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This Is Not a Love Story: A Memoir

Judy Brown - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community.The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching, and the faith...
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's First Ladies

Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle...
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against...
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The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl: Adventures in Life and Love in the Heart of Dixie

Jaime Primak Sullivan - Tantor Audio
Format: Hardcover

Jaime Primak Sullivan, a Jersey-bred, tough-as-nails PR maven - and unlikely transplant in an upscale suburb of Birmingham, Alabama - has spent her entire life crossing the line: whether shes pushing the boundaries of what proper Southern ladies consider to be "polite behavior"...
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Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life

Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Oprah Winfrey will be the first to tell you, she has had a complicated relationship with food. It's been both a source of delight and comfort for her, but also the cause of an ongoing struggle with her weight. In Food, Health, and Happiness, Oprah shares the recipes that have allowed...
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The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS

Bill Harlow - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell...
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Let Me Tell You about Jasper . . .: How My Best Friend Became America's Dog

Dana Perino - Twelve
Format: Print book

Bestselling author of And the Good News Is... Dana Perino is back with stories of friends, family, and how America's love for a dog named Jasper is a place where even political opponents can find common ground. Dana Perino is a popular and beloved host on Fox's The Five, with over...
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The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus

John Glatt - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and long-overdue rescue of three women found in a Cleveland basement.The Lost Girls tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who were kidnapped, imprisoned,...
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No Quarter: The Three Lives of Jimmy Page

Martin Power - Overlook Onmibus
Format: Print book

No Quarter: The Three Lives Of Jimmy Page explores the life, times and music of the man behind one of the 20th century's greatest bands: the mighty Led Zeppelin.Using new and exclusive interviews Martin Power tells the full story of Jimmy Page's long career. Starting with the early Sixties...
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Books for Living

Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new?...
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived

Andrew Wilson - Atria Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

From an acclaimed biographer, a riveting account of what happened to the survivors of the Titanicto be publishedin the lead-up tothe 100th anniversary ofthe ships sinking. April 14, 2012 willmark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.While much has been written about the great...
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Love Her To Death

M. William Phelps - Pinnacle; English Language edition
Format: Paperback

In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman and a member of a prominent family, showed no emotion as he learned of her death....
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The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

Harold Schechter - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes,...
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Conversations with McCartney

Paul Du Noyer - ABRAMS Press
Format: Hardcover

"One of the most fascinating portraits to date of one of the most important cultural icons of our age." - Choice In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartneys office in London. They asked him to interview the star; McCartney and Du Noyer had met once before and enjoyed...
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir

Plum Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three...
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Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, A Mother's Sacrifice

Ann Rule - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Journeys inside the twisted mind of a killer, Dr. Debora Green, after the cancer specialist was arrested for the arson murders of two of her three children and the attempted poisoning of her estranged husband
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Child, Please: How Mama's Old-School Lessons Helped Me Check Myself Before I Wrecked Myself

Ylonda Gault Caviness - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring as a new parent (and sharing with the world as a parenting expert and journalist) didn't mean scratch compared to her mama's...
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Kanye West Owes Me $300: And Other True Stories from a White Rapper Who Almost Made It Big

Jensen Karp - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book

" Kanye West Owes Me $300"might be the funniest rap memoir ever. " LA Weekly" After Vanilla Ice, but before Eminem, there was "Hot Karl, " the Jewish kid from the L. A. suburbs who became a rap battling legend and then almost became a star. When 12-year old Jensen...
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

Gail Sheehy - William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

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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The Red Bandanna

Tom Rinaldi - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestsellerWhat would you do in the last hour of your life? The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father...
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What I Know For Sure

Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want, Oprah Winfrey stands alone. Over the years, she has made history with a legendary talk show - the highest-rated program of its kind, launched her own television network, become the nation's...
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A New America: How Music Reshaped the Culture and Future of a Nation and Redefined My Life

Tommy Mottola - New American Library
Format: Print book

The long-anticipated companion book to the groundbreaking HBO documentary The Latin Explosion by renowned music producer Tommy Mottola. Legendary music mogul, entertainment impresario, and New York Times bestselling author Tommy Mottola explores and expounds on his lifelong...
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Lying in Wait: Ann Rule's Crime Files: Vol.17

Ann Rule - Pocket Books
Format: Book

Ann Rule presents another collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories - drawn from her real-life personal files - in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.MOVING IN FOR THE KILL In this all-new collection of investigative accounts...
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Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir

Diana Athill - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging -- "An honest joy to read" (Alice Munro) .Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing....
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

Phoebe Robinson - Plume Books
Format: Paperback

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * "A must-read ... Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." -Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad CityA hilarious and timely essay collection...
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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait

Blake Bailey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

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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Founding Brothers : the Revolutionary Generation

Joseph J Ellis - Alfred A. Knopf
Format:  Print book : Biography : English : First editionView all editions and formats

Includes material on John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
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Oprah Book Club September 2016

Unknown. - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah's Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel...
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Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles , Eric Clapton, The Faces . . .

Glyn Johns - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was sixteen years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band's debut album, Children of the Future, and he went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business: Abbey Road...
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Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow - The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According...
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy

Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book

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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The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian Utopia

Aimee Groth - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Fearless gonzo journalism - an insider's look at the enigmatic and successful CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, and his quest to create his own version of utopia in the center of Las Vegas.In 2010 Tony Hsieh was introduced to many as a visionary modern business leader. Under Hsieh's leadership,...
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

John Le Carr - Viking
Format: Print book

"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur - by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,...
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band

Alan Paul - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best seller!One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth...
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 A World on the Edge

Helen Rappaport - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former...
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Above the Line: My Wild Oats Adventure

Shirley Maclaine - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved and bestselling actress, a book about her experiences filming Wild Oats in the Canary Islands - which brings forth memories of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis. This is a terrific companion to the movie, telling the behind-the-scenes, over-the-top story of how the film...
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Danger Close: My Epic Journey as a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan

Amber Smith - Atria Books
Format: Print book

The inspiring and riveting first-ever memoir of active combat by a female helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan.Amber Smith flew into enemy fire in some of the most dangerous combat zones in the world. One of only a few women to fly the Kiowa Warrior helicopter - whose mission, armed...
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Guantánamo Diary

Mohamedou Ould Slahi - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantvnamo detainee.. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantvnamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime....
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The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year

Michael Stein - William Morrow
Format: Print book

"A gripping, illuminating book . . . Dr. Stein is drawn, in an almost Sherlock Holmesian way, toward trying to fathom and analyze addicts' behavior. . . . hauntingly and successfully, Stein lets readers make a doctor's experiences their own." - New York Times "Beautifully...
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King
Format: Book

"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recove
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My Country, 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future

Keith Ellison - Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing
Format: Hardcover

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes. Keith Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. In fact, the first nonwhite that Minnesota has ever elected to Congress. That wasn't...
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.

Hamilton Mary Mann. - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta....
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

Tommy Lee - HarperCollins Publishers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals,...
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My

Julissa Arce - Center Street
Format: Print book

For an undocumented immigrant, what is the true cost of the American Dream? Julissa Arce shares her story in a riveting memoir.When she was 11 years old Julissa Arce left Mexico and came to the United States on a tourist visa to be reunited with her parents, who dreamed the journey would...
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Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience

Eileen Cronin - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

MERMAID: A Memoir of Resilience was chosen as one of Oprah's Best Memoirs of the Year (2014).MERMAID is included in the February O Magazine's selection "10 Titles to Pick Up Now.A gorgeously crafted memoir about resilience, family, and forging your own way, by a woman born...
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Live, Love, Explore: Discover the Way of the Traveler a Roadmap to the Life You Were Meant to Live

Leon Logothetis - Univ Of Hawai'I Press
Format: Print book

Part travel memoir, part self-help book, Live, Love, Explore is a guide to finding meaning and adventure in your everyday life and discovering the road you were always meant to walkLeon Logothetis's life was well plotted out for him. He was to do well in school, go to university,...
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Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie

Woody Woodmansey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

In January 2016, the unexpected death of David Bowie rocked the globe. For millions of people, he was an icon celebrated for his music, his film and theatrical roles, and his trendsetting influence on fashion and gender norms. But no one from her inner circle has told the story of how David...
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

Linda Tirado - Berkley
Format: Paperback

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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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelous debut memoir is a modern American...
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Word detective : searching for the meaning of it all at the oxford english dictionary

John Simpson - Basic Books
Format: Print book

Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions - and a great many more - can be found in the pages of the Oxford...
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The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know

Laura Volpintesta - Rockport Publishers; First Edition, First edition
Format: Paperback

Learning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of fashion design, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language - the definitions, function, and usage. The Language of Fashion Design provides students and fashion designers...
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

Pearl Cleage - Pocket Books
Format: Hardcover

In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a bestselling author with an Oprah Book Club pick and multiple awards to her credit, but there was a time when such stellar success seemed like a dream. In this revelatory and deeply personal work,...
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor

Clinton Romesha - Dutton Books
Format: Print book

The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of "Black Hawk Down "by Mark Bowden and "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. "'It doesn't get better. ' To us, that...
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Lust & Wonder

Augusten Burroughs - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestsellerLust: 1. intense sexual desire or appetite2.a passionate or overmastering desire or craving3.ardent enthusiasm; zest; relish.Wonder: 1. something strange and surprising; a cause of surprise, astonishment,or admiration2. the emotion excited by what...
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The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher - Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York...
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Dont Give Up, Dont Give in: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

Louis Zamperini - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Untitled on Becoming a Grandmother

Lesley Stahl - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

From one of the country s most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman s life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl s most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching...
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Flags of Our Fathers

James Bradley - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come...
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In This Together: My Story

Ann Romney - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

When Mitt and Ann Romney met in their late teens, a great American love story began. And their life together would be blessed: five healthy sons, financial security, and a home filled with joy. Despite the typical ups and downs, they had a storybook life.Then, in 1998, Ann was diagnosed...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In The Devil in the White City, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect...
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle...
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I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives

Roberto Canessa - Atria Books
Format: Print book

On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the "Old Christians" rugby team - and many of their friends and family members - crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death...
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Bush

Jean Edward Smith - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious...
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Food: A Love Story

Jim Gaffigan - Crown
Format: Book

"What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale....
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Stronger

Jeff Bauman - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown

Lezley McSpadden - Regan Arts
Format: Hardcover

The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden - the mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014 - sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history. "I wasn't there when Mike Mike...
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The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

Claudia Rowe - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book

In this superb work of literary true crime - a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense - a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us."Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia?...
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The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story

Dave Pelzer - Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

From A Child Called “It” to The Lost Boy, from A Man Named Dave to Help Yourself, Dave Pelzer’s inspirational books have helped countless others triumph over hardship and misfortune.  In The Privilege of Youth, he shares the missing chapter of his life: as a boy on the threshold...
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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Elvis Costello - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance-band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and before he was twenty-four took the popular...
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The Truth About Trump

Michael D'Antonio - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Print book

Who is the man shaking up the GOP?What does he really stand for?How far will he go in his pursuit of power?This isTHE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMPHe is one of the world's most successful businessmen -- and a man who many Americans love to hate. So how did Donald Trump become a serious contender...
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The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice

Rebecca Musser - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints'...
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A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

Cupcake Brown - Crown
Format: Paperback

There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness.Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she'd even turned...
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening

John Elder Robison - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book

An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions...
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Ronnie: The Autobiography

Ronnie Wood - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, a member of the world’s most famous rock ‘n’ roll band tells his—and their—story.  Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating. An incredible journey. The first of his family to be born on dry land, Ronnie Wood came from a family of water...
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Unbreakable: My Story, My Way

Jenni Rivera - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, this is the official biography from the beloved Mexican-American singer who lost her life in a tragic plane crash. The only autobiography authorized by Jenni RiveraI cant get caught up in the negative because that destroys you. Perhaps trying to move away from...
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family

Gail Lumet Buckley - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house...
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

Jonathan Allen - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

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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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir

Betsy Lerner - Harperwave
Format: Print book

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast...
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Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side

Tyler Henry - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

From Tyler Henry, a twenty-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!'s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes Between Two Worlds, a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far."Dying doesn't mean having to say goodbye." Tyler Henry discovered his gift...
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Print book

"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT" OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT" THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"January 1961: President...
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Avalanche: A Love Story

Julia Leigh - W W Norton
Format: Print book

An intensely personal narrative of loss, hope, and longing for a child. In this brave and lucid account, Julia Leigh broaches a challenging life event often left undiscussed: how the struggle to have a child can take an agonizing toll. Leigh's experience at the vanguard of medical science...
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Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel

Nicolaia Rips - Scribner
Format: Print book

"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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The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

Sara G. Forden - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The startling and dramatic true story behind the murder of Maurizio Gucci, and the rise, fall, and rise again of the Gucci dynasty. The House of Gucci tells a riveting story of high fashion, high finance, and heartrending personal tragedy.
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Lennyball: A Memoir of Life on the Edge

Lenny Dykstra - William Morrow
Format: Print book

A TOP-TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AN INSTANT CLASSIC OF HUSSLE AND EXCESS ..."Tough, straight, upsetting, and strangely beautiful. ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES I'VE EVER READ. It comes from the heart." - Stephen King"THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BLOW YOUR MIND! Obviously...
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Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know

Mary Jo Buttafuoco - HCI
Format: Hardcover

I think, every once in a while, about the life I should be living, the one I fully expected to be enjoying right about now. In the life I was supposed to have, my husband and I would be admiring the view from our waterfront home in the town where we were both born and raised. Good...
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Wolf boys : the true story of american teenagers and mexicos most dangerous drug cartel

Dan Slater - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.What's it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? And how does a fifteen-year-old American boy go from...
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Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

David Cote - Broadway
Format: Hardcover

How did four blue-collar kids become one of the greatest successes in pop music history? You ask four guys, you get four different answers. Have we got a story for you!Everyone knows their songs. Few know their story. Named for a bowling alley that refused to book them, The Four Seasons—Frankie,...
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Jeffrey Toobin - Doubleday
Format: Print book

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college...
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Not Dead Yet

Phil Collins - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book

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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Die Young with Me: A Memoir

Rob Rufus - Touchstone Books
Format: Print book

In the tradition of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes the incredibly moving true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer and how music was the one thing that helped him get through his darkest days.Punk's not dead in rural West...
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

Randy Roberts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam - a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult - saw the potential...
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Prisoner 1167 : The Madman Who Was Jack the Ripper

James C. H. Tully - Carroll & Graf Pub; First edition. edition
Format: Hardcover

Presents, for the first time, evidence that suggests British authorities had Jack the Ripper in custody but released him and deliberately ignored information that might have led to his arrest and conviction for a string of murders of prostitutes."
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Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes

Elizabeth Bard - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the world's...
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud

Elizabeth Greenwood - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn.Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find...
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Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s

Tom Doyle - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock iconthe only McCartney biography in decades based on firsthand interviews with the ex-Beatle himself. As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda by his side....
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The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones

Sandra Tsing Loh - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book From an "imaginatively twisted and fearless" writer (Los Angeles Times) , a hilarious memoir of middle age. In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller...
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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

THE GREATEST IMMIGRANT SUCCESS STORY OF OUR TIME His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages. He was born in a year of famine, in a small Austrian town, the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding...
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Night

Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book

A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator,...
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