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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Adeline Yen Mah
Format: Hardcover
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"Riveting. A marvel of memory. Poignant proof of the human will to endure." Amy Tan. "Brilliant, compelling, and unforgettable. A heart-rending modern day Cinderella story set against the turbulence of 20th century China. Autobiography at its best." Nien Chang, author of Life and Death... |
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Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle
Si Robertson - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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As you read this book, there are a few things you have to understand 95 percent of my stories are truthful. Every member of the Robertson family has the God- given gift of storytelling. Hey, when youve sat in a duck blind for more than half of your life, you have to figure out some way to pass... |
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When the Killer Man Comes: Eliminating Terrorists As a Special Operations Sniper
Paul Martinez - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling combat memoir by special operations sniper Paul Martinez, who spent seven years in Special Operations and was a sniper assigned to 3rd Ranger Battalion.America has one force with the single mission of direct action to capture or kill the enemy. That force is the 75th Ranger... |
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Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession
Anne Rice - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith. Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana followed.And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of the spiritual... |
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Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
John Milton Cooper - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The first major biography of America's twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America's foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president - he helped... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
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Homer's "Odyssey"
Gwen Cooper - Bantam Press
Format: Hardcover
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The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. But Homer was no ordinary cat. He was a three week old, abandoned, eyeless kitten and Gwen was unable to resist his charm. It was love at first... |
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Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure
Cheryl Alters Jamison - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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After years of writing award-winning cookbooks, Cheryl and Bill Jamison were ready to take a break. They packed their bags, locked up their house in Santa Fe, and set off on a three-month-long visit to ten countries - all on frequent-flier miles. |
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The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story
HÌ£anaÌn Shaykh - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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"One of the most daring female writers of the Middle East" (San Francisco Chronicle) gives us an extraordinary work of nonfiction: an account of her mother's remarkable life, at the core of which is a tale of undying love. In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan... |
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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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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert - Viking Adult; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never,... |
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The Grace of Silence: A Memoir
Michele Norris - Pantheon; First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of talk of a "postracial" America upon Barack Obama's ascension as president of the United States, Michele Norris, cohost of National Public Radio's flagship program All Things Considered, set out to write, through original reporting, a book about "the... |
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Nelson: Love and Fame
Edgar Vincent - Yale University Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Horatio Nelson's life - his naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership, scandalous romance, and untimely death as he led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. This biography of Nelson (1758-1805) presents an account of his climb to fame as well as the details... |
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General George Washington: A Military Life
Edward G. Lengel - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and father of his country. Less often discussed is Washingtons military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing... |
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Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage
Ruth A. Hawkins - The University of Arkansas Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley among a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline grew close... |
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Under Lincoln's Hat: 100 Objects That Tell the Story of His Life and Legacy
James M Cornelius - Lyons Press
Format: Print book
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What is the oldest artifact linked to Abraham Lincoln? What does a poem written when he was just a schoolboy say about his character? Taking its cue from The History of the World in 100 Objects, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum have selected 100 items from their extensive... |
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Sky Lantern
Matt Mikalatos - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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Matt Mikalatos offers a poignant and compassionate look at a father's relationship with his children, the healing power of a small act of kindness, and the certainty that even death can't stop love in a deeply moving memoir inspired by a sky lantern with a scribbled note and the journey... |
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Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson
Jan Jarboe Russell - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson with startling new insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnson and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency.Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson emerges in this first comprehensive biography... |
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Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion
Susannah Charleson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunionOne in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope... |
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The Butler: A Witness to History
Wil Haygood - Atria / 37 INK; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars... |
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Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
Elmer Kelton - Forge Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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One thing is certain a reviewer in True West Magazine recently said as long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton Western literature will never dieFew would disagree with the assessment of the man whose peers voted the Best Western writer of all time and whose novels form a testament... |
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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Sherie M. Randolph - University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. In the first biography of Kennedy, Sherie M. Randolph traces the life and political... |
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Waiting for Eli: A Father's Journey from Fear to Faith
Chad Judice - Acadian House Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Waiting For Eli: A Father's Journey from Fear to Faith is a 176-page hardcover book about a Lafayette, La., couple and their infant son Eli who was born with a dreaded birth defect called spina bifida. It is an inspiring story of faith, hope and the power of prayer. The book takes us on an emotional... |
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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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Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
Julie Powell - Little
Format: Print book
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Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING.Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides... |
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The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat
Dave Tomar - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Last fall, a writer using the pseudonym Ed Dante wrote an explosive article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, confessing to writing term papers for a living. Technically, they are "study guides," and the companies that sell them-there are quite a few-are completely legal and easily... |
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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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Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Patricia Lockwood - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father."Destined to be a classic. . .this year's must-read memoir." - Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club Father... |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite... |
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Book1: Cloud of Expectation
Mike Westphal - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book
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Fishing & baseball & endless summer vacations . . . the first stirrings of rock 'n' roll on the radio . . . adults quietly and firmly in charge . . . Westphal unspools memory and detail to depict a town that is both the Mayberry of Andy Griffith and the Gibbsville of John... |
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Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969
David Eisenhower - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., at the end of his second term, he retired to a farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that he had bought a decade earlier. Living on the farm with the former president and his wife, Mamie, were his son, daughter-in-law, and four... |
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Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo
Betty White - Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Americas sweetheart, impassioned lifelong animal welfare advocate, and New York Times-bestselling author Betty White offers intimate and funny stories about her animal friends at the zoo, enhanced by gorgeous four-color photographs. , |
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Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India
Kief Hillsbery - HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India-a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light. In 1841, twenty-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He went on to serve... |
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Black Women in America
Darlene Clark Hine - Oxford university press
Format: Book
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Winner of the Dartmouth Medal for Outstanding Reference Publication of 1994, the first edition of Black Women in America broke ground - pulling together for the first time all of the research in this vast but underrepresented field to provide one of the strongest building blocks of Black... |
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Last of the Donkey Pilgrims
Kevin O'Hara - Forge Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A heartwarming story of a man who journeys to the land of his people to discover what kind of man he is . . . and, more to the point, what kind of man he could becomeKevin O'Hara was a man who was at the crossroads of life. Newly married to a beautiful woman, Kevin found himself full... |
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The Color of Water: A Black Mans Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Kill Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love... |
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZENAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist * Time * Newsweek * Foreign... |
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Last Words: A Memoir
George Carlin - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Now in paperback, this posthumous work by an American classic was a fitting last book, an instant bestseller, and a huge success!One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy, with nineteen appearances on the Johnny Carson show, thirteen HBO specials, five Grammys, and a critical... |
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The Removers: A Memoir
Andrew Meredith - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A dark, poignant, and emotionally brave coming-of-age memoir: the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.For almost twenty years I mistook my father's downfall as my own. But it wasn't. It was not my sister's either, nor my mother's.... |
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The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir
John Grogan - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Finding your place in the world can be the longest trip home… In the highly anticipated follow-up to Marley & Me, John Grogan again works his magic, bringing us the story of what came first. Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic... |
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H. L. Mencken: the Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition:
H L Mencken - Library Of America
Format: Hardcover
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A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure... |
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Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
Maria Mutch - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this soul-stirring debut memoir, Maria Mutch explores the miraculous power that care and communication have in the face of the deep, personal isolation that often comes with disability. A chronicle of the witching hours between midnight and six a.m., this meditative book takes place... |
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Sophie: The Incredible True Story of the Castaway Dog
Emma Pearse - Da Capo Lifelong Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The story that became a global sensation: Sophie, the Australian cattle dog who was lost at sea and swam six miles through shark-infested waters to a remote island where she survived in the wild for five months. It was just another day in paradise as Jan and Dave Griffith, along with... |
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Franklin: Writings
Benjamin Franklin - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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Depicting Franklin as a controversial figure in his own time, this volume includes political, economic, and social pieces, scientific articles, opinions on education and religion, propaganda exercises drawn from "Silence Dogwood," writings from the "Pennsylvania Gazette,"... |
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William Howard Taft.
Lapham Lewis H.; Blum John M. - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders' vision against new populist threats to American democracyWilliam Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United... |
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Love, Greg & Lauren
Greg Manning - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning-a wife, the mother of a ten-month-old son, and a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald-came to work, as always, at One World Trade Center. As she stepped into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft,... |
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Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself: A Memoir
Eileen Rockefeller - Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering philanthropist and daughter of American royalty reveals what it was like to grow up in one of the world’s most famous families. The great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, Eileen Rockefeller learned in childhood that while wealth and fame could open any door,... |
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The Rancher Takes a Wife: A True Account of Life on the Last Great Cattle Frontier
Richmond P Hobson - Seal Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Continue on the adventure with The Rancher Takes a Wife, the conclusion to Richmond Hobson's western frontier trilogy! The interior of British Columbia in the early 20th century is a jungle of swamps, rivers, and grasslands. It's a vast and still barely explored wilderness,... |
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Every Living Thing
James Herriot - St. Martin's Press
Format: Paperback
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The author of All Creatures Great and Small offers readers a collection of new memoirs, describing the family and friends who share his life on the Yorkshire dales. 750,000 first printing. Major ad/promo. |
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The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China
Huan Hsu - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang,... |
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Zachary Taylor: The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850
John S D Eisenhower - Times Books
Format: Print book
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The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil WarZachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen... |
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American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Richard Blow - Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The last, defining years of the life of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as seen by an editor who worked for him at George magazine.At thirty-four, better known for his social life than his work as an assistant district attorney, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was still a man in search of his destiny. All that... |
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Pieces of My Heart: A Life
Robert J. Wagner - It Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller Pieces of My Heart is the revelation-filled memoir from one of Hollywoods most talented actors, Robert J. Wagner. He offers readers a candid and deeply personal look at his life and career, from his rise to stardom among legends like Cary Grant and Barbara... |
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Books: A Memoir
Larry McMurtry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In an intimate and intriguing memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove recounts his lifelong love affair with books, from his largely "bookless" boyhood and discovery of literature as a young man, to the evolution of his writing career and his passion as a book... |
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The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
William Shawcross - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles - and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon - the ninth of the Earl... |
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Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
Norman Ollestad - Ecco
Format: Print book
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Dad Said Ollestad, we can do it all. . . . Why do you make me do this? Because it's beautiful when it all comes together. I don't think it's ever beautiful. One day. Never. We'll see, my father said. Vamanos. From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust... |
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Unforgettable Texans
Bartee Haile - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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History books burst at the seams with stories about Houston, Travis, Crockett and other icons of Texas history. Yet many of the Lone Star State's fascinating figures--well known in life but forgotten in death--remain obscure by omission. This scintillating company includes a World War I spy who became... |
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Great Artists: The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work
Robert Cumming - DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover
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This chronological anthology of 50 master artists and their pivotal works spans six centuries and provides reproductions of stunning masterpieces by such greats as Matisse, Picasso, Edward Hopper, and Leonardo da Vinci. 250 illustrations. |
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
Jenny Uglow - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated author of Hogarth--An animated, swarming group portrait of the friends who launched the Industrial RevolutionIn the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things,... |
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamotts book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway bestseller, Plan B Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.The world is a more dangerous place than it was when... |
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Seldom Disappointed
Tony Hillerman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France,... |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1841-1877
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation-his journals- remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse for almost 60 years, Emerson's journals... |
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This exhilarating saga about two intrepid young women who leave the affluence of their New York home to teach school on the Western frontier in 1916 is authentically created using actual letters home and interviews with descendants.Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood attended grade... |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1820-1842
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation-his journals- remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse for almost 60 years, Emersons journals... |
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever
JAMES PATTERSON - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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In deze aantekening gaan we in op de uitzondering van de aftrekuitsluiting van werkkleding en persoonlijke verzorging voor artiesten, presentatoren en sporters (aant. 14.1) en de relatie van de aftrekuitsluiting van deze kosten in het tweede lid, onderdeel c en de uitzondering voor artiesten,... |
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Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer
John Leake - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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"I was a greedy, ravenous individual, determined to rise from the bottom to the top . . . It wasnt me!"--Jack Unterwegers final words to his jury. Serial killers rarely travel internationally. So in the early 1990s, when detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department began... |
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Mark Jonathan Harris
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For nine months before the outbreak of World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission. It opened its doors to over 10,000 endangered children-90 percent of them Jewish-from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children were taken into foster homes and ho |
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Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter R. Borneman - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover
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In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda:... |
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House of Abraham
Stephen William Berry - Houghton Mifflin Company
Format: Book : Biography Archival Material : EnglishView all editions and formats
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For all the talk of the CivilWar's pitting brother against brother, no book has told fully the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own.Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between... |
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The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
David Kaiser - Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman -- the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. This is the unvarnished story.. With deft investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without... |
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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 Business Book
DK Publishing - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Packed with innovative graphics and simple explanations of business concepts, from managing risk and alternative business models to effective leadership and thinking outside the box, The Business Book covers every facet of business management. Big ideas make great business thinkers and leaders.... |
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann - Little, Brown and Company, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed... |
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What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing
Ron Hall - Thomas Nelson; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New thoughts and reflections from the authors of the inspirational New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different as Me. The more than four hundred thousand readers stirred by the story of Ron Hall and Denver Moore will resonate with the all new, stand-alone true stories of hope and healing... |
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever
James Patterson - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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De aanleg van een heuvel om daarop bij eb gesneden riet te bewaren, werd door Hof 's\xFD\xFD\xFDGravenhage 29 juni 1962, BNB 1963/29 , aangemerkt als een grondverbetering, met gevolg dat de kosten geactiveerd moesten worden. De aanleg van de onderhavige heuvel stelde niet meer voor dan een plaatselijke... |
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James A. Garfield: The American Presidents Series: The 20th President, 1881
Arthur M. Schlesinger - Times Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics--only to be felled by an assassins bullet and to die at the hands of his doctorsJames A Garfield was one of the Republican Partys leading lights in the years following the Civil War Born in a log cabin he rose to become... |
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Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut
José M. Hernández - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernàndez dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. REACHING FOR THE STARS is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut.Hernàndez... |
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Alias Frank Canton
Robert K. Dearment - Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Format: Hardcover
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Here for the first time is the complete life story of the controversial lawman Frank Canton, born Joe Horner, who, after conviction and imprisonment for armed robbery, escaped to change his name and transform himself into an ambitious, hard-working peace officer pursuing felons all over... |
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Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters
Jane Dunn - William Collins
Format: Paperback
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Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of 'Rebecca',... |
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Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857
Michael F. Holt - Times Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House... |
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The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
Jan Garden Castro - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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An unusual treasure--an illustrated work about the life, world, inspirations, and paintings of this famous American artist. 136 full-color and black-and-white illustrations. |
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Ike: An American Hero
Michael Korda - Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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A big ambitious and enthralling new biography of Dwight D Eisenhower full of fascinating details and anecdotes which places particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in World War Two and provides with the advantage of hindsight a far more acute analysis of his character... |
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir
Mary Karr - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A trenchant memoir of a troubled American childhood from the child's point of view describes growing up in a an East Texas refinery town, life in the midst of a turbulent family of drunks and liars, a schoolyard rape, and other dark secrets. 25,000 first printing. |
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One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter
Julene Bair - Mid List Pr
Format: Paperback
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A powerful elegy - flirty and tender - for American farm life. A daughter's story of fierce family struggle and love. These linked essays have the immediacy of fiction and an enduring wisdom attaining to history. |
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John Quincy Adams
Harlow Giles Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad.... |
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The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic
Margaret A Oppenheimer - Chicago Review Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who reinvented herself as Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Seizing opportunities and readjusting facts to achieve the security and status she so desperately... |
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Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet
Sidney D Kirkpatrick - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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The New York Times bestselling writer presents the definitive biography of, father of the New Age and harbinger of alternative medicine: a mesmerizing chronicle of healings and prophesies by the psychic who introduced the modern world to the connection between mind, body, and spirit. Edgar... |
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The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life
Lois Ehlert - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover
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The renowned Caldecott Honoree and illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom provides a moving, intimate, and inspiring inside look at her colorful picture book career.Lois Ehlert always knew she was an artist. Her parents encouraged her from a young age by teaching her how to sew and saw wood... |
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Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love
Bret Baier - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Special Heart is a deeply touching personal story told through the eyes of a journalist as he faces the most daunting challenge in life -- far more frightening than reporting from battlefields, infinitely more momentous than interviewing newsmakers of the day: caring for his critically... |
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Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir
Donna M. Johnson - Gotham; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Donna Johnsons remarkable story of being raised under the biggest gospel tent in the world, by David Terrell, one of the most famous evangelical ministers of the 1960s and 70s. Holy Ghost Girl is a compassionate, humorous exploration of faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the sawdust... |
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Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant
Jennifer Grant - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jennifer Grant is the only child of Cary Grant, who was, and continues to be, the epitome of all that is elegant, sophisticated, and deft. Almost half a century after Cary Grant’s retirement from the screen, he remains the quintessential romantic comic movie star. He stopped making... |
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Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Tom Kizzia - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Into the WildmeetsHelter Skelterin this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with... |
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A. Lincoln: A Biography
Ronald C White - Random House
Format: Audio CD
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"If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln." - USA TodayNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post * The Philadelphia Inquirer * The Christian Science Monitor * St. Louis Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARDEveryone... |
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Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
Laura Bates - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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"A powerful testament to how Shakespeare continues to speak to contemporary readers in all sorts of circumstances." - Booklist "The work that Laura Bates has been doing for years with prison inmates and Shakespeare is of extraordinary importance. It has a kind of beauty and symmetry... |
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An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Henry Wiencek - Farrar
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slaveryWhen George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret."... |
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Eisenhower: A Biography (Great Generals)
Wesley K. Clark - Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the third installment of the Great Generals series, WWII expert John Wukovits explores Dwight D. Eisenhower's contributions to American warfare. American general and 34th president of the United States, Eisenhower led the assault on the French coast at Normandy and held together... |
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The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic: A "Walk" in Austin (Crown Journeys)
Kinky Friedman - Crown; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favorite city: Austin.Maybe you want to know which restaurant President Bush rates as his favorite Austin burger joint. Or maybe you want a glimpse of Willie Nelson’s home life (hint:... |
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Full of Heart: My Story of Survival, Strength, and Spirit
Alexandra Rockey Fleming - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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An inspirational journey from tragedy to triumph In 2003, nineteen-year-old Private J.R. Martinez was on a routine patrol when the Humvee he was driving hit an antitank mine in Iraq, resulting in severe injuries and burns on his face and more than one-third of his body. Out of that tragedy... |
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Instant Mom
Nia Vardalos - HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family."Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a headlock. So she made a choice that... |
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