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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family
EMILY JANE FOX - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President's children. She's developed a personal relationship with Ivanka and has cultivated sources close to Eric, Donald Jr., and Tiffany. She has scoured... |
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Anxiety Is Not Depression
Cliff Wise - AuthorHouse
Format: Paperback
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Anxiety, Depression, and other mental afflictions are regretfully shunned by a society that favors winners. Losers are discarded or left to their own devices in most cases, like I was. This book is an inside, non-medical, non-scientific look inside the brain and life of a person whose life... |
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
GABRIELLE UNION - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,... |
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Peter Stark - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and groundbreaking portrait of a young, struggling George Washington that casts a new light on his character and the history of American independence, from the bestselling author of AstoriaTwo decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young... |
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Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
AMANDA STERN - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic.The... |
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Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
Karina Longworth - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power and publicity... |
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Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs
Beth Ricanati MD - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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What if you could bake bread once a week, every week? What if the smell of fresh bread could turn your house into a home? And what if the act of making the bread -- mixing and kneading, watching and waiting -- could heal your heartache and your emptiness, your sense of being overwhelmed?... |
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H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
Adam Selzer - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's... |
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Dani Shapiro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life.What... |
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Joy Enough: A Memoir
Sarah McColl - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother's image.Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage... |
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Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Mitch Albom - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays... |
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Raising Trump: Family Values from Americas First Mother
Ivana Trump - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children - Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka - and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up.. As her former husband serves as the 45th President of the United States, his children have also... |
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A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like
ASHLEY GRAHAM - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoirVoluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been modeling professionally... |
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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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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Anthony Bourdain - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, including interviews with Neil Degrasse Tyson and Trevor NoahAnthony Bourdain always downplayed his skills as a chef (many disagreed) . But despite... |
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Face It
Debbie Harry - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A MULTILAYERED MEMOIR FROM A MULTIFACETED ARTISTAs a musician, an actor, a muse, an icon, the breadth of Debbie Harry's impact on our culture has been matched by her almost Sphinx-like reticence about her inner life. Through it all - while being acclaimed as one of the most beautiful women... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks:... |
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
Richard Zoglin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal... |
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Michael Sims - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle... |
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See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
Frances Mayes - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisineThe Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous... |
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
Patricia Williams - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding LiteratureFinalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History"An absolute must-read" - Shondaland"[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" - New York Times "I know a lot of people... |
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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Jeffrey Gettleman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize - winning New York Times journalist, comes a memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent yet most beautiful places in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past... |
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My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Abigail Pogrebin - Fig Tree Books LLC
Format: Print book
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The much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culture -- not in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps that's because we haven't all looked at religion... |
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Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil
YVETTE MANESSIS CORPORON - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants - and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness.Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's... |
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Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
Brooke McAlary - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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Free yourself from the frantic and embrace the joy of slow..."After reading this book, you'll have an amazing list of ingredients that can help you create a meaningful life, too!" -- The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus"Finally, a slow living guide for the imperfect... |
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Journaling Fame - A Memoir of a Life Unhinged and on the Record
ALLISON KUGEL - Mill City Press, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Journaling Fame takes readers inside the turbulent mind and precocious soul of celebrity journalist, Allison Kugel, as she recalls the evolution and fall out from a near paralyzing anxiety disorder while navigating a decade interviewing some of Hollywood's most famous (and infamous)... |
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Promise me, Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
Joseph R Biden - Thorndike Press
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""Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's... |
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
NICOLE CHUNG - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection An Official Junior Library Guild Selection An ABA Indies Introduce Selection "This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story, then widens her aperture... |
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Sleepless Nights and Kisses for Breakfast: Reflections on Fatherhood
MATTEO BUSSOLA - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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This #1 Italian bestseller, offering a father's observations of the everyday moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, has struck a chord with readers around the globe.Matteo Bussola is a designer and cartoonist who lives in Verona, Italy with his wife Paola; their three young daughters,... |
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence,... |
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Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things
Amy Dickinson - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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In STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated... |
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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
MARY S LOVELL - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the bestselling The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family brings her trademark brio and relish to the charming and fascinating world of the Chteau de l'Horizon on the French RivieraThe Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked... |
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On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
Jennifer Pastiloff - Center Point Pub
Format: Large Print
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Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning. |
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Delayed But Not Denied: Real Stories about Hope, Faith and Triumph
Toni Coleman-Brown - Quantum Leap Productions LLC
Format: Paperback
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Delayed But Not Denied Book 2 represents real stories about real people. Each diverse chapter exemplifies hope, faith and resiliency. Get ready because you will receive a mega dose of inspiration after reading each co-author's unique experience. The stories compiled inside of this book... |
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
Renia Spiegel - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into EnglishRenia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939... |
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Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power
WILLIAM STADIEM - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The life of Madame Claude, the brilliant and complicated and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world.In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles and famous... |
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What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home
Mark Mazower - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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Uncovering their remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family which fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British... |
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Laura Cumming - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village - and how that event reverberated her own family and her art for decades.In... |
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SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening
Chloe Schwenke - Red Hen Press
Format: Paperback
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SELF-ish is a narrative drawn from an international life, beginning with some early glimpses out at the world by a girl in a boy's body. Chloe Schwenke was raised as Stephen in a Marine Corps family, and was sent off at age fourteen to "man-up" at a military... |
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Being Elvis
Ray Connolly - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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On the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death comes this rocking biography of an iconic artist who fundamentally transformed American culture.Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic... |
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Tiger Woods
Jeff Benedict - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook
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Based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woods's life - many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before - a sweeping, revelatory, and defining biography of an American icon.In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous... |
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Roots Quest: Inside America's Genealogy Boom
Jackie Hogan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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America is in the midst of a genealogy boom. In the last thirty years the number of Americans who said they were "very interested" in family history jumped from 29% to 87%. Online genealogy sites like Ancestry.com went from being a small genealogical research website into a NASDAQ-listed... |
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Mah Jongg Mondays: a memoir about friendship, love, and faith
Fern Bernstein - Fern Bernstein
Format: Paperback
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Join Fern and a colorful cast of characters in her debut memoir titled Mah Jongg Mondays. Fern, married and the mother of three boys takes us into her modern middle-class suburban Long Island world where one day she gets the "Big Idea" to learn the Chinese tile game called mah jongg.... |
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
Cara Robertson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology - the trial of Lizzie Borden - based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence.The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history.... |
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Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anas Nin
Tristine Rainer - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A Revealing Look at the Mentorship -- and Manipulation -- of Anas Nin In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anas Nin's West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anas's accomplice, keeping her mentor's... |
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Mikey and Me: Life with My Exceptional Sister
Teresa Sullivan - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her. But as Mikey grows older, she also grows increasingly violent. By the time she's twelve, institutionalization is the only available option -- and without the shared purpose of caring for Mikey,... |
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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
CLAIRE DEDERER - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Claire Dederer is a happily married mother... |
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Two's Company: A Fifty-Year Romance with Lessons Learned in Love, Life & Business
Suzanne Somers - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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In her most personal and inspiring book yet, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Somers shows readers how to shape a healthy, lasting relationship through the lens of her 50-year love affair with her husband, Alan Hamel. For the first time, Suzanne will expose the inner workings... |
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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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The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
Justin Spring - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France During les trente glorieuses -- a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis -- Paris was not only the world's most delicious,... |
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Beautiful Scars: A Life Redefined
Kilee Brookbank - KiCam Projects LLC
Format: Paperback
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The updated edition of the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award winner for Best Inspirational Book! Kilee Brookbank was a typical sixteen-year-old, but her last ordinary day erupted in an explosion that consumed her house, burning forty-five percent of her body and sending her to the brink of death.... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older... |
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A River Could Be a Tree: A Memoir
ANGELA HIMSEL - Fig Tree Books LLC
Format: Hardcover
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How does a woman who grew up in rural Indiana as a fundamentalist Christian end up a practicing Jew in New York? Angela Himsel was raised in a German-American family, one of eleven children who shared a single bathroom in their rented ramshackle farmhouse in Indiana. The Himsels followed... |
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Inside Out
Demi Moore
Format: Audio CD(Library Edition)
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No Room for Small Dreams: The Decisions That Made Israel Great
Shimon Peres - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth... |
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Untitled Memoir
STEPHEN CARTER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York... |
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Unwifeable: A Memoir
Mandy Stadtmiller - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor... |
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His Father's Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.
Tim Brady - New American Library
Format: Print book
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The story of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a fortunate son who proved himself on the battlefields of two world wars.General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born... |
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The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty
Elizabeth L Silver - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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Set against the unexplained stroke of the author's newborn daughter, this stunning, unflinchingly honest memoir is an thought-provoking reflection on uncertainty in medicine and in life.Growing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine.... |
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
Laurie Gwen Shapiro - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great... |
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This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today
CHRISSY METZ - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A prescriptive and inspirational book of life lessons from the Emmy Award-nominee and breakout star of television's #1 hit show, NBC's This Is Us.Debuting in fall 2016, This Is Us quickly became America's most watched - and most talked about - network television show. Within weeks of its premier,... |
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Barnum: An American Life
Robert Wilson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichs for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street JournalP. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever... |
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Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls.From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long... |
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world. Things My Son Needs... |
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
HEATHER HARPHAM - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,... |
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Easy For You To Say
"Stuttering" John Melendez - Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book
Format: Hardcover
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Easy For You To Say is "Stuttering" John Melendez's memoir of his childhood being bullied in school for his stutter; his years as an on-air personality with The Howard Stern Show; and his subsequent ten-year career as a writer and on-air announcer for Jay Leno's Tonight... |
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story
PIETRO BARTOLO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the man hailed as "the doctor on the front lines of the migrant crisis" (CNN) . For 25 years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo has run the lone medical clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa. In that time he has rescued, welcomed, and cared for many of the hundreds... |
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BRAVE
ROSE MCGOWAN - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A voice for generationsRose McGowan... |
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Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service
Gary Sinise - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to cofounder of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company, world-famous actor, and tireless advocate for America's active... |
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Elton John: Rocket Man
Chris Roberts - Palazzo Editions
Format: Hardcover
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A fully illustrated retrospective commemorating Elton Johns incredible life and career.One of the most prolific and commercially successful artists in modern pop music, Elton John has won six Grammy Awards, five Brit Awards and sold more than 300 million records during a career spanning... |
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How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Cat Marnell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From Cat Marnell, "New York's enfant terrible" (The Telegraph) , a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books
PBS - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series... |
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Bon Jovi: The Story
Bryan Reesman - Sterling
Format: Print book
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With their catchy hooks, good looks, and irresistible pop-metal sound, Bon Jovi became one of the bestselling bands of all time. Bon Jovi: The Story is the first fully illustrated comprehensive book paying tribute to the mega-popular group from their beginning 30 years ago - when... |
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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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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
ADA CALHOUN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Poignant and witty essays on the beautiful complexity of marriage.Inspired by her wildly popular New York Times essay "The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give," Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip) , smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate... |
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The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
JENIFER LEWIS - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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The "Mega Diva" and legendary star of Black-ish looks back on her memorable journey to fame and the unforgettable life lessons she learned along the way.Jenifer Lewis keeps it real in this provocative and touching memoir by a mid-western girl with a dream whose journey from poverty... |
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents
RICHARD FORD - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty... |
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
Norman Lebrecht - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them.In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known - Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished... |
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Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir
Jill Bialosky - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Bialosky's erudite and instructive approach to poetry [is] itself a refreshing tonic." - Chicago Tribune "Wisdom and deep compassion...make [Bialosky's book] a tremendous asset both to readers and other writers." - The Washington Post An unconventional... |
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Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself
Jill Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate look at the traditions, resilience, and love that built the Biden family, and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center.Growing up, Jill Biden wanted two things: a marriage like her parents' and a career. But her journey to fulfill those wishes would take unexpected... |
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France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child
Katherine Pratt - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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From the coauthor of My Life in France, a revealing collection of photographs taken by Paul Child that document his and Julia Child's years in France Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia... |
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Manderley Forever
Tatiana De Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier."It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor.... |
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Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year That Launched an American Legend
Steve Paul - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind... |
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The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai
Ha Jin - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also known as Li Po--one of the most beloved poets ever to emerge from China.With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range... |
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The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Richard Breitman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the US consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to comeIn 1929, Raymond Geist went to Berlin as a consul and handled visas for emigrants to the US. Just before Hitler came to power, Geist expedited the exit... |
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Rachel Maddow: A Biography
Lisa Rogak - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain. In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports.... |
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Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Stephen Koch - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan... |
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Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
Agnès Poirier - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of ParisIn this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately... |
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days.... |
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
MAXWELL KING - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted... |
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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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The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco,... |
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The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World
James Barron - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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An inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and often bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, told through the journey of the world's most sought-after stamp. When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby's for nearly... |
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
Mary V Dearborn - Knopf
Format: Print book
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The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years; the first to draw upon a wide array of never-before-used material; the first written by a woman, from the widely acclaimed biographer of Norman Mailer, Peggy Guggenheim, Henry Miller, and Louise Bryant. A revelatory... |
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A Life of My Own
CLAIRE TOMALIN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literatureIn A Life of My Own, the renowned biographer of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, and former literary editor for the Sunday Times reflects on a remarkable... |
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
Thomas Lockley - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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Warrior. Samurai. Legend."A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life." - The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.When Yasuke arrived in Japan... |
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A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound
DONNA GASBARRE KRISTINE HYLTON - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Today, Donna Hylton is a groundbreaking advocate for criminal justice reform--she was a featured speaker at the 2017 Women's March on Washington, and she works hand-in-hand with other influential voices such as Eve Ensler, Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow) , and Rosario Dawson to ensure... |
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The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russia Revolution
Robert Service - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian historians writing today. In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced... |
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Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob
Patrick Picciarelli - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hollywood Godfather is Gianni Russo's over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when... |
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The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
Francesca Lia Block - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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For devotees of Bird by Bird and The Artist's Way, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing A cinematic exploration of the writing life by Francesca Lia Block, the bestselling author of the Weetzie Bat series of magical-realism novels, The Thorn Necklace... |
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Filling Her Shoes: A Memoir of an Inherited Family
Betsy Graziani Fasbinder - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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On the day that she decided to marry a widower -- also a long-time friend -- Betsy Graziani Fasbinder knew that she wasn't only gaining a husband, she was inheriting a son. Unlike many stepmothers, Betsy didn't have to struggle with an ex, or court battles, or the weekend shuffle between... |
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Inside Out: A Memoir
Demi Moore - Harper
Format: Book
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Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.
For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight... |
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misrables
David Bellos - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the world's most popular novelPutting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information... |
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How to Make a French Family: A Memoir of Love, Food, and Faux Pas
Samantha Vrant - Sourcebooks Inc
Format: Print book
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Say bonjour to a whole new way of life!Take one French widower, his two young children, and drop a former city girl from Chicago into a small town in southwestern France. Shake vigorously... and voil: a blended Franco-American family whose lives will all drastically change.Floating on a cloud... |
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The Big Heist: The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder
ANTHONY M DESTEFANO - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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"Terrific DeStefano. He finally gives us a fitting end to the murderous and fabled story of the 1978 Lufthansa heist." - Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino"A comprehensive account of the legendary 1978 heist . . . impressive." - Publisher's... |
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Jane Crow
Rosalind Rosenberg - Oxford University Press
Format: Illustrated Edition
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Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers... |
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All the Money in the World
JOHN PEARSON - William Collins
Format: Paperback
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Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom of grandson Paul Getty - is now a major motion picture, directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay written by David Scarpa and starring Michelle Williams,... |
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A Long Way Home: A Memoir
Saroo Brierley - G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and homebut an identity long-since left behind.At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last... |
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Brother & Sister: A Memoir
Diane Keaton - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved film star and best-selling author of Then Again--a heartfelt memoir about Diane Keaton's relationship with her younger brother, and a poignant exploration of the divergent paths siblings' lives can take.When they were children in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s,... |
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