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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten... |
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon... |
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than... |
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Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media
Nicholas Diakopoulos - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present and future of a world in which news is created by algorithm.Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization... |
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You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For
Kyle Carpenter - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From the youngest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, an extraordinary inspirational memoir that will change the life of every reader. "Kyle displayed a heroism in the blink of an eye that will inspire for generations" - President Barack Obama, at Kyle Carpenter's Medal of Honor... |
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
A. N. Wilson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth.For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height... |
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Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Ian Frisch - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Neil Strauss' The Game and Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man's colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from around... |
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Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
Jeremy N. Smith - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker - a woman known only as Alien. When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school's tradition of highrisk physical trespassing:... |
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Funny Man: Mel Brooks
Patrick McGilligan - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred... |
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One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Brian Doyle - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) , this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life.. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like... |
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Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Mitch Albom - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays... |
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
William Geroux - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy... |
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life.The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered... |
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
Cecelia Watson - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"Delightful." - Mary Norris, The New YorkerA page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world's most polarizing punctuation markThe semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love... |
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Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
James Stavridis USN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most distinguished admirals of our time and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a meditation on leadership and character refracted through the lives of ten of the most illustrious naval commanders in historyIn his acclaimed book Sea Power, James Stavridis reckoned... |
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Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter
Jessica Wragg - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of coming of age behind the counter, exploring butchery as an art form and taking an incisive look at an industry on the brink.When sixteen-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at her local farm shop in Derbyshire, England, she never expected to land a position behind the butchery... |
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Best Seller "Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was one of your favorite books growing up, you should add Furious Hours to your reading list today."... |
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The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
Francesca Cartier Brickell - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating story of the family behind Cartier, and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon--as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives.The Cartiers is the revealing tale... |
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Edward M. Kennedy: An Oral History
Barbara A. Perry
Format: Hardcover
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For Kennedy devotees, as well as readers unfamiliar with the "lion of the Senate," this book presents the compelling story of Edward Kennedy's unexpected rise to become one of the most consequential legislators in American history and a passionate defender of progressive values,... |
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Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood
J. Michael Straczynski - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover
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With an introduction by Neil Gaiman!In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family haunted... |
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The Man Who Would Be Sherlock: The Real Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
Christopher Sandford - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock.Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens... |
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Edison
Edmund Morris - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only... |
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Henry's Men: And the Men Who Made Him
Tracy Borman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted... |
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No Happy Endings: A Memoir
Nora McInerny - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of It's Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking - interviews that are "a gift to be able to listen [to]" (New York Times) - returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.Life... |
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Emotional Advantage: Embracing All Your Feelings to Create a Life You Love
Randy Taran - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Hardcover
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"Emotional Advantage is such an uplifting answer to our challenging times. In its pages, you will find encouragement, support, and new perspectives. Randy Taran offers an antidote to emotional overwhelm -- a powerful way to discover how useful your emotions can be in guiding... |
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The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
Meredith May - Park Row
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature's most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care... |
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything
BJ Fogg Ph.D - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The world's leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by starting small. Myth: Change is hard. Reality: Change can be easy if you know the simple steps of Behavior Design. Myth: It's all about willpower. Reality: Willpower... |
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The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom
Toni Morrison - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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At once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. With a foreword by Zadie Smith."She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller." --Oprah WinfreyThis inspirational book juxtaposes... |
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Full Disclosure
Stormy Daniels - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.How did Stormy... |
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Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me)
GARY JANETTI - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller"From "Family Guy" to his own Instagram account, Janetti has been behind some of his generations greatest comedy. This book of essays is no exception." -- The New York TimesFans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey ... meet... |
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The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
Joan Biskupic - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything... |
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to live a meaningful life, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to CharacterEvery so often, you meet a person who radiates joy. Who seems to know exactly why they were put on this earth, and glows with a kind... |
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A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
Danny Fingeroth - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the beloved -- often controversial -- co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture... |
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young... |
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Naturally Tan: A Memoir
Tan France - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the stars of Netflix's overnight sensation Queer Eye, Tan France's memoir Naturally Tan has his signature wit, style, and tells the origin story of the one of the few openly gay, South Asian men on television. In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France... |
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Amy S. Greenberg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk--a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk... |
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Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
Billy Jensen - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect?Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every... |
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The Joy of Missing Out: Live More by Doing Less
Tonya Dalton - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Productivity expert and CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co. Tonya Dalton challenges women to rethink "busy" and intentionally live with a mindset of abundanceOverwhelmed. Too many women are swamped and exhausted by all they strive to do, ending most days feeling unsatisfied... |
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Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
Jeffrey Rosen - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty... |
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Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself
Jill Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate look at the traditions, resilience, and love that built the Biden family, and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center.Growing up, Jill Biden wanted two things: a marriage like her parents' and a career. But her journey to fulfill those wishes would take unexpected... |
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Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Russell Gold - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Boom, "the best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) , turns his attention to renewable energy pioneer Michael Skelly, whose innovations, struggle, and persistence represent the groundbreaking changes underway in American... |
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The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
Nick Barratt - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover
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"A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read." -- Dan Jones, author of The War of the RosesIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry... |
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Trust First: A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances
Bruce Deel - Optimism Press
Format: Hardcover
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Over the past 20 years, Bruce Deel has helped over 20,000 people in the most dangerous zip code of Atlanta escape the cycle of homelessness, joblessness, and drug abuse. In these powerful true stories about the men and women who fell through the cracks in our social services system, he shows... |
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Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
Anna Quindlen - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A bighearted book of wisdom, wit, and insight, celebrating the love and joy of being a grandmother, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and #1 New York Times bestselling authorIt's a little challenging to suss out why exactly it can be so magical. . . . All I know is: The hand.... |
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Stop Missing Your Life: How to be Deeply Present in an Un-Present World
Cory Muscara - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover
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What Tim Ferriss did for life design and Brene Brown did for vulnerability, Stop Missing Your Life will do for presence. In Stop Missing Your Life, mindfulness instructor Cory Muscara takes readers on a journey from "being present" to embodying "presence," helping peel... |
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Where I Come From: Life Lessons from a Latino Chef
Aaron Sanchez - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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America's most prominent Latino chef shares the story behind his food, his family, and his professional journey Before Chef Aaron Sanchez rose to fame on shows like MasterChef and Chopped, he was a restless Mexican-American son, raised by a fiercely determined and talented... |
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Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life
Randy Travis - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, deeply personal story of one of American music's greatest icons, a remarkable tale of the utmost heights of fame and success, the deepest lows of life's sorrows, and a miraculous return from the brink of death - told as only Randy Travis can.Beloved around the world, Randy... |
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With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace
Nikki Haley - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times and USA Today bestsellerA revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United NationsNikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner ("With all due respect,... |
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On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
Jennifer Pastiloff - Dutton
Format: Book
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An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how hearing loss taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness.
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How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
Akiko Busch - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning... |
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Sidney Lumet: A Life
Maura Spiegel - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first-ever biography of the seminal American director whose remarkable life traces a line through American entertainment historyAcclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Sidney Lumet began his astonishing five-decades-long directing career with the now classic 12 Angry Men,... |
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Mary Norris - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved Comma Queen returns with a buoyant and charming book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.In her New York Times best-selling Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation, and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's... |
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The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
Tommy Tomlinson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Roxane Gay's Hunger, a searing, honest, and candid exploration of what it's like to live as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who decided he had to change his life as he neared the age of fifty weighing in at 460 pounds.When he was almost fifty... |
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Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
Jennifer O'toole - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick.Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's... |
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
David L. Roll - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill called him World... |
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New... |
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A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
Irwin Winkler - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky, and Raging Bull, and an insider's account of making movies in Hollywood over half a century The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary:... |
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Don't Let Me Down: A Memoir
Erin Hosier - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce, vivid memoir about a father-daughter relationship steeped in God, rebellion, and the Beatles. Erin Hosier's coming-of-age was full of contradiction. Born into the turbulent 1970s, she was raised in rural Ohio by lapsed hippies who traded 1960s rock 'n' roll for 1950s-era Christian... |
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,... |
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Andrew S. Curran - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world.Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopdie into existence.... |
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Warrior's Creed: A Life of Preparing for and Facing the Impossible
Roger Sparks - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of how a young boy's upbringing with outlaw culture and charismatic role models forged him into an elite Marine and a decorated Pararescueman."Absence of self is my sword" comprises the final line in "The Warrior's Creed," a 14th century poem... |
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Travel Light, Move Fast
Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well livedSix months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly... |
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Threads of Life
- Sceptre
Format: Paperback
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A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their "disappeared" children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots,... |
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How We Love Is How We Live
Common - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Common - the Grammy Award-, Academy Award-, and Golden Globe-winning musician, actor, and activist - follows up his New York Times bestselling memoir One Day It'll All Make Sense with this inspiring exploration of how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to take... |
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The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
Maggie Aderin-Pocock - Abrams Image
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered if there are seasons on the moon or if space tourism will ever become commonplace? So has Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In fact, she earned her nickname "Lunatic" because of her deep fascination for all things lunar. In her lucidly written, comprehensive guide... |
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Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Stephen Koch - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan... |
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America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Steven M. Gillon - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America's Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of their decades-long... |
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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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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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Handel in London: A Genius and His Craft
Jane Glover - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and evocative account of the life and work of one of the world's favorite composers -- from the acclaimed author of Mozart's Women.In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King... |
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The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia
Marin Sardy - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The debut of an important new literary voice: an extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent memoir that unflinchingly traces the path of the schizophrenia that runs in the author's family.Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where the author grew up, Marin Sardy... |
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Mobituaries
Mo Rocca - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched audiobook that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights,... |
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Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman
Robert Hardman - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Written by renowned royal biographer, Robert Hardman, and with privileged access to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, this is a brilliant new portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it.On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest.... |
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The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out
William Dameron - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out.Do you know me?, the email began, sparking tremors of fear that turned into a full quake of panic when William Dameron discovered that his selfie had been stolen by strangers. On social networks and dating... |
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Ordinary Girls
Jaquira Diaz - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime." - Julia Alvarez Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico... |
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune
Paul Strathern - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family -- a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners -- set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious... |
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
Charles Krauthammer - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about... |
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Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome
Susan Levenstein - Paul Dry Books
Format: Paperback
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"Wise and witty." -- Publishers Weekly"A charming story well told." -- Kirkus Reviews"Smart, funny, charming . . . full of astute insights into the way Italy works." -- Alexander Stille"A wonderfully fun read." -- Dr. Robert Sapolsky"As... |
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The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy
Michael Mewshaw - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship Ive ever read." -- Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir. Pat Conroy was Americas poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger-than-life character and the author of such classics... |
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Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
Lara Maiklem - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A quixotic journey through London's past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city.Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert "mudlarker" Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking.... |
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The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan
Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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An emotional and sweeping memoir of love and survival - and of a committed and desperate family uprooted and divided by the violent, changing landscape of Afghanistan in the early 1980s.Before the Soviet invasion of 1980, Enjeela Ahmadi remembers her home - Kabul, Afghanistan - as peaceful,... |
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world. Things My Son Needs... |
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The Heartland: An American History
Kristin L. Hoganson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A history of a quintessentially American place - the rural and small town heartland -- that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area... |
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The Last Leonardo: The Secret Life of the World's Most Expensive Painting
Ben Lewis - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million - and might not be the real thing.For two centuries, art dealers and historians searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait... |
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The Way I Heard It
Mike Rowe - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful... |
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Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
William H. McRaven - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having... |
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Don't Stop Believin'
Olivia Newton-John - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! With candor, humor, and warmth, legendary musician, actress, activist, and icon Olivia Newton-John reveals her life story - from her unforgettable rise to fame in the classic musical Grease to her passionate advocacy for health and wellness in light... |
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A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
Ben Folds - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir that is as nuanced, witty, and relatable as his cult-classic songs."A Dream About Lightning Bugs reads like its author: intelligent, curious, unapologetically punk, and funny as hell."... |
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