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Paul McCartney : the life
Philip Norman - Little
Format: Large print book
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"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 biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have... |
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Lost and Found: Finding Hope in the Detours of Life
Sarah Jakes - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Don't let your past keep you from a full future.Like every girl, Sarah Jakes dreamed of a life full of love, laughter, and happy endings. But her dreams changed dramatically when she became pregnant at age thirteen, a reality only compounded by the fact that her father, Bishop T.D.... |
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In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
Rebecca Stott - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A father-daughter story that tells of the authors experience growing up in a separatist fundamentalist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller Ghostwalk. Rebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that... |
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88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary
Robert L. Grenier - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The First American-Afghan War, a CIA war, was approved by President George W. Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier launched the "southern... |
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Thin Places: Essays from In Between
Jordan Kisner - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaningWhen Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family.... |
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Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
Ben Greenman - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related... |
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Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont
Saul Austerlitz - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling account of the Altamont Festival -- and the dark side of the '60s.If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones... |
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana... |
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Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century
Loughery, John - SIMON & SCHUSTER
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The first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day, American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and activist whom Pope Francis I compared to Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. After a middle-class Republican childhood and a few years as a party Communist, Dorothy Day converted... |
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Mid-Life Ex-Wife: A Diary of Divorce, Online Dating, and Second Chances
STELLA GREY - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Nora Ephron meets Bridget Jones's Diary in Guardian columnist Stella Grey's heartrendingly honest, witty memoir about her online odyssey to find real love in a virtual world. "The literary equivalent of the When Harry Met Sally line, 'tell me I'll never be out there... |
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The Education of a Young Poet
DAVID BIESPIEL - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"Lyrical, affectionate . . . Graceful reflections on creativity." -- Kirkus Reviews The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel's moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape a life. Exploring the original source of his creative impulse... |
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Mary Jane's Ghost: The Legacy of a Murder in Small Town America
Ted Gregory - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers' lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after a sweeping manhunt, no one is arrested and the violent deaths of Mary... |
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books
PBS - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series... |
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The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War
Yochi Dreazen - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"The unforgettable and sensitively reported story of a military family that lost two sons--one to suicide and one in combat--and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces' suicide epidemic. Major General Mark Graham is a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism... |
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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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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
Brian Jay Jones - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. SeussDr. Seuss is a classic American icon. His work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. More than twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to find new readers, now grossing over half a billion... |
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Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate
William Albracht - NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In October 1969, Captain William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning,... |
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ALONE: Orphaned on the Ocean
Hester Rumberg - Titletown Publishing, LLC; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Terry Jo Duperrault was 11 when her family was murdered at sea aboard a chartered sailboat off the coast of Florida. She jumped overboard just in time to escape. Surviving four days on a cork float in the middle of the ocean, Terry Jo's rescue pictures graced LIFE Magazine soon after she was found.... |
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Lawrence Weschler - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patientThe author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published... |
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A Fine Romance
Candice Bergen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the follow-up to Knock Wood - her bestselling "engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecating autobiography" (The New York Times) - Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling... |
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Lennyball: A Memoir of Life on the Edge
Lenny Dykstra - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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A TOP-TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AN INSTANT CLASSIC OF HUSSLE AND EXCESS ..."Tough, straight, upsetting, and strangely beautiful. ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES I'VE EVER READ. It comes from the heart." - Stephen King"THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BLOW YOUR MIND! Obviously... |
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Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Doris Payne - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Soon to be a Major Motion PictureIn the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world's most notorious jewel thief -- a woman who defied society's prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers... |
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Thorndike Press
Format: Large Print Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER [[ LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD [[ Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The... |
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Ball Four the final pitch
Jim Bouton - Sports
Format: eBook
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Ball Four: The Final Pitch is the original book plus all the updates, unlike the 20th Anniversary Edition paperback. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold and a "social leper" for having violated the "sanctity... |
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King John: And the Road to Magna Carta
Stephen Church - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family.... |
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Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir
Claire McCaskill - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The female senator from Missouri shares her inspiring story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexist slings, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies - and finding joy along the way.Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT" OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT" THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"January 1961: President... |
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Navel gazing : true tales of bodies, mostly mine
Michael Ian Black - Gallery Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"A frank and funny-because-it's-true memoir from New York Times bestselling author Michael Ian Black, about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his 40s--the alt-comedy answer to Brad Garrett's WHEN THE BALLS DROP"-- |
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Why Religion?: A Personal Story
ELAINE PAGELS - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help... |
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson - Doubleday
Format: Book
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From one of the most beloved authors of our time more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. Houses aren t refuges from history. They are where history ends up. Bill Bryson and his family... |
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Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter
Jessica Wragg - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of coming of age behind the counter, exploring butchery as an art form and taking an incisive look at an industry on the brink.When sixteen-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at her local farm shop in Derbyshire, England, she never expected to land a position behind the butchery... |
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Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy
Gregory W Mank - McFarland
Format: Hardcover
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In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history. It was the climax of a strange celebrity that saw the young American actor--who stood 6' 3" and weighed more than 300 pounds--earn distinction as a portrayer... |
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Based on a true story
Norm Macdonald - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, SNL veteran, and one of the best stand-up comedians of all time. As this book's title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life - more or less - from his origins on a farm... |
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The Match: Complete Strangers, a Miracle Face Transplant, Two Lives Transformed
Susan Whitman Helfgot - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Joseph Helfgot, the son of Holocaust survivors, worked his way from a Lower East Side tenement to create a successful Hollywood research company. But his heart was failing. After months of waiting for a heart transplant, he died during the operation. Hours after his death, his wife Susan... |
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist,... |
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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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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world. Things My Son Needs... |
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Freedom: My Book of Firsts
Jaycee Lee Dugard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old,... |
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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
Daniel Adam Mendelsohn - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories... |
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Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
HARVEY SACHS - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life is unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini -- recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth... |
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Missouri's Forgotten Heroes
Ross W Malone - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book
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So many people have done wonderful things and then drifted into obscurity. Some were involved in sports and some were military. Some were philanthropists and many were just regular people who "rose to the occasion." This book is filled with short stories of some amazing... |
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F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me
Chloe Hilliard - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society reinforces the message that we are nothing without the perfect body. By the time Chlo Hilliard was 12, she wore a size 12 - both... |
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Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life
Lisa Kogan - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Kogans wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all. Martha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and Finding Your Own North Star Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a delectable blend of wit, whimsy, pith,... |
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The Impossible First
Colin O'Brady - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir recounts his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident and his gripping 932-mile crossing of the landmass of Antarctica solo, unsupported, and human powered - the first to accomplish this extraordinary feat. Prior to December 2018, no individual... |
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Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
David J. Skal - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society.First published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and multifaceted afterlife -- one rivaling even its immortal creation; yet Bram Stoker has remained... |
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life
LAURA THOMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant... |
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Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
Deborah Beatriz Blum - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time. The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge... |
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To Throw Away Unopened: A Memoir
Viv Albertine - Faber & Faber Social
Format: Hardcover
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"Brave and engaging."--Kirkus Reviews The remarkable follow-up to her sensational, bestselling memoir At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final... |
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Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge
Sheila Weller - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid -- and brilliant -- Carrie FisherIn her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller -- with heart and a profound feeling for the times -- gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell,... |
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Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway
Cherie Currie - It Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this candid autobiography, Cherie Currie—the original lead singer of ‘70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways—powerfully recounts her years in the band, her friendship with guitarist Joan Jett, and her struggle with drugs. An intense, behind-the-scenes look at rock... |
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
Michelle Tea - Amethyst Editions
Format: Paperback
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"I gobbled up these essays. Michelle Tea is riotously, wickedly funny, with an uncommon knack for naming the more hideous and complex parts of being human. Her particular genius makes the hardest truths and sorrows an irresistible joy to read." -- Melissa Febos, author of Abandon... |
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Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
Paul Glaser - Nan A. Talese; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of the authors aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the authors own past and the key to discovering his Jewish... |
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Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine
Daniel Halper - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they... |
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Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
Jennifer Worth - Ecco/HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered... |
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Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to Kill Me
Jenny Gardiner - Gallery Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A gift from an overseas relative, Graycie, an African Gray parrot, arrives in the Gardiner home not long after the birth of their first child, adding the responsibilities of parrot-hood to their newfound parenthood. Jenny Gardiner and her husband were hoping for a docile, beautifully plumed,... |
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Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"This woman is a major hero of our time." —Richard Dawkins Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming... |
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The Not Good Enough Mother
Sharon Lamb - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis.Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga
Maureen Callahan - Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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"Stop feeding me bullshit. Tell me the truth." - Lady Gaga, 2009"I hate the truth. I hate the truth so much I prefer a giant dose of bullshit any day over the truth." - Lady Gaga, 2010In little over a year, Stefani Germanotta, a struggling performer in New Yorks Lower... |
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The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company
Scott K. Edinger - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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Think you can spot the leaders in your company? Don't assume that you can identify them by their positions. What about those employees who consistently step up: the field agent who solves a previously intractable problem; the service rep who thinks outside the box and creates unshakeable... |
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Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
Gary Noesner - Random House
Format: Paperback
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An enraged man abducts his estranged wife and child, holes up in a secluded mountain cabin, threatening to kill them both. A right wing survivalist amasses a cache of weapons and resists calls to surrender. A drug trafficker barricades himself and his family in a railroad car, and begins... |
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The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russia Revolution
Robert Service - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian historians writing today. In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced... |
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In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father... |
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What We Carry: A Memoir
Maya Shanbhag Lang - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Profoundly moving" - Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club "A gorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of the love that grows between what is said and what is left unspoken." - Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk In caring for her aging... |
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Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
Keith Gilyard - Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback
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Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the first biography of Patterson, Keith... |
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The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana's Most Gruesome Serial Killer
Fred Rosen - Open Road Media
Format: Paperback
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The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique's ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. The victims - many of them... |
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My Watery Self: Memoirs of a Marine Scientist
Stephen Spotte - Three Rooms Press
Format: Print book
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In My Watery Self An Aquatic Memoir, authorscientist Stephen Spotte traces a fascinating trail through a life that began in West Virgina coal camps, drifted through reckless bohemian times of countercultural indulgence in Beach Haven, New Jersey, and led to a career as a highly-respected... |
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Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal
Michael Mewshaw - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to knowDetached and ironic a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting quip enigmatic, impossible to truly know This is the calcified, public image of Gore Vidal--one the man himself... |
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Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde
Jennie Garth - Penguin Group USA
Format: Book
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For the first time ever, Jennie Garth is putting it all out there, sharing her joys and her sorrows, her successes and her failures, with candor and a surprising, even bawdy, sense of humor. From her sudden rise to fame as a golden-haired teen beauty, to recently redefining herself as a single... |
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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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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
Matt Richards - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson -- the biggest and most influential music... |
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Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor
Paul Stephenson - Overlook Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian. In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle,... |
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
FIONA SAMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, a prize-winning poet delivers a major new biography of Mary Shelley -- as she has never been seen before.We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail -- the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft,... |
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until... |
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Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Neil Patrick Harris - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the "u" back in "aUtobiography"? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your... |
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
Ryan H. Walsh - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder
Nancy Rommelmann - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children?On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River.... |
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You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
Annabelle Gurwitch - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is loveand a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir.After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and Jeff have... |
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Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars
DAVID HEPWORTH - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our cultureRecklessness, thy name is rock.The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed.... |
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Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
JOHN BANVILLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.As much about the life of the city as it is about a life... |
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Somewhere Inside
Laura Ling - WilliamMr; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling’s capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura’s release by former President Bill Clinton. This riveting true account of the first... |
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Where's My Wand?: One Boy's Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting
Eric Poole - Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, and David Rakoff have all produced winning memoirs of their demented, alternately heartrending and sidesplitting late- twentieth-century American childhoods. Now, first-time author Eric Poole joins their ranks with his chronicle of a childhood gone... |
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Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal
Russell Brand - It Books; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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My Booky Wook was one of the most revered and successful celebrity autobiographies of all time (not including the Bible or anything by Oprah). The honesty, mayhem, and scandal made it as riveting and fanciful as anything found in fiction. In Booky Wook 2, this award-winning achievement... |
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Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
Nelson Johnson - Plexus Publishing; TV Tie-in Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Terence Winter, this riveting and wide-reaching history explores the sordid past of Atlantic City—forever... |
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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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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Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal
Jonathan Green - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. The use of crack cocaine surged, replacing heroin as the high of choice. Drug dealers claimed... |
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Hollywood Park: A Memoir
Mikel Jollett - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Mikel Jollett, the front man of indie band Airborne Toxic Event, chronicles his tumultuous life. Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction and emotional abuse. What comes through the pages is a story... |
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American Sniper LP: Memorial Edition
Chris Kyle - HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States... |
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The Last Job: "The Bad Grandpas" and the Hatton Garden Heist
Dan Bilefsky - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of one of the most brazen jewel heists in history.Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six English thieves, several in their sixties and seventies, couldn't resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe... |
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Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
Karl Rove - Threshold Editions; Original edition
Format: Hardcover
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America's most brilliant political mastermind recounts his controversial journey through Republican politics and into George W. Bush's White House.From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two,... |
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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific... |
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misrables
David Bellos - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the world's most popular novelPutting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information... |
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Uncharted TerriTori
Tori Spelling - Gallery Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In her latest update, Tori Spelling describes her never-complacent life balancing parenthood with the pressures of living in Tinseltown. |
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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago
Douglas Perry - Viking Adult; 2nd Print edition
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders... |
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Mans Education
Mychal Denzel Smith - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. New York Times Book Review Editors Choice. How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai... |
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Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons
Carolyn Jessop - Crown Archetype; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The New York Times bestseller Escape returns with a moving and inspirational tale of her life after she heroically fled the cult she'd been raised in, her hard-won new identity and happiness, and her determination to win justice for the crimes committed against her family.... |
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Psychic: My Life in Two Worlds
Sylvia Browne - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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“I have known Sylvia for twenty years, and I have the greatest respect for her. People seek her out for her much celebrated intuitive skills, however, I have sought her out for her friendship and kindness. I applaud her for the peace and solace that she has brought to so many.”... |
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Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams
Jen Bricker - Baker Books
Format: Print book
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Born without Legs, She Inspires Others to OvercomeJen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty... |
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Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
Michael Signer - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In a time when America is desperately searching for leadership comes this inspiring story of James Madison's coming of age, providing incisive and original insight into the Founding Father who did the most but is known the least. Michael Signer takes a fresh look at the life of our fourth... |
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Frida Kahlo at Home
Suzanne Barbezat - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover
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Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, La Casa Azul and other places Frida Kahlo called home, on her life and work.La Casa Azul, now one of the most visited museums in Mexico City, was the artist's birthplace and the home where she grew... |
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Moses: A Human Life
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention... |
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Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion
Susannah Charleson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunionOne in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope... |
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Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
Jens Andersen - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first Englishlanguage biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed... |
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father, Survival and What Remains
Ariana Neumann - Scribner Books Co.
Format: Book
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In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
In 1941, the first Neumann... |
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Mean
Myriam Gurba - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurbas coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing,... |
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Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Nell Stevens - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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A whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with wry writing advice, Bleaker House is a story of creative struggle that brilliantly captures the self-torture of the writing life. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but life kept getting in the way.... |
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