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The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
CARLA VALENTINE - ST MARTIN'S Press Format: Print book
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Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise. Using... |
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Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
Karina Longworth - Custom House Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power and publicity... |
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Camille T Dungy - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history.As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely... |
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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
Samantha Allen - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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A transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast reporter... |
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Adventures of a Terribly Greedy Girl
Kay Plunkett-Hogge - Mitchell Beazley Format: Hardcover
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Candid, relatable, confessional, and opinionated, you won't be able to put down this intriguing tome. Adventures of A Terribly Greedy Girl includes 25 pivotal recipes that Kay has discovered along the way, including Ivy on the Shore Salad, Salty-sweet Peanut Cookies, and Thai Gravadlax.... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams - Hanover Square Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went... |
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Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
Maurice Rajsfus - DoppelHouse Press Format: Paperback
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A two-volume book in which Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's role in the Holocaust. In the first volume, "Operation Yellow Star," Rajsfus... |
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The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
MARY S LOVELL - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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The author of the bestselling The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family brings her trademark brio and relish to the charming and fascinating world of the Chteau de l'Horizon on the French RivieraThe Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked... |
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Harry: Life, Loss, and Love
Katie Nicholl - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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In anticipation of the upcoming royal wedding comes a new in-depth biography of Prince Harry, from royal expert Katie Nicholl--journalist, broadcaster, and author of the bestselling William and Harry and Kate.From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded... |
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Turn Your Pain Into Art
Ariel Bloomer - Happy Hurts Publishing Co Format: Paperback
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#1 BESTSELLER"If you find most self-help manuals a bit dry and pious, Turn Your Pain Into Art offers a vibrant alternative." -- BBC America In this hilarious, candid, and warm debut, Icon For Hire vocalist Ariel Bloomer bares her soul and shares her struggles, coupling accessible... |
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My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food
Lidia Bastianich - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling cookbook author, beloved and award-winning television personality, and hugely successful restaurateur--a heartwarming, emotional, revelatory memoir told with all her hallmark warmth and gusto.Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city... |
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Biographic Austen
Sophie Collins - Ammonite Press Format: Hardcover
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Many people know that Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the greatest literary voices in history, celebrated by critics and the public alike, who wrote Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. What, perhaps, they don't know is that she was one of eight children of a clergyman;... |
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The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
Angela Kelly - Harper Format: Hardcover
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When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty's Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty's... |
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Dan Hampton - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh's death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known... |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang - Touchstone Format: Paperback
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The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history - a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House Format: Hardcover
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older... |
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Mob Killer: The Bloody Rampage of Charles Carneglia, Mafia Hit Man
ANTHONY M DESTEFANO - Citadel Format: Paperback
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A CRAZED KILLERHe dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard.LA COSA NOSTRACharles Carneglia was a stone-cold killer who fell in with the bloodthirsty John Gotti crew. As the infamous crime family... |
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
Plum Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons Format: Hardcover
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A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three... |
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How to Cook a Moose
Kate Christensen - Islandport Press, Inc. Format: Paperback
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Inspired by her new home in New England and the slow food movement re-energizing sustainable farming, Kate Christensen picks up where she left off in her last memoir, Blue Plate Special. In an ode to How to Cook a Wolf, M. F. K. Fisher's classic culinary guide about surviving poverty... |
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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
KAYLEEN SCHAEFER - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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A personal and sociological examination--and ultimately a celebration--of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society"Text me when you get home." After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love.... |
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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
WILLIE PARKER - 37 INK Format: Print book
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In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor... |
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Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Jeffrey Melnick - Arcade Publishing Format: Hardcover
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"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals... |
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Man of the Year: A Memoir
LOU COVE - FLATIRON Books Format: Print book
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For one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold.In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem,... |
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From a Small Town to the Big World
Norman Boehm - Hamilton Books Format: Paperback
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This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ. He worked in the oil industry for 16 years in Saudi Arabia, 4 years in London, England, and 3 years in Stavanger, Norway. 23 years of exposure to the world's diverse cultures and peoples... |
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Print book
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's... |
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Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
TED GELTNER - University of Georgia Press Format: Paperback
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In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell... |
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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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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience... |
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Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard
STEPHEN TAYLOR - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and unconventional figure, Anne Barnard lived a life that might have been the outline of a novel by her contemporary, Jane Austen, or by Edith Wharton.She was born in Scotland in 1772, lived at the heart of Georgian society, and yet defined herself by defiance of convention.... |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018.A Publisher's Weekly Best... |
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Other People: Takes & Mistakes
David Shields - Vintage Format: Hardcover
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An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation. . Can one person know another person? How do we live through... |
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Rich Man, Poor Man: A Memoir
Nick Nolte - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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"I had become an actor because real life was hard for me. Sometimes it was really rough. Acting was different from real life, yet it gave me the chance to search for complex stories that helped me understand and cope with what I encountered away from the stage lights."Legendary... |
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Maybe something beautiful : how art transformed a neighborhood = Quizás algo hermoso
F Isabel Campoy - Dreamscape Media Format: DVD video
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What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than one might ever imagine! Based on a true story of the Urban Art Trail in San Diego, California, Maybe something beautiful reveals how art can inspire transformation--and how even the smallest... |
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The Light Years: A Memoir
Chris Rush - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American historyChris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving... |
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Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
Sands Hall - Counterpoint Format: Hardcover
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"I could not put down this book -- it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." -- Karen E. Bender, author of Refund In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology.... |
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What Is Real: The Life and Crimes of Darnell Riley
Riley Perez - Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book Format: Paperback
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On January 22, 2004, Darnell Riley broke into the home of Girls Gone Wild founder, Joe Francis. Throughout the night he filmed a blackmail video, and arrange for payment so that the video didn't go viral.What Is Real: The Life and Crimes of Darnell Riley explores the nine years he spent... |
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Perfect Strangers: Friendship, Strength, and Recovery After Boston’s Worst Day
Roseann Sdoia - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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Four lives brought together in a deadly moment prove that being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to lifes biggest adventures and most important relationships As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life... |
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The Memory of You
Catherine West - Center Point Pub Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen years ago, Natalie lost a part of herself when her twin sister died. Will traveling back to the family winery finally put the memory to rest, or will it completely destroy her? |
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Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov - University Press of Mississippi Format: Hardcover
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This volume brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for developing... |
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter... |
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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
Alan Walker - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world;... |
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Mozart: The Man Revealed
JOHN SUCHET - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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The illustrated life-story of the world's most beloved composer, bringing vividly to life the man himself, his influences, achievements, and the glittering milieu of the Habsburg empire in eighteenth-century Europe. We think we know the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life. Austrian-born... |
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Killing for You: A Brave Soldier, a Beautiful Dancer, and a Shocking Double Murder
Keith Elliot Greenberg - St. Martin's True Crime Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Killing For You is True Crime veteran Keith Elliot Greenberg's shocking, authoritative account of a brutal double murder. A KILLER PLOT Twenty-six-year-old actor Daniel Wozniak was unemployed, facing eviction, and deep in debt for his upcoming wedding. So he devised a diabolical plan:... |
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Battle Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to V-E Day
Craig S Chapman - Regnery History Format: Hardcover
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Battle-Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to VE-Day tells the story of an American soldier's growth from a 2nd Lieutenant eager to prove his worth in battle to a skilled and resolute commander over the course of the Northern European Campaign. Craig Chapman delves... |
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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
Sheila Kohler - Penguin Books Format: Print book
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ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS"A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." - The BBC"An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." - PeopleWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister... |
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Death Need Not Be Fatal
MALACHY MCCOURT - Center Street Format: Hardcover
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Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano
ANDREA AVERY - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A poignant memoir that weaves chronic illness and classical music into a raw, inspiring tale of grace and determination. Andrea, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis that threatened not just her musical aspirations... |
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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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Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting
Lesley Stahl - Blue Rider Press Format: Paperback
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The New York Times BestsellerFrom one of the country's most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman's life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl's most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House,... |
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The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered
Benjamin Taylor - Penguin Books Format: Paperback
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A memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed. "Taylor's Hue and Cry is a vast offer of thanks and glowing triumph, his masterpiece to date." - Richard... |
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My Love Story: A Memoir
TINA TURNER - Atria Books Format: Book
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Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her career and personal life in this compelling memoir.
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Running Against the Tide: True Tales from the Stud of the Sea
Captain Lee - Gallery Books Format: Hardcover
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From the star of Bravo's hit reality show Below Deck, comes Running Against the Tide, the "Stud of the Sea's" first-ever memoir recounting his journey from landlocked Saginaw, Michigan to the high seas, where he has spent more than twenty-five years as a superyacht captain.The... |
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A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound
DONNA GASBARRE KRISTINE HYLTON - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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Today, Donna Hylton is a groundbreaking advocate for criminal justice reform--she was a featured speaker at the 2017 Women's March on Washington, and she works hand-in-hand with other influential voices such as Eve Ensler, Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow) , and Rosario Dawson to ensure... |
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Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour - Grove Press Format: Hardcover
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"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
MAXWELL KING - Abrams Press Format: Hardcover
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Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted... |
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Helena Kelly - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was.... |
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Promise me, Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
Joseph R Biden - Thorndike Press
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""Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's... |
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This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today
CHRISSY METZ - Dey Street Books Format: Hardcover
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A prescriptive and inspirational book of life lessons from the Emmy Award-nominee and breakout star of television's #1 hit show, NBC's This Is Us.Debuting in fall 2016, This Is Us quickly became America's most watched - and most talked about - network television show. Within weeks of its premier,... |
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William Howard Taft.
Lapham Lewis H.; Blum John M. - Times Books Format: Hardcover
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The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders' vision against new populist threats to American democracyWilliam Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United... |
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Fail Until You Don't: Fight Grind Repeat
BOBBY BONES - Dey Street Books Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bare Bones, host of the marquee morning program "The Bobby Bones Show," comedian and dedicated philanthropist delivers an inspirational and humorous collection of stories about his biggest misses in life and how he turned them into lessons... |
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Hip Hop Hits: The Producers Speak
Jake Brown - The TMG Firm Format: Paperback
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HIP HOP HITS: THE PRODUCERS SPEAK is the first book of its kind, featuring exclusive interviews with the most important and influential producers working in the business today, including Eric B, Easy Mo Bee, Pete Rock, Teddy Riley, Mike Dean, Boi 1da, Wyclef Jean, Frequency, Mannie Fresh,... |
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Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip
Joel Selvin - Da Capo Press Format: Hardcover
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A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed... |
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Biographic Coco
Sophie Collins - Ammonite Press Format: Hardcover
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Many people know that Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was a prolific French fashion designer and founder of the House of Chanel, who ruled over Parisian haute couture for almost six decades. What, perhaps, they don't know is that, she was taught to sew by nuns and started... |
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C Stewart - Oxford University Press, USA Format: Hardcover
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A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature,... |
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King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor
PAUL WILLETTS - Crown Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante - the king of Jazz Age con artists - who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner Format: Print book
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,... |
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The Comfort Food Diaries
Emily Nunn - Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.One life-changing night, reeling from... |
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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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Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life
Randy Travis - Thomas Nelson Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, deeply personal story of one of American music's greatest icons, a remarkable tale of the utmost heights of fame and success, the deepest lows of life's sorrows, and a miraculous return from the brink of death - told as only Randy Travis can.Beloved around the world, Randy... |
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen - Harper Format: Hardcover
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On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring... |
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Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
Rob Sheffield - Dey Street Books Format: Paperback
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An NPR Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism"This is the best book about the Beatles ever written" - MashableRob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining,... |
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Judas: How a Sister?s Testimony Brought Down a Criminal Mastermind
Astrid Holleeder - Mulholland Books Format: Hardcover
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The incredible true story of a woman who risked everything to put her brother, a murderous psychopath and one of the world's most infamous crime bosses, behind bars.Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement... |
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Inside Out: A Memoir
Demi Moore - Harper Format: Book
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Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.
For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight... |
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The Infinite View: A Guidebook for Life on Earth
Ellen Tadd - Penguin Publishing Group Format: Hardcover
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Written by internationally revered clairvoyant counselor and educator Ellen Tadd, The Infinite View is a spiritual classic in the making. People often lean towards either trusting their gut or relying on their analytical mind, but Tadd urges readers to consider a new approach... |
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Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One.
Ginger Zee - Kingswell Format: Hardcover
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ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range... |
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Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
JANET MOCK - Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world - without a road map to guide her.The journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation... |
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The Boston Strangler
Gerold Frank - Open Road Media Format: Paperback
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New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Edgar Award: The definitive account of the notorious serial killer - and the manhunt that followed his rampage. On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother's apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer... |
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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
Karen Kilgariff - Macmillan Audio Format: Hardcover
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This program is read by the authors, with Paul Giamatti, and includes sections recorded in front of a live audience. The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the number-one hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Sharing never-before-heard stories... |
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Burned: A True Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't
Edward Humes - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving... |
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Sleepless Nights and Kisses for Breakfast: Reflections on Fatherhood
MATTEO BUSSOLA - TarcherPerigee Format: Hardcover
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This #1 Italian bestseller, offering a father's observations of the everyday moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, has struck a chord with readers around the globe.Matteo Bussola is a designer and cartoonist who lives in Verona, Italy with his wife Paola; their three young daughters,... |
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The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale
James Atlas - Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz.The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage. James Atlas takes... |
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Rabbit: A Memoir
Patricia Williams - Dey Street Books Format: Paperback
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Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding LiteratureFinalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History"An absolute must-read" - Shondaland"[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" - New York Times"I know a lot of people... |
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The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis
Kathleen Benson - Lee & Low Books Format: Paperback
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This new entry in the innovative Story line of chapter-book biographies focuses on John Lewis, a leader in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a revered Congressman today.The son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired... |
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Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
TIM BAUERSCHMIDT - HarperOne Format: Hardcover
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When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height... |
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive... |
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SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening
Chloe Schwenke - Red Hen Press Format: Paperback
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SELF-ish is a narrative drawn from an international life, beginning with some early glimpses out at the world by a girl in a boy's body. Chloe Schwenke was raised as Stephen in a Marine Corps family, and was sent off at age fourteen to "man-up" at a military... |
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Gareth Russell - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political... |
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The Last Blind Date
Linda Yellin - Gallery Books; Original edition Format: Book
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A fun, charming memoir about a woman who falls in love, packs her bags, and starts over in the city that eats its young. |
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
ADRIAN OWEN - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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In this startling and thought-provoking book, which will remind readers of works by Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial, groundbreaking work with patients whose brains were previously thought vegetative or non-responsive but turn out - in up to 20 percent... |
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Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan
EILEEN RIVERS - Da Capo Press Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of three women who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with men in Afghanistan and worked with local women to restore their lives and village communitiesThey marched under the heat with 40-pound rucksacks on their backs. They fired M16s out of the windows of military vehicles,... |
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Substance: Inside New Order
Peter Hook - Dey Street Books Format: Paperback
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In this final installment of his internationally bestselling three-part memoir - including The Hacienda and Unknown Pleasures - British rocker Peter Hook focuses on the 1980s New Wave and Dance Punk scene and the rise of one of the most influential bands of the Second British Invasion:... |
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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
Julie Andrews - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria. In Home, the number one New York Times international... |
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The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty
Elizabeth L Silver - Penguin Press Format: Print book
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Set against the unexplained stroke of the author's newborn daughter, this stunning, unflinchingly honest memoir is an thought-provoking reflection on uncertainty in medicine and in life.Growing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine.... |
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
Brandon Harris - Amistad Press Format: Print book
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A young African American millennial filmmaker's funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City - a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with... |
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Manic Panic Living in Color: A Rebellious Guide to Hair Color and Life
Tish Bellomo - Black Dog & Leventhal Format: Paperback
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Reveal your inner Aurora Borealis with Manic Panic Living in Color, the audacious beauty-and-lifestyle handbook from punk rock pioneers Tish and Snooky Bellomo, founders of the iconic hair color and make-up brand.With a colorful foreword by RuPaul -- a customer/fan/friend and dye-hard... |
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TBITo Be Injured
Carol Gieg - ArchwayPublishing Format: Paperback
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Carol Gieg, a licensed clinical social worker, has always thrived on helping other people solve problems.<p> But one day - unknown to her - she'd soon be facing serious problems of her own. After dropping her husband off at work, she went on a bike ride. As someone who enjoyed... |
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The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine's Front Line
Seamus O'Mahony - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of the dying spend their last days in general hospitals and nursing homes, in the care of strangers. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are often robbed of their dignity after... |
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Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier's Story
Jon Kerstetter - Crown Format: Hardcover
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Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier,... |
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Veterans: Faces of World War II
Sasha Maslov - Princeton Architectural Press Format: Hardcover
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Ichiro Sudai trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Uli John lost an arm serving in the German army but ultimately befriended former enemy soldiers as part of a network of veterans - "people who fought... |
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Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale
Dan Pearson - St Martin'S Press Format: Print book
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As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafia. Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's mafia back to prominence in the 1990s.... |
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The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation
Matthew McGough - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect - a female detective within the LAPD's own ranks.On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband,... |
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Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope
Karamo Brown - Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio Format: Audiobook
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An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown--Queer Eye's beloved culture expert--as he shares his story for the first time, exploring how the challenges in his own life have allowed him to forever transform the lives of those in need.When Karamo Brown first auditioned... |
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Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Donna M Lucey - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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"Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance and potency -- Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous." -- Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder,... |
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The Jacksons: Legacy
The Jacksons - Black Dog & Leventhal Format: Hardcover
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The only official, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Jacksons' lives and careers, celebrating 50 years of one of the greatest acts of all time. The Jacksons: Legacy is the first official book on the the Royal Family of Pop. Unrivaled access to the family archives as well as the private... |
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Give Me My Flowers Now
Marsha Trice-Cole - Semaj Publishing, Incorporated Format: Paperback
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'Give Me My Flowers Now' is story told from the eyes and heart of a daughter who is the caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer's Disease/ Dementia. The author is reflective on the woman her mother was and who she is as a result of the disease. Cole-Trice believes that anyone... |
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Marriage During Deployment: A Memoir of a Military Marriage
Marna Ashburn - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Since combat operations began in October 2001, more than 2.1 million U.S service members have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and over half of them were married. Marriage During Deployment, a memoir about a military family during wartime deployment, offers a window into the homelife... |
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The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
G. Willow Wilson - Grove Press; Reprint edition Format: Book
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The Butterfly Mosque, journalist G. Willow Wilsons remarkable story of converting to Islam and falling in love with an Egyptian man in a volatile post911 world, was praised as an eye-opening look at a misunderstood and often polarizing faith Booklist and a tremendously heartfelt, healing... |
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My Story of a Sharecropper's Life: Wille Holliday Sr Lived in Three Centuries
Lisa Stansfield - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Format: Paperback
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Willie (Caldwell) Holliday Sr., knew what he was doing when he signed the contract for sharecropping. He was fully aware as he knew it was the closest thing to his entrepreneurship of teenage carpentry experience. He also knew of the potential hardships and struggles of getting married... |
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
PETER MAYLE - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife,... |
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Kingpin: Prisoner of the War on Drugs
Richard Stratton - Arcade Publishing Format: Hardcover
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This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants. Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish... |
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Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
BECKY AIKMAN - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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"You've always been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, having just outrun the police in a car chase and locked an officer in the trunk of his own car. "This is just the first chance you've had to express yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw... |
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Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Nell Irvin Painter - Counterpoint Format: Book
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Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school -- in her sixties -- to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode... |
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN - Random House Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers... |
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Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man
MARTIN CORONA - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost)... |
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
DANIEL MENDELSOHN - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey... |
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In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire
PETER HELLMAN - The Experiment Format: Hardcover
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True crime pairs well with fine wine in this astonishing story of a con man who rides his gift for tasting wine to the highest reaches of society - and then comes crashing downIn Vino Duplicitas marks a new, notorious legend in wine: the story of Rudy Kurniawan, a 20-something Indonesian... |
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Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
Michael Giorgione - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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The first insider account, timed to the 75th anniversary of Camp DavidCamp David is American diplomacy's secret weapon. The home of the 2015 GCC and 2012 G8 summits, the 2000 Peace Summit, and the 1978 Peace Accords, the camp has played a vital role in American history over the past century,... |
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Waging Heavy Peace
Neil Young - Blue Rider Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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This beautiful limited edition will be signed by Neil Young and repackaged in a slip case and linen cover. Only 1,500 copies will be printed, making it an essential addition to every music lover’s collection.For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil Young... |
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Muskets and Applejack: Spirits, Soldiers, and the Civil War
Mark Will-Weber - Regnery History Format: Hardcover
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"I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals."- President Abraham Lincoln, when confronted about General Ulysses Grant's excessive drinking.Blood, gunfire, and whiskey: they are the three... |
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