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Face It
Debbie Harry - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A MULTILAYERED MEMOIR FROM A MULTIFACETED ARTISTAs a musician, an actor, a muse, an icon, the breadth of Debbie Harry's impact on our culture has been matched by her almost Sphinx-like reticence about her inner life. Through it all - while being acclaimed as one of the most beautiful women... |
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All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
Erin Lee Carr - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New York Times journalist David Carr, in this fierce memoir of addiction and sobriety, work and family. Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility.... |
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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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When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People
Jeannie Gaffigan - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In a book that is The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat, Jeannie Gaffigan, writing partner and wife of bestselling author/comedian Jim Gaffigan, writes with humor and heart about the pear-sized brain tumor she had removed, the toll it took on her enormous family, and the priceless... |
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers... |
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Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
Jacob Tobia - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above."When the political reality facing this country seems dark, we need shinier, sparklier... |
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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience... |
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Die Young with Me: A Memoir
Rob Rufus - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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In the tradition of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, this incredibly moving and harrowing true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer is "a resounding affirmation of how music can lift one's spirits beyond gray skies and bad news... |
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Miss Aluminum: A Memoir
Susanna Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970sIn 1963 after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Susanna Moore leaves her home in Hawai'i with no money, no belongings, and no prospects to live with her Irish grandmother in Philadelphia. She soon receives four trunks... |
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Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont
Saul Austerlitz - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling account of the Altamont Festival -- and the dark side of the '60s.If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones... |
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
Ryan H. Walsh - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched... |
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The Last Days of John Lennon
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles'... |
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Long Way Home
Cameron Douglas - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the scion of Hollywood royalty--son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas--a moving, often shocking, ultimately inspiring memoir detailing his struggle to regain his dignity, humanity, and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison.Cameron... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
Bruce Handy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and "consistently intelligent and funny" (The New York Times Book Review) - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father of two) Bruce Handy.. The dour New England Primer, thought to be the first... |
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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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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs - Picador
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the YearNow a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with... |
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To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story... |
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A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir
Colin Jost - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating.Colin Jost has six sets of stitches on his face alone. He's been punched in at least four different sketches on Saturday Night Live, including once by his boss, Lorne... |
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
Richard Zoglin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal... |
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
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The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies
Megan Griswold - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Book of Help traces one woman's life-long quest for love, connection, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies, Megan Griswold's narrative spans four decades and six continents -- from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil,... |
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Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie
Woody Woodmansey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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In January 2016, the unexpected death of David Bowie rocked the globe. For millions of people, he was an icon celebrated for his music, his film and theatrical roles, and his trendsetting influence on fashion and gender norms. But no one from her inner circle has told the story of how David... |
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Books for Living
Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new?... |
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To Siri With Love: A Mother, her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the viral New York Times piece ''To Siri with Love'' comes a collection of touching and hilarious stories about a 13-year-old autistic boy and his intimate relationship with Apple's automated personal assistant, Siri.When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apple's... |
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To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father
Donald Miller - NavPress Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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In this audio version of the top-selling To Own aDragon, author Donald Miller shares the poignant and meaningfullessons he learned growing up without a dad.Men, women, and teen readers will appreciate his candid, truthfulinsights about the meaning of Father. --This text refers to an out of print... |
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In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett
Tony Fletcher - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Wilson Pickett was arguably the greatest male soul screamer of the 1960s and '70s. With a career spanning half a century, he sold millions of albums and tens of millions of singles, leaving a legacy of unforgettable hits, including "In the Midnight Hour," "Land of 1000 Dances,"... |
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Royal Weddings: A Very Peculiar History
Fiona Macdonald - Book House
Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's recent engagement, this charming addition to the popular Very Peculiar History series looks back at history's most fascinating and peculiar Royal weddings. From Henry VIII's notorious nuptials to the achingly romantic recent... |
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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
Julie Andrews - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria. In Home, the number one New York Times international... |
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Billy Joel: America's Piano Man
Joshua S. Duchan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Despite his tremendous success, Billy Joel's gifts as a composer and commentator on American life are long overdue for a thorough investigation. In Billy Joel: America's Piano Man, music historian Joshua S. Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring... |
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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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The Last Black Unicorn
TIFFANY HADDISH - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
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From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods... |
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Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip
Joel Selvin - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed... |
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The Individualist - Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations
Todd Rundgren - CLEOPATRA
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary songwriter, guitarist, producer and now an offiical nominee for the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame, Todd Rundgren, pens his first ever autobiography reflecting on both his phenomenal career as well as his rollercoaster of a personal life! Over 200 pages of recollections, structured... |
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A Paris Year: My Day-to-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World
Janice MacLeod - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman's French sojourn in the world's most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris... |
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
PETER MAYLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife,... |
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Vulgar Favors
Maureen Orth - Bantam
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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The basis for the FX true crime series American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, from creator Ryan Murphy and starring Edgar Ramirez, Penelope Cruz, Darren Criss, and Ricky MartinTwo months before Gianni Versace was murdered on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,... |
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Miles
Miles Davis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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UNIVERSALLY ACCLAIMED AS A MUSICAL GENIUS, MILES DAVIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS IN THE WORLD. HERE, MILES SPEAKS OUT ABOUT HIS EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug... |
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My Story
Elizabeth Smart - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crimeOn June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken... |
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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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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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You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
PIPER WEISS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir - The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep - that presents an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within Manhattan's exclusive prep-school scene in the early 1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession... |
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Readers Circle for author chats and more.In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious... |
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
Harold Schechter - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana... |
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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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Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer
M WILLIAM PHELPS - Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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"Anyone can become a killer under the right circumstances - even you." For the first time, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of "Raven," the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark Minds - and tells... |
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis
Kathryn Sermak - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear. Miss D and Me is a story... |
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The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America's Most Infamous Crimes
Nina Barrett - Agate Midway
Format: Hardcover
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In 1924, University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were young, rich, and looking for a thrill. The crime that came next - the brutal, cold-blood murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks - would come to captivate the country and unfold into what many dubbed the crime of the century.... |
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The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World
Gewen, Barry - W W NORTON & CO
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The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography of Henry Kissinger that examines his unique role in government through his ideas. It analyzes the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and Chile by offering an understanding... |
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Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
Alex Wagner - One World
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration, race, and identity: Who are my people? Alex Wagner has always been fascinated by stories of exile and migration. Her father's... |
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Acid for the Children: A Memoir
Flea - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd want from an LA street rat turned world famous rock star.In Acid for the Children, Flea takes readers on a deeply personal... |
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
Annejet van der Zijl - AmazonCrossing
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one of the most privileged figures of the Gilded Age.Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small... |
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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things Im Learning to Say
Kelly Corrigan - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place "Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth... |
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Robert Matzen - GoodKnight Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered... |
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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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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A Vintage Paperback Original.A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left... |
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Anne Boyd Rioux - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world,... |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly... |
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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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Mary Jane's Ghost: The Legacy of a Murder in Small Town America
Ted Gregory - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers' lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after a sweeping manhunt, no one is arrested and the violent deaths of Mary... |
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No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Rachel Pearson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating... |
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Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly
Mick Wall - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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There's a reason why Dave Grohl is known, however naively, as "the nicest man in rock." A reason why millions have bought his Foo Fighters albums and DVDs, his concert and festival tickets. A reason why generations have bought into his story, his dream, his self-fulfilling prophecies.... |
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Hawk: I Did It My Way
Ken Harrelson - Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover
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Anyone who's tuned in to a White Sox game during the past four decades has heard his calls and catchphrases: "Mercy!" "Rack 'em up!" "He gone!" Ken Harrelson is a man who knows how to talk and is brimming with stories, but even the most dedicated fans... |
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The Beautiful Ones
Prince - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time - featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. Prince was a musical... |
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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
WILLIE PARKER - 37 INK
Format: Print book
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In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor... |
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place... |
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I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story
Anthony Daniels - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the incredible untold story of one of Star Wars' most iconic characters, C-3PO, told by the man who knows him best."Did you hear that? They've shut down the main reactor! We'll be destroyed for sure. This is madness."These words were the very first to be spoken... |
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Fashion Rebels: Style Icons Who Changed the World through Fashion
Carlyn Beccia - Aladdin ; Hillsboro
Format: Print book
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Get to know the women who've wielded the power of fashion and brought about change with this illustrated biography that features twenty-five of history's most influential fashion icons.Throughout time, daring women have made fashion choices that have altered the course of history.... |
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The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat
Kevin Flynn - Sterling Pub Co Inc
Format: Print book
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From the archives of The New York Times, 165 years of the most notorious real-life crimes. For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime, its reporters racing alongside tabloids to track the shocking incidents that disrupt daily... |
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Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot
Michael Arntfield - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot is a chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks - until now.In fall 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild... |
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Untitled
Jessica Simpson - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerJessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining.This was supposed... |
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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein
JAMIE BERNSTEIN - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television... |
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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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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Bradley Hope - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios) .. Now a #1 international... |
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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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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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Black Indian (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
Shonda Buchanan - Wayne State University Press
Format: Paperback
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Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walkers The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony--only, this isnt fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, drunks, and old resentments, Shonda Buchanans memoir... |
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To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
MADELEINE BLAIS - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. A little more than two miles down a poorly marked one-lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack -- it had no electricity or modern plumbing, the roof leaked,... |
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Murder in the News: An Inside Look at How Television Covers Crime
ROBERT H JR JORDAN - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Television news anchor Robert Jordan Jr. draws from forty-seven years of news experiences to provide an eye-opening look at how news programs decide which murders to cover and which ones to ignore. Jordan takes readers behind the scenes into the big city newsrooms of Chicago. Here split-second... |
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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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Hello, Stranger: My Life on the Autism Spectrum
Barbara Moran - KiCam Projects LLC
Format: Paperback
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" ... Insights from a time when a young person with autism grew up in a world where nobody understood them!" - Temple Grandin, author, Thinking in PicturesBarbara Moran has never known how to be good.As a child, she made strange noises, fidgeted constantly, and licked her lips... |
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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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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive... |
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Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century
Loughery, John - SIMON & SCHUSTER
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The first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day, American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and activist whom Pope Francis I compared to Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. After a middle-class Republican childhood and a few years as a party Communist, Dorothy Day converted... |
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In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
Rebecca Stott - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A father-daughter story that tells of the authors experience growing up in a separatist fundamentalist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller Ghostwalk. Rebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that... |
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir
Jeannie Vanasco - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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"It's hard to overstate the importance of this gorgeous, harrowing, heartbreaking book, which tackles sexual violence and its aftermath while also articulating the singular pain of knowing -- or loving, or caring for, or having a history with -- one's rapist. Vanasco is whip-smart... |
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Perfect Strangers: Friendship, Strength, and Recovery After Boston’s Worst Day
Roseann Sdoia - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Four lives brought together in a deadly moment prove that being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to lifes biggest adventures and most important relationships As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life... |
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Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion
Susannah Charleson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunionOne in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope... |
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Death Need Not Be Fatal
MALACHY MCCOURT - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
SARAH KRASNOSTEIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes... |
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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
KAPKA KASSABOVA - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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"Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free." -- Peter PomerantsevIn this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border... |
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Kind Is the New Classy: The Power of Living Graciously
Candace Cameron Bure - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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"The world has a way of defining you if you don't know who you are before you get out there." - Candace Cameron BureAs a woman in today's world, you know what it's like to feel pressure on all sides from clashing cultural expectations. How can you stay true to who God has uniquely... |
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South Side Venus: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs
Mary Ann Cain - Northwestern University Press
Format: Paperback
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The extraordinarily productive life of curator, artist, and activist Margaret Burroughs was largely rooted in her work to establish and sustain two significant institutions in Chicago: the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) , founded in 1940, and the DuSable Museum of African American... |
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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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Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered
Amber Hunt - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Ever wondered who murdered JonBent Ramsey, or who terrorized San Francisco as the Zodiac Killer Puzzled over the notorious Black Dahlia murder, or the mysterious Long Island Serial Killer caseThis true crime book makes you the detective, investigating some of the most infamous unsolved... |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018.A Publisher's Weekly Best... |
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
Susan Straight - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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One of NPRs Best Books of the Year"Straights memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the womens stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed... |
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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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Trump as President: The Inside Story of His First Years in the White House
Doug Wead - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here is finally a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talking openly, on the record. In Trump as President, Doug Wead offers a sweeping, eloquent history of President Donald J. Trump's first years in the White... |
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The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant -- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed,... |
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
GUCCI MANE - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "As wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself. " - Complex "A cautionary tale that ends in triumph." - GQ "A revelation and a welcome addition to hip-hop's literary legacy." - All Hip Hop... |
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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
ADA CALHOUN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Poignant and witty essays on the beautiful complexity of marriage.Inspired by her wildly popular New York Times essay "The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give," Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip) , smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate... |
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
Brian Jay Jones - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. SeussDr. Seuss is a classic American icon. His work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. More than twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to find new readers, now grossing over half a billion... |
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
GABRIELLE UNION - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,... |
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
Art Garfunkel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"Poetic musings on a life well-lived - one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isnt your typical autobiography. Garfunkels history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." - Bookreporter... |
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Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America's Railroads
Robert D Krebs - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of railroads and was determined to overcome... |
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