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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
Joseph Kim - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young... |
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring... |
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Beautiful Bodies
Kimberly Rae Miller - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling and beloved author of Coming Clean, a brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food.Like most people, Kimberly Rae Miller does not have the perfect body, but that hasn't stopped her from trying. And trying. And trying some... |
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My Love Story: A Memoir
TINA TURNER - Atria Books
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Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her career and personal life in this compelling memoir.
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Hounded: The Lowdown on Life from Three Dachshunds
Matt Ziselman - Center Street; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Living with three strong-willed, highly individual Dachshunds can be equal parts entertaining, frustrating and rewarding. Just ask Matt Ziselman. Armed with a fresh, creative voice that is unabashedly cranky one moment and profoundly poignant the next, Ziselman mixes hilarious canine stories,... |
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
Margot Mifflin - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback
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In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned... |
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The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
Ben Mezrich - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files,... |
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Can't Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist
Meredith Goldstein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A disarmingly honest memoir about giving advice when you're not sure what you're doing yourself, by the woman behind The Boston Globe's Love Letters column. Every day, Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein takes on the relationship problems of thousands of dedicated... |
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Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific... |
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Wellth: How I Learned to Build a Life, Not a Rsum
Jason Wachob - Harmony Crown, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In his first book, mindbodygreen founder Jason Wachob, redefines successful living and offers readers a new life currency to build on, one that is steeped in wellbeing ... Wellth. "Many of us aren't satisfied with just trying to accumulate the most money and toys. The good life... |
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M. Blow - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place... |
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
Rick Bragg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-five mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this fascinating question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. The result is both insightful history and an astonishingly compelling psychological portrait." - Walter... |
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Still Life: A Memoir of Living Fully with Depression
Gillian Marchenko - IVP Books
Format: Paperback
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"I stand on the edge of a cliff in my own bedroom." Gillian Marchenko continues her description of depression: "I must keep still. Otherwise I will plunge to my death. 'Please God, take this away,' I pray when I can." For Gillian, "dealing with depression"... |
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1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election amid the Storm
Ms. Susan Dunn - Yale University Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency—Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie—found themselves on the defensive... |
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Obama: The Call of History
PETER BAKER - New York Times/Callaway
Format: Print book
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Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure of Obama's achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man who, as he described himself, "doesn't... |
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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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Touching the Dragon: And Other Techniques for Surviving Life's Wars
James Hatch - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief; master naval parachutist (four Bronze Stars with Valor, Navy and Marine Corps Medal recipient, etc.) ; fighter in 150 missions (Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Africa) ; expert military dog trainer and handler whose SEAL dogs were partners... |
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Como fracasar en casi todo y aun asi triunfar
Scott Adams - Urano
Format: Print book
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En este libro el autor comparte la estrategia que ha usado desde que era un adolescente para invitar al fracaso, abrazarlo, y analizarlo. No hay guia de carreras que puedan ofrecer consejos que funcionen para todos. Como lo explica Adams, lo mejor es estudiar las maneras de otros que hicieron... |
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The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary
Ê»AÌtÌ£if AbuÌ Sayf - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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An ordinary Gazan's chronicle of the struggle to survive during Israel's 2014 invasion of GazaThe Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare. Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza lasted 51 days,... |
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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
CHRISTOPHER BONANOS - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive biography of Weegee the Famous -- photographer, psychic, fiend -- from the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid.Arthur Fellig's ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself "Weegee," claiming that he functioned... |
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Not Dead Yet
Phil Collins - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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Phil Collins pulls no punches - about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that's inspired his music. In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles' legendary film A... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy - Little
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Bowie: The Biography
Wendy Leigh - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the man behind the myth in this new biography of one of the most pioneering and influential performers of our time - David Bowie.David Bowie - the iconic superstar of rock, fashion, art, design, and the quintessential sexual liberator - is a living legend. However, for the past... |
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Harold Holzer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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“Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing us how deftly he managed his relations with the press of his day to move... |
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To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story... |
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Personal History
Katharine Graham - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAn extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of Americas most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.It is the story of Grahams parents the multimillionaire... |
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never... |
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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
Frances Stroh - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist's struggle to find her way out of the ruins.Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great... |
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Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
Leah Carroll - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother,... |
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Rosewater
Maziar Bahari - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART | Previously published as Then They Came for MeWhen Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week... |
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The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
Edmund White - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past,... |
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Kate Clifford Larson - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world... |
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To Love and To Kill
M. William Phelps
Format: Print book
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"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." - TV Rage"Phelps is a true-crime veteran." - New York PostThe missing-persons case of Heather Strong, a young, beautiful suburban mother, baffled Florida detectives. When the file was handed to a veteran... |
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Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
David Ritz - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassinationMartin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times... |
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So, Anyway...
John Cleese - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway ... ,... |
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Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang
LAMONT HAWKINS - Picador USA
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historic rise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont "U-God" Hawkins. The Wu-Tang Clan is American hip-hop royalty. Rolling Stone called them the "best rap group ever" and their debut album,... |
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Uncomplicated Life, An: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter
Paul Daugherty - William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A fathers exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own.Jillian Daugherty was born with Down syndrome. The day they brought herhome from the hospital,... |
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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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Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
John Boessenecker - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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"Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his proper place alongside such fabled lawmen as Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. Here is a grand adventure story, told with grace... |
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
PETER MAYLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife,... |
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Cosby: His Life and Times
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy.. Far from the gentle... |
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
LELAND MELVIN - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success.Leland Melvin is the only... |
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An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood
Emma Brockes - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant,... |
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Michael Jordan: The Life
Roland Lazenby - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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The definitive biography of the most legendary basketball player of all time.
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Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman
Tammy Mal - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest... |
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My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir
AMY SILVERSTEIN - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first... |
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Look Alive Out There: Essays
Sloane Crosley - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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"Sloane Crosley does the impossible. She stays consistently funny and delivers a book that is alive and jumping." -- Steve Martin From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There -- a brand-new collection of essays filled with... |
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understandingof Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth a poor cobblers son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band... |
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Forward: A Memoir
Abby Wambach - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor." - NPR"Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves." - Sheryl Sandberg,... |
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Laura Caldwell - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity.... |
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King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor
PAUL WILLETTS - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante - the king of Jazz Age con artists - who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling... |
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Helen Thorpe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) , and "masterful" (BOOKLIST ) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal... |
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Sleepers
Lorenzo Carcaterra - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For fans of Game of Silence, Sleepers is the extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands. This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their... |
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Hounded: The Lowdown on Life from Three Dachshunds
Matt Ziselman - Center Street; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Living with three strong-willed, highly individual Dachshunds can be equal parts entertaining, frustrating and rewarding. Just ask Matt Ziselman. Armed with a fresh, creative voice that is unabashedly cranky one moment and profoundly poignant the next, Ziselman mixes hilarious canine stories,... |
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Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder
Diane Fanning - Berkley
Format: Book
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It was planned to look like a suicide.But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note—typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint... |
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Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me
Ally Hilfiger - Center Street
Format: Print book
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Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major... |
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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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Part Swan, Part Goose: An Uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family
Swoosie Kurtz - Perigee Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a wise, warmhearted memoir that celebrates her extraordinary life and stellar career, Swoosie Kurtz shares just the right combination of personal misadventure and showbiz lore, candidly reflecting on the right choices that empowered her, the wrong choices that enlightened her, and the intimate... |
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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
Ali Wentworth - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet... |
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Small Fry
LISA BRENNAN-JOBS - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father... |
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Out of Orange: A Memoir
Cleary Wolters - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time—a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade... |
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Just the Funny Parts: My 30 Years on the Hollywood Jungle Gym
Nell Scovell - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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Introduction by Sheryl SandbergIf Bossypants and Lean In got drunk and hooked up, their sloppy-sex-love-child would be this juicy and insightful memoir which blows the doors off the male dominated writers' room and offers a scathingly funny account of Hollywood's sexual politics over the last... |
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You're Never Weird on the Internet
Felicia Day - Touchstone
Format: Print book
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The instant New York Times bestseller from "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is a "relentlessly funny and surprisingly inspirational" (Forbes.com) memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom,... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper... |
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You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age
Robert J. Wagner - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary actor and bestselling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden ageFor millions of movie lovers, no era in the history of Hollywood is more beloved than the period from the 1930s through the 1950s, the golden age of the studio system. Not only... |
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A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World
Scott Tong - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace," the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became much more - it offered the opportunity... |
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ZeroZeroZero
Roberto Saviano
Format: Book
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From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy In many countries, "000" flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find,... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. "Consistently intelligent and funny ... The book succeeds wonderfully." - The New York Times... |
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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Richard Ratay - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Part pop history and part whimsical memoir in the spirit of National Lampoon's Vacation - Don't Make Me Pull Over! is a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips - a halcyon era that culminated in the latter part of the twentieth century, before portable DVD players,... |
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Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir
Elaine Lui - G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA),
Format: Print book
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"I devoured this book in one sitting...alternately cheering, laughing, cringing, and gasping in horror. Lui captures the complexity of a mother-daughter relationship that is both complicated and beautiful. Poignant with a bare honesty that may make you think (and rethink) your own relationships."... |
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until... |
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Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Shannon Leone Fowler - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took - through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond - to find peace after her fianc suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand.In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler,... |
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Michelle Obama: A Life
Peter Slevin - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's... |
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Movie Nights with the Reagans: A Memoir
Mark Weinberg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares an intimate, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency - told through the movies they watched together every week at Camp David.What did President Ronald Reagan think of Rocky IV? How did the Matthew... |
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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
Judith Mackrell - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex - all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the Great War and stride into the future in one deft, stylized gesture. The women... |
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
MARK DERY - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But... |
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Elsewhere
Richard Russo - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of 2012Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo turns to memoir in this hilarious and bittersweet account of his lifelong bond with his high-strung, spirited mother - and the small town she spent her life trying to escape.... |
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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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Fast N' Loud: Blood, Sweat and Beers
Richard Rawlings - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The breakout star of Discovery's hit automotive restoration show Fast N' Loud takes readers on an entertaining ride through his wild life and behind the scenes of his hit show in this memoir and automotive handbook, revving with outrageous details and jaw-dropping stories, and injected... |
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Bare Bones: I'm Not Lonely If You're Reading This Book
Bobby Bones - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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A touching, funny, heart-wrenching, and triumphant memoir from one of the biggest names in radio, the host of The Bobby Bones Show, one of the most listened-to drive time morning radio shows in the nation.Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell... |
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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
Matt Richards - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson -- the biggest and most influential music... |
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My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life
Peter Gethers - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A funny, moving memoir about a son's discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and lovePeter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes.... |
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Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine-and Life-the American Way
Laure Dugas - Ballantine
Format: Print book
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Fresh, charming, and wholly irresistible, Champagne Baby turns a familiar tale on its head: Instead of another American seeking the French secret to good living, a Frenchwoman finds her purpose - much to her surprise - in America. Laure Dugas is a champagne baby, born into a family of winemakers... |
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The Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed
Joseph Collum - Gulf Stream Press
Format: Paperback
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The Black Dragon is a fast-paced page-turner that reads like a novel but is sadly true. Author Joseph Collum - the prize-winning investigative reporter who the Oxford English Dictionary credits with coining the term "racial profiling" - details how the practice was invented by New Jersey... |
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C. White - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of Americas greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant.... |
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Suki Kim - Crown Pub
Format: Print book
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland.... |
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
Plum Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three... |
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Shrinkage: Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor That Tried to Kill Me
Bryan Bishop - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller!An Amazon Best Books of 2014 selection"If you're reading this, it means I'm already dead. Just kidding."In 2009, at thirty years old, Bryan Bishop's life was right on track. Known to millions as "Bald Bryan," the sidekick and soundman... |
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My Confection: Odyssey of a Sugar Addict
Lisa Kotin - Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services) , 2016.
Format: eBook
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A funny, candid, and original coming-of-age story told through sugar addictionShe doesn't drink or do drugs, but like millions of other Americans, Lisa Kotin has a substance abuse problem. Kotin is addicted to sugar. My Confection is a darkly funny and candid memoir of where sugar took... |
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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific... |
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Shepherd: A Memoir
Richard Gilbert - Michigan State University Press; 1 edition
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Upon moving to Appalachian Ohio with their two small children, Richard Gilbert and his wife are thrilled to learn there still are places in America that haven’t been homogenized. But their excitement over the region’s beauty and quirky character turns to culture shock as they... |
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The Radical King
Cornel West - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic... |
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Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice
ELLE LUNA - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a very real sense we define our lives through our stories. Understand these stories, along with the motivations behind them, and we can positively change how our future unfolds. With this premise, Elle Luna, the author of The Crossroads of Should and Must, and the psychotherapist... |
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Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend
Christo Brand - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Nelson Mandela as he has never been seen before His lifes sacrificesrecounted in vivid detailbytheprison guard with whom hebecame lifelong friends Raised in a multi-ethnic farming community Afrikaner Christo Brand was confused and saddened whenhe first confronted the realities of South... |
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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Bradley Hope - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios) .. Now a #1 international... |
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The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness
Eric Lomax - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.The Railway Man is a remarkable memoir of forgiveness—a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past. Eric Lomax, sent to Malaya in World War II, was taken... |
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street... |
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Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
Philip Eade - Picador; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF SYLVIA BROOKE, THE LAST WHITE RULER OF THE JUNGLE KINGDOM OF BORNEOSylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose... |
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No One Tells You This: A Memoir
Glynnis MacNicol - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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ELLE's The 30 Best Books to Read This Summer"A piercing examination of what it means both to love grown-up, complicated women - and to be one." -- Rebecca Traister, All The Single Ladies "Glynnis has written a book that is honest, hilarious and raw...it misses... |
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Botticelli
Emile Gebhart - Parkstone Press
Format: Hardcover
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<DIV>The Medici court painter Botticelli is one of the unequivocal artists of the Italian Renaissance alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Favoring feminine portraits, Botticelli stands apart through the finesse of his lines and the unbridled sensuality of his paintings.... |
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The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women
Edward Lewis - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women’s magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkable story of what it took to earn that distinction.The Man from Essence depicts with candor and insight how Edward Lewis, CEO and publisher... |
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The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
Jerald Walker - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world When "The World in Flames" begins, in 1970, Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds... |
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The Iceberg: A Memoir
Marion Coutts - Grove Press, Black Cat
Format: Print book
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Winner of the Wellcome PrizeA finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award"A memoir quite unlike any other. It has the strength of an arrow: taut, spiked, quavering, working to its fatal conclusion...an extraordinary story told in an extraordinary way." - The Sunday... |
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Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim
Justin Gifford - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, n Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career... |
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Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here
Angela Palm - Graywolf
Format: Print book
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Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
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Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Charles Marsh - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive... |
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Make Me a Mother: A Memoir
Susanne Antonetta - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
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A woman unexpectedly finds her best self through a sleepy bundle handed over at the airport in this heartfelt and surprising memoir. In Make Me a Mother, acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their six-month-old son, Jin, at the airport... |
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Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie
Woody Woodmansey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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In January 2016, the unexpected death of David Bowie rocked the globe. For millions of people, he was an icon celebrated for his music, his film and theatrical roles, and his trendsetting influence on fashion and gender norms. But no one from her inner circle has told the story of how David... |
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At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
Thich Nhat Hanh - Parallax Pr
Format: Print book
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This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking, inspiring, and enjoyable to read. Collected here for the first time, these stories span the author's life. There are stories from Thich Nhat Hanh's childhood... |
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Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
ELAINE M HAYES - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women's and civil rightsSarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers... |
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Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
Jace Clayton - Farrar
Format: Print book
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In 2001, Jace Clayton was an unknown DJ who recorded a three-turntable, sixty-minute mix called Gold Teeth Thiefand put it online to share with his friends. Within months, the mix became an international calling card, whisking Clayton away to a sprawling, multi-tiered nightclub in Zagreb,... |
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Scalia: A Court of One
Bruce Allen Murphy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply researched portrait of the controversial Supreme Court justice covers his career achievements, his appointment in 1986, and his resolve to support agendas from an ethical, rather than political, perspective."This is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures... |
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Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words
Maeve Binchy - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Paperback
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Before she was a bestselling novelist, Maeve Binchy started out as a columnist for The Irish Times. Her articles - focused on the famous and the obscure alike - were filled with the warmth, wit, and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. From royal weddings... |
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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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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
Curt Gentry - Norton
Format: Paperback
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"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover's FBI was an American gestapo." -- Newsweek Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews... |
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
ADRIAN OWEN - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In this startling and thought-provoking book, which will remind readers of works by Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial, groundbreaking work with patients whose brains were previously thought vegetative or non-responsive but turn out - in up to 20 percent... |
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Kelly Sundberg - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The Liars Club, a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse - examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship,... |
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn - Liveright
Format: Paperback(Reprint)
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New York Times BestsellerEntertainment Weeklys #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, USA Today, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, and BookPage A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection An Amazon Best Book of the Month A Pacific... |
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Halfway: A Memoir
Tom Macher - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys' homes - the first book to so vividly capture this world.In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled... |
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Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
Rob Sheffield - Dey Street Books
Format: Paperback
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An NPR Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism"This is the best book about the Beatles ever written" - MashableRob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining,... |
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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move... |
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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet,... |
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
SHERYL SANDBERG - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Best SellerFrom Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable... |
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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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Because: A Lyric Memoir
JOSHUA MENSCH - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping verse memoir that offers a compassionate and wrenching account of the author's experience of childhood sexual abuse.Joshua Mensch's devastating lyric memoir, Because, explores with extraordinary literary power and sophistication the toxic power of adults who prey on the children... |
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Love Life
Rob Lowe - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.Rob Low is back with stories he only tells his best... |
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Hillary's America
Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America... |
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Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond
MARTIN KEMP - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death, the world- renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty- year journey with the work of the world's most famous artistA personal memoir interwoven with original research, Living with Leonardo takes us deep inside Leonardo da Vinci scholar... |
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All the Gallant Men: An American Sailors Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
Ken Gire - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor"An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage." - Readers DigestIn this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona survivor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl... |
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A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
ANGELA JACKSON - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A retrospective on the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her one hundredth birthdayGwendolyn Brooks is one of the American literary icons of the twentieth century. Mentored by Langston Hughes and Richard Wright from a young age,... |
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whiteheads hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime... |
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
Diane Keaton - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself - no matter what anyone else thinks. Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring... |
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