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The Comfort Book
Matt Haig · Penguin Life
Format: Hardcover
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Years ago, Matt Haig began writing notes to his future self. These notes were meant as gifts to his future self: offerings of hope to help himself through anything from the darkest periods of his life to a not-so-great day. As time went on, he added new thoughts and stories, and he turned... |
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: people around... |
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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
Ann Hagedorn
Format: Hardcover
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George Koval was born in Iowa. In 1932, his parents, Russian Jews who had emigrated because of anti-Semitism, decided to return home to live out their socialist ideals. George, who was as committed to socialism as they were, went with them. It was there that he was recruited by the Soviet... |
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First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung
Gary Ginsberg · Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents. |
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
Dean Jobb · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals," Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. "He has nerve and he has knowledge." In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United... |
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Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
Danny Trejo · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. He's been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, he's a hero beloved by recovery communities and obsessed fans... |
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The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover
Paul Letersky · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The 1960s and 1970s were arguably among America's most turbulent post-Civil War decades. While the Vietnam War continued seemingly without end, protests and riots ravaged most cities, the Kennedys and MLK were assassinated, and corruption found its way to the highest levels of politics,... |
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