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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician -- or so she thinks.When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When...
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Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Billy Jensen - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

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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What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Barbara Butcher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher.. Barbara Butcher was recovering from addiction problems and unhappy relationships when she landed a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York...
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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021 - by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath...
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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

Karen Kilgariff - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

This program is read by the authors, with Paul Giamatti, and includes sections recorded in front of a live audience. The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the number-one hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Sharing never-before-heard stories...
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I...
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story

PIETRO BARTOLO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of the man hailed as "the doctor on the front lines of the migrant crisis" (CNN) . For 25 years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo has run the lone medical clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa. In that time he has rescued, welcomed, and cared for many of the hundreds...
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

Anne Glenconner - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter...
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Guillermo del Toro. Su cine, su vida y sus monstruos / Guillermo del Toro. His F ilmmaking, His Life, and His Monsters

Leonardo García Tsao - Grijalbo
Format: Paperback

En una amena conversacin informal junto a su amigo Leonardo Garca Tsao, crtico de cine con una larga trayectoria, Guillermo del Toro recorre en estas pginas sus tempranas influencias, sus inquetudes infantiles y sus primeras aventuras creativas en Guadalajara; una historia de pasin juvenil...
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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Hannah Pick-Goslar - ?Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

The long?awaited, moving memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick?Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door...
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