turn twenty-nine, she'd spent her career writing about celebrities' lives and had forgotten how to live her own. Unemployed and full of self-doubt, she had no idea what she wanted out of life.... |
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Escape from Plauen, a True Story
Renate Stoever - iBooks
Format: Hardcover
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ESCAPE?FROM?PLAUEN tells the story of wars depravation but also tells the story of faith and the will to triumph against all odds. An artist as well as a writer, Renate Stoever has an artists sensibility that lends beauty to her writing. As a result, the reader is not just an observer,... |
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 19411942
Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House... |
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The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash, the Greatest Escaper of World War II
Patrick Bishop - The Overlook Press
Format: Print book
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The true story of William Ash: Spitfire Pilot, P.O.W. and WWII's Greatest EscaperWhen American fighter pilot William Ash's plane was shot down over France in 1942, he was captured by German forces and placed in a Nazi prison camp. Ash, bolstered by the grit and ingenuity he developed during... |
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The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams
Phyllis Lee Levin - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "The Greatest Traveler of His Age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early... |
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The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
Laura Thompson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist... |
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Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded
John Z. Guzlowski - Aquila Polonica
Format: Print book
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"A searing memoir." -- Shelf Awareness"Powerful...Deserves attention and high regard." -- Kevin Stein, Poet Laureate of Illinois"Devastating, one-of-a-kind collection" -- Foreword ReviewsIn this major tour de force, John Guzlowski traces the arc of one of the millions... |
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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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Paul McCartney: The Life
Philip Norman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost... |
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Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, as You've Never Seen Him
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck puts his unique spin on the life and legacy of Founding Father George Washington. IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW GEORGE WASHINGTON, THINK AGAIN. This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape... |
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
James D. Hornfischer - Bantam; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts James D Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about Americarsquos World War II Navy works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information Now he does... |
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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Tracy Borman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As Henry VIIIs right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation, secured Henrys divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of Anne Boleyn,... |
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From Fields To Courts
Judge James V. Pierce - XLIBRIS
Format: Paperback
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From Fields to Courts was written to inspire and inform its readers that regardless of the challenging circumstances and adversity in your life, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve. The book is about how a poor black country boy in the segregated South was inspired by his grandparents... |
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Personal Portrait
Fr Leo Maasburg - Ignatius Press; 10.2.2011 edition
Format: Print book
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Mother Teresas life sounds like a legend. The Albanian girl who entered an Irish order to go to India as a missionary and became an Angel of the Poor for countless people. She was greatly revered by Christians as well as Muslims, Hindus and unbelievers, as she brought the message of Christian... |
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SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
Howard E. Wasdin - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team SixSEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with... |
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader
Robert Middlekauff - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind... |
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Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family
Kathy Mckeon - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny - and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from... |
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Unashamed
Lecrae Moore - B&H Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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"If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from theirrejection. " Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.... |
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Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers - Berkley Pub Group
Format: Print book
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Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified - who the hell does Melissa... |
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American Writers, Supplement XXVIII
Leonard Unger - Charles Scribner & Sons
Format: Hardcover
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This collection of critical and biographical articles covers hundreds of notable authors from the 17th century to the present day. Signed essays, 12-15 pages in length by noted scholars, provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers and works of American writers. Each Supplement... |
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A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany
Sigrid MacRae - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat—and a riveting tale of survival in wartime GermanySigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents’ intercontinental love... |
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Prison Baby: A Memoir
Deborah Jiang-Stein - Beacon Press,
Format: Paperback
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A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman's struggles--beginning with her birth in prison--to find self-acceptance Even at twelve years old Deborah Jiang Stein, the adopted daughter of a progressive Jewish couple in Seattle, felt like an outsider. Her multiracial... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks:... |
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The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
Ben Montgomery - CRP
Format: Print book
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The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina woman who was one of the top spies for the Allies during World War II, stashing explosives in spare tires, tracking Japanese troop movements, and smuggling maps of fortifications across enemy lines for Gen. Douglas... |
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JFK Jr., George, & Me: A Memoir
Matt Berman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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If George magazine was about "not just politics as usual," a day at the office with John F. Kennedy Jr. was not just business as usual. John handpicked Creative Director Matt Berman to bring his vision for a new political magazine to life. Through marathon nights leading up to George's... |
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How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons
Bob Mankoff - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that... |
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Mischka's War: A True Story of Survival in Nazi Dresden
SHEILA FITZPATRICK - I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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In 1943, 22-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. A few months later, escaping conscription into the Waffen-SS in Riga, Mischka entered Hitler's Reich itself on a student exchange to Germany.... |
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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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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
Vincent Carretta - University of Georgia Press; 1st Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover
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With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman—of any race or background— to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just... |
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Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family
David Kaczynski - Duke University Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David thought. But as the couple pored over the Unabomber's seventy-eight-page manifesto, David couldn't rule out the possibility. It slowly... |
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License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver
Rick Harrison - Hyperion; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Las Vegas, theres a family-owned business called the Gold Silver Pawn Shop, run by three generations of the Harrison family Rick his son, Big Hoss and Ricks dad, the Old Man. Now License to Pawn takes readers behind the scenes of the hit History show Pawn Stars and shares the fascinating... |
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I Me Mine: The Extended Edition
George Harrison - Genesis Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Cherished by fans and collectors, I Me Mine is the closest we will ever come to George Harrison's autobiography. This new edition has been significantly developed since the 1980 original; now printed in color, and with previously unseen archive material, the book covers the full... |
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016 An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016 A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 An NPR 2016's Great Read A Boston Globe Best Book... |
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Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend
Joann Fletcher - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Joann Fletcher has the good grace and specialist knowledge to do away with Roman romances. This book's bedrock is Egyptology. . . . Cleopatra was, indeed, not just a 'baleful beauty;' she was great." - History Today World-renowned Egyptologist Joann Fletcher offers... |
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
William F Jr Buckley - Crown
Format: Print book
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A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved... |
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Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World
Kirsten Gillibrand - Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words Decisions are being made every day in Washington, and if you are not part... |
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Goebbels: A Biography
Peter Longerich - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda. In life, and in the grisly manner of his death, Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. By the end, no one in the Berlin... |
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Dilemma: A Priest's Struggle with Faith and Love
Albert Cutie - Celebra Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Era un sacerdote católico cuya relación amorosa se convirtió en noticia de primera página. Ahora, cuenta su explosiva historia -en sus propias palabras... En este libro personal y altamente controversial, el Padre Alberto Cutié habla de la devastadora lucha entre... |
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Charles Dickens: A Life
Claire Tomalin - Penguin Press HC, The; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The tumultuous life of Englands greatest novelist beautifully rendered by unparalleled literary biographer Claire Tomalin When Charles Dickens died in The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey the final resting place of Englands kings and heroes... |
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You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
PIPER WEISS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir - The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep - that presents an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within Manhattan's exclusive prep-school scene in the early 1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession... |
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Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
Ted Geltner - The University of Georgia Press
Format: Print book
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The first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. |
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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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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Richard Russo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, ranging throughout writing and reading and living.In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight... |
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal
Mark Owen - Dutton
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused... |
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All in
Jerry Yang - Medallion Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this intimate profile of an unlikely poker champion, the life story of Yang is laid out--from his difficult Hmong childhood to his success as a professional poker player. |
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Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most
Timothy Shriver - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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On a quest for what matters most, Timothy Shriver discovers a radically different, inspiring way of life.At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. In Fully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows... |
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Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home
Alison Singh Gee - St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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How far would you travel for love? In her sparkling memoir, journalist Alison Singh Gee learns that love, riches, and a place to call home can be found in the most unexpected places. Alison Singh Gee was a glamorous magazine writer with a serious Jimmy Choo habit, a weakness for five-star... |
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Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey
Ed Sheeran - Running Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ed Sheeran is the soulful singer-songwriter from England who has captivated American audiences. With words by Ed Sheeran and illustrations by his childhood friend, artist Phillip Butah (who produces artwork for Sheeran's albums and singles) , and accompanying photos, Ed Sheeran: A Visual... |
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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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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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Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob,
Peter Bart - Weinstein Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Peter Bart then a young family man and rising reporter for the New York Times decided to upend his life and enter into the dizzying world of motion pictures Infamous Players is the story of Barts whirlwind journey at Paramount his role in its triumph and failures and how a new kind... |
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