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The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace
Rachel Starnes - Penguin Books
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When she fell in love with her brother's best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family pattern - marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations, and the crippling... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
Frances Stroh - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist's struggle to find her way out of the ruins.Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great... |
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Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
David Ritz - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassinationMartin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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-- is a colorful portrait of a man and the band he helped create, define, and sustain--made larger than life in artfully told stories that are shocking, funny, inspirational, and honest. |
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Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son
Penny Junor - Grand Central Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the British royal family, has had a colorful... |
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Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001
Michael Tomasky - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth centuryBill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most... |
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Separated @ Birth: A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited
Samantha Futerman - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, "I think we might be twins ... don't freak out ... "It all began when design student Anas Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anas found that... |
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo... |
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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents... |
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13th Boy: A Memoir of Education & Abuse
Stephen Fife - Cune
Format: Hardcover
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When parents send their children to school, they are trusting teachers and administrators with their most precious treasure. Sad to say, that trust is betrayed all too often. What can we say when well-known, elite and very expensive private schools promise an education that sharpens the mind,... |
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Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
Juan F Thompson - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Hunter S. Thompson, "smart hillbilly," boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, public school-educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, member of the U.S. Air Force (Airmen Second Class)... |
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Kathleen DuVal - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's... |
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Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire
Paul Sorrentino - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's short, compact life -- "a life of fire," he called it -- continues to be surrounded by myths and half-truths, distortions and outright... |
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds... |
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The Plots Against Hitler
Danny Orbach - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance... |
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Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness
Lisa Appignanesi - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial. A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors.... |
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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books
Andy Miller - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones) - a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books.Nearing his fortieth birthday, author... |
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs... |
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You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,... |
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I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir
James Webb - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, the classic novel of the Vietnam War - former U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy; recipient of the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart as a combat Marine; and a self-described "military brat" - has written an extraordinary memoir of his early... |
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The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood
Kevin Powell - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In the spirit of Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, this powerful memoir by writer and activist Kevin Powell vividly recounts the horrific poverty of his youth, his struggles to overcome a legacy of anger, violence, and self-hatred,... |
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Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne
Christopher Andersen - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of William and Kate and The Day Diana Died takes a compulsively readable look into the relationships and rivalries of Queen Elizabeth, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Kate Middleton.One has been famous longer... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent... |
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Gail Sheehy - William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoira chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern... |
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Dangerous Odds: My Secret Life Inside an Illegal Billion Dollar Sports Betting Operation
Marisa Lankester - Cappuccino Books Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Soon to be a WARNER BROS. movie starring MARGOT ROBBIE Wolf of Wall Street, Focus, produced by Film 360 Game of Thrones. DANGEROUS ODDS -a True Crime ThrillerMemoire - is the explosive, never been told, behind the scenes look into the world of illegal sports betting, revealed by an insider,... |
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Mark Twain's Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles
Carlo De Vito - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book
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This original and insightful collection combines Mark Twain's journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles to create a fascinating, and often hilarious, record of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature. A national treasure and a cultural... |
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Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine
Daniel Halper - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they... |
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
Austin Reed - Random House,
Format: Print book
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The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer - recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars - sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript:... |
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Bettyville: A Memoir
George Hodgman - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A beautifully crafted memoir, rich with humor and wisdom." - Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club"The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is already... |
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Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose
Candace Cameron Bure - B & H Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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"How do you do it all?"That's the question that wife, mom, actress, and best-selling author Candace Cameron Bure is often asked. And it's a question that women everywhere are asking themselves as we seek to balance all of our roles, responsibilities, and opportunities.So,... |
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Cosby: His Life and Times
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy.. Far from the gentle... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy - Little
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Billy Joel
Fred Schruers - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, all-access biography of a music legendIn Billy Joel, acclaimed music journalist Fred Schruers draws upon more than one hundred hours of exclusive interviews with Joel to present an unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of the pint-sized kid from Long Island... |
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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 Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
Belle Boggs - Graywolf Press
Format: Print book
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A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane... |
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Footsteps in the Snow
Charles Lachman - Berkley
Format: Book
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NOW A LIFETIME MOVIE CHANNEL DOCUMENTARYIt was a shocking true crime that left two families shattered, and became the coldest case in U.S. history.Who really killed little Maria? The question fueled a real-life nightmare in Sycamore, Illinois...1957. Sycamore, Illinois. Christmas was three... |
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Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James
Rick James - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Best known for his song "Super Freak," hitmaker, singer, innovator, producer, award-winning pioneer in the fusion of funk groove and rock, the late Rick James collaborated with music biographer David Ritz in this posthumously published, wildly entertaining, and profound expression... |
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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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What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir
Abigail Thomas - Scribner
Format: Print book
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In her bestselling and beloved memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the tragic loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like It, she writes about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. And it is exhilarating.What... |
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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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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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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Blake Bailey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Autobiography' The renowned biographer's unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins - his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown... |
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Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally
Bob Zmuda - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time ever, the two people who knew Andy Kaufman best open up about the most enigmatic artist of our generation.Comedian and Taxi star Andy Kaufman, known for his crazy antics on screen and off, was the ultimate prankster, delighting audiences with his Elvis and Mighty Mouse... |
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Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust
Rita Goldberg - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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"I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically," writes Rita Goldberg. In a deeply moving second-generation Holocaust memoir, Goldberg introduces the extraordinary story of Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank's... |
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18 Holes with Bing: Golf, Life, and Lessons from Dad
Nathaniel Crosby - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this love letter to his father, former professional golfer Nathaniel Crosby shares memories of Bing Crosby on the golf course, and the lessons he taught him about the game and about life. With a Foreword by Jack Nicklaus."Bing Crosby was a great ambassador for our game, as well... |
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The Real Custer: From Boy General to Tragic Hero
James S Robbins - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custerfrom cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated... |
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts--From FDR to Obama
Mel Ayton - Regnery History
Format: Book
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In American history, four U.S. Presidents have been murdered at the hands of an assassin. In each case the assassinations changed the course of American history.But most historians have overlooked or downplayed the many threats modern presidents have faced, and survived. Author Mel Ayton... |
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The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Rohini Mohan - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict,... |
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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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Born Both: An Intersex Life
Hida Viloria - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r... |
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Pat and Dick: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage
Will Swift - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Plutarch Award for Best Biography, "the most humanizing portrait of the Nixons we're likely to have" (Douglas Brinkley) is a sweeping depiction of the turbulent fifty-three-year marriage of Richard and Pat Nixon.When Americans remember the controversial... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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When Others Shuddered: Eight Women Who Refused to Give Up
Jamie Janosz - Moody Publishers; New Edition edition
Format: eBook
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When Others Shuddered: Eight Women Who Refused to Give Up is the story of eight women called to serve God and who, in doing so, changed the world. They lived at the turn-of-the-century, rubbing shoulders with the well-known men of their time like John Rockefeller, Marshall Field, and Dwight... |
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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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You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age
Robert J. Wagner - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary actor and bestselling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden ageFor millions of movie lovers, no era in the history of Hollywood is more beloved than the period from the 1930s through the 1950s, the golden age of the studio system. Not only... |
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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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Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs
Scott McEwen - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi... |
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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
Judith Mackrell - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex - all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the Great War and stride into the future in one deft, stylized gesture. The women... |
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Kirstin Downey - Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity... |
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Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist
Lawrence James - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating and often surprising new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire. One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship... |
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Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
John A. Nagl - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that... |
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The Autumn Balloon
Kenny Porpora - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Every autumn, Kenny Porpora would watch his heartbroken mother scribble messages on balloons and release them into the sky above Long Island, one for each family member they'd lost to addiction. As the number of balloons grew, his mother fell deeper into alcoholism, drinking away her sorrows... |
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Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary
Geoffrey Cowan - W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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"Cowan has brought to life a fascinating part of TR's story usually left out of the history books. He tells it with verve and suspense, warts and all, his insights deepened by his own impressive background as a democracy activist." -- Adam Hochschild, author of To End All WarsLet... |
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Known and Strange Things: Essays
Teju Cole - Random House
Format: Print book
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A transcendent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief Teju Cole is the rare writer whose work can stir conversation among opinion makers and become a viral sensation with the general public. Cole's debut essay... |
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Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days
Javon Beard - Weinstein Books
Format: Hardcover
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Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary at Neverland, Michael Jackson spent his final years moving from city to city, living with his three children in virtual seclusiona futile attempt to escape a world that wouldnt leave him alone. During that time, two men served... |
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Say It Out Loud: Revealing and Healing the Scars of Sexual Abuse
Roberta Dolan - She Writes Press; New edition
Format: Print book
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Breaking the silence about sexual abuse is vital -- but it's only the first step. What happens next? For most survivors, the wounds left by such abuse are often left to fester, slowly destroying their lives. Say It Out Loud -- a unique blend of memoir and how-to -- exposes the emotional... |
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An American Cardinal: The Biography of Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Christina Boyle - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The most powerful Roman Catholic leader in the United States had humble beginnings. Timothy Michael Dolan was born in Maplewood, Missouri in 1950. From an early age, those around him knew that he would become a priest. Through college and seminary, his power and spirituality grew. He was formally... |
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Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy
Jamie Smith - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The first ever, first-person story of Americas private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors,... |
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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific... |
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Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
Nicolaia Rips - Scribner
Format: Print book
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"Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise - a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents" (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author) , Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir... |
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Your best destiny : becoming the person you were created to be
Wintley Phipps - Tyndale Momentum, an Imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: eBook
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When you imagine what it would take for your life to be truly great - for you to become your best, most fulfilled self - do you dream of something more than what you have now? More money . . . more attention . . . more significance? What you may be missing is the one thing that actually... |
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True Love
Jennifer Lopez - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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In Jennifer Lopez's first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life's most defining periods - the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person... |
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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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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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The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana
Tony Dokoupil - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Blow and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Last Pirate is a vivid, haunting and often hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family man who joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and exploded his life in the process. Three decades later, his son came... |
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Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic, " to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which... |
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I Don't Know What You Know Me From: My Life as a Co-Star
Judy Greer - Anchor
Format: Book
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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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House of Cash: The Legacies of My Father, Johnny Cash
John Carter Cash - Insight Editions
Format: Print book
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In this insightful biography, John Carter Cash paints a very personal portrait of his father's rich inner life, exploring Johnny Cash's creative spirit, his fundamentally loving nature, and his inspiring persistence. A record of a deep and ongoing conversation between father and son,... |
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Beyond Championships: A Playbook for Winning at Life
Dru Joyce II - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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As the coach of one of high school basketball's greatest programs, Coach Dru Joyce has been mentor and motivator to some of the nation's best young players, including basketball legend LeBron James. Despite having virtually no experience in the sport, in less than ten years Dru went... |
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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John McCain's evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Services... |
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You Will Not Have My Hate
Antoine Leiris - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris's wife, Hlne Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert... |
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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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Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter
Maria Venegas - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Editors' Choice bookThe haunting story of a daughter's struggle to confront her father's turbulent-and often violent-legacyAfter a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda... |
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
Taya Kyle - William Morrow
Format: eBook
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The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private story an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband... |
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When the Balls Drop
Brad Garrett - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A refreshingly candid and wickedly funny look at life's second half from Everybody Loves Raymond TV sitcom star and three-time Emmy Award-winning comic Brad Garrett.In this no-holds-barred book of comedic and personal essays, Brad Garrett divulges his hilarious - and irreverently honest... |
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Not Dead Yet
Phil Collins - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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Phil Collins pulls no punches - about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that's inspired his music. In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles' legendary film A... |
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The Making of Donald Trump
David Cay Johnston - Melville House
Format: Print book
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The culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, David Cay Johnston, takes a revealingly close look at the mogul's rise to power and prominence. Covering the long arc of Trump's career, Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from... |
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The Fixer: The Notorious Life of a Front-Page Bail Bondsman
Ira Judelson - Touchstone; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From New York’s foremost bail bondsman with “over $30 million on the street” comes the story of a modern-day “fixer” who walks a fine line between hustler and humanitarian with clients ranging from the rich and famous to the mafia and gangs of New York.With... |
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Harold Holzer - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From his earliest days, Lincoln spoke to the public directly through the press. When war broke out and the nation was tearing itself apart, Lincoln authorized the most widespread censorship in the nation's history, closing down papers that were "disloyal" and even jailing... |
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
Mark Sundeen - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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The radical search for the simple life in today's America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound... |
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Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians
Linda Gray Sexton - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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The Sexton family's long love affair with the Dalmatian began in Linda's childhood. There, on a snowy morning in the family home just outside Boston, LInda heard a whimpering coming from the basement. She discovered their first family dog giving birth to a litter. Witnessing the intimate... |
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An Iranian Metamorphosis
Mana Neyestani - Uncivilized Books
Format: Print book
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Can a children’s cartoon cause riots?One of Mana Neyestani’s cartoons sparked riots, shuttered the newspaper he worked for, and landed the cartoonist and his editor in solitary confinement inside of Iran's notorious prison system. But that’s not the whole story. Neyestani... |
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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
Seth Meyerowitz - Berkley Caliber
Format: Print book
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For fans of Unbroken, the remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom. Bronx-born top turret-gunner... |
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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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Charlotte Bront: A Fiery Heart
Claire Harman - Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ©2015
Format: Print book
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On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing... |
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Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China
Eddie Huang - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the author of Fresh off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork. Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. Hed written a best-selling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places... |
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Think Big: Overcoming Obstacles with Optimism
Jennifer Arnold MD - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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Bestselling authors and stars of TLC's The Little Couple return with an inspirational book that encourages readers to reach for their dreams, no matter what obstacles they may face.Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein have faced some big challenges in their lives. On the way to becoming... |
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The Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love"
Flora Fraser - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country - and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons' long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very... |
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Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind - Hyperion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia.... |
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Machiavelli: A Portrait
Christopher Celenza - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Machiavellianused to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitilessis never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name became shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more engaging and nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher S. Celenzas Machiavelli... |
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The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered
Laura Auricchio - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance... |
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The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir
Sheila E. - Pocket Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the Grammy-nominated singer, drummer, and percussionist who is world renowned for her contributions throughout the music industry, a moving memoir about the healing power of music and spiritual growth inspired by five decades of life and love on the stage.She was born Sheila Escovedo... |
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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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Good mourning
Elizabeth Meyer - Gallery Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"In this funny, insightful memoir, a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City{u2019}s Upper East Side. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country--where not even... |
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President Me: The America That's in My Head
Adam Carolla - !t
Format: Hardcover
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In President Me, Carolla shares his vision for a different, better America free from big issues like big government down to small problems like hotel alarm clock placement. Running on an anti-narcissism platform, President Carolla calls for a return to the values of an earlier time when... |
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90 Church: Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
Dean Unkefer - Picador USA
Format: Hardcover
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MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORKBefore Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs," there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam... |
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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Michael B Oren - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMichael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States - a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East - provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship... |
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Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir
Various - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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True stories inspired by one of the most iconic, beloved, bestselling books of our time In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought possible,... |
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Company confessions : the cia, secrecy and memoir writing
Christopher R Moran - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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"A fascinating, readable work. -Robert Wallace, coauthor of" Spycraft "and" The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception"Spies are supposed to keep quiet, never betraying their agents or discussing their operations. Somehow, this doesn t apply to the CIA, whose... |
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Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
Oleg V. Khlevniuk - Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly... |
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Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
Thomas Page McBee - City Lights Publishers
Format: Book
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"Thomas Page McBee's Man Alive hurtled through my life. I read it in a matter of hours. It's a confession, it's a poem, it's a time warp, it's a brilliant work of art. I bow down to McBee - his humility, his sense of humor, his insightfulness, his structural deftness,... |
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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
Ali Wentworth - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet... |
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