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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

Eddie Jaku
Format: Hardcover


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Even This I Get to Experience

Norman Lear - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"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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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

Dawn Anahid MacKeen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation...
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

ROXANE GAY - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. "Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your...
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The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

Alexander Larman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler -- and each other.. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared...
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Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life

Julianna Margulies - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Julianna Margulies now unleashes her sharp talent with a powerful debut memoir chronicling her life and her work, examining from within her journey from chaos to calm."When an actor is on a long running television show, especially when the writing is superb as was the case with The Good...
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The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived

William H. McRaven - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover


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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America

MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A young man's moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen,...
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The Meaning of Michelle: 15 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Veronica Chambers - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A NEW IN NONFICTION PEOPLE PICK | NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Huffington Post * Glamour * Bustle * RedEyeA Los Angeles Times bestseller**One of BookRiot's '11 Books to Help Us Make It Through a Trump Presidency'****One of The Guardian's...
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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

Samantha Allen - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast reporter...
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