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Robert A. Caro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed booksFor the first time in book form, Robert...
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Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story

Dave Thompson - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book

Dancing Barefoot is the full and true story of Patti Smith, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American artists of the rock 'n' roll era, a performer whose audience and appeal reach far beyond the parameters of rock.An acclaimed poet, a respected artist, and a figurehead...
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The Promise: A Tragic Accident, a Paralyzed Bride, and the Power of Love, Loyalty, and Friendship

Rachelle Friedman - Globe Pequot Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller!Just weeks before her wedding, four of Rachelle Friedman's friends threw her a bachelorette party. At the end of a perfect evening of dancing and celebration, they decided to take a moonlight swim. One of her friends playfully pushed her into the water . . . two feet...
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The Escape Artist

Fremont, Helen - GALLERY BOOKS

A luminous family memoir from the author of the critically acclaimed Boston Globe bestseller, After Long Silence, lauded as "mesmerizing" (The Washington Post Book World) , "extraordinary" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and "a triumphant work of art"...
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Media Lynching: The Persecution of Michael Skakel

Robert F Kennedy - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

In 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also fifteen, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation,...
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Mikey and Me: Life with My Exceptional Sister

Teresa Sullivan - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

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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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

WILLIAM MCRAVEN - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Should be read by every leader in America...a book to inspire your children and grandchildren to become everything that they can." --Wall Street Journal"Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national...
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Delta Lady: A Memoir

Rita Coolidge - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience.She inspired songs - Leon Russell wrote "A Song for You" and "Delta Lady" for her, Stephen Stills...
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Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

Agne?s Poirier - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

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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Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer

Hannes R?stam - Canongate UK; Main edition
Format: Paperback

"Sweden's most suspenseful murder mystery may not be a fictional account from Stieg Larsson or Henning Mankell. It may end up being the true story of Thomas Quick."  —Wall Street Journal "I wonder what you'd think of me if you found out that I've done...
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