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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Allen Kurzweil - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry,... |
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I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
Lee Grant - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue "It... |
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So That Happened: A Memoir
Jon Cryer - New American Library
Format: Hardcover
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If it can happen in show business, it's happened to Jon Cryer. Now he's opening up for the first time and sharing his behind-the-scenes stories in a warmly endearing, sharply observed, and frankly funny look at life in Hollywood.In 1986, Jon Cryer won over America as Molly Ringwald's... |
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The White House Chandeliers: My Experiences While Working for Seven U.S. Presidents
Stewart Calvin Stevens - Lightning Fast Book Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Stewart "Calvin" Stevens Senior's The White House Chandeliers is an incredibly interesting biographical book which chronicles the life of a young man from extremely humble beginnings as a youth in the Washington, DC area, to eventually landing a job as a custodial specialist at the most... |
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On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Norton Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND KIRKUS REVIEWSFrom acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller - one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century. Fourteen years in the making,... |
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"-- |
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Whitney and Bobbi Kristina
Ian Halperin - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Shocking new revelations emerge about superstar Whitney Houston and her only daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, in #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian Halperin's account of their tumultuous lives.On July 26, 2015, after nearly six months in a coma, Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of musical... |
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The Good Luck Cat: How a Cat Saved a Family, and a Family Saved a Cat
Lissa Warren - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lissa Warren’s father needed a retirement companion while his wife and daughter were at work. Enter Ting, a seven-pound Korat who changed his life, and the life of the family. All kittens are mischievous, but Ting “the cat grenade” was real trouble. She was also smart,... |
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The Making of a Man: How Men and Boys Honor God and Live with Integrity
James Lund - Thomas Nelson
Format: Book
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What exactly is manhood? How do guys get there? Tim Brown won the Heisman Trophy at Notre Dame and starred in the NFL for seventeen seasons. He left the game as a Los Angeles and Oakland Raiders legend and one of the most respected men in sports. Now “Mr. Raider” shares his amazing... |
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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
Kenneth L Adelman - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland - the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War - by President Reagan's arms control director, Ken Adelman.In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour... |
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The Folded Clock: A Diary
Heidi Julavits - Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi JulavitsLike many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer)... |
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
Emily Parker - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities unsuccessfully try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. And in Russia, a lone blogger rises to become one of the most prominent opposition... |
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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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Packing Up: Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse
Brigid Keenan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Her bestselling account of life as a "trailing spouse," Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts... |
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Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Neil Patrick Harris - Crown Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the "u" back in "aUtobiography"? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography!... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed
Michelle Knight - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their... |
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Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest
Cyrus Copeland - Blue Rider Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A spy story, a mystery, a father-son heartbreaker: Cyrus Copeland seeks the truth about his father, an American executive arrested in Iran for spying at the time of the 1979 hostage crisis, then put on trial for his life in a Revolutionary Court.As a young boy living in Tehran in 1979,... |
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I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend
Martin Short - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Martin Short takes you on a rich, hilarious,... |
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Bella's Gift: How One Little Girl Transformed Our Family and Inspired a Nation
Rick Santorum - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Rick and Karen Santorum's inspiring story of life with Bella, their special-needs youngest child Four days after Rick and Karen Santorum welcomed their eighth baby into the world they were given the devastating news that their little girl, Bella, was going to die. The full story of life... |
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario - The Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped... |
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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."-NPR.orgThe... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today
Nora Pouillon - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded America's first certified organic restaurant, My Organic Life is the story of an unheralded culinary pioneer who made it her mission to bring delicious, wholesome foods to the American table. While growing up on a farm in the Austrian... |
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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Sheila McCauley Keys - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero - "the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother... |
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understandingof Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth a poor cobblers son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band... |
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American Warlord: A True Story
Johnny Dwyer - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Chucky Taylor is the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor. Raised by his mother in the Florida suburbs, at the age of 17 he followed his father to Liberia, where he ended up leading a murderous militia. Chucky is now in a federal penitentiary, the only American ever... |
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
Don Piper - Revell
Format: Paperback
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In the ten years since 90 Minutes in Heaven was published, millions of people worldwide have read the incredible true story of Don Piper's experience with death and life--and in reading they have found their own lives changed.After a semi-truck collided with Don Piper's car, he was pronounced... |
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Lead with Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis
Jeffrey A. Krames - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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When Fortune announced its list of the World's Greatest Leaders, the top spot was awarded - not to a captain of industry - but to the new pontiff. In the year since his election, Pope Francis earned that accolade...and more. He has achieved the remarkable: breathed life into an aging... |
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Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President
David S. Heidler - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation's first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them. In 1789,... |
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Stronger
Jeff Bauman - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALThe New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing... |
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Amish Confidential
Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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""Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, star of the #1 top-rated Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. From the forbidden joyrides to the senseless shunnings to the colorful family feuds, he shares his frank insider's view... |
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Simply Rich: Life and Lessons from the Cofounder of Amway: A Memoir
Rich DeVos - Howard Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive autobiography, Rich DeVos reflects on work, faith, family, and the core values he’s held on to, from his humble, Christian upbringing through his enormous success as cofounder of one of the world’s largest businesses: Amway. A prominent businessman, self-made... |
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The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball
Willie Randolph - It Books; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary New York Yankee Willie Randolph tells the story of his life playing and coaching for the most storied professional sports franchise in the world, detailing his career on and off the field with some of baseball biggest stars.In his long-awaited memoir, Willie Randolph shares stories... |
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Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Lawrence Goldstone - Ballantine Books,
Format: Print book
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From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation. The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss,... |
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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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Olivier
Philip Ziegler - MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover
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A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered... |
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
Jessica Fechtor - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly... |
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Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table
Graham Holliday - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A journalist and blogger takes us on a colorful and spicy gastronomic tour through Viet Nam in this entertaining, offbeat travel memoir, with a foreword by Anthony Bourdain.Growing up in a small town in northern England, Graham Holliday wasnt keen on travel. But in his early twenties, a picture... |
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Goebbels: A Biography
Peter Longerich - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda. In life, and in the grisly manner of his death, Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. By the end, no one in the Berlin... |
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Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA
Morten Storm - Atlantic Monthly Press; Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover
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Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama,... |
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I Regret Nothing: A Memoir
Jen Lancaster - NAL
Format: Hardcover
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she's managed to document her (and her generation's) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have... |
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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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Mountain Man: Keepin' a Slow Profile
Tim Guraedy - Broadstreet Publishing Group LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Join Mountain Man as he shares stories from his youth and recent years, and rediscover the wisdom of speaking slower than you think, taking time to talk with others, helping a person in need, eating together as a family, and doing a job right the first time. Also learn to make the most... |
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Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
Andrea Di Robilant - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy... |
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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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Michelle Obama: A Life
Peter Slevin - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's... |
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Marc Forgione: Recipes and Stories from the Acclaimed Chef and Restaurant
Marc Forgione - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Format: Print book
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The eagerly awaited first cookbook from one of Food Network's favorite competitors on the wildly popular Iron Chef America Chef Marc Forgione opened his eponymous New York City restaurant in 2008 to widespread acclaim, becoming the youngest American-born chef and owner to receive a Michelin... |
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Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor
Catherine Mayer - Henry Holt and Co.; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, surprising, and utterly fresh portrait of Charles, Prince of WalesHe is one of the world's most fascinating and least understood figures: now sixty-six, Prince Charles has spent his entire life preparing to be king while insisting on being his own man. In this brilliant... |
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The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams
Phyllis Lee Levin - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "The Greatest Traveler of His Age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early... |
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Bastards: A Memoir
Mary Anna King - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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"A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost . . . an impressive debut." -- Peter BalakianIn the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words,... |
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whiteheads hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime... |
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Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
Walter Kempowski - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A monumental work of history that captures the last days of the Third Reich as never before.Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's... |
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Men in Green
Michael Bamberger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller "Maybe the best golf book I've ever read. " --Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal "Surprisingly candid... Bamberger doesn't flinch at portraying the Tour's earthier aspects... But the book is overwhelmingly a love song. " --John Paul... |
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Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer
Michael Smith - Oneworld Publications
Format: Book
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Mr. Smith, in illuminating this unforgettable figure, brings his own considerable scholarship in the field to the story, in addition to access to new archives. - The Wall Street Journal Shackleton has finally received the literary treatment his legendary life deserves. - Booklist An extraordinary... |
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The Light of the World: A Memoir
Elizabeth Alexander - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book
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A deeply resonant New York Times Bestselling memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander. In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling... |
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Joan of Arc: A History
Helen Castor - Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world - as never told before.Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French... |
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Not My Fathers Son: A Memoir
Alan Cumming - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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Audie Award, Autobiography/Memoir, 2015 Dark, painful memories can be like a cage. Or, in the case of Alan Cumming, they can be packed away in a box, stuck in the attic to be forgotten. Until one day the box explodes and all the memories flood back in horrible detail. Alan Cumming grew... |
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
Martin Dugard - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Learn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of historys most famous explorerswith infusions of insight and enthusiasm Publishers Weekly, starred review. In 1856, two intrepid adventurers,... |
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His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir
Dan Jenkins - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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From Dan Jenkins - one of America's most respected and acclaimed sportswriters and author of the bestselling novels Semi-Tough and Dead Solid Perfect - comes a colorful, sentimental, hilarious, and cantankerous memoir about his lifelong journey through the world of sports. "Sometimes,... |
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Fast N' Loud: Blood, Sweat and Beers
Richard Rawlings - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The breakout star of Discovery's hit automotive restoration show Fast N' Loud takes readers on an entertaining ride through his wild life and behind the scenes of his hit show in this memoir and automotive handbook, revving with outrageous details and jaw-dropping stories, and injected... |
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The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush
John H. Sununu - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this major reassessment of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, his former Chief of Staff offers a long overdue appreciation of the man and his universally underrated and misunderstood presidency."I'm a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others... |
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Stirring the Pot: My Recipe for Getting What You Want Out of Life
Jenny McCarthy - Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much... |
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Laurence Bergreen - Morrow
Format: Book
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Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts,... |
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Confucius: And the World He Created
Michael Schuman - Basic Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius's influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government... |
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The Italians
John Hooper - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Helen Thorpe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) , and "masterful" (BOOKLIST ) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal... |
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Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe
Ritu Sharma - Palgrave MacMillan
Format: Hardcover
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As the old axiom goes: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." But teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime. In this firsthand account, Ritu Sharma shares how women can, and are, overcoming the forces that keep... |
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black... |
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Linda Tirado - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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The real-life Nickel and Dimed - the author of the wildly popular "Poverty Thoughts" essay tells what its like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire "DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which... |
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Maeve Binchy: The Biography
Piers Dudgeon - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Maeve Binchy's heartwarming tales of love, life, and loss made her one of America's best-loved storytellers. Her novels, which sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic in a way that most authors only dream of. Seared with a truth... |
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
Barbara Leaming - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'... |
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Rush of Heaven: One Woman's Miraculous Encounter with Jesus
Ema McKinley - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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Ema, give me your hand. These were the words Jesus spoke to Ema on Christmas Eve--the nightHe straightened her crooked foot, hand, neck, and spine, and restored her mobility. Easter weekend, eighteen years earlier, an ordinary workday turned into a nightmare when Ema McKinley passed out and was left... |
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The Radical King
Cornel West - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic... |
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Conquering Chaos
Catelynn Lowell - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra shared their story of teen pregnancy and adoption on the MTV's 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, they've been known for their inspiring commitment to growing up right. Between their experience placing their first daughter for adoption, and their... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover
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In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story... |
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Sally Ride: Americas First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, inspiring several generations of women. After a second flight, Ride served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion... |
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The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
Anderson Cooper - Harper
Format: Book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives.
Though Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely... |
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Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave
Dan Callahan - Pegasus Books, 2014.
Format: Print book
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In this first-ever biography of the woman many have called our greatest living actress, the formidable Vanessa Redgrave is at last revealed to us in all of her different personas.Who isn't in awe of Vanessa Redgrave? Her career on stage and screen remains vital and her extreme-left... |
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The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
Steve Osborne - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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"How ya doin?" With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and over a million times on their website) with his hilarious, profane, and touching... |
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Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder
Amy Butcher - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their... |
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Dont Give Up, Dont Give in: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
Louis Zamperini - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestsellerMore than 100,000 copies in printCompleted just two days before Louis Zamperinis death at age ninety-seven, Dont Give Up, Dont Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from "one of the most incredible American lives of the past century"... |
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Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept
Daniel Rodriguez - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The unforgettable story of a young soldier who survived one of the bloodiest battles in Afghanistan and lived to pursue his dream of playing Division I college football At 5-foot-8, 175 pounds, Daniel Rodriguez was an unlikely recruit for the gridiron. But on the battlefield, under the daily... |
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Havel: A Life
Michael Zantovsky - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Vclav Havel was one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century: iconoclast and intellectual, renowned playwright turned political dissident, president of a united then divided nation, and dedicated human rights activist. Written by Michael Zantovsky - Havel's former press... |
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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
Joseph Kim - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young... |
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I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star
Judy Greer - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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You know Judy Greer, right? Maybe from The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, Carrie, Arrested Development, or The Descendants. Yes, you totally recognize her. And, odds are, you already feel like she’s your friend. In her first book of essays, I Don’t Know What You Know... |
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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
Michael Morton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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He spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justiceand a second chance at life. On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went... |
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Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World
Monte Beauchamp - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In a first-of-its-kind collection, award-winning illustrators celebrate the lives of the visionary artists who created the world of comic art and altered pop culture forever.Sixteen Graphic Novel Biographies of: * Walt Disney * Dr. Seuss * Charles Schulz * The Creators of Superman * R. Crumb... |
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Just Between Us
Mario Lopez - Celebra
Format: Hardcover
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With a star that rose from unforgettable child acting roles, such as A. C. Slater in Saved by the Bell, to the forefront of today's entertainment media, Mario Lopez is nothing short of a pop culture sensation.Now, as he turns forty, Mario looks back on his life with a newfound perspective... |
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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!
Nicholas Carlson - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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When Yahoo hired Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California headquarters. On them there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge... |
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Jay Barbree - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, Americas modern hero, historys most famous space traveler, and the first man to walk on the moon. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time... |
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Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Brian McGinty - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.In the early hours of May 6, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge -- the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississippi... |
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Lincoln's Gift: How Humor Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy
Gordon Leidner - Cumberland House, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"Simply the best book that has been published on this great president's humor and stories...Everyone interested in Abraham Lincoln will want to read this." -- William C. Harris, author of Lincoln and the Border StatesAbraham Lincoln has long been admired for his leadership, honesty,... |
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
Richard Wightman Fox - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Even two hundred years after Abraham Lincolns death, we, like Walt Whitman, love the President personally.In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincolns Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright ugly of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very... |
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal
Mark Owen - Dutton
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused... |
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Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties
Kevin M. Schultz - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the surprisingly close and incredibly contentious friendship of its two most colorful characters.William F. Buckley, Jr., and Norman Mailer were the two towering intellectual figures of the 1960s, and they lived remarkably parallel lives. Both became... |
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