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Before Your Dog Can Eat Your Homework, First You Have to DoIt: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog to a Young Boy

John O'Hurley - Hudson Street Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The popular actor and New York Times bestselling author returns with a second charming, hilarious book about the enduring wisdom of dogs. John O'Hurley has always had a dog by his side—as a boy growing up in New England, and now as a husband, father, actor, television show host,...
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Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road

Willie Nelson - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville,...
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I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains

Chuck Klosterman - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodnessbut as an adult, he found himself unconsciously aligning with their enemies. This was not because he necessarily liked what they were doing it was because they were doing...
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Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

Gretchen Rubin - Crown
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses.. "An inspiring and practical guide to living in the moment." - Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling...
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Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley - Pegasus Crime
Format: Hardcover

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley."Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary...
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Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience

Anuradha Bhagwati - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A raw, unflinching memoir by a former US Marine Captain chronicling her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to radical activist effecting historic policy reform.After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career...
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Golem Girl: A Memoir

Riva Lehrer - One World
Format: Hardcover

What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? Can we envision a world that sees impossible creatures?In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive....
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