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Officer Clemmons: A Memoir

Dr. François S. Clemmons - Catapult
Format: Hardcover

Officer Clemmons: A Memoir details the incredible life story of Franois Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies as a music major at Oberlin College, where Clemmons began to investigate and embrace his homosexuality,...
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The One-Eyed Man

Ron Currie - Viking
Format: Print book

From the "startlingly talented" (New York Times) author of Everything Matters! - the compelling story of a man who takes everything far too literally, and his adventures as the star of a reality TV showRon Currie's three previous works of fiction have dazzled readers and critics...
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Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

Leslie Bennetts - Little
Format: Print book

The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life.Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life...
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The Scarred Woman

JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet - perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson. Detective Carl Mrck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets...
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Dangerous Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel

Janet Evanovich - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about...
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A Promise of Ruin

CUYLER OVERHOLT - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

"A riveting period puzzler, filled with history, mystery, and romance." -Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope seriesWhat evil lurks around the steamship piers and in the hidden dens of New York City?As Dr. Genevieve Summerford watches from...
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The Little Hotel

Christina Stead - Text Classics
Format: Paperback

'One of Australia's greatest novelists puts together ... a crew as sad, funny and perverse as any ever gathered.' - TimeAn assortment of characters gather, at the close of WWII, at a hotel on Lake Geneva. In the claustrophobic atmosphere, their eccentricities and their desperation,...
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When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People

Jeannie Gaffigan - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In a book that is The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat, Jeannie Gaffigan, writing partner and wife of bestselling author/comedian Jim Gaffigan, writes with humor and heart about the pear-sized brain tumor she had removed, the toll it took on her enormous family, and the priceless...
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Don Rickles: Merchant of Venom

Michael Seth Starr - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

Considered the world's greatest insult comic, Don Rickles was a legendary comedy giant, honorary Rat Pack member, and "equal opportunity offender" who defied political correctness, transcended every medium, entertained, influenced and insulted generations of comedians and fans...
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Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography

Robert Sellers - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book

Peter O'Toole was supremely talented, a unique leading man and one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. Described by his friend Richard Burton as "the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war," O'Toole was also unpredictable, with a dangerous edge...
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