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Yes Please
Amy Poehler - Dey Street
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They... |
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Flyover Lives: A Memoir
Diane Johnson - Viking Adult
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"Smart . . . perceptive . . . Flyover Lives is a memoir of the Midwest sure to charm readers." - Maureen Corrigan, NPRFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape... |
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Frommer's EasyGuide to Amsterdam, Brussels and Bruges
Sasha Heseltine - FrommerMedia
Format: Print book
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Arthur Frommers Easy Guides are designed to respond to travel decisions, and large numbers of travelers decide to follow a visit to Amsterdam with excursions to Brussels and Bruges. Together, the three cities provide a fascinating insight into both contemporary and ancient Europe. The modern... |
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Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home of Love and Loss
Ron McCrea - Wisconsin Historical Society Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal... |
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Yes Please
Amy Poehler - It Books
Format: Print book
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Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find... |
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Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man
Robert Christgau - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of our great essayists and journaliststhe Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgautakes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art.Lifelong... |
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Dancing with Myself
Billy Idol - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, Ive put it all down, every bit from the heart.Im going out on a limb here, so watch my back. Billy Idol An early... |
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Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest
Cyrus Copeland - Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A spy story, a mystery, a father-son heartbreaker: Cyrus Copeland seeks the truth about his father, an American executive arrested in Iran for spying at the time of the 1979 hostage crisis, then put on trial for his life in a Revolutionary Court.As a young boy living in Tehran in 1979,... |
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Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Lawrence Goldstone - Ballantine Books,
Format: Print book
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From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation. The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss,... |
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
Taya Kyle - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband... |
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When the Balls Drop
Brad Garrett - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A refreshingly candid and wickedly funny look at life's second half from Everybody Loves Raymond TV sitcom star and three-time Emmy Award-winning comic Brad Garrett.In this no-holds-barred book of comedic and personal essays, Brad Garrett divulges his hilarious - and irreverently honest... |
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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Peter Finn - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit... |
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAt twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience... |
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I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia
Su Meck - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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What would you do if you lost your past? In 1988 Su Meck was twenty-two and married with two children when a ceiling fan in her kitchen fell and struck her on the head, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury that erased all her memories of her life up to that point. Although her body... |
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Eminent Hipsters
Donald Fagen - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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A witty revealing sharply written work of memoir and criticism by the cofounder of Steely DanMusician and songwriter Donald Fagen presents a group of vivid set pieces in his entertaining debut as an author from portraits of the cultural figures and currents that shaped him as a youth to an account... |
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Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
Paula Byrne - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle (May 2014) starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode - a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society... |
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The Fast Metabolism Diet: Eat More Food and Lose More Weight
Haylie Pomroy - Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Haylie Pomroy has helped countless clients lose up to 20 pounds in just 4 weeks -all through the fat-burning power of food. Hailed as "the metabolism whisperer," Haylie reminds us that food is not the enemy, it's the rehab needed to rev-up your sluggish, broken-down metabolism... |
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There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me
Brooke Shields - Dutton Adult
Format: Print book
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Actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir. Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom,... |
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All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found
Philip Connors - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness.In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells... |
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Communion Town: A City in Ten Chapters
Sam Thompson - Bloomsbury USA; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Each of us conjures our own city, one of many incarnations; a place throbbing with so many layers, meanings, and hidden corners cannot be the same for any two citizens. Communion Town calls to mind David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and China Miéville's... |
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It's a Long Story: My Life
Willie Nelson - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson "Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've 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. It's a story... |
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Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
Glennon Melton - Scribner
Format: Print book
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For years Glennon Doyle Melton built a wall between herself and others, hiding inside a bunker of secrets and shame. But one day everything changed: Glennon woke up to life, committing herself to living out loud and giving language to our universal (yet often secret) experiences. She became... |
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I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir
Kevin Sessums - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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On his 53rd birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspects but, Kevin knew that his rapidly... |
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Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon
David Landau - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the former editor in chief of Haaretz, the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most dramatic and imposing Israeli political and military leader of the last forty years. The life of Ariel Sharon spans much of modern Israel's history. A commander in the Israeli... |
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Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story
Mac McClelland - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Irritable Hearts striking candor will win McClelland the empathy she deserves." - The New York Times Book Review"I had nightmares, flashbacks. I dissociated... Changes in self-perception and hallucinations-those are some of my other symptoms. You are poison, I chanted silently... |
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My Two Italies
Joseph Luzzi - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this Bel Paese, Beautiful Land, where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of Michelangelo to The SopranosThe child of Italian immigrants... |
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Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education
Morris Dickstein - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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A renowned cultural critic tells his own deeply engaging story of growing up in the turbulent American culture of the postwar decades.At once a coming-of-age story, an intellectual autobiography, and vivid cultural history, Why Not Say What Happened is an eloquent, gripping account of an intellectual... |
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The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
Graeme Smith - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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With a new foreword by the author, The Dogs are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a respected and fearless former foreign correspondent who has won multiple awards for his journalism (including an Emmy... |
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I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man
Maz Jobrani - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious and moving memoir of growing up Iranian in America, and the quest to make it in Hollywood without having to wear a turban, tote a bomb, or get kicked in the face by Chuck Norris. When he first started out in show business, Maz Jobrani endured suggestions that he spice up his stand-up... |
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Hands and Heart: Stories of General Surgery
Michael DeHaan - River Sanctuary Publishing
Format: Print book
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Hands and Heart is a collection of sometimes extraordinary, often heartwarming stories of dedication, heroism, stress, exhaustion, joy, and occasional defeat. The book takes you along on a journey of everyday life as viewed through the eyes of a general surgeon: As I entered, I could hear... |
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Thirty years after women became percent of the college graduates in the United States men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry This means that womenrsquos voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives In Lean In Sheryl... |
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Screening Room: Family Pictures
Alan Lightman - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein's Dreams, here is a stunning, lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s that includes the early days of the movies and a powerful grandfather whose ghost remains an ever-present force in the lives of his descendants.... |
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
Artemis Cooper - New York Review Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Patrick Leigh Fermor’s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience... |
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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move... |
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Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Tom Doyle - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock iconthe only McCartney biography in decades based on firsthand interviews with the ex-Beatle himself. As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda by his side.... |
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41: A Portrait of My Father
George W. Bush - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Hardcover
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George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President... |
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote... |
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this... |
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Laura Ingalls Wilder - South Dakota Historical Society Press; annotated edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Follow the real Laura Ingalls and her family as they make their way west and discover that truth is as remarkable as fiction. Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder s never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Some of her experiences... |
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The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Louise Penny - Minotaur Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Happily retired in the village of Three Pines Armand Gamache former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sxfbretxe du Quxebec has found a peace hed only imagined possible On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book The Balm in Gilead in his large hands xThere is a balm... |
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Henry Marsh - Thomas Dunne Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant New York Times best seller!Riveting. ... [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frightening understanding of his vocation. - The New York TimesWinner of the PEN Ackerley PrizeShortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa... |
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A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope
Tom Brokaw - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change - a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life. Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate life, with a strong marriage... |
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Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Anita Moorjani - Hay House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her bodyoverwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her systembegan shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where... |
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, and more. "A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue" (Associated... |
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And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side
Dana Perino - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerFrom her years as the presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News' The Five, Dana Perino reveals the lessons she's learned that have guided her through life, kept her level-headed,... |
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The Wright Brothers
David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown... |
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