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This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- and Me
Marisa Meltzer - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of a cross-generational, beyond-the-grave and beyond-the-scale friendship that led to the first breakthrough Marisa Meltzer ever had in her quest for self-improvement.Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of 5. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California,... |
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The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided
Alexander Larman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler -- and each other.. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared... |
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The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Kushanava Choudhury - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful, entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a new literary voice.Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta.When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway... |
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Jerry Mitchell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases - decades after they had gotten away with murder.On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings,... |
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My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir
Vanessa Schneider - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A spare, heartbreaking memoir and tribute to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulted to fame in the controversial film Last Tango in Paris - only to live the rest of her life plagued by scandal - as told from the perspective of her adoring younger cousin.. The late French... |
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The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
Laura Thompson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist... |
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Making a Scene
Constance Wu - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From actor Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays.Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. "Good girls don't make scenes," people warned her. And while she spent most... |
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Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
ELIZABETH A SMART - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, My Story -- about being heldin captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive -- with a powerful and inspiringbook about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one's... |
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From Whence We Came: A History of the African American Kinslers
White Ed.D., Cynthia P. - Independently published
Format: Paperback
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The questions of my children concerning who we are as a family, where we came from and who in our family was of note were my impetus for beginning what has become a consuming passion for discovering the genealogical roots of our Kinsler family. I had no idea where this initial curiosity... |
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Roman Year: A Memoir
André Aciman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.. In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though... |
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