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The Written World: How Literature Shaped Civilization
MARTIN PUCHNER - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to Don Quixote and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of the world. |
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
Barbara Leaming - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'... |
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street... |
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My Father Before Me: A Memoir
Chris Forhan - Scribner
Format: Print book
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An award-winning poet offers a multi-generational portrait of an American family - weaving together the lives of his ancestors, his parents, and his own coming of age in the 60s and 70s in the wake of his father's suicide, in this superbly written, "fiercely honest" (Nick Flynn)... |
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir
Nadja Spiegelman - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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A memoir of mothers and daughters - and mothers as daughters - traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than... |
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Jeter Unfiltered
Derek Jeter - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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The only authorized full-color book commemorating Derek Jeter's iconic baseball career with the New York Yankees, featuring archival images and original photos of his final 2014 season from renowned photographer Christopher Anderson.Derek Jeter's twentieth and final season in Major... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French
John von Sothen - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQAmericans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours... |
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Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary
Edward Klein - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller!From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Amateur and Blood Feud . . .Unlikeable is the stunning, powerful expos of Hillary Clinton and her floundering race for the White House. With unprecedented access to longtime associates of the Clintons and the Obamas,... |
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High School
Sara Quin - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their humble beginningsHigh School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from... |
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The Light of the World: A Memoir
Elizabeth Alexander - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book
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A deeply resonant New York Times Bestselling memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander. In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling... |
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In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
Travis Rieder - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A bioethicist's eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal - a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.Travis... |
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The Shift: How I Finally Lost Weight and Discovered a Happier Life
Tory Johnson - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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For Tory Johnson, weight was always an issue; although she felt ashamed of how she looked, Tory could never find the will to change. When a network executive warned her that if she didn't lose weight her television career could be in jeopardy, Tory experienced something profound: A Shift.... |
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Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Artemis Joukowsky - Beacon
Format: Print book
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Official companion to the Ken Burns film premiering September 20, 2016, on PBS tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to undertake dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving... |
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Martha Jefferson: An Intimate Life with Thomas Jefferson
William G. Hyland Jr. - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Martha Jefferson is the first and only biography of Thomas Jefferson’s greatest love and true kindred spirit, who died an untimely death at the young age of thirty-three in 1782. Drawing on a wealth of newly probed sources—including family letters, documents, and the handwritten... |
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This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today
CHRISSY METZ - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A prescriptive and inspirational book of life lessons from the Emmy Award-nominee and breakout star of television's #1 hit show, NBC's This Is Us.Debuting in fall 2016, This Is Us quickly became America's most watched - and most talked about - network television show. Within weeks of its premier,... |
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Abbeville County
Abbeville County Historical Society. - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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With beginnings dating back as far as the 1700s, Abbeville County, South Carolina, has a history that represents a rich and colorful tapestry of the South Carolina Upcountry. Formally organized into a unit of state government in 1800, Abbeville District extended from Savannah to the Saluda... |
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I Hate Everyone, Except You
Clinton Kelly - Tantor Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate Everyone, Except You, he reveals some heretofore unknown secrets about himself, like that hes a finicky connoisseur of 1980s pornography, a disillusioned critic of New Jerseys premier... |
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Cash: The Autobiography
Johnny Cash - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs... |
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Herbert Hoover: A Life
Glen Jeansonne - New American Library
Format: Book
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Orphaned at an early age and raised with strict Quaker values, Hoover earned his way through Stanford University. His hardworking ethic drove him to a successful career as an engineer and multinational businessman. After the Great War, he led a humanitarian effort that fed millions of Europeans... |
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann - Little, Brown and Company, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed... |
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All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
David Gessner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts... |
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Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
Chandler O'Leary - Sasquatch Books
Format: Print book
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This gorgeously illustrated letterpress-inspired book combines feminist history with a vision for a better future. Based on the beloved Dead Feminists letterpress poster series, this illuminating look at 27 women who've changed the world features a foreword by Jill Lepore, author of The... |
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
John R Bruning - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family--imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way.From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth... |
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Donna Bell's Bake Shop: Recipes and Stories of Family, Friends, and Food
Pauley Perrette - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The heartwarming story of how NCIS star Pauley Perrette and her two best friends created a Southern-style bake shop in Manhattan - a celebration of love and friendship with gorgeous photographs and delicious recipes.Nestled in the heart of midtown New York is a little shop with a big story.... |
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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
Alexandra Robbins - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Nursing is more than a career; its a calling and one of the most important, fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline responders battling traumas, illnesses, and aggression from surprising sources, nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects... |
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Stray: A Memoir
Stephanie Danler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration... |
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Hollywood Park: A Memoir
Mikel Jollett - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Mikel Jollett, the front man of indie band Airborne Toxic Event, chronicles his tumultuous life. Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction and emotional abuse. What comes through the pages is a story... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks:... |
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Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir
Wednesday Martin - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! The book that has outraged the social elite! "Eye-popping" - People "Amusing, perceptive and ... deliciously evil" - The New York Times Book Review "Juicy, sexy, bawdy stuff" - New York Daily News "Think Gossip... |
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My Journey
Donna Karan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this candid memoir, featuring a foreword by Barbra Streisand, renowned designer Donna Karan shares intimate details about her lonely childhood, her four-plus decades in the fashion industry, her two marriages, motherhood, and her ongoing quest for self-acceptance and spiritual peace.... |
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Steven Lee Myers - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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"A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespearian fashion why he acts the way he does." -Robert D. Kaplan The New Tsar is the book to read if you want to understand how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why he has become one of the gravest... |
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Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Anita Moorjani - Hay House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her bodyoverwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her systembegan shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where... |
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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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Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"Her book, as if she were a marine biologist, is a deep dive...Perhaps the highest praise I can give Seinfeldia is that it made me want to buy a loaf of marbled rye and start watching again, from the beginning." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review The hilarious... |
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Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
Earl J Hess - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Print book
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As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping... |
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The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism
Kristine Barnett - Random House; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve... |
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story
PIETRO BARTOLO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Reporter: A Memoir
Seymour M Hersh - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time--a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a decades-long career breaking some of the most impactful stories of the last half-century, from Washington to Vietnam to the Middle East.Seymour... |
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France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child
Katherine Pratt - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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From the coauthor of My Life in France, a revealing collection of photographs taken by Paul Child that document his and Julia Child's years in France Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia... |
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The Long Shadow of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough - Compass Press
Format: Book
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He was many things to many people. To his immediate family, he was "Papa". To his friends, he was "Paul". To his football family, he was "Coach Bryant". To the masses, he was affectionately known as "Bear", a nickname that he never really cared for. Regardless... |
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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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It Was Me All Along: A Memoir
Andie Mitchell - Clarkson Potter
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter,... |
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford... |
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Virginia Woolf: A biography
Quentin Bell - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Format: Hardcover
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The first full-scale biography of the eminent British writer, written by her nephew. Index; photographs. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. |
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M. Blow - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place... |
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The Impossible First
Colin O'Brady - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir recounts his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident and his gripping 932-mile crossing of the landmass of Antarctica solo, unsupported, and human powered - the first to accomplish this extraordinary feat. Prior to December 2018, no individual... |
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My Autistic Awakening: Unlocking the Potential for a Life Well Lived
Rachael Lee Harris - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Rachael Lee Harris spent her early childhood locked in an autistic fog until beginning her journey from a fragmented world to one in which things began to make sense. Rachael's determination to take her place in society led her down many paths, from beauty therapist to Catholic nun,... |
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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through... |
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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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Women Write: A Mosaic Of Women's Voices in Fiction, Poetry,Memoir andEssay: A Mosaic Of Women's Voices in Fiction, Poetry, Memoir and Essay
Susan Cahill - NAL Trade
Format: Paperback
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A rich array of literary work--including fiction, poetry, letters, essays, and memoir--by notable women writers includes contributions by Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Nadine... |
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Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography
Meryle Secrest - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli. She was known as the Queen of Fashion; a headline attraction in the international glitter-glamour show of the late twenties and thirties, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Hollywood . . . Her style was a social revolution... |
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Napoleon: A Life
Adam Zamoyski - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed... |
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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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Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit
Mark Hasara - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Afghan War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and moral lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, and in their everyday... |
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Jenny Lawson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As... |
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition... |
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
Taya Kyle - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband... |
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One of Us: A Familys Life with Autism
Mark Osteen - University of Missouri
Format: Hardcover
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In 1991, Mark Osteen and his wife, Leslie, were struggling to understand why their son, Cameron, was so different from other kids. At age one, Cam had little interest in toys and was surprisingly fixated on books. He didnt make baby sounds; he ignored other children. As he grew older, he failed... |
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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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Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir
STEVE RUSHIN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhoodIt's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons... |
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Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader
Derek Penslar - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl by an eminent historian of Zionism The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement?... |
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Betsy Lerner - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast... |
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I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir
James Webb - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, the classic novel of the Vietnam War - former U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy; recipient of the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart as a combat Marine; and a self-described "military brat" - has written an extraordinary memoir of his early... |
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William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841
Gail Collins - Times Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest officeWilliam Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity... |
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Cary Elwes - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews... |
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Sarah Perry - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal.... |
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Behind the Scenes
Judi Dench - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in York to her scene-stealing performances as 'M' in the James Bond films, Dame Judi Dench's professional life has consisted of non-stop acting, leading to numerous accolades, including an Academy Award for her performance as Queen... |
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My Love Story: A Memoir
TINA TURNER - Atria Books
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Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her career and personal life in this compelling memoir.
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This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
Blair Jackson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band's story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices... |
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Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love
C. David Heymann - Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby and Jackie comes the riveting, true story of the passionate, volatile relationship between baseball great Joe DiMaggio and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe eloped in January of 1954, they became an international... |
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can't pay the bills - and it can be great: you've had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar - the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus,... |
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The Foxfire 45th Anniversary Book: Singin', Praisin', Raisin'
Inc. Foxfire Fund - Anchor; 45 Anv edition
Format: Paperback
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For almost half a century, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American... |
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Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever
John Marshall - Ballantine Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa... |
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Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
JOHN BANVILLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.As much about the life of the city as it is about a life... |
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Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year
Steve Turner - Ecco
Format: Print book
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A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture.They started off as hysteria-inducing pop stars playing to audiences of screaming teenage fans and ended up as musical sages... |
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
Laurie Gwen Shapiro - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great... |
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The Brontes
Juliet R V Barker - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the Bronte a5 family is based on eleven years of research and newly discovered letters by each family member, challenging currently accepted portraits of the patriarchal Patrick and revealing Charlottes ruthless nature. |
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Joan of Arc: A History
Helen Castor - Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world - as never told before.Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French... |
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Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker
Barry Sonnenfeld - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Film and television director Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir traces his idiosyncratic upbringing in New York City, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams... |
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
FIONA SAMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, a prize-winning poet delivers a major new biography of Mary Shelley -- as she has never been seen before.We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail -- the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft,... |
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The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
John W Oller - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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This comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, covers his famous wartime stories as well as a private side of him that has rarely been exploredIn the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot... |
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The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
JONATHAN SANTLOFER - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Written with unexpected humor and great warmth, The Widower's Notebook is a portrait of a marriage, an account of the complexities of finding oneself single again after losing your spouse, and a story of the enduring power of familial love."This is deeply moving ... beautifully... |
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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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Now I See the Moon: A Mother, a Son, a Miracle
Elaine Hall - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Now I See the Moon provides insightful ways to teach and work with individuals with autism and severe disabilities. It will give parents great hope." - Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures "This magnificent work vividly demonstrates the joy and hope of discovering... |
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Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back
Elisha Cooper - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children s books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment,... |
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The Best of Us: A Memoir
JOYCE MAYNARD - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott) In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce... |
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Home Is Burning: A Memoir
Dan Marshall - Flatiron Books, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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For the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol.Meet Dan Marshall. 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world.... |
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Lincoln
Kelly Love - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Located near the convergence of the Choccolocco Creek, the Blue Eye Creek, and the Coosa River, whose Native American names pay tribute to the Muskogee who once populated the town, Lincoln attracted early settlers after the Cusseta Treaty was signed with the Creek Indians on March 24, 1832.... |
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James Monroe: A Life
Tim McGrat - DUTTON BOOKS
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic. Monroe lived a life defined by revolutions. From the battlefields of the War for Independence,... |
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
Betty Halbreich - Penguin Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women... |
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Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan
Craig Shirley - Thomas Nelson Inc
Format: Hardcover
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His name in American politics is more cited than any other president. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are radically different today, mainly as a result of Ronald Reagan and the force of his ideas. No twentieth century president shaped the American political landscape so profoundly.... |
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Sue Klebold - Crown
Format: Print book
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On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's... |
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Troublemaker : surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Leah Remini - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an eye-opening insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the Church of Scientology. Leah... |
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The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's
Jeanne Murray Walker - Center Street
Format: Book
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Award-winning poet Jeanne Murray Walker tells an extraordinarily wise, witty, and quietly wrenching tale of her mother's long passage into dementia. This powerful story explores parental love, profound grief, and the unexpected consolation of memory. While Walker does not flinch from... |
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Epilogue: A Memoir
Will Boast - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner, The Rome Prize Will Boast thought hed lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought hed have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism.... |
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A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson
Candy Carson - Sentinel
Format: Print book
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"The life of a neurosurgeon isn't an easy one, and Ben has been required to go above and beyond the call of duty almost constantly. The life of a neurosurgeon's wife isn't much easier. But it's all been worth it. Together, we've been through poverty, tragedy, wealth, and joy, and we've... |
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Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
Isabel Vincent - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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"I loved every moment of this book . . . Everyone deserves their own Edward--and everyone deserves to read this book." - Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of Brain on Fire When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave,... |
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Part Swan, Part Goose: An Uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family
Swoosie Kurtz - Perigee Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a wise, warmhearted memoir that celebrates her extraordinary life and stellar career, Swoosie Kurtz shares just the right combination of personal misadventure and showbiz lore, candidly reflecting on the right choices that empowered her, the wrong choices that enlightened her, and the intimate... |
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A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingways most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first... |
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Fierce Optimism: Seven Secrets for Playing Nice and Winning Big
Leeza Gibbons - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Attitude can be sexy - a practical and inspirational guide for using kindness and positivity as a winning strategy from Celebrity Apprentice champion, Hollywood veteran, and New York Times bestselling author Leeza Gibbons.We live in a winner-take-all world, in which only the toughest... |
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Bob Dylan: A Biography
Bob Batchelor - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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In this thematically organized biography, cultural historian and prolific biographer Bob Batchelor examines one of the most important yet elusive figures in modern history. Rather than taking an exhaustive and cumbersome chronological approach to Bob Dylans 50-plus year career, the author... |
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
Austin Reed - Random House,
Format: Print book
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The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer - recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars - sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript:... |
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration... |
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My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir
Chris Offutt - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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After inheriting 400 novels of pornography written by his father in the 1970s and '80s, critically acclaimed author Chris Offutt sets out to make sense of a complicated father-son relationship in this carefully observed, beautifully written memoir."Clearing Dad's office felt like prospecting... |
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Untamed
Glennon Doyle - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and author of the bestselling sensations Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice... |
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The Journey: from Alabama to Austronesia and beyond
Jerry Allen - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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The Journey is a story of decisions and their consequences, how many people have influenced one life over the years, and how God intervened in, contributed to and shaped that life. The book begins by recounting Jerry Allens family roots and growing up in Alabama. He started out without... |
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The Fortress: A Love Story
Danielle Trussoni - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one womans journey to the other side... |
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Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human. Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author... |
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Double Ace: The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales
Robert Coram - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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Robert Lee Scott was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia used dogged determination to achieve his dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. In Double Ace, veteran biographer Robert Coram, himself a Georgia... |
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On My Own
Diane Rehm - Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him. With John gone, Diane was indeed "on her own," coping with... |
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Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders
Cole Cohen - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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The summer before she was set to head out-of-state to pursue her MFA, twenty-six-year-old Cole Cohen submitted herself to a battery of tests. For as long as she could remember, she'd struggled with a series of learning disabilities that made it nearly impossible to judge time and space-standing... |
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