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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
John Gribbin - Random House; 1st U.S. edition, edition
Format: Hardcover
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A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s CatIn this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories... |
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Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Temple Grandin - Vintage Books
Format: Book
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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible... |
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Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain
Natalie Cole - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE. In 2009 Natalie Cole was on dialysis, her kidneys failing. Without a kidney transplant, her future was uncertain.... |
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Kidnapped by the Taliban: A Story of Terror, Hope, and Rescue by SEAL Team Six
James Lund - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Back Cover CopyAm I About to Die?On December 5, 2012, American medical doctor Dilip Joseph and two colleagues are driving back to Kabul, Afghanistan, after serving villagers that morning at a rural clinic. Suddenly a man waving an AK-47 blocks their path. More armed men jump out of hiding.... |
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Francis of Rome and Francis of Assisi: A New Springtime for the Church
Leonardo Boff - Orbis
Format: Book
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In choosing his name, Pope Francis was indicating an agenda, a vision, and a sense of mission. Saint Francis, the most universally beloved saint, reformed the church by imitating Christ - in simplicity, poverty, and love for those on the margins. The spirit of St. Francis calls the church... |
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Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Sonia Purnell - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Sonia Purnell has at long last given Clementine Churchill the biography she deserves. Sensitive yet clear-eyed, Clementine tells the fascinating story of a complex woman struggling to maintain her own identity while serving as the conscience and principal adviser to one of the most... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nations great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill. Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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Dear Father: Breaking the Cycle of Pain
J Ivy - Ivyous Entertainment, LLC
Format: Audiobook
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Hip-hops favorite poet and award-winning artist J. Ivy bares his soul in this inspirational memoir of pain transformed into healing and empowerment. J. Ivy is a true pioneer and trendsetter whos bridged the worlds of hip-hop and poetry through his appearances on HBOs Def Poetry and his collaborations... |
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The Clintons' War on Women
Roger Stone - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Clinton is running for president as an "advocate of women and girls," but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up - until now. This stunning expos reveals for the first time how Bill and Hillary Clinton systematically abused women... |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know... |
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir
Viv Albertine - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ms. Albertines book is wiry and cogent and fearless. Her book has an honest, lo-fi grace. If it were better written, it would be worse.--Dwight Garner, The New York TimesForget Katniss And Tris - Viv Albertine Is Your New Hero.--MTV.comThe Rough Trade 1 Book of the Year!Viv Albertine is a pioneer.... |
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Food and the City: New York's Professional Chefs, Restaurateurs, Line Cooks, Street Vendors, and Purveyors Talk About What They Do and Why They Do It
Ina Yalof - Putnam, 2016.
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes tour of New York City's dynamic food culture, as told through the voices of the chefs, line cooks, restaurateurs, waiters, and street vendors who have made this industry their lives. In Food and the City, Ina Yalof takes us on an insider's journey... |
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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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Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir
Michael Peppiatt - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In June of 1963, when Michael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon, the former was a college boy at Cambridge, the latter already a famous painter, more than thirty years his senior. And yet, Peppiatt was welcomed into the volatile artist's world; Bacon, considered by many to be "mad,... |
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Barry Strauss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The exciting, dramatic story of one of history's most famous events - the death of Julius Caesar - now placed in full context of Rome's civil wars by eminent historian Barry Strauss.Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history.... |
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Everybody's Got Something
Robin Roberts - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover(Large Print)
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"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something. " So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square
Randy Boyagoda - Image
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant biography of one of the intellectual mavericks of 20th Century Catholicism.Richard John Neuhaus 1936-2009 was one of the most influential figures in American public life from the Civil Rights era to the War on Terror. His writing, activism, and connections to people of power... |
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Lost and Found ITPE: Finding Hope in the Detours of Life
Sarah Jakes - Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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With heartbreaking vulnerability, Sarah Jakes, daughter of Bishop T. D. Jakes, shares her inspiring personal story of overcoming past mistakes and finding her faith and purpose again. |
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Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
Walidah Imarisha - AK Press
Format: Paperback
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"There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer. . . . When I saw for the first time (but not the last) a mother sobbing and clutching her son when visiting hours were up, only to be physically pried off and escorted out by guards,... |
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American Warlord: A True Story
Johnny Dwyer - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Chucky Taylor is the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor. Raised by his mother in the Florida suburbs, at the age of 17 he followed his father to Liberia, where he ended up leading a murderous militia. Chucky is now in a federal penitentiary, the only American ever... |
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Cronkite
Douglas Brinkley - HarperCollins Publishers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite.An acclaimed author and historian, Brinkley has drawn upon recently disclosed letters, diaries, and other artifacts at the recently opened Cronkite Archive to bring... |
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography
Maya Angelou - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of "Revolutionist Returnees" inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Walking Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive... |
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The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
David Stuart MacLean - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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"Brilliant and painful and hilarious." - Antonya Nelson On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up" on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then... |
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American Sniper
Chris Kyle - William Morrow Paperbacks; Mti Rei edition
Format: Movie Tie-in Edition]: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario - The Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped... |
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Kate Clifford Larson - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world... |
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Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World
Tim Sultan - Random House
Format: Print book
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Imagine that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit hole. In the tradition of J. R. Moehringer's The Tender Bar and the classic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here is an indelible portrait of what is quite possibly the greatest bar in the world - and the mercurial,... |
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
James McGrath Morris - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of one of the most significant yet least known figures of the civil rights era - pioneering journalist Ethel Payne, the "First Lady of the Black Press" - elevating her to her rightful place in history... |
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
GUCCI MANE - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "As wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself. " - Complex "A cautionary tale that ends in triumph." - GQ "A revelation and a welcome addition to hip-hop's literary legacy." - All Hip Hop... |
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Diane von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped
Gioia Diliberto - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian... |
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Country Music Hair
Erin Duvall - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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Country music's greatest mullets, bobs, beehives, and bouffants collected together in one entertaining volume, illustrated with dozens of color and black-and-white photographs."The higher the hair, the closer to god."From mullets to mustaches and teased hair to bobs, country... |
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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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Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.THEIR NAMES ARE FAMILIAR.THEIR STORIES ARE NOT.Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? Credit... |
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Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents
Gary Scott Smith - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nations history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies... |
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Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero
Anthony Cave Brown - Times Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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The biography and political experience of Major General J.Donovan founder of the OSS and "father" of the CIA,from his personal and secret papers and the diaries of Ruth Donovan.World War I pictures of Bill Donovan and his heroics and stories of him in the war. |
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The Life and Career of David Beckham: Football Legend, Cultural Icon
David Beckham - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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David Beckham is an English soccer player whose popularity extends beyond the field and into international celebrity. He has played for some of the best clubs in the world, including Manchester United, Real Madrid, and AC Milan, and is known worldwide for his free kick expertise and spectacular... |
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The Other Side: A Memoir
Lacy M. Johnson - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night.... |
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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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Drawing Blood
Molly Crabapple - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book
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Art was my dearest friend.To draw was trouble and safety, adventure and freedom.In that four-cornered kingdom of paper, I lived as I pleased.This is the story of a girl and her sketchbook.In language that is fresh, visceral, and deeply moving - and illustrations that are irreverent and gorgeous... |
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
Janice P. Nimura - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall) ; "beautifully crafted . . . subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff) .In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help... |
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The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson - Graywolf Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelsons The Argonauts is a genre-bending... |
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El largo camino hacia la libertad
Nelson Mandela - Aguilar; PRIMERA EDICION edition
Format: Paperback
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Nelson Mandela representa para millones de personas el triunfo de la dignidad y de la esperanza sobre la desesperación y el odio, de la autodisciplina y el amor sobre la persecución y la ignominia. Su extraordinaria vida consagrada a la lucha contra la opresión racial lo hizo... |
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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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The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
Jane Ridley - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times Book Review
- John Sutherland
Ridley's superb book is the fruit of a decade's immersion in the royal archives, a privilege rarely granted. And her work was all the trickier because, at least in the past,... |
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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Sheila McCauley Keys - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero - "the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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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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Pipestone
Fortunate Eagle
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A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding schoolBest known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minn |
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Mysteries of Love and Grief: Reflections on a Plainswoman's Life
Sandra Jean Scofield - Texas Tech University Press
Format: Print book
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Frieda Harms was born into a farming family in Indian Territory in 1906. Widowed at thirty and left with three children in the midst of the Great Depression, she worked as a farmer, a railroad cook, a mill worker, and a nurse in four states. She died in 1983. Sandra Scofield... |
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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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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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The Keillor Reader
Garrison Keillor - Viking Books
Format: Hardcover
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Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done - a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist,... |
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Bossypants
Tina Fey - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover
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Stated First Edition! Hardcover with DJ. Feel's like a new unread (or gently read) copy. Clean and unmarked, not price clipped, not a remainder. Satisfaction guaranteed! |
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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Michael Farquhar - Random House
Format: eBook
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“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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Black boy (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
Richard Wright - HarperPerennial Modern Classics
Format: Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Traces the author's coming of age in the Jim Crow-era South, a period during which he struggled to survive while journeying from innocence to adulthood.
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The Tank Man's Son: A Memoir
Mark Bouman - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of The Glass Castle and Angela's Ashes comes the most unforgettable memoir you'll read this year!"What did it mean to be the Tank Man's son? To grow up overwhelmed by my father's presence and personality? It was as if I didn't exist, as if I was just... |
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Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding
Ben Jealous - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this timely and important collection of personal essays, black men from all walks of life share their inspiring stories and ultimately how each, in his own way, became a source of hope for his community and country. Reach includes forty first-person accounts from well-known men like... |
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Black and White: The Way I See It
Richard Williams - Atria
Format: Paperback
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The fascinating, "upfront and unapologetic" (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of Richard Williams, a businessman, tennis coach, subject of the major motion picture King Richard, and father to two of the greatest athletes and professional tennis champions of all time - Venus and Serena... |
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CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing and the Power of Their First Celebrity Crush
Cathy Alter - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush.You never forget your first crush . . .CRUSH... |
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Coming to My Senses: One Woman's Cochlear Implant Journey
Claire H. Blatchford - Gallaudet University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Deafened at the age of six, Claire Blatchford was educated orally with speech lessons, speechreading, and hearing aids. Though successful both professionally and domestically, at the age of 67 Blatchford decided to undergo a cochlear implantation. In this memoir, she describes in prose... |
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Ordinary Light: A Memoir
Tracy K. Smith - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.. "Engrossing... |
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Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
Herman J Russell - Chicago Review Press,
Format: Print book
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Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old - and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. Over the next fifty years, he continued to build businesses, amassing... |
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Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools
Joel Klein - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller (Education) The Economist Best Books of the Year SelectionIn this revealing and provocative memoir, the former chancellor of the New York City schools offers the behind-the-scenes story of the city's dramatic campaign to improve public education and an inspiring... |
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Tenement Testaments: Growing up Black in the Civil Rights Movement
Bertrand Brown - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Book
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Martin Luther King Jr. preached equality and my parents were firm believers in his teachings. He preached integration, fair housing and a host of other things. America was in the midst of a civil rights movement and my parents championed his ideals and were on the front lines. We moved... |
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A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson
Candy Carson - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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"The life of a neurosurgeon isn't an easy one, and Ben has been required to go above and beyond the call of duty almost constantly. The life of a neurosurgeon's wife isn't much easier. But it's all been worth it. Together, we've been through poverty, tragedy, wealth, and joy, and we've... |
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Words Without Music: A Memoir
Philip Glass - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited memoir by "the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers" (New York Times).A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical... |
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Michelle Obama: A Life
Peter Slevin - Knopf
Format: eBook
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An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison... |
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
Susan Ottaway - Little, Brown and Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, sisters who risked everything to fight for freedom during the Second World War. When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering... |
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Love, Lashes, and Lipstick: My Secrets for a Gorgeous, Happy Life
Mally Roncal - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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From A-list celebrity makeup artist and Mally Beauty founder Mally Roncal comes an inspirational guide to living a gorgeous life inside and out, with step-by-step beauty lessons and personal stories about how inner strength, a positive outlook, and plenty of mascara can empower and uplift... |
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Here to Help: A Guide to Overcoming Opiate and Heroin Addiction
Jason M Scholl - Outskirts Press
Format: Print book
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Here to Help: A Guide to Overcoming Opiate and Heroin Addiction is the ultimate tool for educating and guiding addicts considering, or working toward sobriety. With opiate addiction on the rise, so is the demand for practical assistance in overcoming it. But the reality is, that time and money... |
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Rachel Swaby - Broadway Books
Format: Print book
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Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history's brightest female scientists. In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise... |
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
David Ritz - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left... |
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Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life
Kelsey Miller - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A hilarious and inspiring memoir about one young woman's journey to find a better path to both physical and mental health. At twenty-nine, Kelsey Miller had done it all: crash diets, healthy diets, and nutritionist-prescribed "eating plans," which are diets that you pay more money... |
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou - Vintage; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of Revolutionist Returnees inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All Gods Children Need Walking Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive exploration... |
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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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In April 1992, a young man named Chris McCandless walked into the Alaskan wilderness, where he survived for more than 100 days before perishing in an abandoned bus. For over 20 years his story has captivated millions, and yet only one person knew the truth behind his remarkable journey... |
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Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Alex Wright - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom... |
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Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim
Justin Gifford - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, n Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career... |
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Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow
Tara Austen Weaver - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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For fans of Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves. Peeling paint, stained floors, vined-over windows,... |
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Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
Nha Ca - Indiana University Press; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover
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Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her father’s funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short their lives. After a month... |
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Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
Martin Sixsmith - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 yearsWhen she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent... |
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Michelle Obama: A Life
Peter Slevin - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's... |
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Holding the Net: Caring for My Mother on the Tightrope of Aging
Melanie P Merriman - Green Writers Press
Format: Paperback
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In this poignant and timely memoir, Melanie Merriman shares her struggle to care for her fiercely independent aging mother. When her father dies, Melanie commits herself to making the rest of her mother's life the best it can be. She brings knowledge to the situation -- as a hospice... |
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African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers
W Douglas Fisher - McFarland & Company
Format: Print book
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In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated... |
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Marva Collins' Way
Marva Collins - Tarcher; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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Marva Collins offers a beacon of hope in the midst of America's educational crises. Collins recounts her successful teaching strategies and offers inspirational advice on how to motivate children to fulfill their potential. This updated edition contains a new epilogue for parents and teachers. |
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Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me
Yamma Brown - Chicago Review Press; Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover
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Being the child of a global superstar is never easy, but being the daughter of the “Hardest Working Man in Show Business”—that’s a category unto itself. Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father’s attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated... |
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Tolstoy's False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov
Alexandra Popoff - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This new book from the critically acclaimed author of THE WIVES 2012 and SOPHIA TOLSTOY A BIOGRAPHY 2010 sheds light on one of the most unusual relationships in literary history, which has been steeped in secrecy for more than a century. On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg... |
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We Were Brothers
Barry Moser - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further... |
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Binge
Tyler Oakley - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Pop culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays written in the voice that's earned him more than twenty-one million followers across social media.... |
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Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James
Craig Seymour - 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... |
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M. Blow - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place... |
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
Taya Kyle - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband... |
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Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes
Kristen Beddard - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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A memoir of love, life, and recipes from the woman who brought kale to the City of Light The story of how one expat woman left her beloved behind when she moved to France-her beloved kale, that is. Unable to find le chou kale anywhere upon moving to the City of Light with her new husband,... |
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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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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded... |
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The Reluctant Psychic: A Memoir
Suzan Saxman - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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We all, as children, saw imaginary friends and heard monsters in the closet. But for Suzan Saxman, those friends and monsters didn't go away - and they weren't imaginary. They were the dead who came to her from the time she was a little girl with urgent messages for the living. Raised in a house... |
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal
Mark Owen - Dutton
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused... |
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The Comfort Food Diaries
Emily Nunn - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.One life-changing night, reeling from... |
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Being Elvis
Ray Connolly - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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On the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death comes this rocking biography of an iconic artist who fundamentally transformed American culture.Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic... |
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American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
Carl E Rollyson - Picador/St. Martin's Press
Format: Paperback
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The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of legend. Educated at Smith College, she had a conflicted relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the Sturm und Drang of literary celebrity. Her poems were fought over, rejected,... |
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Mike Huckabee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election!In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York... |
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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Nadia Bolz-Weber - Convergent Books
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller | One of NPR's Best Books of 2015What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace todayAnd what if that's the pointIn Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising... |
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Aging Gracefully: Portraits of People Over 100
Karsten Thormaehlen - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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Fall in love with 52 wise, healthy, and joyful 100-year-olds in this celebratory and uplifting art book. A beautiful and fascinating exploration of what it is like to be over 100 years old, Aging Gracefully invites readers to look into the face of a century of life experience with portraits... |
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With Hitler and Mussolini: Memoirs of a Nazi Interpreter
Eugen Dollmann - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An insider's view of Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, and Mussolini.In the years before World War II, Eugen Dollmann arrived in Rome on a scholarship, intending to write a history of the Catholic Church. Instead he joined the Nazi Party and became an interpreter to various members of the German... |
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Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike
Jared Orsi - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and... |
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Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
Clarence Bernard Henry - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Print book
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Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller. Clarence... |
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