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Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
Kelley French - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head... |
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Jeannie Out of the Bottle
Barbara Eden - Crown Archetype; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magical, heartwarming memoir from one of Hollywoods most beloved icons Over the past four decades, the landmark NBC hit television series I Dream of Jeannie has delighted generations of audiences and inspired untold numbers of teenage crushes on its beautiful blond star, Barbara Eden.... |
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Searching for booker wright.
Yvette Johnson - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal... |
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Both of Us: My Life with Farrah
Ryan O'Neal - Crown Archetype; 1ST edition
Format: Audiobook
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Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Award-nominated star of Paper Moon and the classic romance Love Story. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlie's Angel, whose poster adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. One of the most storied love... |
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Command Of Honor: General Lucian Truscott's Path to Victory in World War II
H Paul Jeffers - NAL Caliber
Format: Print book
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For the first time, the inspiring true story of Lucian Truscott, the greatest combat commander of World War II.General Lucian K. Truscott was an American military giant: tough, resourceful, and devoted to the men under his command. Unlike the more flamboyant, high-ranking European field... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover
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In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story... |
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn - Audible Studios
Format: Hardcover
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An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful... |
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Made From Scratch: A Memoir
Sandra Lee - Meredith Books
Format: Hardcover
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This powerful, emotional, and astonishing story will inspire anyone who has faced adversity to overcome challenges and persevere. Sandra’s candid account of her personal journey offers a rare glimpse into the life of the woman behind the phenomenal success of Semi-Homemade. Smart,... |
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Queen Elizabeth II: A Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Album
Jane Roberts
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The forthcoming international Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II will be a historic event in every sense. Marking the sixtieth anniversary of her accession to the throne, the Diamond Jubilee places Queen Elizabeth II in the company of very few other monarchs - among them Qu |
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Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter
Melissa G. Moore - Cedar Fort, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Throughout her life, Melissa Jesperson Moore had to hide her true identity. She had pretended that life was perfect after her parents divorced and she was suddenly uprooted from everything familiar and loving. She had to be silent, and to pretend not to be disturbed or upset by her father's... |
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Leanda De Lisle - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey-sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation's destiny-are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle's new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously... |
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Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Rosemary Sullivan - Harper
Format: Print book
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Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistPEN Literary Award FinalistNew York Times Notable BookWashington Post Notable BookBoston Globe Best Book of the YearThe award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched,... |
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Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir
Mary Higgins Clark - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Clark, author of 27 bestselling novels, has shifted gears and written a memoir that speaks directly to readers. The touching collection of anecdotes begins with a Depression-era childhood in the Bronx lacking in money but rich with love. The author's mother, who told everyone, "Mary... |
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward - Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle AwardNominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardA New York Times Notable Book"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood... |
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Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists
Napoleon A. Chagnon - Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIME When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he expected to find Rousseau’s “noble savages,”... |
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God Grew Tired Of Us: A Memoir
John Bul Dau - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle—indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it's set in a Sudan shadowed by unrelenting war and ruthless violence,... |
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Losing it : and gaining my life back one pound at a time
Valerie Bertinelli - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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The actress recalls the challenges of maintaining a healthy self-image while coping with the stress of celebrity, her twenty-year marriage to rock star Eddie Van Halen, her battle with depression and weight, motherhood, and her determination to take control of her own life. |
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But Enough About You: Essays
Christopher Buckley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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An extraordinary wide-ranging collection of essays with "distinctive wordplay and quirky opinions ... Christopher Buckley is good company whether you're looking for two quick pages and a smile, or want to linger" (The New York Times Book Review) .Christopher Buckley, like... |
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All Pets Go To Heaven: The Spiritual Lives of the Animals We Love
Sylvia Browne - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Pets have a special place in our hearts and homes - but do they share our destiny after death?World-famous psychic, spiritual teacher, and New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne reveals the very special purpose our pets have on Earth - and what animals experience after death.With... |
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Michael Douglas: A Biography
Marc Eliot - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywoods most successful stars, from critically acclaimed and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become... |
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Notes Left Behind
Brooke Desserich - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"Elena has left behind a story of resilience, hope and most of all, love. We can't help but take her into our hearts, and carry the best of her into our own lives." - Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor of The Last Lecture Notes Left Behind by Brooke and Keith Desserich began as a journal... |
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Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones
Paul Trynka - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, the complete story of the enigmatic founder of the Rolling Stones and the early years of the bandBrian Jones was the golden boy of the Rolling Stones - the visionary who gave the band its name and its sound. Yet he was a haunted man, and much of his brieftime with the band,... |
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Jesus: A Biography, from a Believer
Paul Johnson - Viking Adult
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author and acclaimed historian, a powerful portrayal of the life of Jesus Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had such an influence on history as Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings have inspired discussion, arguments, even war, and yet few have ever... |
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Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter
Patricia Albers - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead.” —New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the 1950sShe was a steel heiress from the Midwest—Chicago and Lake Forest (her grandfather built Chicago’s bridges and worked for Andrew Carnegie). She was a daughter... |
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What I Know For Sure
Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want, Oprah Winfrey stands alone. Over the years, she has made history with a legendary talk show - the highest-rated program of its kind, launched her own television network, become the nation's... |
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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Fuchsia Dunlop - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
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A new memoir by the most talented and respected British food writer of her generation. Award-winning food writer Fuchsia Dunlop went to live in China as a student in 1994, and from the very beginning she vowed to eat everything she was offered, no matter how alien and bizarre it seemed.... |
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War
David Laskin - Harper; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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“The Long Way Home is a riveting remembrance of the Great War by a master writer…. Deeply compelling.” — Douglas Brinkley “Moving, revealing, and lovingly researched, this book is a must read, and a great read, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas-meaning... |
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Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Rajmohan Gandhi - University of California Press
Format: Print book
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This monumental biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the twentieth century, written by his grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of Mahatma Gandhi's remarkable life, the development of his beliefs and his political campaigns, and his complex relations... |
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Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
Claire Hoffman - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and '90s - a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers.When Claire... |
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From This Moment On
Shania Twain - Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world may know Shania Twain as many things: a music legend, a mother, and recently, a fixture in the news for her painful, public divorce and subsequent marriage to a cherished friend. But in this extraordinary autobiography, Shania reveals that she is so much more. She is Eilleen Twain,... |
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Kirstin Downey - Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity... |
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Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!
Karen Gravano - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal. Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared... |
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My Story
Elizabeth Smart - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crimeOn June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken... |
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Shockaholic
Carrie Fisher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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This memoir from the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking gives you an intimate, gossip-filled look at what it's like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty.Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that locked... |
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Debby Applegate - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century’s bestselling... |
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Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
Isabel Gillies - Scribner / S2e Book Publishing Co.; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor two glorious toddlers a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, the life Isabel had made crumbled.... |
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A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
Alice Kessler-Harris - Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman... |
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Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian
Bernard Lewis - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary lifeAfter September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went Wrong? and later Crisis of Islam to become... |
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The Fortress: A Love Story
Danielle Trussoni - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one womans journey to the other side... |
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Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters
Jeffrey Zaslow - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Gripping and genuinely heartwarming." - New York Daily News The inspirational New York Times bestselling autobiography of a true American hero, in Highest Duty Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger - the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's... |
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Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
Kenneth Turan - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan takes you behind the scenes at the Public Theater and tells the amazing story of how Joe Papp made American theatrical and cultural history.Free for All is the irresistible oral history of the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public... |
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Sarah Perry - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal.... |
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Life Is Short
Jennifer Arnold MD - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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From the beloved stars of TLC's The Little Couple comes an uplifting and moving behind-the-scenes account of how the pair met, fell in love, and overcame huge obstacles to become successful professionals and parents.Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein have inspired millions as stars of TLC's... |
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Queen's Jewels: The Personal Collection of Elizabeth II
Leslie Field - Harry N Abrams; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive account of the priceless jewels owned by Queen Elizabeth II, published with the full cooperation of Buckingham Palace. First serial to Life. 285 illustrations, 85 in full color. |
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Practice to Deceive
Ann Rule - Pocket Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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From “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule comes the New York Times bestselling mystery novel of drama, greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an eerie island in the Pacific Northwest. Nestled in Puget Sound and accessible only by ferry, Whidbey Island... |
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Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts out There?
Whoopi Goldberg - Hachette Books
Format: Book
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Have you noticed people aren't as polite as they once were or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle? Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. Just look and you'll see: People yak on cell... |
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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir
Jennifer Coburn - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late.... |
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Columbus: The Four Voyages
Laurence Bergreen - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Magellan biography Over the Edge of the World a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer Christopher Columbuss voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China and his unexpected landfall in the Americas is a watershed event in world... |
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose voices moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George... |
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Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
Kenneth E. Bailey - IVP Academic
Format: Paperback
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Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women, and especially Jesus' parables.... |
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable,... |
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Mark Twain's Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years
Laura Skandera Trombley - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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An enduring mystery in Mark Twain’s life concerns the events of his last decade, from 1900 to 1910. Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever determined exactly what took place during those final years after the death of Twain’s wife of thirty-four years and how those... |
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George W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 43rd President, 2001-2009
James Mann - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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The controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the war on terrorGeorge W. Bush stirred powerful feelings on both sides of the aisle. Republicans viewed him as a resolute leader who guided America through the September 11 attacks and retaliated... |
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire,... |
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Kind Is the New Classy: The Power of Living Graciously
Candace Cameron Bure - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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"The world has a way of defining you if you don't know who you are before you get out there." - Candace Cameron BureAs a woman in today's world, you know what it's like to feel pressure on all sides from clashing cultural expectations. How can you stay true to who God has uniquely... |
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Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
Phil Robertson - Howard Books; Nineteenth Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business.LIVING THE DREAM Duck calls - though the source of his livelihood - are not what makes... |
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Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Chrissie Hynde - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure. Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness... |
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Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America
Commodity Futures Trading Commission - Commodity Futures Trading Commission; First edition
Format: Paperback
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Tells true stories of crime and punishment in a readable style that can inform and educate anyone who wants to find out how to identify and avoid becoming entangled in an investment fraud. |
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
GABRIELLE UNION - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,... |
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Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
Evan Thomas - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Evan Thomass startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering... |
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Beethoven: The Man Revealed
John Suchet - Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable... |
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
Adam Gopnik - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York,... |
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Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
Charles Bracelen Flood - Da Capo Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial ruin.As Grant continued his work, suffering increasing pain,... |
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T. J. Stiles - Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping... |
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Psychedelic Bubble Gum: Boyce & Hart, The Monkees, and Turning Mayhem into Miracles
Bobby Hart - Select Books (NY)
Format: Hardcover
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From the man who wrote the songs that outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1967-1968, comes the story of the first decades of his life in Hollywood and New York. Immerse yourself in Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominated songwriter Bobby Hart's world as he shares... |
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No Excuses: Growing Up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams
Marcus Brotherton - Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman Jr. - the first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL - tells his inspirational journey of persevering through every obstacle, remaining dedicated to the hard work and a no-excuses attitude that ultimately earned him a Super Bowl... |
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The Chicken Who Saved Us: The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful
Kristin Jarvis Adams - Behler Publications
Format: Paperback
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The true story of an autistic boy with a body under siege by mysterious illness, and the chicken who saved his life."Heartbreakingly beautiful - the gift of the human animal bond." - Temple Grandin, Author, researcher, consultant and world-renowned autism spokespersonEight-year-old... |
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Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon - Perigee Trade
Format: Paperback
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Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcées, actresses, and outlaws have created a ruckus during their lifetimes-turning heads while making waves. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk... |
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Rat Girl: A Memoir
Kristin Hersh - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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The founder of a cult rock band shares her outrageous tale of growing up much faster than planned. In 1985, Kristin Hersh was just starting to find her place in the world. After leaving home at the age of fifteen, the precocious child of unconventional hippies had enrolled in college while... |
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Anya Von Bremzen - Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment... |
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Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Cat Cora - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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Remarkably candid, compulsively readable, renowned chef Cat Cora's no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage, and the meals that have shaped her memories.Before she became a celebrated chef, Cathy Cora was just a girl from Jackson, Mississippi, where... |
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The Girl from Kathmandu: Twelve Dead Men and a Woman's Quest for Justice
Cam Simpson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking story of the massacre of a group of Nepalese men working as Defense contractors for the United States Government during the Iraq War, and the widow who dedicated her life to finding justice for her husband and the other victims - a riveting tale of courageous heroes, corporate... |
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Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress
Lee Woodruff - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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“You can tell a woman’s whole life story from the possessions in her jewelry box. Like reading a palm, you can trace the points where her life has intersected with memorable events, people, places, and loves. You can speculate on the essence of her personality, all from what... |
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Voyager: Travel Writings
Russell Banks - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half... |
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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Allen Kurzweil - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry,... |
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Lessons from the Mountain: What I Learned from Erin Walton
Mary McDonough - Kensington Publishing Corporation; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this strikingly honest book McDonough shares the story of her overnight transformation from a normal kid in a working class Irish Catholic family to a Hollywood child star She reveals intimate memories of life in and around that idyllic Virginia farmhouse really a Warner Brothers back... |
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The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart
Mary S Lovell - St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as Americas most famous female aviator. Her sense of daring and determination, rare for women of her time, brought her insurmountable fame from the day she became the first... |
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Brenda Wineapple - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between Americas most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public. As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth... |
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The Story: A Reporter's Journey
Judith Miller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Star reporter for the New York Times, the world's most powerful newspaper; foreign correspondent in some of the most dangerous fields; Pulitzer winner; longest jailed correspondent for protecting her sources, Judith Miller is highly respected and controversial. In this memoir, she turns... |
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Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy
Jamie Smith - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The first ever, first-person story of Americas private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors,... |
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
Janice P. Nimura - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall) ; "beautifully crafted . . . subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff) .In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help... |
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All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane
Amy Smith - Sourcebooks; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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"An illuminating insight...fascinating."—Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary "A journey through both a physical landscape and the geography of the human heart and mind...delightfully entertaining and often deeply moving, this book reminds us that... |
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The Pacific
Hugh Ambrose - NAL; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five... |
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Victoria & Albert
John Goldsmith - A & E Television Network
Format: Print book
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"The world remembers Queen Victoria as a staid and stately dowager in black, but Victoria and Albert shows the other side of the monarch who gave her name to an era-- the emotional young queen whose reign was shaped by her passionate love for her German-born husband, Prince Albert."--Container. |
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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling... |
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My Teenage Dream Ended
Farrah Abraham - MTV Press
Format: Hardcover
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"I got off the phone and I tried to calm down, but my mind was racing. Derek was the father of the baby I was carrying inside me. He was my first love, my only true love. We hadn't spoken in more than two months, but crazily I had still hoped we had a future together - me, him,... |
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No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Jay Dobyns - Tantor Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols-these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns... |
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A None's Story: Searching for Meaning Inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam
Corinna Nicolaou - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book
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The rising population known as "nones" for its members' lack of religious affiliation is changing American society, politics, and culture. Many nones believe in God and even visit places of worship, but they do not identify with a specific faith or belong to a spiritual community.... |
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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Michael J. Fox - Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around... |
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Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter
Antonia Fraser - Anchor
Format: Hardcover
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A moving testament to one of the literary worlds most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser. . In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally... |
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Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
James S. Hirsch - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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On February 18th, 2010 Mr. Mays signed 100 copies for his Charity, The Say Hey Foundation. The signing took place at a local sporting goods store. You will receive the retail store receipt, copies of 2 newspaper articles announcing the signing and The Letter of Evaluation. |
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Saul Steinberg: A Biography
Deirdre Bair - Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists. The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City,... |
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Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Barry Werth - Random House
Format: Print book
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In Banquet at Delmonico's, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to America in the crucial years... |
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And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border
David Neiwert - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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It began with a frantic 911 call from a woman in a dusty Arizona border town. A gang claiming to be affiliated with the Border Patrol had shot her husband and daughter. It was initially assumed that the murders were products of border drug wars ravaging the Southwest until the leader of one of the more... |
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Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist
Donald P. Ryan - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From the known to the unknown . . . With its spectacular temples, tombs, monuments, and mummies, as well as esoteric metaphysics, legendary historical characters, and connections to the Bible, ancient Egypt has enticed the human imagination for centuries. This search for understanding... |
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Blue Nights
Joan Didion - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts... |
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Deconstructing Sammy: Music, Money, Madness, and the Mob
Matt Birkbeck - Amistad
Format: Print book
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Equal parts cultural history, celebrity biography, and brilliant investigative journalism, Deconstructing Sammy by Matt Birkbeck is a behind-the-scenes look at the disastrous fall of one of the brightest stars of Hollywood and Las Vegas: Sammy Davis, Jr. A member of the infamous Rat Pack,... |
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Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith
Joe Perry - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and rolls greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in. Slash Rocking Joe Perry rocks again! Jimmy Page Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry was a boy growing... |
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day Youll Be Dead
David Shields - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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New York Times bestseller Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, TimeOut Chicago Chosen by Artforum as one of the 25 best books of the year Best Reads of 2008, Salon Chosen as one of the twenty best nonfiction books of 2008, Seattle Times Chosen by Amazon as one of its Significant Seven for February... |
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Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
Sidney Poitier - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering... |
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E. E. Cummings: A Life
Susan Cheever - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of American Bloomsbury, Louisa May Alcott, and Home Before Dark, a major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright considered to be one of America's preeminent twentieth-century poets. At the time of his death in 1962, at age sixty-eight,... |
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Victoria: A Life
A. N. Wilson - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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PENJacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015 LONGLISTA shimmering and rather wonderful biography. --The Guardian UK When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe... |
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The Comfort Food Diaries
Emily Nunn - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.One life-changing night, reeling from... |
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Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
Chesley B Sullenberger - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book
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Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks - the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger - the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving... |
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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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Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years
Michael Shelden - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attended a meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrival of the famous author caused the usual stirbut then Twain took off his overcoat to reveal a snow-white tailored suit and scandalized the room. His shocking outfit... |
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The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln
Sidney Blumenthal - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius - from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave,"... |
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My Journey with Farrah: A Story of Life, Love, and Friendship
Alana Stewart - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Alana Stewart and Farrah Fawcett went through it all together. Friends for thirty years, they were an essential part of each other's lives since first meeting at a dinner party in the 1970s. During that time, they supported each other through the trials of Hollywood life while also... |
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Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
Katherine Ramsland PhD - ForeEdge
Format: Hardcover
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In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself "B.T.K."... |
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Cloris: My Autobiography
Cloris Leachman - Kensington Publishing Corporation; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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She received two Emmy Awards as the irrepressible Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moor Show. . .she won an Oscar for her supporting role as a frustrated housewife in The Last Picture Show. . .she delighted audiences with her deliciously villainous turns as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein and Nurse... |
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Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
Caroline Moorehead - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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"[A] remarkable biography ... .Moorehead deftly wields periods detail ... to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics." - Vogue From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle... |
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Washington: The Indispensable Man: The Illustrated Edition
James Thomas Flexner - Sterling Signature; Ill edition
Format: Hardcover
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Historian James Thomas Flexner's multi-award-winning and magisterial four-volume biography of George Washington moved beyond what the author termed “the marble image” to reveal the man behind the icon. This updated illustrated edition--based on the bestselling 1974 one-volume... |
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader
Robert Middlekauff - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind... |
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
Rick Bragg - Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerThe greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis - and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.A monumental figure on the American... |
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Things I've Been Silent About Reprint edition
Azar Nafisi - Random House
Format: Print book
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I started making a list in my diary entitled "Things I Have Been Silent About." Under it I wrote: "Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran." I wrote about repressive laws and executions,... |
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Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory
Edward G. Lengel - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Lengels Washington is the archetypal American soldieran amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the job....Outstanding. Publishers Weekly starred review on The Glorious StruggleEditor-in-Chief of the Washington Papers Project Edward G. Lengel... |
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Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir
Margaux Fragoso - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is 51. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a childs paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother,... |
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In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
Denis Belliveau - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis ODonnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With Polos book, The Travels... |
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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story... |
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Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
Leah Vincent - Nan A. Talese
Format: Book
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In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox... |
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Shakespeares Wife
Germaine Greer - Harper Perennial
Format: Hardcover
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Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of Englands greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeares Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground, reclaiming this much maligned figure from generations of scholarly neglect and misogyny.... |
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By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir
Joe Blair - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The anticipated debut of an original American voice, By the Iowa Sea is a wrenching, unsentimental account of the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town life in the Midwest.After his first cross-country motorcycle trip, Joe Blair believed he had discovered his true... |
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Barry Strauss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The exciting, dramatic story of one of history's most famous events - the death of Julius Caesar - now placed in full context of Rome's civil wars by eminent historian Barry Strauss.Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history.... |
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Monet
Robert Gordon - Abrams
Format: Book
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8 pound book, No damage, Several fold out pages, many full page illustrations. Check price of postage prior to ordering. |
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Being Jazz: My Life as a
Jazz Jennings - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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"Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest champions of transgender equality." - O, The Oprah Magazine "A role model for teens everywhere." - Seventeen.com on Jazz Jennings Teen activist and trailblazer Jazz Jennings - named one of "The 25 Most Influential Teens"... |
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Shirley Jones: A Memoir
Shirley Jones - Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Dont miss the frank and heartwarming New York Times bestselling memoir by the Oscar-winning actress and beloved Partridge Family icon, Shirley Jones. In this memoir you are going to meet the real flesh-and-blood Shirley Jones, not just the movie star or Mrs. Partridge. So begins Shirley... |
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War Reporting for Cowards
Chris Ayres - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Chris Ayres is a small-town boy, a hypochondriac, and a neat freak with an anxiety disorder. Not exactly the picture of a war correspondent. But when his boss asks him if he would like to go to Iraq, he doesnt have the guts to say no.After signing a 1 million life-insurance policy, studying... |
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The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff - Bancroft Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rosemary (Rosie) Kennedy was born in 1918, the first daughter of a wealthy Bostonian couple who later would become known as the patriarch and matriarch of America's most famous and celebrated family. Elizabeth Koehler was born in 1957, the first and only child of a struggling Wisconsin... |
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The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
RJ Smith - Gotham
Format: Paperback
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The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our time Playing 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling... |
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Betsy Lerner - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast... |
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
Carolyn Murnick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended by NPR, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, New York Post, and Bustle A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist - two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered... |
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Beyond the Body Farm LP
Bill Bass - HarperLuxe; Lgr edition
Format: Large Print]
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There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres of land on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research... |
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Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself
Julie Klam - Riverhead Hardcover; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling memoirist shows how saving a dog can sometimes help you save yourself. Julie Klam writes about dogs with a rollicking wit and a radiating warmth-as no other writer can. In her bestselling memoir You Had Me at Woof, she shared the secrets of happiness she learned... |
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days.... |
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My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux
Fanny Kelly - Skyhorse Publishing, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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Fanny Kelly's memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy toward her captors, but the introduction... |
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Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
Norman Ollestad - Ecco
Format: Print book
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Dad Said Ollestad, we can do it all. . . . Why do you make me do this? Because it's beautiful when it all comes together. I don't think it's ever beautiful. One day. Never. We'll see, my father said. Vamanos. From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust... |
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I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia
Su Meck - Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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The courageous memoir of a woman who was robbed of all her memories by a traumatic brain injury - and her more than twenty-five-year struggle to reclaim her life: "[A tale] of triumph in the search for identity" (The New York Times Book Review) .In 1988, Su Meck was twenty-two... |
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Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
Frank McLynn - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols, describes Temujin's rise from boyhood outcast to becoming Genghis Khan, and provides the most accurate and absorbing... |
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On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Jen Lin-Liu - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.Feasting her way through an Italian honeymoon, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked... |
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Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
Meredith Baxter - Crown Archetype; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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ldquoI remember Sarah asking me when Irsquod just begun therapy with her what I looked for in a man After a few moments of silent tense deliberation I had it lsquoHairrsquo I blurted lsquoHe has to have hairrsquordquoMeredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress most well-known... |
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The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life
Ann Vanderhoof - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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While sailing around the Caribbean, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband Steve track wild oregano-eating goats in the cactus-covered hills of the Dominican Republic, gather nutmegs on an old estate in Grenada, make searing-hot pepper sauce in a Trinidadian kitchen, cram for a chocolate-tasting... |
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The Vanishing Velzquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
Laura Cumming - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story - part art history and part mystery - of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial... |
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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
Rob Sheffield - Dutton Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: 2010 07 Pages: 274 in Publisher: penguin Growing up in the eighties. you were surrounded by mysteries These were the years of MTV and John Hughes movies. the era of big dreams and bigger shoulder pads Like the any teenage geek. Rob Sheffield spent the decade... |
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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Janet Malcolm - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas. "Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Toklass legendary 40-year partnership with the brilliant... |
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Pigs Can't Swim: A Memoir (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
Helen Peppe - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family. With everything happening on Helen Peppe's backwoods Maine farm, life was wild--and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral... |
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The Folded Clock: A Diary
Heidi Julavits - Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi JulavitsLike many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer)... |
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