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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable history with elements of both In the Presidents Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas.Americas First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their... |
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Roshara Journal: Chronicling Four Seasons, Fifty Years, and 120 Acres
Jerold W Apps - Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Format: Print book
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A photographic diary of a small Midwestern farm and the family who've made it their homeIn Roshara Journal, father-and-son team Jerry and Steve Apps share the monthly happenings at their family's farm in central Wisconsin. Featuring Steve's stunning photos and fifty years of Jerry's... |
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Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line
Michael Gibney - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Book
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMEThe back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant... |
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Louisa Thomas - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the British-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson... |
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Jenny Nordberg - Crown; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as "dressed up like a boy") is a third kind of child -- a girl temporarily... |
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The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Azar Nafisi - Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change peoples lives, by the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in TehranTen years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop... |
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A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Familys Quest for Justice
Anthony Summers - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Linda Tirado - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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The real-life Nickel and Dimed - the author of the wildly popular "Poverty Thoughts" essay tells what its like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire "DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which... |
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
Mark Sundeen - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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The radical search for the simple life in today's America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound... |
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The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath
Michael Griesbach - ABA Publishing, American Bar Association
Format: Print book
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The story of one of the nation's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit,... |
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Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
Daniel De ViseÌ - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs.Andy Griffith and Don Knotts met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy went to Hollywood to film a TV pilot about a small-town... |
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You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,... |
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Fat Dad, Fat Kid
Shay Butler - Atria/Keywords Press
Format: Paperback
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A father-son weight-loss memoir from YouTube star and entrepreneur Shay Carl and his son, Gavin Butler, to be published by Keywords Press, a brand-new imprint under Simon & Schuster dedicated to today's digital stars. |
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The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac
John Hildebrand - Wisconsin Historical Society Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“I’ve never believed that living in one place means being one thing all the time, condemned like Minnie Pearl to wear the same hat for every performance. Life is more complicated than that.” In this remarkable book of days, John Hildebrand charts the overlapping rings—home,... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy - Little
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Practice to Deceive
Ann Rule - Gallery Books; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of True Crime Ann Rule delivers another gripping true-crime story—this time a shattering case of Christmastime murder off the coast of Washington State, with a shocking amount of drama, greed, sex, and scandal and no shortage of suspects.With... |
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Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
Jose Angel N. - University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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A day after N. first crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and compelling... |
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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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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
John Waters - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
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Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with Americas most beloved weirdo.John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "Im Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across... |
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Think Big: Overcoming Obstacles with Optimism
Jennifer Arnold MD - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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Bestselling authors and stars of TLC's The Little Couple return with an inspirational book that encourages readers to reach for their dreams, no matter what obstacles they may face.Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein have faced some big challenges in their lives. On the way to becoming... |
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True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy
Kati Marton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carr, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to.True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American... |
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A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-blooded Murder
Gregg Olsen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith,... |
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Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania
Charles Monroe-Kane - The University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Print book
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Charles Monroe-Kane is a natural raconteur, and boy, does he have stories to tell. Born into an eccentric Ohio clan of modern hunter-gatherers, he grew up hearing voices in his head. Over a dizzying two decades, he was many things - teenage faith healer, world traveler, smuggler, liberation... |
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
Frances Mayes - Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes... |
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
Del Quentin Wilber - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good... |
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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious... |
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Food: A Love Story
Jim Gaffigan - Crown
Format: Book
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"What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale.... |
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Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion
Cora Daniels - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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When was the last time you said everything on your mind without holding back? In this no-holds-barred discussion of America’s top hot-button issues, a journalist and a cultural anthropologist express opinions that are widely held in private—but rarely heard in public.Everyone... |
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You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age
Robert J. Wagner - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary actor and bestselling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden ageFor millions of movie lovers, no era in the history of Hollywood is more beloved than the period from the 1930s through the 1950s, the golden age of the studio system. Not only... |
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T. J. Stiles - Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping... |
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
Liz Pryor - Random House
Format: Print book
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For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through... |
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Unremarried Widow: A Memoir
Artis Henderson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful memoir, a young woman loses her husband twenty years after her own mother was widowed, and overcomes two generations of tragedy to discover that both hope and love endure. Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming... |
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
Anthony M. Amore - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons... |
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist,... |
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In a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat Opot
Gail Gutradt - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman's volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia - a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles. Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life... |
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Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Deirdre Bair - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone... |
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Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes
Ann M Lewis - Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
Format: Print book
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Ann Lewis's childhood was marked by an unusual rhythm. Each year the thawing and freezing of the Great Lakes signaled the beginning and end of the shipping season, months of waiting that were punctuated by brief trips to various ports to meet her father, the captain.With lively storytelling... |
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Sex Object: A Memoir
Jessica Valenti - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerNPR Best Book of 2016"Sharp and prescient ... The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it ... Sex Object is an antidote to the fun and flirty... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent... |
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The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters
Wes Moore - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons - about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking - that led him to a new definition of success for our times. The Work is the story of how one young man traced... |
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Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret:... |
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. Hoffman - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA's Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While... |
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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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Every Little Step: My Story
Bobby Brown - Dey St.
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic... |
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Filthy Rich
James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book
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A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth... |
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Appetites: A Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain - Ecco
Format: Print book
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Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family... |
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Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind - Hyperion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia.... |
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture.My Own Words... |
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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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The Thunder Before the Storm: The Autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt
Clyde H Bellecourt - Minnesota Historical Society Press
Format: Print book
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Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, provides an intimate narrative of his childhood on the White Earth Reservation, his long journey through the prison system, and the front lines of 1970's social activism, where he went to war against entrenched racism. He addresses... |
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Sally Ride: Americas First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, inspiring several generations of women. After a second flight, Ride served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion... |
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This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
Blair Jackson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band's story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices... |
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
Barbara Leaming - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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Live Fast Die Hot
Jenny Mollen - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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By the New York Times bestselling author, an outrageous collection of personal essays about adulthood, responsibility, and other potential disasters Jenny Mollen is a writer and actress living in New York. Until two years ago, her lifewas exciting, sexy, a little eccentric, and one hundred... |
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The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar - Random House
Format: Print book
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From the author of "In the Country of Men, "a" "Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father s disappearance. When Hisham... |
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Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
Maria Mutch - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this soul-stirring debut memoir, Maria Mutch explores the miraculous power that care and communication have in the face of the deep, personal isolation that often comes with disability. A chronicle of the witching hours between midnight and six a.m., this meditative book takes place... |
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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Ken Burns - Knopf; MTI edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerA vivid and personal portrait of Americas greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation, which expands on the hugely acclaimed seven-part PBS documentary series, bringing readers even deeper into these extraordinary leaders lives With 796 photographs,... |
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Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
C. Nicole Mason - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life... So begins Born Bright,... |
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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Blake Bailey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Autobiography' The renowned biographer's unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins - his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown... |
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The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
Laura Tillman - Scribner, 2016.
Format: Book
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In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime - the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville,... |
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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."-NPR.orgThe... |
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Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love
C. David Heymann - Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby and Jackie comes the riveting, true story of the passionate, volatile relationship between baseball great Joe DiMaggio and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe eloped in January of 1954, they became an international... |
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The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
Jerome R Corsi - Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the Publisher: In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed
Michelle Knight - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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A Life in Parts
Bryan Cranston - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir - both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft - from Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history's most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad.Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven,... |
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Devotion and Defiance: My Journey in Love, Faith and Politics
Humaira Awais Shahid with Kelly Horan - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring personal story by the most prominent Muslim woman activist and legislator for women's rights in Pakistan.In the fall of 2001, a newlywed English professor took on a job editing the "women's section" of one of Pakistan's leading Urdu newspapers. She soon... |
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Les Paul in His Own Words: Centennial Edition
Les Paul - Backbeat Books
Format: Print book
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(Book) . In 2009, the legendary Les Paul passed away at the age of 94. In celebration of his life, this book, capturing Paul's own reflections on his remarkable inventions and guitar playing, was published as a high-end collector's edition. In 2015, Les Paul reached his centennial,... |
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Life Is Short
Jennifer Arnold MD - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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From the beloved stars of TLC's The Little Couple comes an uplifting and moving behind-the-scenes account of how the pair met, fell in love, and overcame huge obstacles to become successful professionals and parents.Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein have inspired millions as stars of TLC's... |
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
Lucia Jang - W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household -- her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed... |
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My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal... |
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Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir
Wednesday Martin - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! The book that has outraged the social elite! "Eye-popping" - People "Amusing, perceptive and ... deliciously evil" - The New York Times Book Review "Juicy, sexy, bawdy stuff" - New York Daily News "Think Gossip... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
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Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
A. E. Hotchner - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
David Fisher - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone... |
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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
Christopher Dickey - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a nation.When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up the post of British consul in 1853, he was young and full of ambition, but even... |
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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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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
Gail Lumet Buckley - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich - Random House
Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir
Timbaland - Amistad Press
Format: Hardcover
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The long-anticipated inside look at the extraordinary career of the man who brought Sexy Back, the legendary producer in the pantheon of music greats as influential and groundbreaking as Motown's Berry Gordy and a memoir of the creative process.Hailed by the New Yorker as "the... |
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Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir
T F Pecore Weso - Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Format: Print book
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In this food memoir, named for the manoomin or wild rice that also gives the Menominee tribe its name, tribal member Thomas Pecore Weso takes readers on a cook's journey through Wisconsin's northern woods. He connects each food - beaver, trout, blackberry, wild rice, maple sugar,... |
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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents... |
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Team Dog: How to Train Your Dog--the Navy SEAL Way
Mike Ritland - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times-bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland teaches all dog owners how to have the close relationship and exceptional training of combat dogs. In TEAM DOG, Mike taps into fifteen years' worth of experience and shares, explaining in accessible and direct language,... |
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
Holly Madison - Dey St., an imprint of WilliamMorrowPublishers
Format: Print book
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The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion - and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key - from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef's former #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next DoorA spontaneous decision... |
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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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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Randy Roberts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam - a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult - saw the potential... |
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Drinking and Dating: P.S. Social Media Is Ruining Romance
Brandi Glanville - HarperOne, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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America's favorite hashtagger has gone through hell, but now she's back, hilariously sharing what she's learned - why a man would wear his hat during sex, why you should close your legs when you get out of a car, and why yes is the new no. |
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Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this fascinating question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. The result is both insightful history and an astonishingly compelling psychological portrait." - Walter... |
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Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
Douglas Brinkley - Harper
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed, award-winning historian - "America's new past master" (Chicago Tribune) - examines the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal.Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect... |
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
Elaine Sciolino - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs, " Sciolino explains, as she celebrates... |
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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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