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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers...
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The Boys and Me: My Life in the Country Music Supergroup Sawyer Brown

Mark Miller - Forefront Books
Format: Hardcover

The Boys and Me is the behind-the-scenes, untold story of front man and lead singer Mark Miller and his band - country music icons Sawyer Brown!. Before The Voice and American Idol, there was Star Search with Ed McMahon. In the first season, an eclectic and charismatic country-rock band...
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Latino Almanac: From Early Explorers to Corporate Leaders (The Multicultural History & Heroes Collection)

Nicolás Kanellos - Visible Ink Press
Format: Hardcover

A celebration of people and pride! Explore the achievements and contributions of Latinos in the United States with this illuminating history.Whether calling themselves Latino, Latinx, Hispanic, Chicano, or something else, Latinos in the United States are a mix of people and multiple identities,...
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Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage

Eleanor Henderson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store -- older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the clichs of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college and culminated in a marriage...
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Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

David Cote - Broadway
Format: Hardcover

How did four blue-collar kids become one of the greatest successes in pop music history? You ask four guys, you get four different answers. Have we got a story for you!Everyone knows their songs. Few know their story. Named for a bowling alley that refused to book them, The Four Seasons—Frankie,...
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Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape

Rémy Ngamije - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant and brilliant new collection of award-winning short fiction from the acclaimed author of the "charming, witty, and incredibly humane" (The Pittsburgh Gazette) debut The Eternal Audience of One.. Presented as a literary mixtape, Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space...
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An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen

Peter L. W. Osnos - Platform Books, LLC
Format: Hardcover

In more than five decades as a reporter, editor and publisher, Peter Osnos has had an especially good view of momentous events and relationships with some of the most influential personalities of our time.As a young journalist for I.F. Stone's Weekly, one of the leading publications...
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Going There

KATIE COURIC - ‎Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.​For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious,...
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Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market

Nicholas Wapshott - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Keynes Hayek, the next great duel in the history of economics.In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics, which supported the management of the economy...
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Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance (Holocaust Survivor True Stories)

Martin Bodek - Amsterdam Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Benzion Malik was on a path of discovery. He was keen to learn about everything in life through the teachings of his faith and only something cataclysmic could throw him off this course. In 1939, the 21-year-old Benzion was called up to the Romanian Army. Little did he know that he would...
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