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I Brake for Yard Sales: and Flea Markets, Thrift Shops, Auctions, and the Occasional Dumpster

Lara Spencer · Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Pages: 176

Good Morning America correspondent Lara Spencer is a self-confessed frugalista with a passion for shopping at yard sales, thrift shops, and estate sales, and for decorating her home and friends’ homes with her fabulous finds. In I Brake for Yard Sales, Lara shares her secrets for bargain...
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Levels of Life

Julian Barnes · Knopf
Pages: 144

An NPR Best Book of the YearA Daily Candy Best Book of the YearJulian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account...
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A Natural Woman: A Memoir

Carole King · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 496

Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time. A NATURAL WOMAN chronicles King's extraordinary life, drawing readers into her musical world, including her phenomenally...
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Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

Tim Gunn · Gallery Books
Pages: 288

In the beginning there was the fig leaf... and the toga. Crinolines and ruffs. Chain mailand corsets. What do these antiquated items have to do with the oh-so-twenty-first-century skinny jeans, graphic tee, and sexy pumps you slipped into this morning? Everything! Fashion begets...
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Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me

Brad Paisley · Howard Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 256

This book is the very personal story of how Brad Paisley came of age as a musician and a man. Focusing on what it means to play the guitar and how he found his voice through a series of guitars, the book will also share what he has learned about life along the way. Beginning with his own very...
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Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics

Loretta Lynn · Knopf

One of the most beloved country music stars of all time gives us the first collection of her lyrics and, in her own words, tells the stories that inspired her most popular songs, such as "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin'," and, of course,...
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The Truth About Style

Stacy London · Viking Adult
Pages: 288

The hilarious, beloved cohost of TLC’s What Not to Wear examines the universal obstacles all women—including herself—put in their way With her unique talent for seeing past disastrous wardrobes to the core emotional issues that caused these sartorial crises, style savant...
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Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music

Judy Collins · Crown Archetype
Pages: 368

A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame.   Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir...
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Remembering Whitney

Cissy Houston · Harper
Pages: 320

The definitive account of Whitney Houston’s astonishing life, ground-breaking career, and tragic death — complete with never-before-seen photographs — from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston.Cissy has said little publicly...
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

Lynsey Addario · Penguin Press

"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review)War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life....
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