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Thomas Cromwell
Tracy Borman - Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1444782851
ISBN-13: 978-1444782851
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6.5 x 1.6 x 9.4 inches
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#4,747,730 in Books Format: Print book
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With new insights into Cromwell's character, his family life and his close relationships with both Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII, joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces Tracy Borman examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever. |
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Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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"Her book, as if she were a marine biologist, is a deep dive...Perhaps the highest praise I can give Seinfeldia is that it made me want to buy a loaf of marbled rye and start watching again, from the beginning." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review The hilarious... |
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions... |
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Turning the tables : from housewife to inmate and back again
Teresa Giudice - Gallery Books Format: Print book
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The star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and three-time New York Times bestselling author offers a behind-the-scenes look at life in prison, her marriage, her rise to fame, the importance of her family, and the reality TV franchise that made her a household name in her explosive... |
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Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man
Ja Rule - Amistad Format: Hardcover
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Ja Rule, actor, singer, songwriter, and one of the most multi-dimensional rap artists of his time, tells his compelling story—from his youth to his rise to international fame to his transformative two years in Federal prison—and reveals the man beneath the legend.Unruly is two stories... |
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist,... |
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Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3
Robert Matzen - Paladin Communications
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This freshlookat Hollywoods Queen of Screwball, Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of the events that led to the shocking flight mishap that took her life on the side of a Nevada mountain in 1942. It also provides a day-by-day account of the struggles of Lombards husband,... |
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Once a Cop: My Journey from Former Crack Dealer to the Highest Ranks of the NYPD
Corey Pegues - Atria Books, 2016. Format: Print book
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New Jack City meets Serpico in this provocative memoir of a crack dealer-turned-decorated NYPD officer - a timely reflection on the complex relationship between the police and the communities they are meant to protect.Corey Pegues has lived on both sides of the law. At the height of the 1980s... |
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The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
Bela Zombory-Moldovan - NYRB Classics Format: Paperback
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Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World War An NYRB Classics Original The budding young Hungarian artist Bla Zombory-Moldovn was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing... |
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A New Day
Jon Secada - Celebra Hardcover Format: Hardcover
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As one of the first successful Latin crossover artists, Jon Secada dominated the pop music charts in the early 90s, releasing hits such as Just Another Day and Angel and winning multiple Grammy Awards. As a Cuban refuge, Jon understands that life is about starting anew and embracing... |
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Sidelined: Overcoming Odds through Unity, Passion, and Perseverance
Chuck Pagano - Zondervan Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Pagano, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has become one of the most inspiring, intriguing personalities in the game of football. Only three games into his rookie season in 2012, Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia, sidelined by the side effects chemotherapy and months of recovery.... |
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In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court
Brittney Griner - It Books, 2014. Format: Paperback
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Hailed by ESPN as the world's most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner, the dunking phenom and national sensation who is shattering stereotypes and breaking boundaries, now shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she found her strength to overcome bullies and to embrace... |
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My Father Before Me: A Memoir
Chris Forhan - Scribner Format: Print book
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An award-winning poet offers a multi-generational portrait of an American family - weaving together the lives of his ancestors, his parents, and his own coming of age in the 60s and 70s in the wake of his father's suicide, in this superbly written, "fiercely honest" (Nick Flynn)... |
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture.My Own Words... |
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The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich
Lara Feigel - Bloomsbury Press Format: Print book
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When Germany surrendered in May 1945 it was a nation reduced to rubble. Immediately, America, Britain, Soviet Russia, and France set about rebuilding in their zones of occupation. Most urgent were physical needs--food, water, and sanitation--but from the start the Allies were also anxious... |
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
Glennon Doyle Melton - Flatiron Books Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel... |
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A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
Shane Bauer - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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Three young Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for two years tell their story. In summer 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of espionage,... |
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Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors
R. D. Rosen - Harper; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The story of the generation of hidden child survivors told through the true experiences of three Jewish girlsfrom Poland, Holland, and Francewho transcended their traumatic childhoods to lead remarkable lives in America.Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many... |
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Darling, I'm Going to Charlie: A Memoir
Maryse Wolinski - 37 Ink Format: Print book
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An elegant, deeply felt memoir from Maryse Wolinski - journalist and widow of the late cartoonist Georges Wolinski, who died in the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - that is both a beautiful tribute to her late husband and a rallying call to action."Darling,... |
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The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins
Robert B. Baer - Blue Rider Press Format: Hardcover
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What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, "It's a bullet with a man's name on it." Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most... |
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The Long Game: A Memoir
Mitch Mcconnell - Sentinel Format: Print book
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In October 1984, a hard-charging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for President Ronald Reagan to arrive at a presidential rally in Louisville. In the midst of a tough Senate campaign against an incumbent Democrat, the young Republican hoped Reagan's endorsement would give a much-needed... |
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Eminent Victorians
A N Wilson - W W Norton & Co Inc Format: Hardcover
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Brilliantly written and deeply felt, these brief biographies reveal the works and the spirit of the Victorian age in an entirely new light. Wilson's most recent works of nonfiction, Tolstoy and C.S. Lewis, are to be published in early 1990. 16 pages of full-color and 80 black-and-white... |
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My Old Neighborhood Remembered: A Memoir
Avery Corman - Barricade Books Format: Book
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My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture. Best-selling author Avery Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he grew up – in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores and bookmakers,... |
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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
Tim Townsend - HarperCollins Format: Hardcover
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Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions of faith, guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, salvation, and the essence... |
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Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS
Mary E Guinan - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: Print book
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In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two-year epidemiology training program, Mary Guinan soon was selected to join... |
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Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years 1903-1940
Gary Giddins - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star. |
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson - Grand Central Publishing Format: Print book
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs... |
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Robert L O'Connell - Random House Format: Book
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National bestseller William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape - and the American character. America's first "celebrity"... |
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The Prince of los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
Richard Blanco - Ecco Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities.Richard... |
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Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast
Aaron W Hughes - New York University Press Format: Print book
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Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular project only conducted by - and of interest to - religious adherents to one which now flourishes in the secular... |
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Kevin Hazzard - Scribner Format: Print book
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A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life... |
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Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days
Javon Beard - Weinstein Books Format: Hardcover
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Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary at Neverland, Michael Jackson spent his final years moving from city to city, living with his three children in virtual seclusiona futile attempt to escape a world that wouldnt leave him alone. During that time, two men served... |
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Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel . . . and Beyond
George Christie - St Martin'S Press Format: Print book
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After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As president of the high-profile Ventura charter of the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger's yang. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de facto world leader of the Hells Angels. Christie was the negotiator,... |
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The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America
Joseph Berger - Harper Perennial; Original edition Format: Paperback
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As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to astonishing proportions, veteran New York Times journalist Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social and political... |
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison - Doubleday; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose voices moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George... |
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Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
Dave Isay - Penguin Books Format: Print book
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Stories of passion, courage, and commitment, following individuals as they pursue the work they were born to do, from StoryCorps founder Dave IsayIn Callings, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some found their paths at a very... |
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Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir
Darryl Mcdaniels - Amistad Format: Print book
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In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts - one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.As... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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The Godfather Notebook
Francis Ford Coppola - Regan Arts Format: Paperback
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THE PUBLISHING SENSATION OF THE YEAR FOR EVERY FILM FAN The never-before-published edition of Francis Ford Coppola's notes and annotations on The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo reveals the story behind one of the world's most iconic films. The most important unpublished work on one of the greatest... |
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City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran
Ramita Navai - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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Rich, absorbing, and exoticCity of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran’s pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city’s southern districts.Ramita Navai gives voice... |
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Riley Unlikely: With Simple Childlike Faith, Amazing Things Can Happen
Riley Banks Snyder - Zondervan Format: Print book
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Riley Unlikely is the inspiring story of Riley Banks, who first traveled to Kenya at age 13, and has been back every year since bringing backpacks of school supplies and hygiene kits for young girls, developing relationships and friendships, and is currently, as a young millennial, raising... |
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Jennifer Weiner - Atria Books Format: Book
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"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." - Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? "A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first... |
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Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America
Jonathan Darman - Random House; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground. In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these... |
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Boy who runs : the odyssey of julius achon.
Julius Achon - Ballantine Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall's Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children's... |
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Laura Jane Grace - Hachette Books Format: Print book
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"If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman/ My mother once told me she would have named me Laura/ I would grow up to be strong and beautiful like her."-The OceanA searing account of her search for identity and true self, TRANNY reveals the struggles... |
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Black and White: The Way I See It
Richard Williams - Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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He’d set his mind to raise two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis well before they could even hold a racket. The father of Venus and Serena Williams had a grand plan for his daughters. The source of his vision, the method behind his execution, and the root of his indomitable... |
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Megan Marshall - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet - painfully shy and living out of public... |
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A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of Franois Mitterrand
Philip Short - Henry Holt and Company Format: Hardcover
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The man who changed the course of modern FranceIn 1981, Franois Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led the country for 14 years, longer than any other French head of state in modern times. Mitterrand mirrored... |
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84 Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff - Avon Books Format: Paperback
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It all began with a letter inquiring about second-hand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. As Helene's sarcastic and witty letters are responded to by the stodgy and proper Frank Doel of 84, Charing Cross Road, a relationship... |
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Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
Taras Grescoe - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily "Mickey" Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose... |
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Freedom: My Book of Firsts
Jaycee Lee Dugard - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old,... |
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The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics
John W Hickenlooper - Penguin Press Format: Print book
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The maverick (and very funny) governor of Colorado tells his story, from early loss to college on the ten-year plan, to remarkable business and political success In just over a decade, John Hickenlooper has gone from brew pub entrepreneur to governor of Colorado, hailed by political... |
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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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The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
Ali Khan MD - PublicAffairs Format: Print book
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An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases - and the panic and corruption that make them worseThroughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million... |
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Books for Living
Will Schwalbe - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new?... |
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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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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
David Ritz - Hachette Audio Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left... |
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Victoria: A Life
A. N. Wilson - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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PENJacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015 LONGLISTA shimmering and rather wonderful biography. --The Guardian UK When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe... |
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Richard III: England's Black Legend
Desmond Seward - Pegasus; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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With the recent discovery of Richard IIIs remains, a newly-revised edition of the celebrated biography of Englands most notorious king. With the victory of Henry Tudor, the usurping dynasty made an effort to besmirch the last Plantagenetxs reputation, and some historians claim that Richardxs... |
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The Making of Donald Trump
David Cay Johnston - Melville House Format: Print book
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The culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, David Cay Johnston, takes a revealingly close look at the mogul's rise to power and prominence. Covering the long arc of Trump's career, Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from... |
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Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
Isabel Vincent - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Format: Print book
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"I loved every moment of this book . . . Everyone deserves their own Edward--and everyone deserves to read this book." - Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of Brain on Fire When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave,... |
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Trump and Me
Mark Singer - Tim Duggan Books Format: Print book
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Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race - in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants - he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.It... |
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The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'Sullivan - Bloomsbury Press Format: Print book
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The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed... |
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Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
Andrew Schulman - Picador Format: Print book
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For millennia, music has been known to have a powerful role in the healing process. This moving and inspiring book tells the tale of a man pulled from the brink of death by music who, in turn, uses music as medicine to help heal others. Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year-old professional... |
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
Hermione Lee - Knopf; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW' S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle TimesWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyThe acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most... |
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Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir
H.D.S. Greenway - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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David Greenway, a journalist’s journalist in the tradition of Michael Herr, David Halberstam, and Dexter Filkins. In this vivid memoir, he tells us what it’s like to report a war up close.Reporter David Greenway was at the White House the day Kennedy was assassinated. He was in the jungles... |
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The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism
Edward Follis - Gotham Format: Hardcover
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A highly decorated veteran DEA agent recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorismWhat exactly is undercover? From a law-enforcement perspective, undercover is the art of skillfully eliciting incriminating statements.... |
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My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir
Brian Turner - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A war memoir of unusual literary beauty and power from the acclaimed poet who wrote the poem The Hurt Locker. In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner crossed the line of departure with a convoy of soldiers headed into the Iraqi desert. Now he lies awake each night beside his sleeping wife, imagining... |
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Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Richard Brookhiser - Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition Format: Hardcover
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Argues that the sixteenth president of the United States was inspired by the Founding Fathers of the nation and struggled to carry on their work throughout his career. |
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A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
Juliet Nicolson - Farrar Format: Print book
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A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable womenAll families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation... |
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Mike Huckabee - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election!In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York... |
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black... |
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Orwell's Nose: A Pathological Biography
John Sutherland - Reaktion Books Format: Print book
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In 2012 writer John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time, he embarked on a rereading of George Orwell and - still coping with his recent disability - noticed something peculiar: Orwell was positively obsessed with smell. In this original, irreverent biography,... |
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American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth Seton
Joan Barthel - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father... |
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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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My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead - Crown Publishers Format: Print book
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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal... |
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Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo - New Press Format: Print book
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Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda - threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist,... |
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Man of the world : the further adventures of bill clinton
Joe Conason - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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Veteran political journalist Joe Conason takes readers inside the post-presidential exploits of the perpetually fascinating Bill Clinton - and finds his continuing adventures just as colorful, controversial, and significant as his earlier political career.The extraordinary post-presidency... |
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Samurai: A History
John Man - HarperCollins Publishers Format: Paperback
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The inspiration for the Jedi knights of Star Wars and the films of Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese samurai have captured modern imaginations. Yet with these elite warriors who were bound by a code of honor called Bushido - the Way of the Warrior - the reality behind the myth proves... |
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The Last Rescue: How Faith and Love Saved a Navy SEAL Sniper
Howard Wasdin - Thomas Nelson Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of war, a Navy SEAL finds faith, hope, and love. Howard Wasdin, author of SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (22 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list) , survived the firestorm made famous in Black Hawk Down only to return to a world without support,... |
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Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side
Tyler Henry - Gallery Books Format: Print book
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From Tyler Henry, a twenty-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!'s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes Between Two Worlds, a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far."Dying doesn't mean having to say goodbye." Tyler Henry discovered his gift... |
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There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll
Lisa Robinson - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insiders behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem,... |
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Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California
Gregory Orfalea - Scribner; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junpero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junpero Serra left his position... |
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Moriz Scheyer - Little Brown and Company Format: Print book
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist.... |
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Someday You Will Understand: My Father's Private World War II
Nina Wolff Feld - Arcade Publishing Format: Book
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Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium. On the eve of the German invasion, in May 1940, the family began its second escape. Their sixteen-month odyssey took them through the chaos... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird - Random House Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Philippe Girard - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history
Toussaint Louvertures life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) , the richest colony... |
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Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice
Emily Winslow - William Morrow & Company Format: Print book
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In the vein of Alice Sebold s Lucky, comes a compelling, real-life crime mystery and gripping memoir of the cold case prosecution of a serial rapist, told by one of his victims. On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at hisapartment in Brooklyn.... |
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The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family
William J Mann - Harpercollins Format: Print book
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The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influential families - the Roosevelts - exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic... |
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J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist
Thomas Beller - New Harvest; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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J.D. Salinger published his first story in The New Yorker at age twenty-nine. Three years later came The Catcher in The Rye, a novel that has sold more than sixty-five million copies and achieved mythic status since its publication in 1951. Subsequent books introduced a new type in contemporary... |
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Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity
David M. Friedman - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Print book
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The story of Oscar Wildes landmark 1882 American tour explains how this quotable literary eminence became famous for being famous.On January 3, 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old geniusat least by his own reckoningarrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made such a spectacle... |
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Even This I Get to Experience
Norman Lear - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written ... An absolute treasure." --Booklist (STARRED)In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced,... |
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American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman
John S.D. Eisenhower - NAL Hardcover Format: Hardcover
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From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general."... |
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Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man
Marcus Baram - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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Best known for his polemic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron was a musical icon who defied characterization He tantalized audiences with his charismatic stage presence and his biting observant lyrics in such singles as The Bottle and Johannesburg provide a time capsule... |
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Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
Kevin Roose - Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Becoming a young Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money-- as well... |
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I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
Annabelle Gurwitch - Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Actress and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with I See You Made an Effort, a book of essays so wickedly funny it may make you forget your last birthday. Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the slyly subversive O, The Oprah Magazine Gurwitch confronts the various... |
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Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir
Wendy Davis - Blue Rider Press Format: Hardcover
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Wendy Davis has had her share of tough fights. Raised by a single mother with a ninth-grade education, Davis began working after school at age fourteen to contribute to the family finances. By the time she was nineteen, she was living in a trailer park with a baby daughter and holding down... |
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My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir
Chris Offutt - Atria Books Format: Print book
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After inheriting 400 novels of pornography written by his father in the 1970s and '80s, critically acclaimed author Chris Offutt sets out to make sense of a complicated father-son relationship in this carefully observed, beautifully written memoir."Clearing Dad's office felt like prospecting... |
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Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind The Theory of Everything
Jane Hawking - Alma Books Format: Print book
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Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age and the author of the scientific bestseller A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 25 million copies. In this compelling memoir, his first wife, Jane Hawking, relates the inside story... |
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Black Prophetic Fire
Cornel West - Beacon Press Format: Hardcover
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An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies In an accessible conversational format Cornel West with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders Frederick... |
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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Amanda Vaill - Farrar, Straus & Giroux Format: Print book
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A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil WarMadrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe -- a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" -- six people meet and find their... |
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Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman's Ties to Two Worlds
Saloma Miller Furlong - Herald Press Format: Paperback
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At age twenty, Saloma Miller left behind her Amish community in Burton, Ohio, and boarded a night train for Vermont, where she knew no one.In this poignant coming-of-age memoir, Saloma's new life of freedom includes work as a waitress and plans to continue her education. Romance also... |
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Sally Ride: Americas First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr - Tantor Audio Format: Audiobook
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Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, inspiring several generations of women. After a second flight, Ride served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion... |
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Stronger
Jeff Bauman - Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALThe New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing... |
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George Marshall: A Biography
Debi Unger - Harper; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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A major historical biography of George C. Marshallthe general who ran the U.S. campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of post-war Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prizeand the first to offer a complete picture of his life.While... |
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee - Ecco Format: Print book
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A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the author's viral Buzzfeed essayChristine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form... |
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Simply Rich: Life and Lessons from the Cofounder of Amway: A Memoir
Rich DeVos - Howard Books; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive autobiography, Rich DeVos reflects on work, faith, family, and the core values he’s held on to, from his humble, Christian upbringing through his enormous success as cofounder of one of the world’s largest businesses: Amway. A prominent businessman, self-made... |
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Hurricane Street
Ron Kovic - Akashic Books Format: Print book
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"Hurricane Street...[is] another raw expose on the cost of war. The book, which he calls a prequel, drills deep into the 17-day drama of a 1974 sit-in and hunger strike staged by Kovic and a band of fellow wounded veterans who took the federal building on Wilshire Boulevard... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson - Dey Street Books Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future
Caitlin Shetterly - G.P. Putnam's Sons Format: Print book
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A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary... |
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No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken
Norman Van Aken - Natl Book Network Format: Hardcover
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No Experience Necessary is Chef Norman Van Aken's joyride of a memoir. In it he spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobs - including the fateful job advertisement in the local paper for a short-order cook with "no experience necessary."Long considered a culinary renegade... |
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The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana
Tony Dokoupil - Random House Inc Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Blow and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Last Pirate is a vivid, haunting and often hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family man who joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and exploded his life in the process. Three decades later, his son came... |
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All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
Geraldine DeRuiter - PublicAffairs Format: Print book
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Most travel memoirs involve a button-nosed protagonist nursing a broken heart who, rather than tearfully watching The Princess Bride while eating an entire 5-gallon vat of ice cream directly out of the container (like a normal person) , instead decides to travel the world, inevitably... |
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
Liz Pryor - Random House Format: Print book
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For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through... |
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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
Peter McGraw - Simon & Schuster, 2014. Format: Paperback
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Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist "shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why" (New York Post) .Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball... |
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Disaster Falls: A Family Story
Stephane Gerson - Crown Format: Print book
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A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stphane huddled in a tent... |
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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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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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