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The Minister's Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Loneliness, Forgiveness, and More

Karen Stiller - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover

She never expected to be a minister's wife. And the life she discovered was more challenging -- and more beautiful -- than she could have anticipated.We all wrestle with tough questions about life and faith, and Karen Stiller has learned that answers don't come any easier when you're...
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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the OligarchsA True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder

Ben Mezrich - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House (sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry,...
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East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"

Philippe Sands - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book

In 2010, Philippe Sands was invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University in Ukraine, which he accepted with the intent of learning about the extraordinary city that was home to his maternal grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century...
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The Story Cure: A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir

Dinty W. Moore - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

A collection of cures for writer's block, plotting and characterization issues, and other ailments writers face when completing a novel or memoir, prescribed by the director of creative writing at Ohio University.People want to write the book they know is inside of them, but they run into...
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Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century

Philip McFarland - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In Mark Twain and the Colonel, Philip McFarland tells the story of the rich years of American history between 1890 and 1910 through the fully engaged involvement of two of its most vital participants. The narrative unfolds in six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the United...
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The Girl and the Bombardier: A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France

Susan Tate Ankeny - Diversion Books
Format: Paperback

Susan Tate Ankeny was sorting through the belongings of her late father -- a World War II bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944 -- when she found two boxes. One contained her dad's Air Force uniform, and the other an unfinished memoir, stacks...
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In the Darkroom

Susan Faludi - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

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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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World

Greg King - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War IIn the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished...
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