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Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore,... |
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Collected Nonfiction, Volume 2: Selections from the Memoirs and Travel Writings
Mark Twain - Everyman's Library
Format: Print book
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The second of two new hardcover volumes collecting the major nonfiction writings of the "father of American literature," including excerpts from The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi. Mark Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling... |
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Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir
Lita Ford - William Morrow & Co
Format: Print book
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In this long-awaited, emotionally powerful memoir, "HEAVY METAL'S LEADING FEMALE ROCKER" (Rolling Stone) opens up about the '70s and '80s music scene and her trailblazing life as the lead guitarist of the "pioneering band" (New York Times) the Runaways and her platinum-selling,... |
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The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Kushanava Choudhury - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful, entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a new literary voice.Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta.When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway... |
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Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters
Sean Egan - Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Format: Print book
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Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning - their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968. After some low points - when founder Peter Green left, some fans felt that the band continuing was sacrilege - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, and the band's 1977... |
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Robin
Dave Itzkoff - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams - a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork &... |
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The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone
ROBIN GREEN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A raucous and vividly dishy memoir by the only woman writer on the masthead of Rolling Stone Magazine in the early Seventies.In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices Rolling Stone magazine. She had just moved to Berkeley, California, a city that promised... |
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House of memory : reflections on youth and war
John Freely - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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An engaging, funny, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U. S. Navy commando unit John Freely's voice is still... |
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Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
JANET MOCK - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world - without a road map to guide her.The journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation... |
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The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
Virginia DeJohn Anderson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general,... |
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Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles
Sarah K Rich - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The newly discovered illustrated recipes of wildly influential yet unsung designer Cipe Pineles, introducing her delectable work in food and art to a new generation.Not long ago, Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton discovered a painted manuscript at an antiquarian book fair that drew them... |
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SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening
Chloe Schwenke - Red Hen Press
Format: Paperback
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SELF-ish is a narrative drawn from an international life, beginning with some early glimpses out at the world by a girl in a boy's body. Chloe Schwenke was raised as Stephen in a Marine Corps family, and was sent off at age fourteen to "man-up" at a military... |
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The Triumph of Belva Jane
Del Hood - Xlibris
Format: Print book
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Tenant farmer Frank Warren's wife dies, leaving him with two small children - Belva Jane, 5, and Stanley, 3. He spurns advice to put his children up for adoption. Instead, he hires a widow from a nearby town, Bertha Grossbaum, as a housekeeper. She is physically and psychologically... |
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A Dog Called Hope: A Wounded Warrior and the Service Dog Who Saved Him
Jason Morgan - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Lone Survivor meets Marley & Me in this inspiring buddy memoir of an extraordinary service dog whose enduring love brought a wounded soldier back to life.A decade ago, Special Forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an anti-narcotics... |
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Good Husbandry: A Memoir
Kristin Kimball - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a "beguiling memoir about the simple life" (Elle) , Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm - a 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community... |
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The Icon Hunter
Tasoula Georgiou Hadjitofi - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Tasoula Hadjitofi was only a child when her homeland, Cyprus, was invaded. As bombs fell and soldiers marched through the streets, her mother stood guard, reminding her children to not be afraid - not of the bombs or anything else that may follow. They would always have their family and their... |
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Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience
Anuradha Bhagwati - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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A raw, unflinching memoir by a former US Marine Captain chronicling her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to radical activist effecting historic policy reform.After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career... |
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Gordon Corera - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining... |
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Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here
Angela Palm - Graywolf
Format: Print book
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Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising... |
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
Ariana Neumann - Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing
Format: Audiobook
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In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.In 1941, the first Neumann family... |
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Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
Cara Robertson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology - the trial of Lizzie Borden - based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence.The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history.... |
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The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families
Silvia Pettem - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When loved-ones go missing, the lives of their family members are turned upside-down. As the days and months turn into years, some families are caged in by their grief, while others become proactive -- renewing police contacts, keeping up with the latest technologies, and educating themselves... |
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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
Sheila Kohler - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS"A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." - The BBC"An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." - PeopleWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister... |
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Man of the world : the further adventures of bill clinton
Joe Conason - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Veteran political journalist Joe Conason takes readers inside the post-presidential exploits of the perpetually fascinating Bill Clinton - and finds his continuing adventures just as colorful, controversial, and significant as his earlier political career.The extraordinary post-presidency... |
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
FIONA SAMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, a prize-winning poet delivers a major new biography of Mary Shelley -- as she has never been seen before.We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail -- the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft,... |
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C. White - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of Americas greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant.... |
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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Robert Kanigel - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Book
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The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.
Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children,... |
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Lennyball: A Memoir of Life on the Edge
Lenny Dykstra - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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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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Working
Robert A. Caro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed booksFor the first time in book form, Robert... |
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Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power
WILLIAM STADIEM - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The life of Madame Claude, the brilliant and complicated and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world.In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles and famous... |
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Mean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned Childhood
Tom Shillue - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the stand-up comedian and host of Fox News' humorous late-night talk show Red Eye, a nostalgic look back at his childhood and the simple American values that shaped his worldview - a portrait of growing up in 1970s America.As a comedian and the host of Red Eye, whip-smart funny... |
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Untitled Memoir
STEPHEN CARTER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York... |
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Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President
Richard Kigel - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President tells the true story of how this great American hero grew up and became a man. The story begins with Lincoln's cousin describing the murder of Abe's grandfather in 1782 by the Wabash Indians in the Kentucky wilderness.... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks:... |
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Reporter: A Memoir
Seymour M Hersh - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time--a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a decades-long career breaking some of the most impactful stories of the last half-century, from Washington to Vietnam to the Middle East.Seymour... |
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Hillary the Other Woman
Dolly Kyle - Wnd Books
Format: Print book
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You think you know Hillary and Bill Clinton pretty well. After all, they have been in the public eye from Arkansas to the White House and beyond for over forty years. Dolly Kyle met former president Clinton (Billy as she calls him) on a Hot Springs golf course when she was eleven and he was almost... |
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Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls.From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long... |
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The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait
Grey Villet - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Print book
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The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait documents the extraordinary love story of Mildred and Richard Loving. The Lovings presents Grey Villet's stunning photo-essay in its entirety for the first time and reveals with striking intensity and clarity the powerful bond of a couple that helped... |
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The Fortress: A Love Story
Danielle Trussoni - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one womans journey to the other side... |
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Two Turns From Zero: Pushing to Higher Fitness Goals-Converting Them to Life Strength
Stacey Griffith - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"The journey Stacey Griffith charts in Two Turns From Zero is both inspiring and instructional. Her book is action-oriented and wise beyond measure. It is full of engaging spirit and the true power of love and movement." - Deepak ChopraExpert motivator, a fitness virtuoso and a self-empowerment... |
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18 Holes with Bing: Golf, Life, and Lessons from Dad
Nathaniel Crosby - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this love letter to his father, former professional golfer Nathaniel Crosby shares memories of Bing Crosby on the golf course, and the lessons he taught him about the game and about life. With a Foreword by Jack Nicklaus."Bing Crosby was a great ambassador for our game, as well... |
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
DANIELLE ALLEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison... |
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Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done
Mick Ebeling - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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What if you discovered by accident that you could change the world? Mick Ebeling - a film producer by trade, optimist by nature - set out to perform a simple act of kindness that quickly turned into a lifelong mission. In the process he discovered that he could, indeed, change the world... |
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In Trump We Trust: How He Outsmarted the Politicians, the "Elites," and the Media
Ann Coulter - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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Donald Trump isn't a politician -- he's a one man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution. The three biggest news stories... |
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Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
ELIZABETH A SMART - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, My Story -- about being heldin captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive -- with a powerful and inspiringbook about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one's... |
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
Megan K. Stack - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Award finalist's unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothersWhen Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book,... |
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How I Accidentally Started The Sixties
Howard Bloom - Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book
Format: Paperback
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Before Timothy Leary, before free love, before the word hippie became a part of the preferred nomenclature, Howard Bloom and his band of explorers were pushing boundaries and minds.Embarking on a great journey that took him from his home in Buffalo, NY, to Washington, to California, to Israel,... |
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Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale
Dan Pearson - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafia. Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's mafia back to prominence in the 1990s.... |
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The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai
Ha Jin - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also known as Li Po--one of the most beloved poets ever to emerge from China.With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range... |
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Moriz Scheyer - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist.... |
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Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
Jayson Greene - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss." --Cheryl StrayedFor readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable... |
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Waco: A Survivor's Story
David Thibodeau - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback
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Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the siege at Waco, and a tie-in to the upcoming Spike TV mini-series, an updated reissue of the critically acclaimed A PLACE CALLED WACO by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.For the first time ever, a survivor of the Waco massacre tells the inside... |
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Beethoven's Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony
James Hamilton-Paterson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical... |
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John Le Carr - Viking
Format: Print book
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"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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Mutual Rescue: How Adopting a Homeless Animal Can Save You, Too
Carol Novello - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A moving and scientific look at the curative powers--both physical and mental--of rescuing a shelter animal, by the president of Humane Society Silicon Valley.MUTUAL RESCUE is the first book to profile the transformational impact that shelter pets have on humans, exploring the emotional,... |
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Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty
Robert Lacey - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing, no-holds-barred portrait of the legendary Eileen Ford - the entrepreneur who transformed the business of modeling and helped invent the celebrity supermodel.Working with her husband, Jerry, Eileen Ford created the twentieth century's largest and most successful modeling... |
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Orion of the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston
Daniel G Payne - David R. Rodine
Format: Print book
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A masterful portrait of an essential and unexamined American writer.When war broke out in Europe in 1914, a twenty-six-year-old Harvard writing instructor named Henry Sheahan volunteered with the American Field Service in France. After serving as an ambulance driver on the western front... |
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN - BALLANTINE
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution - from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even... |
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Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives
Sunil Khilnani - Farrar
Format: Print book
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An entertaining and provocative account of India's past, written by one of the country's leading thinkersFor all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing... |
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
Laurie Gwen Shapiro - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great... |
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G Street Lion: Stalking a Dream
Lamar Hasbrouck - Iuniverse Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck is a self-described "passionary" whose approach to life has taken him from inner-city poverty to the highest levels of his profession. In G Street Lion, he shares his life story-how a typical, fatherless black kid from urban America gains admission into the nation's... |
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Behind Nazi Lines: My Father's Heroic Quest to Save 149 World War II POWs
Andrew Gerow Hodges Jr. - Berkley Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one-man had the courage to fight the odds . . . An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish... |
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett - Perennial
Format: Print book
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Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments - to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband - creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.This Is the Story... |
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Jo Malone: My Story
Jo Malone - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Known around the world for her eponymous brand of fragrances and now her brand-new venture Jo Loves (soon to debut in the US) , Jo Malone tells the remarkable and inspiring story of her rise from humble beginnings to beloved business success.Jo Malone began her international fragrance... |
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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
Elizabeth Brown Pryor - Viking
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracy An awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of the Civil War. A conversation on the White House portico with a young cavalry sergeant... |
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Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Xiaolu Guo - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Xiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir, Nine Continents is the story of a curious mind coming of age in an inhospitable country, and her determination to seek a life... |
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U2: Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World
Timothy D. Neufeld - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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U2's significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative... |
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Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
John Hodgman - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, leaves vacation behind and gets back to work as a still somewhat famous person . . . and then loses his jobAfter spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary... |
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Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One
Karen Duffy - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain. For two decades, Karen Duffy --New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress-- has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy... |
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
Glennon Doyle Melton - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah 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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Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story - a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty... |
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LEADERSHIP CODE : using life's lessons to inspire others
PAUL KAPSALIS - MEYER & MEYER SPORT
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The conventional perception of a leader is someone who holds a certain status: captain, coach, CEO, or other executive. And, while all of us also can be joyful followers, we all have the ability and responsibility to be leaders. In fact, anyone in any position can lead. THE LEADERSHIP... |
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To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me
Heather Green - Berkley Books
Format: Print book
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A heartfelt, funny memoir about how a kitten rescue project changed one cynic's life ... Journalist Heather Green was finally putting down roots: in shiny, buzzing Manhattan. She loved her work and threw herself into sixty-hour weeks - once walking into a subway pole, getting a concussion,... |
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House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row
Lance Richardson - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men's fashion - and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film. From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in an austere... |
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Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir
Amber Tozer - Running Press
Format: Print book
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"Sober Stick Figure is a memoir from stand-up comedian Amber Tozer, chronicling her life as an alcoholic and her eventual recovery -- starting with her first drink at the age of seven -- all told with the help of childlike stick figures. Amber writes and illustrates the crazy and harsh... |
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Man of Destiny: FDR and the Making of the American Century
Alonzo Hamby - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. Following in the footsteps of his Republican cousin President Theodore Roosevelt, FDR devoted himself to politics as a Democrat and a true... |
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Kickflip Boys: A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood
NEAL THOMPSON - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"With a dispassionate but tender eye, Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys - and of adolescence itself, observed and remembered." - Michael ChabonWhat makes a good father, and what makes one a failure? Does less-is-more... |
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
Erling Hoh - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Print book
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An enthralling true-life story about a daring escape from one of Mao Zedong's prisonsMao Zedong's labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought... |
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Moranifesto
Caitlin Moran - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran's award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today - including three major new pieces... |
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Justice Failed: How "Legal Ethics" Kept Me in Prison for 26 Years
Alton Logan - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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An Official Junior Library Guild Selection, Adult Crossover Nonfiction "A shocking tale of wrongful conviction . . . that brings general conditions into cruelly sharp focus." -- Kirkus Reviews Justice Failed is the story of Alton Logan, an African American man who served... |
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Laura Cumming - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village - and how that event reverberated her own family and her art for decades.In... |
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Small Fry
LISA BRENNAN-JOBS - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father... |
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Reminiscing in Tempo: Farewells and Recollections of Showbiz, Jazz and Drums
Bruce H Klauber - Centerstream Publications
Format: Paperback
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(Book) . By way of incisive interviews, tributes, remembrances and eye-opening anecdotes about his personal association with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Lou Rawls to Mel Torme and Norman Mailer, this book chronicles Bruce Klauber's incredible, five-plus decades as an author, acclaimed... |
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Undefeated: From Tragedy to Triumph
Marc Buoniconti - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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Marc Buoniconti, son of an NFL Hall of Fame legend Nick Buoniconti, enjoyed an admittedly reckless lifestyle until a paralyzing football injury changed his outlook and pushed him to dedicate himself to helping others.Hurtling into a tackle, Marc Buoniconti made contact, and then - he felt... |
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The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Janny Scott - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses, and money... |
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Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir
Jill Bialosky - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Bialosky's erudite and instructive approach to poetry [is] itself a refreshing tonic." - Chicago Tribune "Wisdom and deep compassion...make [Bialosky's book] a tremendous asset both to readers and other writers." - The Washington Post An unconventional... |
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Eight Dollars and A Dream: My American Journey
Raj Gupta - Lulu Publishing Services
Format: Print book
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"Eight Dollars and a Dream tells of a remarkable personal and professional journey by one of America's premier Ceos and corporate directors. Raj Gupta, working with Syd Havely, offers a candid and captivating story, told with passion and special appreciation for how family, mentors... |
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Sleepless Nights and Kisses for Breakfast: Reflections on Fatherhood
MATTEO BUSSOLA - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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This #1 Italian bestseller, offering a father's observations of the everyday moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, has struck a chord with readers around the globe.Matteo Bussola is a designer and cartoonist who lives in Verona, Italy with his wife Paola; their three young daughters,... |
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Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
Anna Pasternak - Ecco
Format: Print book
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The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya - the true tragedy behind the timeless classicWhen Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life... |
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Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children
SARA ZASKE - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Bringing Up Bebe and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a clarion call and practical guide for a return to rational parenting, from an American woman who learned how to raise strong, self-reliant children by following the common sense approach of German parenting.... |
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My Life in a Cat House: True Tales of Love, Laughter, and Living with Five Felines
Gwen Cooper - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the human-feline bond with all its joys, mysteries, and life-changing moments. Gwen Cooper - author of the blockbuster international bestseller Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life With a Blind Wonder Cat - returns with the ongoing adventures... |
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
NICK BILTON - PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Format: Print book
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From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported,... |
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
MAYA JASANOFF - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Enlightening, compassionate, superb" - John Le CarrA visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing todayMigration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism... |
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Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i
Liz Prato - Overcup Press
Format: Paperback
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In Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i Liz Prato combines lyricism, research and humor to explore her role as a white tourist in a seemingly paradisiacal land that has been largely formed and destroyed by white outsiders. Hawaiian history, pop culture, and contemporary... |
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Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius
Laurence Bergreen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the impoverished child, abandoned by his parents, who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius whose name still resonates today: Giacomo Casanova.Today, "Casanova" is a synonym for "great lover," yet the real... |
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
W. Caleb McDaniel - Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations.
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold... |
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White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters
Mary Pflum Peterson - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them - television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption, and her battle to rescue her mother, a former nun, from compulsive hoarding.As a successful... |
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews,... |
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France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child
Katherine Pratt - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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From the coauthor of My Life in France, a revealing collection of photographs taken by Paul Child that document his and Julia Child's years in France Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia... |
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First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
Joshua C Kendall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological make-up.... |
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Darkness to Light: A Memoir
Lamar Odom - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock bottom depths. Desperation and elation. Sometimes in the same hour. Oh, and don't forget power . . . and the struggle for it. There has never been an athlete quite like Lamar Odom. And there has never... |
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Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier's Story
Jon Kerstetter - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier,... |
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Presto!: How I Made over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Penn Jillette - Novel Audio
Format: Audiobook
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An unconventional weight loss tale from an unconventional personality. Penn Jillette tells how he lost 100 pounds with his trademark outrageous sense of humor and biting social commentary that makes this success story anything but ordinary. Legendary magician Penn Jillette was approaching... |
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary true story of the black detective who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the major motion picture written and directed by Spike Lee, and produced by Jordan Peele.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado... |
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Big Girls Do Cry
April Kirkwood - Wise Ink, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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Big Girls Do Cry is the story that Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons fans have been waiting for, a look into the glitz and the glory that was the Jersey Boys' story as witnessed by one of the group's biggest fans. In the tradition of scandalous tell-all's by rock groupie... |
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
Joan Juliet Buck - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter... |
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Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein
Bradley J. Edwards - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein's victims for more than a decade.In June 2008, Florida-based victims' rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards... |
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Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
Richard Holloway - Canongate Books
Format: Hardcover
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Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us?Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards... |
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Enough: Notes From a Woman Who Has Finally Found It
Shauna M. Ahern - Sasquatch Books
Format: Hardcover
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For women everywhere, a collection of fierce and often funny personal essays on finding enough, from writer Shauna M. Ahern, of Gluten-Free Girl fame.Like so many American women, Shauna M. Ahern spent decades feeling not good enough about her body, about money, and about her worth in this... |
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Lincolns Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W. Sears - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac. The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals... |
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Michael Sims - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle... |
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
T Fleischmann - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art How does art affect our relationship to our bodies T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzles-Torres's artworks -- piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles -- as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation,... |
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The Best "Worst President": What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama
Mark Hannah - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and renowned New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake give Barack Obama the victory lap he deserves in this compendium that takes the president's critics head-on and celebrates the president's many underappreciated triumphs.Barack Obama's... |
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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
Joyce Carol Oates - Ecco
Format: Print book
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Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle... |
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Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
HARVEY SACHS - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life is unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini -- recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
Samantha Allen - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast reporter... |
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Mozart: The Man Revealed
JOHN SUCHET - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The illustrated life-story of the world's most beloved composer, bringing vividly to life the man himself, his influences, achievements, and the glittering milieu of the Habsburg empire in eighteenth-century Europe. We think we know the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life. Austrian-born... |
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The Geraldo Show: A Memoir
Geraldo Rivera - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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In public life for half a century, my image and reputation have had more ups and downs than the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island. I have been called savior and sinner, fool and wise man, crusader and exploiter, hot head and dope. I am routinely scorned, admired, beloved, and belittled.... |
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Thank You for My Service
Mat Best - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The unapologetic, laugh-your-ass-off military memoir both vets and civilians have been waiting for, from a five-tour Army Ranger turned YouTube phenomenon and zealous advocate for veterans Members of the military's special operations branches share a closely... |
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Damon Young - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in AmericaFor Damon Young, existing while Black... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world;... |
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Settle for More
Megyn Kelly - Harper
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
Anchor of the number one news show on cable, The Kelly File, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly writes her much anticipated book, a revealing and surprising memoir detailing her rise as one of the most respected journalists working today. From the values... |
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The Art & Science of Respect: A Memoir by James Prince
James Prince - N-The-Water Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For decades, serial entrepreneur James Prince presided over Rap-A-Lot Records, one of the first and most successful independent rap labels. In his memoir, he explains how he earned his reputation as one of the most respected men in Hip Hop. By staying true to his three principles of heart,... |
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Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him
T. J. English - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime - and law enforcement - that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams - Hanover Square
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went... |
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Fashion Climbing
BILL CUNNINGHAM - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and styleFor Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings... |
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Bad Kid: A Memoir
David Crabb - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book
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Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas.... |
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
David Leite - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite... |
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Die Young with Me: A Memoir
Rob Rufus - Touchstone Books
Format: Print book
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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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Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Min Kym - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star."... |
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
Elissa Altman - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It's the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. "Wise, evocative, and rich... |
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No Room for Small Dreams: The Decisions That Made Israel Great
Shimon Peres - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth... |
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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Now in paperback with new material, a memoir by John Oates of Hall & Oates, the most successful musical duo of all time.John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B.... |
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Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Anthony Bourdain - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, including interviews with Neil Degrasse Tyson and Trevor NoahAnthony Bourdain always downplayed his skills as a chef (many disagreed) . But despite... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"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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The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective... |
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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Killings
Calvin Trillin - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden."... |
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new writer."... |
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