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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 Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
Ann M Little - Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other... |
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
David Adam - Sarah Crichton Books Format: Hardcover
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"Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this ... fusion of science, history, and memoir, [science editor and writer] David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind and explains... |
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Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead
Bill Kreutzmann - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound... |
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Looking for "The Stranger": Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The University of Chicago Press Format: Print book
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The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be found in a teen's backpack... |
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Meghan: A Hollywood Princess
World Trade Press. - Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover
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From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. |
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Thatcher's Trial: 180 Days that Created a Conservative Icon
Kwasi Kwarteng - Public Affairs, 2015. 2015 Format: Print book
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In 1981, Margaret Thatcher faced the greatest challenge of her premiership. After nearly two years in office, the British economy was in a bad condition; unemployment had reached levels not seen since the 1930s; the public finances were in the worst condition since 1945. The Economist memorably... |
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
Douglas Boin - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire.Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization,"... |
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Paths Less Travelled of a Scholar Warrior
Hon K. Lee - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Format: Print book
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A personal memoir by Hon K. Lee describing his adventures: growing up in New York's Chinatown; being a combat Marine; running CIA clandestine operations; teaching Chinese martial arts; and treating patients with Chinese medicine and acupuncture. His story begins with Lee as a scrawny... |
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom - Broadway Books; 10 Anv Rep edition Format: Paperback
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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie... |
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History's people : personalities and the past
Margaret MacMillan - House of Anansi Press, 2015. Format: Print book
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"In this year's highly anticipated Massey Lectures, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, women and men, who have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times--and... |
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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
Randy L. Schmidt - Chicago Review Press; Reprint edition Format: Print book
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Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar. Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer of the Carpenters. The top-selling... |
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth - Ecco Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planetMore people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep... |
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Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
Alan Paul - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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An instant New York Times bestseller!The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction... |
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Kevin T Dann - TarcherPerigee Format: Print book
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To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic,... |
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John Prine: In Spite of Himself
Eddie Huffman - University of Texas Press Format: Hardcover
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With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs "Angel from Montgomery," "Sam Stone," and "Paradise" to the classic country music parody "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," John Prine is a songwriter's songwriter. Across five decades,... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance - Harper Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."... |
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The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up
Michael J Meyer - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries,... |
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Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
C. Nicole Mason - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life... So begins Born Bright,... |
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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
Cullen Murphy - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut SchoolFor a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nations top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stones throw of one another... |
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration... |
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Word for Word: A Memoir
Lilianna Lungina - Overlook Hardcover Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling sensation in Russia, where it was called the most significant cultural event of the year,” Word for Word is nothing less than the story of a nation’s literary consciencethe history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a single person.... |
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A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir
Colin Jost - Crown Format: Hardcover
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In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating.Colin Jost has six sets of stitches on his face alone. He's been punched in at least four different sketches on Saturday Night Live, including once by his boss, Lorne... |
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My Story
Tom Smart - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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"For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family,... |
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Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis
Kathryn Sermak - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear. Miss D and Me is a story... |
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Life After Darkness: My Journey to Happiness
MICHELLE KNIGHT - Weinstein Books Format: Hardcover
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From an unruly childhood to a torturous eleven years of captivity, Michelle Knight's story of resilience and hope in Finding Me captivated readers. Now, in Life After Darkness, she tells the story of how she emerged into a new world and wrestled with her past in order to claim the life... |
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Invisible Killer: The Monster Behind the Mask
Diana Montane - Titletown Publishing, LLC; 1 edition Format: Book
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When detectives respond to a crime scene in Orlando, Florida, during the ""summer of hurricanes"" in 2004, they find Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters in the garage of Michelle Jones' home, his niece. Inside the house, they find a scene of horror that reminds... |
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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 Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
SAM KASHNER - Harper Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else - Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill - from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger... |
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The House That Made Me: Writers Reflect on the Places and People that Defined Them
Grant Jarrett - Sparkpress Format: Print book
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Home -- the place where we were born, where we learned our first lessons, where family was defined. The very notion evokes powerful feelings, feelings as individual as our fingerprints, as enduring as the universe and as inescapable as gravity. In this candid, evocative collection of essays,... |
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Jerry Mitchell - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases - decades after they had gotten away with murder.On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings,... |
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive... |
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The Fairy Tale Girl
Susan Branch - Spring Street Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Based on the diaries Susan has kept since she was in her 20s, THE FAIRY TALE GIRL is book one of a two part series. Together the books are an illustrated memoir, charmingly designed in Susan's style with her whimsical watercolors and personal photographs. It's an enchanting story... |
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Every Little Step: My Story
Bobby Brown - Dey St. Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic... |
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Wild and Precious Life
Deborah Ziegler - Emily Bestler Books/Atria Format: Print book
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Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard - a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor - this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter's spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year of life as she chose her right to die with... |
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The Cases That Haunt Us
John E. Douglas - Pocket Books Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year... |
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The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic
Kendall Taylor - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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The romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre has been celebrated as one of the greatest of the 20th century. From the beginning, their relationship was a tumultuous one, in which the couple's excesses were as widely known as their passion for each other. Despite their love, both... |
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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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The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948
Laila Parsons - Hill and Wang Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the military leader who stood at the center of Arab politics for four decadesRevered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman... |
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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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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
Rob Schmitz - Crown Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Shanghai, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China. Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive... |
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
NICK BILTON - PORTFOLIO PENGUIN Format: Print book
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From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported,... |
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A Person First: How I Found the Upside of Down
Egan, David - PROMETHEUS BOOKS
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The first memoir written by a person with Down syndrome In this inspiring memoir, David Egan tells his own story, authentically describing a life of maximizing his abilities, as he advocates for himself and for all other people with disabilities. This book is yet another first in a life... |
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Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years
D L Hughley - William Morrow Format: Print book
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From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as "told" by the key political players on both sides of the aisle.What do the Clintons, Republicans, fellow Democrats, and Obama's own family really think of President Barack Obama? Finally,... |
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32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
Eric Ripert - Random House Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as "heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and inspiring," 32 Yolks is the brave and affecting coming-of-age story about the making of a French chef, from the culinary icon behind the renowned New York City restaurant... |
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Fighting Blind: A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage
Iván Castro - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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Fighting was a practiced routine for Lieutenant Ivan Castro. But when a mortar round struck the rooftop of his sniper's post in Iraq, he found himself in a battle more difficult than even he could have imagined. The direct hit killed two other soldiers and nearly claimed Castro's life as well.... |
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All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson
Mark Griffin - Harper Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood's Golden Age.Devastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered and clean-cut, Rock Hudson was the ultimate movie star. The embodiment of romantic masculinity in American film throughout the '50s and '60s,... |
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Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen
Eric Lerner - Da Capo Press Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner.... |
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It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy
Laurie Notaro - Villard Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREveryone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it’s in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mannequin but leaves her in a literal bind or in her neighborhood after she’s shamefully exposed... |
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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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Masters of the Swindle: True Stories of Con Men, Cheaters & Scam Artists
Gianni Morelli - White Star Publishers Format: Print book
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Con artists, hoaxsters, racketeers, thieves: since the beginning of time, there have always been schemers eager to make sure a fool and his money will soon be parted. Masters of the Swindle tells 40 irresistible tales of deceit, from the late nineteenth century to today. Read all about... |
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To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
MADELEINE BLAIS - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. A little more than two miles down a poorly marked one-lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack -- it had no electricity or modern plumbing, the roof leaked,... |
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Hello, Stranger: My Life on the Autism Spectrum
Barbara Moran - KiCam Projects LLC Format: Paperback
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" ... Insights from a time when a young person with autism grew up in a world where nobody understood them!" - Temple Grandin, author, Thinking in PicturesBarbara Moran has never known how to be good.As a child, she made strange noises, fidgeted constantly, and licked her lips... |
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Where I Come From: Life Lessons from a Latino Chef
Aaron Sanchez - Abrams Press Format: Hardcover
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America's most prominent Latino chef shares the story behind his food, his family, and his professional journey Before Chef Aaron Sanchez rose to fame on shows like MasterChef and Chopped, he was a restless Mexican-American son, raised by a fiercely determined and talented... |
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The World's Largest Man: A Memoir
Harrison Scott Key - Harper Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2016 Thurber PrizeThe riotous, tender story of a bookish Mississippi boy and his flawed, Bunyanesque father, told with the comic verve of David Sedaris and the deft satire of Mark Twain or Roy Blount, Jr.Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi,... |
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Go Slow: The Life of Julie London
Michael Owen - Chicago Review Press Format: Hardcover
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It has been said that the records of singer and actress Julie London were purchased for their provocative, full-color cover photographs as frequently as they were for the music contained in their grooves. During the 1950s and '60s, her piercing blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair, and shapely... |
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Finding the Bright Side: The Art of Chasing What Matters
Shannon Bream - Convergent Books Format: Hardcover
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From the host of Fox News @ Night, a deeply personal book about finding purpose and growth amid life's unpredictability. Whether it's her work today as a reporter and host for Fox News, her years in law school, or the time she spent competing in pageants like Miss America, Shannon... |
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Morgue: A Life in Death
Vincent Dimaio - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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Forensic science is booming. TV dramas, books and movies have made morgues cool. Complex technology and intricate research can take curdled blood, bone shards, and flakes of skin and turn them into justice. And Vincent Di Maio, MD, son of a famous New York City medical examiner, is one of the lions... |
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
Phil Keith - Hanover Square Press Format: Hardcover
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"A truly inspiring story of courage and triumph." - Nelson DeMilleThe incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American... |
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American Vandal: Mark Twain Abroad
Roy Morris Jr. - Belknap Press Format: Hardcover
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For a man who liked being called the American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent overseas and on the popular travel booksThe Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, and Following... |
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A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson
Laura Thompson - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of the notorious "Ilford murder" by the New York Times bestselling author of The SixThe death penalty is never without its ethical conflicts or moral questions. Never more so than when the person being led to the gallows may very well be innocent of the actual... |
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Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded
John Z. Guzlowski - Aquila Polonica Format: Print book
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"A searing memoir." -- Shelf Awareness"Powerful...Deserves attention and high regard." -- Kevin Stein, Poet Laureate of Illinois"Devastating, one-of-a-kind collection" -- Foreword ReviewsIn this major tour de force, John Guzlowski traces the arc of one of the millions... |
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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life
Sarah Kaminsky - DoppelHouse Press Format: Paperback
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As seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper "Every resistance movement had its forgers, but few have told their tales. Many, like Kaminsky, were very young technicians and chemists when they began their work. Sarah Kaminsky's affectionate rendering of her father's life, with all the intricacies... |
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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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Adirondack: Life and Wildlife in the Wild, Wild East
Edward Kanze - Excelsior Editions Format: Paperback
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Probes deeply into Adirondack Mountain lives, both human and otherwise, bringing the area to vivid and colorful life.Born just north of New York City, Edward Kanze traveled as far as the wilds of Australia and New Zealand, working as a naturalist, park ranger, and nature writer, before... |
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Mitchell Zuckoff - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.. 13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby... |
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Who Killed Bob Crane?: The Final Close-Up
John Hook - Get Hooked Media Format: Paperback
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Can Modern DNA Science Crack this Cold Case?The 1978 murder of actor and American icon Bob Crane remains one of the most high-profile unsolved celebrity murders of all time. Thirty-eight years after his brutal murder in Scottsdale, Arizona, millions around the world still want answers.... |
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
W. Caleb McDaniel - Oxford University Press Format: Book
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The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations.
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold... |
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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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Eye Of The Storm: A Civil War Odyssey
Robert Knox Sneden - Free Press Format: Book
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One of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs: the fully illustrated, eyewitness account of the war by a long forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert K. Sneden. |
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A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
Eunsun Kim - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide... |
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EXCUSE ME WHILE I SLIP INTO SOMEONE MORE COMFORTABLE : a memoir
ERIC POOLE - Rosettabooks Format: Print book
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In the great tradition of David Sedaris, David Rakoff, and Augusten Burroughs, memoirist Eric Poole recounts his quirky childhood years in utterly hilarious and painful detail. In 1977, Eric Poole is a talented high school trumpet player with one working ear, the height-to-weight ratio... |
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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
Elizabeth Brown Pryor - Viking Format: Print book
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From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracy An awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of the Civil War. A conversation on the White House portico with a young cavalry sergeant... |
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The Wait: A Powerful Practice to Finding the Love of Your Life
Meagan Good - Howard Books Format: Hardcover
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Hollywood power couple DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good candidly share about their courtship and marriage, and the key to their success - waiting.President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment and former Sony Pictures executive DeVon Franklin and award-winning actress Meagan Good have learned sometimes... |
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Welcome to My Breakdown: A Memoir
Benilde Little - Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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The nationally bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch pens her first book of nonfiction, a "momoir" about her own journey caring for aging parents, raising children, being married, plunging to the depths of depression, and climbing her way out.My mother was gone. I never... |
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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
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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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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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Feel Free: Essays
Zadie Smith - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant... |
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Where We Belong: Journeys That Show Us The Way
Hoda Kotb - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author and beloved Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb - inspiring stories of people who find their life's purpose in unexpected ways, often surprising themselves and the ones they love.Most of us wonder what we're doing. We float around in the glass... |
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Mountain Lines: A Journey through the French Alps
Jonathan Arlan - W W Norton Format: Print book
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A nonfiction debut about an American's solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice.In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France... |
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Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum
Sarah Forbes - St Martin'S Press Format: Print book
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Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex. The anthropology student hesitated when her boyfriend suggested she apply for a job, but apply she did, and it wasn't long before a part-time position at New York's MUSEUM OF SEX lead to a gig as the museum's... |
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The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
Eric Burns - Pegasus Books, 2016. Format: Print book
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Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most fascinating and written-about presidents in American history -- yet the most poignant tale about this larger-than-life man has never been told.More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate.... |
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Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Julia Markus - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron's marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke transformed herself from a neglected wife into a figure of incredible... |
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Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing
Reba Riley - Howard Books Format: Hardcover
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An important inspirational debut, Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome is much more than a memoir about reclaiming faith and overcoming chronic illness. Written with humor and personality, it tackles the universal struggle to heal what life has broken. This is a book for questioners, doubters,... |
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City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Krakw
George Weigel - Image, 2015 ©2015 Format: Print book
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"Karol Wojtya, Pope John Paul II, was a man whose life was the expression of a richly textured and multidimensional soul. The many layers of that soul took on their first, mature form in Krakw." - George Weigel In this beautifully illustrated spiritual travelogue, New York Times... |
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A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story
Tom Gjelten - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration.In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born... |
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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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Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
Jens Andersen - Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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The first Englishlanguage biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed... |
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Getting Real
Gretchen Carlson - Penguin Books Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of Gretchen Carlsons lawsuit against former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, her memoir of her time at Fox - working alongside Megyn Kelly, Bill OReilly, Steve Doocy, and other prominent conservative news personalities - is more relevant than ever.. In this candid memoir,... |
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Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China
Eddie Huang - Random House Audio Format: Audiobook
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From the author of Fresh off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork. Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. Hed written a best-selling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places... |
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch - Hyperion Format: Hardcover
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A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences cant help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last... |
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Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo
SiaÌn Rees - Chicago Review Press Incorporated Format: Print book
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In May 1943, a young Frenchwoman called Lucie Aubrac engineered the escape of her husband, Raymond, from the clutches of Klaus Barbie, the feared Gestapo chief later known as the "Butcher of Lyon. " When Raymond was arrested again that June, Lucie mounted a second astonishing... |
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed - Vintage Books Format: Paperback
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Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can't pay the bills - and it can be great: you've had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar - the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus,... |
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Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West
Chris Enss - TwoDot; First edition Format: Book
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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women by award-winning Western history author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into Western Women’s experience that's less... |
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Lion
Saroo Brierley - New American Library Format: Print book
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First it was a media sensation. Then it became the #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it's Lion, a major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara. This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google... |
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Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours
Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis - G.P. Putnam's Sons Format: Hardcover
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"[S]tirring...a bold, inspiring and ultimately hopeful book." --Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and author of the New York Times bestseller ThriveKaitlin Roig-Debellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved... |
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With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes on My Way Back to KoRn
Brian Welch - Nelson Books Format: Print book
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He left KoRn to help himself. He went back to help others. And along the way, he nearly lost everything. A life-changing spiritual awakening freed Brian "Head" Welch from a stranglehold of drugs and alcohol and prompted him to leave the highly successful nu-metal band KoRn in 2005.... |
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A History of Heists: Bank Robbery in America
Jerry Clark - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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No crime is as synonymous with America as bank robbery. Though the number of bank robberies nationwide has declined, bank robbery continues to captivate the public and jeopardize the safety of banks and their employees. In A History of Heists, Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella explore how bank... |
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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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Boys in the Trees: A Memoir
Carly Simon - Flatiron Books Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Composer and Lyricist.... |
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True Love
Jennifer Lopez - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Format: Hardcover
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In Jennifer Lopez's first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life's most defining periods - the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person... |
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Good mourning
Elizabeth Meyer - Gallery Books, 2015. Format: Print book
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"In this funny, insightful memoir, a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City{u2019}s Upper East Side. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country--where not even... |
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The First Nazi: Erich Ludendorff, The Man Who Made Hitler Possible
William Brownell - Counterpoint, 2016. Format: Print book
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General Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important military individuals of the last century, yet today, one of the least known. One of the top two German generals of World War I, Ludendorff dominated not only his superior - General Paul von Hindenburg - but also Germany's head of state,... |
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American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption
Matt Katz - Threshold Editions Format: Print book
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The ultimate insider to Chris Christie's 2016 presidential campaign delivers a definitive biography of the popular and controversial governor of New Jersey - including the true story behind the Bridgegate lane-closure scandal.Journalist Matt Katz has been covering Christie since 2011 and has seen... |
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Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison
Ramin Jahanbegloo - University of Regina Press Format: Hardcover
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Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran’s notorious Evin prison in 2006. A petition against his imprisonment was initiated, with Umberto Eco, Jurgen... |
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Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Wendell Steavenson - Ecco Format: Hardcover
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Through a series of stunningly rendered, character-drive vignettes, New Yorker writer Wendell Steavenson recounts the events of the Egyptian Revolution - from Mubarak's fall to Morsi's. Here is the panoply of Tahrir Square, a pointillist portrait of a people enacting and reacting... |
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
MERIWETHER LEWIS - National Geographic Format: Paperback
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With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English.At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether... |
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Black lotus : a woman's search for racial identity
Sil Lai Abrams - Karen Hunter Publishing/Gallery Books Format: Print book
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A unique and exquisitely wrought story of one multiracial woman's journey to discover and embrace herself in a family that sought to deny her black heritage, Sil Lai Abrams shares her story in Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity - an account that will undoubtedly ignite... |
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
Taya Kyle - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle... |
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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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A Life in Parts
Bryan Cranston - Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Audiobook
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A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir - both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft - from Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history's most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad.Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven,... |
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Sex Object: A Memoir
Jessica Valenti - Dey Street Books Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerNPR Best Book of 2016"Sharp and prescient ... The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it ... Sex Object is an antidote to the fun and flirty... |
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Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love
Abby Maslin - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered - and they learned to love again. When Abby Maslin's husband, TC, didn't make it home on August... |
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In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family
Fox Butterfield - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.The United States currently holds... |
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Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Crown Archetype Format: Print book
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Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret: her mother,... |
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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Carlos Santana - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition, First Printing edition Format: Hardcover
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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendIn 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years... |
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Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont
Saul Austerlitz - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling account of the Altamont Festival -- and the dark side of the '60s.If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones... |
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So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot
Morgan Ring - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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Niece to Henry VIII, heir to the throne, courtier at risk of being killed, spy-mistress, and ambitious political player, Lady Margaret Douglas is a vital new character in the Tudor story.Amidst the Christmas revels of 1530, a fifteen-year-old girl arrived at the court of King Henry VIII.... |
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Tim Burton: The iconic filmmaker and his work
Ian Nathan - Aurum Press Format: Paperback
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A celebration of the life and films of one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years. A truly international filmmaker, Tim Burton has carved a reputation as one of the world's greatest creative directors, famed for the visually arresting style of his films that... |
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Unconditional Honor: Wounded Warriors and Their Dogs
Cathy Scott - Lyons Press Format: Hardcover
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In this comprehensive and gorgeously illustrated book, Cathy Scott and Clay Myers, with a foreword by former NBA star Bill Walton, show how service and therapy dogs are having a profound impact on the lives of military personnel injured in action. Not only do our veterans deal with physical... |
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Cats on the Job: 50 Fabulous Felines Who Purr, Mouse, and Even Sing for Their Supper
Lisa Rogak - St. Martin's Griffin Format: Paperback
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True Tales of the Cuddliest CoworkersAround the world, there are cats earning their keep. Some are mousers, like Princess, a black cat who works at Mill Ridge Farm's stables. Some are circus performers, like Tuna and her furry friends in The Amazing Acro-Cats. And some are even politicians,... |
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Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell
Jack Olsen - Crime Rant Classics Format: Print book
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For twenty-five years, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him. Mostly Mormons, the naive victims sometimes realized on their wedding nights the truth about what had happened in Dr. Story's office.... |
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Little Weirds
Jenny Slate - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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Step into Jenny Slate's wild, unfiltered imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling) , "delicious" (Amy Sedaris) , and "poignant" (John Mulaney) collection about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful"... |
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Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation
Mirabai Starr - Sounds True, 2015. Format: Print book
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On the day her first book came out-a new translation of Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross-Mirabai Starr's daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car accident. "My spiritual life began the day my daughter died," writes Mirabai. Even with decades of spiritual practice... |
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Capturing Jack the Ripper: In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian England
Neil Bell - Amberley Format: Hardcover
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During the autumn of 1888 a serial killer stalked, brutally murdering his way through the East End of London. Some called him the Whitechapel Monster, while locals referred to him as Leather Apron, but to the world he was known as Jack the Ripper.The responsibility of capturing this murderous... |
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This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home
Margot Kahn - Seal Press Format: Paperback
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Home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it's a place that can be comforting, difficult, nourishing, war-torn, or political. In this breathtaking, thought-provoking collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness,... |
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Suki Kim - Crown Pub Format: Print book
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland.... |
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