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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
Charles Johnson - Scribner
Format: Print book
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From Charles Johnson - a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America's preeminent scholars on literature and race - comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing.An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist,... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir
Wendy Davis - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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Wendy Davis has had her share of tough fights. Raised by a single mother with a ninth-grade education, Davis began working after school at age fourteen to contribute to the family finances. By the time she was nineteen, she was living in a trailer park with a baby daughter and holding down... |
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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
Christopher Dickey - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a nation.When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up the post of British consul in 1853, he was young and full of ambition, but even... |
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Dont Give Up, Dont Give in: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
Louis Zamperini - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestsellerMore than 100,000 copies in printCompleted just two days before Louis Zamperinis death at age ninety-seven, Dont Give Up, Dont Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from "one of the most incredible American lives of the past century"... |
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Watch Me: A Memoir
Anjelica Huston - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Following her extraordinary Vanity Fair, evocative The New York Times, magically beautiful The Boston Globe, gorgeously written O, The Oprah Magazine coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom,... |
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Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
Peter Ackroyd - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends: perfect for readers who want to know more about the iconic star but who don't want to commit to a lengthy work.He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces,... |
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Profiles in Christian Courage: Extraordinary Inspiration for Everyday Life
Kerry Walters - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book
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Everyday life requires courage. From physical challenges to moral and spiritual ones, Profiles in Christian Courage tells the stories of inspiring figures whose lives can encourage us in our own struggles. In twenty reader-friendly chapters, Kerry Walters explores the meaning and scope... |
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Jesus: A Pilgrimage
James Martin - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2015 CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD."James Martins riveting new meditation on Jesus is one of the best books Ive read in years - on any subject." - Mary Karr, author of LitJames Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller and New York Times... |
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Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
Douglas Mastriano - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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Alvin C. York 18871964devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War Iis one of Americas most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Coopers Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture... |
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Letters from My Father's Murderer: A Journey of Forgiveness
Laurie Coombs - Kregel Publications
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary true story of grace, mercy, and the redemptive power of God When her father was murdered, Laurie Coombs and her family sought justice -- and found it. Yet, despite the swift punishment of the killer, Laurie found herself increasingly full of pain, bitterness, and anger... |
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
Eric Jager - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
Ron Miscavige - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. Ron Miscavige's personal, heartfelt story is a riveting... |
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A Fine Romance
Candice Bergen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the follow-up to Knock Wood - her bestselling "engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecating autobiography" (The New York Times) - Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling... |
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Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back
Elisha Cooper - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children s books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment,... |
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Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America
Jonathan Darman - Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground. In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these... |
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Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
Kayla Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives.Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave,... |
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The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
Jonathan Kozol - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Audiobook
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National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders... |
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Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony
Andrew Bloomfield - New World Library
Format: Paperback
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When aspiring screenwriter Andrew Bloomfield moved into a bungalow in Southern California he soon discovered that he shared the property with a large colony of feral cats - untamed, uninterested in human touch, not purring pets in waiting. But after a midnight attack by predators that... |
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Issa Rae - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black... |
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A Life of Lies and Spies: Tales of a CIA Covert Ops Polygraph Interrogator
Alan B. Trabue - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Alan Trabue chose a bizarre, dangerous way to make a living. In A Life of Lies and Spies, Trabue exposes the often perilous world of polygraphing foreign spies in support of CIA espionage programs. He recounts his incredible, true-life globe-trotting adventures, from his induction in the CIA in 1971... |
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Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
David Axelrod - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review"A stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years."A New York Times BestsellerDavid Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young journalist investigating city corruption, a campaign consultant guiding underdog candidates against... |
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The Dean's Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality
Angie Klink - Purdue University Press
Format: Book
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Like pearls threaded one-by-one to form a necklace, five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in America's heartland during the 1930s to 1990s. Individually, each became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. Collectively, they wove a sisterhood... |
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Everybody's Got Something
Robin Roberts - Grand Central Publishing
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"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's... |
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How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
Daniel O'Brien - Three Rivers Press
Format: Paperback
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Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea. As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers... |
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Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
Michelle Stevens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist - an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks... |
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
Anne Sebba - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949 These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs... |
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How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
Jim Grimsley - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of separate schools were... |
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You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,... |
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Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes
Elizabeth Bard - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the world's... |
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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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Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner
Franny Moyle - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting... |
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Reagan: The Life
H W Brands - Doubleday, 2015.
Format: eBook
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From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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The Removers: A Memoir
Andrew Meredith - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A dark, poignant, and emotionally brave coming-of-age memoir: the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.For almost twenty years I mistook my father's downfall as my own. But it wasn't. It was not my sister's either, nor my mother's.... |
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The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers
Terry McDonell - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the legendary editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur: a memoir about writers, writing, editing--and the fast-paced, high-stakes life in the publishing business. Over the last four decades, Terry McDonell has been at the helm of some of the most influential beacons of American... |
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Rules for Others to Live By: Comments and Self-Contradictions
Richard Greenberg - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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David Sedaris meets Garrison Keillor in this hysterically funny and thoughtful collection of original essays by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, who shares anecdotes and observations gathered from a lifetime of perfecting Rules for Others to Live By. Between worrying about... |
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Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the ConfederacyHistory has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations.... |
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The Negotiator: A Memoir
George Mitchell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Compelling, poignant, enlightening stories from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about growing up in Maine, his years in the Senate, working to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and what hes learned about the art of negotiation during every stage of his life.... |
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Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic
Mark Blake - Backbeat Books
Format: Print book
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(Book) . Freddie Mercury was one of rock's most dazzling front men. When he died in 1991, the music world lost one of its most flamboyant characters, as well as a supremely talented writer and vocalist. Best known as the lead singer of Queen, his amazing four-octave voice was a distinctive... |
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How to Make White People Laugh
Negin Farsad - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world, one joke at a time. In HOW TO MAKE WHITE PEOPLE LAUGH, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "Other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. |
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Never Have I Ever: My Life
Katie Heaney - Grand Central
Format: Paperback
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"I've been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not one person with whom I regularly hung out and kissed on the face."So begins Katie Heaney's memoir of her years spent looking for love, but never quite finding it. By age 25, equipped... |
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Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Anita Anand - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included... |
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Gaiutra Bahadur - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a "coolie"--- the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many of the indentured, disappeared... |
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A Life in Parts
Bryan Cranston - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir - both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft - from Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history's most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad.Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven,... |
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The Clintons' War on Women
Roger Stone - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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Hillary Clinton is running for president as an "advocate of women and girls," but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up - until now. This stunning expos reveals for the first time how Bill and Hillary Clinton systematically abused women... |
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Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart
Lisa Rogak - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller Since his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart has become one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media. In Angry Optimist, biographer Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to stardom.... |
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Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar
David Thomas - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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In Wrestling for My Life, WWE superstar Shawn Michaels shares from his heart about the highs and lows of his life inside the WWE. Included are some never-before-shared stories and an intimate look into his career as well as stories of hunting, family, and faith. With millions of fans, Michaels... |
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The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial
Maggie Nelson - Graywolf
Format: Print book
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Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous... |
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The mayor of Mogadishu : a story of chaos and redemption in the ruins of Somalia
Andrew Harding - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud "Tarzan" Nur - an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher - Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York... |
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The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones
Rich Cohen - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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A panoramic, stylish narrative history of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated lens of Vanity Fair contributor Rich Cohen, who traveled with the band in the 1990s as a reporter for Rolling Stone. Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road... |
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The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America
Joseph Berger - Harper Perennial; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to astonishing proportions, veteran New York Times journalist Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social and political... |
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal
Mark Owen - Dutton
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused... |
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A Farm Dies Once a Year: A Memoir
Arlo Crawford - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A Book of the Month for GQ, The New Yorker, and Flavorwire"Beautifully told…In this one season of life, Crawford's writing about the work, people, nature and his family legacy reveals much about a simple life, and reminds us all to appreciate life's riches."--Seattle... |
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Sidelined: Overcoming Odds through Unity, Passion, and Perseverance
Chuck Pagano - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Pagano, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has become one of the most inspiring, intriguing personalities in the game of football. Only three games into his rookie season in 2012, Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia, sidelined by the side effects chemotherapy and months of recovery.... |
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Murder & Mayhem in Indiana
Keven McQueen - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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With an eye for bizarre, macabre detail, Keven McQueen tracks down seventeen true crimes and unsolved mysteries in this rap sheet of historic Hoosier homicides from Indiana's hardscrabble past. This grim collection of tales includes unimaginable incidents like the Indianapolis businessman... |
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Linda Tirado - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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The real-life Nickel and Dimed - the author of the wildly popular "Poverty Thoughts" essay tells what its like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire "DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which... |
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
Barbara Leaming - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'... |
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Jo Malone: My Story
Jo Malone - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Known around the world for her eponymous brand of fragrances and now her brand-new venture Jo Loves (soon to debut in the US) , Jo Malone tells the remarkable and inspiring story of her rise from humble beginnings to beloved business success.Jo Malone began her international fragrance... |
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Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
Taras Grescoe - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily "Mickey" Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose... |
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Misdiagnosed: One Woman's Tour of--And Escape From--Healthcareland
Jody Berger - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"Berger movingly details her journey to healing. Her indefatigable quest...underscores the fact that there is no such thing as one size fits all in medicine." - Gayatri Devi, MD, clinical associate professor, NYU School of Medicine, and author of A Calm... |
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The Family of Jesus
Karen Kingsbury - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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America's favorite inspirational novelist offers a fictional view of six of the family members of Jesus, all anchored by Scriptural truth, creating a life-changing and unprecedented emotional connection to the Bible.Through The Family of Jesus, readers will develop an emotional connection... |
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Steven M D Hatch - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished... |
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The Baghdad Lawyer
Sabah Aris - American Bar Association
Format: Hardcover
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The Baghdad Lawyer is a memoir like no other. Readers will experience for the first time the behind-the-scenes workings of the Iraqi criminal justice system from the perspective of one of the most respected trial lawyers in Iraq, in the years before and during the violent and chaotic rise... |
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Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and Infamous
Marlene Wagman-Geller - Sourcebooks Inc
Format: Paperback
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Who Said Men Get to Monopolize the Glory? Discover the Little Known Women Who Have Put the World's Alpha Males on the Map.From ancient times to the present, men have gotten most of the good ink. Yet standing just outside the spotlight are the extraordinary, and overlooked, wives and companions... |
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The Bleaks: A Memoir
Paul Illidge - ECW Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Bleaks is the true story of a harrowing nightmare into which writer Paul Illidge’s life is plunged one summer night, when a police drug-squad raids his suburban house, arrests him and his two teenage sons, and whisks them off to jail for growing some marijuana plants in their... |
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Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
Walter Kempowski - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A monumental work of history that captures the last days of the Third Reich as never before.Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's... |
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Little Failure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyngart - Random House of Canada, Limited
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE... |
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There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative
Stacey Dash - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Stacey Dash didn't have the ideal American childhood. Growing up in the South Bronx, her friends were the hustlers, hookers, and gang members who struggled in the face of futility, who sold drugs instead of living on food stamps, who settled matters with fists, knives, and guns because... |
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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Michael B Oren - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMichael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States - a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East - provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship... |
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George Marshall: A Biography
Debi Unger - Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A major historical biography of George C. Marshallthe general who ran the U.S. campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of post-war Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prizeand the first to offer a complete picture of his life.While... |
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The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love
Per J Andersson - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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"A romance, a travelogue, and a cultural critique ... filled with sumptuous prose. [PK's] determination is more than enough to keep readers enthralled." -- Publishers Weekly "This book will appeal to the optimistic, the romantic, and the armchair traveler. This... |
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I Regret Nothing: A Memoir
Jen Lancaster - NAL
Format: Hardcover
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she's managed to document her (and her generation's) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have... |
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Obsessed
M William Phelps - Pinnacle Books
Format: Paperback
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"Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience." --Suspense MagazineSheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met the man of her dreams. Nelson Sessler had no idea how violently... |
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Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire
Tim McBride - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Floridas Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience... |
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The Art of Neil Gaiman
Hayley Campbell - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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With unprecedented access to Neil Gaiman's personal archives, author Hayley Campbell gives an insider's glimpse into the artistic inspirations and musings of one of the world's most visionary writers.Over the last twenty-five years, Neil Gaiman has mapped out a territory in the popular... |
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Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life
Allison Moon - Lunatic Ink
Format: Print book
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Furry-style fox hunts, breaking into waterparks, and masturbating in trees. Its all just part of the queer life of author and sex-educator Allison Moon. This collection of 18 memoirs celebrates the humor and tenderness of falling in and out of love and in and out of bed., |
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Rasputin: A Short Life
Frances Welch
Format: Paperback
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Told with humor, intrigue, and a shrewd eye for detail, this riveting short biography sheds much-needed light on the life of nineteenth-century Russian icon Grigory Rasputin. Grigory Rasputin, a Siberian peasant turned mystic and court sage, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played... |
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Laura Jane Grace - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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"If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman/ My mother once told me she would have named me Laura/ I would grow up to be strong and beautiful like her."-The OceanA searing account of her search for identity and true self, TRANNY reveals the struggles... |
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First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
Joshua C Kendall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological make-up.... |
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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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Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
Andrea Di Robilant - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy... |
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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Hailed by Lena Dunham as an "essential (and hilarious) voice for women," Lindy West is ferociously witty and outspoken, tackling topics as varied as pop culture, social justice and body image. Her empowering work has garnered a coast-to-coast audience that eagerly awaits SHRILL,... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams
Jen Bricker - Baker Books
Format: Print book
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Born without Legs, She Inspires Others to OvercomeJen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty... |
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
David Ritz - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left... |
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne Merkin - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly... |
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van Gogh
Ingo F. Walther - Taschen
Format: Book
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The amazing work of a tormented soul Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. He lived an unhappy and difficult life during which his work received almost no appreciation—finally killing himself by a bullet to the chest, so great was his despair—and... |
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Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine
Daniel Halper - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they... |
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
Del Quentin Wilber - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good... |
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Everybody's Got Something
Robin Roberts - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover(Large Print)
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"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something. " So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's... |
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So That Happened: A Memoir
Jon Cryer - New American Library
Format: Hardcover
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If it can happen in show business, it's happened to Jon Cryer. Now he's opening up for the first time and sharing his behind-the-scenes stories in a warmly endearing, sharply observed, and frankly funny look at life in Hollywood.In 1986, Jon Cryer won over America as Molly Ringwald's... |
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Larry Tye - Random House
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive... |
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True Tales of Lust and Love
Anna David - Soft Skull Press
Format: Book
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Anna David’s True Tales of Lust and Love began as a one-time-only reading and storytelling show in January of 2012, a venue for writers and comedians to share and laugh at their dating disaster stories. But after selling out the venue and attracting immediate press and buzz—with... |
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Machiavelli: A Portrait
Christopher Celenza - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Machiavellianused to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitilessis never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name became shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more engaging and nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher S. Celenzas Machiavelli... |
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Evans Carlson, Marine Raider: The Man Who Commanded America's First Special Forces
Duane Schultz - Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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On August 17, 1942, ten days after American marines had stormed Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, two U.S. submarines secretly delivered a small force from the newly formed 2nd Marine Raider Battalion to Japanese-occupied Makin Island one thousand miles to the north. The raid was intended... |
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario - The Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped... |
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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Leah Lax - She Writes PR
Format: Paperback
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In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story--beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline... |
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Dani Shapiro - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass... |
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Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden
Alain Baraton - Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistFor gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds,... |
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Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
Jonathan Bate - Harper, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes.With an equal gift for poetry and prose,... |
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The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age
Wendy Gamber - Ohns Hopkins University Press
Format: Print book
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In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. It was a gruesome scene. Part of Jacob's face had been blown off, apparently by the shotgun that lay a few feet away. Spiders and black beetles crawled over his wound.... |
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Maeve Binchy: The Biography
Piers Dudgeon - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Maeve Binchy's heartwarming tales of love, life, and loss made her one of America's best-loved storytellers. Her novels, which sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic in a way that most authors only dream of. Seared with a truth... |
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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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Born Both: An Intersex Life
Hida Viloria - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r... |
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Even This I Get to Experience
Norman Lear - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written ... An absolute treasure." --Booklist (STARRED)In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced,... |
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Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran
Barry Meier - Farrar
Format: Print book
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In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantnamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help... |
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I Hate Everyone, Except You
Clinton Kelly - Tantor Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate Everyone, Except You, he reveals some heretofore unknown secrets about himself, like that hes a finicky connoisseur of 1980s pornography, a disillusioned critic of New Jerseys premier... |
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Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
Cookie Johnson - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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In her new memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.On November 7, 1991, basketball icon Earvin "Magic"... |
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The Other Side: A Memoir
Lacy M. Johnson - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night.... |
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An Obama's Journey: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery across Three Cultures
Mark Obama Ndesandjo - Lyons Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over twenty years ago. The book also offers the author's inspiring personal story about... |
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Moriz Scheyer - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist.... |
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Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic, " to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which... |
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Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway's Adventures as a World War II Correspondent
Terry Mort - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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From Omaha Beach on D-Day and the French Resistance to the tragedy of Huertgen Forest and the Liberation of Paris, this is the story of Ernest Hemingway's adventures in journalism during World War II. In the spring of 1944, Hemingway traveled to London and then to France to cover World... |
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Dan Jones - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets chronicles the next chapter in British history - the historical backdrop for Game of ThronesThe crown of England changed hands five times over the course of the fifteenth century, as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought... |
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Perfect Strangers: Friendship, Strength, and Recovery After Boston’s Worst Day
Roseann Sdoia - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Four lives brought together in a deadly moment prove that being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to lifes biggest adventures and most important relationships As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life... |
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Jenna Miscavige Hill - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the... |
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