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Cokie: A Life Well Lived

Steven V. Roberts - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary life and legacy of legendary journalist Cokie Roberts - a trailblazer for women - remembered by her friends and family.Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls. A fixture on national television...
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It's a Long Story: My Life

Willie Nelson; David Ritz - Little Brown & Co
Format:  eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats

The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned. . . . So say the publishers about this book Ive written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it. Its a story of restlessness...
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The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

Gabriel Sherman - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRA deeply reported journey inside the secretive world of Fox News and the life of its combative, visionary founder. When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics...
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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Anthony Bourdain - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York...
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My Life in Middlemarch

Rebecca Mead - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book

A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal...
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen

Kirstin Downey - Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity...
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade

Kevin Brockmeier - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been—the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes—but someone else altogether. Over the course...
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Love, Pamela

Pamela Anderson - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

TO LIVEAND DREAMIS A WICKED DANCE.MY DREAMS OFTEN COME TRUE - A CURSE,AND A BLESSING.PAMELA ANDERSON's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was quickly launched into superstardom, becoming Playboy's favorite...
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The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Streetwise Cat

James Bowen - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover

Bob Fever has swept the globe, with A Street Cat Named Bob vaulting its way to #7 on The New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale. With rights sold to 27 countries around the globe and a top spot on the British bestseller list for more than a year, this book...
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Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community

Rachel May - Workman Pub Co
Format: Paperback

Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to play with traditions and take liberties with fabrics, patterns, colors, stitching, and the ways in which they all connect. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles,...
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