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The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland
Walter Thompson-Hernandez - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A rising New York Times reporter tells the compelling story of The Compton Cowboys, a group of African-American men and women who defy stereotypes and continue the proud, centuries-old tradition of black cowboys in the heart of one of America's most notorious cities. A rising New York Times... |
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Spelling It Like It Is
Tori Spelling - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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THE REALITY BEHIND REALITY TV HOLLYWOODS FAVORITE MOM-STAR TELLS IT LIKE IT IS Tori Spelling is the first to admit that the reality behind her popular television show, Tori Dean, isnt always real. Not even Star magazine could invent the true chaos that happens behind the scenes. Luckily,... |
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Navigating life : things i wish my mother had told me
Margaux Bergen - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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An inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life, written for the author's daughter and given to her on her first day of college, reflecting tough lessons about family, work, and marriage. You learn a few useful things at school--the three Rs come in handy, and it's good... |
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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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Front Porch
Joy Williams - Sensibility Recordings
Format: Audio CD
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JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
Fredrik Logevall - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power... |
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Rosa Brooks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security.... |
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The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life
Alexander Norman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The first authoritative biography of the Dalai Lama - a story by turns inspiring and shocking - from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject. The Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide... |
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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
John Bolton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John Bolton served as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump for 519 days. A seasoned public servant who had previously worked for Presidents Reagan, Bush #41, and Bush #43, Bolton brought to the administration thirty years of experience in international issues and a reputation... |
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Erica Armstrong Dunbar - 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history - Harriet Tubman - a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonates today.. Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most... |
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A Stray Cat Struts: My Life as a Rockabilly Rebel
Slim Jim Phantom - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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In June 1980, nineteen-year-old James McDonnell (known as Slim Jim Phantom) boarded a plane with a one-way ticket from New York City to London with his childhood friends and bandmates Brian Setzer and Lee Rocker. In less than a year, they went from being homeless, hungry, and living... |
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Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen
Sheila Johnson Kindred - McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited... |
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Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
John G. Turner - Belknap Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed... |
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Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Life of Lou Reed
Howard Sounes - Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Lou Reed was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang "Walk on the Wild Side." To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent songwriters of modern times, a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and tortured... |
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TMI: My Life in Scandal
Perez Hilton
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how Mario Lavandeira became Perez Hilton, the world's first and biggest celebrity blogger. With Perez's help, many promising young artists reached the masses - Katy Perry, Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Lady Gaga, to name a few. Soon Perez was a Hollywood insider, but after... |
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Fighting Blind: A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage
Iván Castro - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Fighting was a practiced routine for Lieutenant Ivan Castro. But when a mortar round struck the rooftop of his sniper's post in Iraq, he found himself in a battle more difficult than even he could have imagined. The direct hit killed two other soldiers and nearly claimed Castro's life as well.... |
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
William Dalrymple - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place,... |
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I Am Redeemed: Learning to Live in Grace
Mike Weaver - Worthy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Mike Weaver, lead singer of Big Daddy Weave, shares from personal experience how when all we can see is our struggles and failures, God reminds us of who we are. . . . His children. Loved. Set free. Redeemed.I Am Redeemed is an open book of Mike Weaver's life, bringing into the light... |
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Smokin' Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier
Mark Kram Jr. - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping, all-access biography of Joe Frazier, whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali riveted boxing fans and whose legacy as a figure in American sports and society enduresHistory will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages, a trilogy of extraordinary fights... |
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I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
Esther Safran Foer - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting memoir of family, the Holocaust, and the search for truth Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily... |
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Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery
Jon Dorenbos - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Jon Dorenbos is a magical person. Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face of overwhelming odds." - Ellen DeGeneres An extraordinary and empowering story of resilience, forgiveness, and living a life of purpose in the face of unfathomable obstacles.. You may know... |
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Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band
Willie Nelson - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Abandoned by their parents as toddlers, Willie and Bobbie Nelson found their love of music almost immediately through their grandparents, who raised them in a small Texas town. Their close relationship - which persists today - is the longest-lasting bond in both their lives. In alternating... |
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The Girl from Kathmandu: Twelve Dead Men and a Woman's Quest for Justice
Cam Simpson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking story of the massacre of a group of Nepalese men working as Defense contractors for the United States Government during the Iraq War, and the widow who dedicated her life to finding justice for her husband and the other victims - a riveting tale of courageous heroes, corporate... |
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The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir
Andre Leon Talley - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this deeply revealing memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments."The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion."... |
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Your Second Act: Inspiring Stories of Reinvention
Patricia Heaton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining, inspirational book about second acts in life and reinventing yourself from beloved television actress Patricia Heaton - Emmy Award-winning star of Everybody Loves Raymond, The Middle, and most recently, Carol's Second Act.Patricia Heaton is one of TV's most recognizable... |
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All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters
Joe Namath - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Large Print
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In the wake of the 50th anniversary of his legendary Super Bowl "Guarantee," the NFL icon who first brought show business to sports is finally ready to tell his life story.Three days before the 1969 Super Bowl, Joe Namath promised the nation that he would lead the New York Jets... |
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Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena
Char Miller - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback
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Theodore Roosevelt's scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life as a rancher and explorer, police commissioner and governor of New York, vice president and president of the United States. Conservation and natural history were parts... |
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Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge
Sheila Weller - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid -- and brilliant -- Carrie FisherIn her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller -- with heart and a profound feeling for the times -- gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell,... |
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More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are
Elaine Welteroth - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own termsThroughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering... |
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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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Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell
Susan Whitall - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Few artists are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive poet. She often... |
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The Ingenious Mr. Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy
Henry Hemming - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare foreverIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds - to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune... |
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understandingof Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth a poor cobblers son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band... |
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H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
Adam Selzer - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's... |
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Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me
Erin Khar - Park Row
Format: Hardcover
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"This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like." - Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of MaidIn this... |
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Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself
Jill Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate look at the traditions, resilience, and love that built the Biden family, and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center.Growing up, Jill Biden wanted two things: a marriage like her parents' and a career. But her journey to fulfill those wishes would take unexpected... |
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Play Hungry: The Making of a Baseball Player
Pete Rose - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball Pete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseball's Hit King, he shattered records that were thought to be unbreakable. And during the 1970s, he was the leader of the Big Red Machine,... |
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Interlibrary Loan
Gene Wolfe - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene WolfeHundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots.And there... |
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Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon
Dorothea Salo - Backbeat Books
Format: Paperback
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(Book) . Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his and our psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something . The music... |
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The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land---A True Detective Story
Patrick Bishop - Harper; First U.S. Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII.Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British... |
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A Comedy & A Tragedy: A Memoir of Learning How to Read and Write
Travis Hugh Culley - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful memoir, former bicycle messenger and acclaimed author of The Immortal Class recounts his difficult journey to literacy. A Comedy & A Tragedy is the story of one young man's effort to teach himself to read. Complex and many-leveled, this book is also a manifesto... |
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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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Standing Together: The Inspirational Story of a Wounded Warrior and Enduring Love
Carlos R. Evans - KREGE
Format: Paperback
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A true story of hope and courage in the face of astonishing challenges During his fourth deployment, US Marine Corps Sergeant Carlos Evans stepped on an IED--and the loss of both legs and his left hand was just the beginning of the struggle for his life. For the next two years, he and his wife,... |
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Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from within the Camp
Eliazar de Wind - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Auschwitz survivor Eddy de Wind provides a minute-by-minute true account from his journal of fighting for his life at the largest extermination camp in Nazi Germany, with an award-winning translator. "We know that there is only one ending to this, only one liberation from this barbed... |
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Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
Anthony B. Pinn - Prometheus Books, Publishers
Format: Paperback
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A former African American minister reveals his unusual journey from faith to atheism. Anthony Pinn preached his first sermon at age twelve. At eighteen he became one of the youngest ordained ministers in his denomination. He then quickly moved up the ministerial ranks. Eventually he graduated... |
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Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life
Michael Katakis - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Beautifully designed, intimate and illuminating, this is the story of American icon Ernest Hemingway's life through the documents, photographs, and miscellany he kept, compiled by the steward of the Hemingway estate and featuring contributions by his son and grandson.For many people,... |
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The Fixed Stars
Molly Wizenberg - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly... |
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father, Survival and What Remains
Ariana Neumann - Scribner Books Co.
Format: Book
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In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
In 1941, the first Neumann... |
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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
Miles Harvey - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, until his assassination in 1856.In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist,... |
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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Madeleine Albright - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants - reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring... |
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Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ITAMAR RABINOVICH - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually... |
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The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir
LAURA JEAN BAKER - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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"Laura Jean Baker has written a beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents, which are indistinguishable from its joys. This is a warmly intimate yet intellectually provocative personal document of originality and considerable charm." - Joyce Carol Oates With... |
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What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action
Jane Fonda - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest"This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean... |
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Call Me American: A Memoir
Abdi Nor Iftin - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America--first by way of the movies; years later, through a miraculous green card.Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop artists like... |
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
Kerri K. Greenidge - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes.William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934) , though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American... |
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For the Next Generation: A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation's Problems
Debbie Wasserman Schultz - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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America is suffering from a dangerous attack of short-sightedness, outspoken Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz writes in For the Next Generation. If they want to ensure prosperity for themselves and an improved way of life for the next generation, they have to change, starting now. Not only... |
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Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park
Robert K Elder - The Kent State University Press
Format: Print book
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Thinking of Ernest Hemingway often brings to mind his travels around the world, documenting war and engaging in thrilling adventures. However, fully understanding this outsized international author means returning to his place of birth. Hidden Hemingway presents highlights from the extraordinary... |
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The Art & Science of Respect: A Memoir by James Prince
James Prince - N-The-Water Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For decades, serial entrepreneur James Prince presided over Rap-A-Lot Records, one of the first and most successful independent rap labels. In his memoir, he explains how he earned his reputation as one of the most respected men in Hip Hop. By staying true to his three principles of heart,... |
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The Twenty-ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra
Alex Messenger - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter... |
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Jarmila Novotn: My Life in Song
Jarmila Novotna - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotn (1907-1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. Best known for her performances in Der Rosenkavalier, The Marriage of Figaro, and La Traviata, she was a celebrated... |
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Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime
Debora Harding - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city.Debora survived. She identified her attacker... |
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Goya: A Portrait of the Artist
Janis Tomlinson - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the Iberian Peninsula in the war against Napoleon, and an ensuing... |
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24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid
Willie Mays - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and off the field in this reflective and inspirational memoir."It's because of giants like Willie that someone like me could even think about running for President." -- President... |
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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger
Greg Steinmetz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The life and times of the wealthiest man who ever lived - Jacob Fugger - the Renaissance banker who revolutionized the art of making money and established the radical idea of pursuing wealth for its own sake.Jacob Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson... |
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Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Luis J Rodriguez
Format: Paperback
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The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book |
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The Man in the Red Coat
Julian Barnes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending--a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle poque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping:... |
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The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation
Matthew McGough - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect - a female detective within the LAPD's own ranks.On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband,... |
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We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance
Linda Sarsour - 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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Linda Sarsour, co-organizer of the Women's March, shares how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country. On a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn, nineteen-year-old... |
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Try This At Home: Adventures in songwriting
Frank Turner - Headline
Format: Hardcover
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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*The brand new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Road Beneath My Feet. Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process. Find out the stories behind the songs forged in the hedonistic years... |
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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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Rise: How a House Built a Family
Cara Brookins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable. After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn... |
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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Richard Russo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, ranging throughout writing and reading and living.In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight... |
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Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
Richard Davenport-Hines - William Collins
Format: Hardcover
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What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies.Enemies... |
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world... |
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Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius
Laurence Bergreen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the impoverished child, abandoned by his parents, who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius whose name still resonates today: Giacomo Casanova.Today, "Casanova" is a synonym for "great lover," yet the real... |
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Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Doris Payne - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Soon to be a Major Motion PictureIn the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world's most notorious jewel thief -- a woman who defied society's prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers... |
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Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
Maria Hinojosa - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist who has collaborated with the most respected networks and is known for bringing humanity to her reporting. In this beautifully-rendered memoir, she relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today, as she shares... |
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Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
Christina Rickardsson - AmazonCrossing
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir of one woman's fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given.Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves... |
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How Hitler Was Made: Germany and the Rise of the Perfect Nazi
CORY TAYLOR - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Focusing on German society immediately following the First World War, this vivid historical narrative explains how fake news and political uproar influenced Hitler and put him on the path toward dictatorial power.How did an obscure agitator on the political fringes of early-20th-century... |
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Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes
Kristen Beddard - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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A memoir of love, life, and recipes from the woman who brought kale to the City of Light The story of how one expat woman left her beloved behind when she moved to France-her beloved kale, that is. Unable to find le chou kale anywhere upon moving to the City of Light with her new husband,... |
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Riley Unlikely: With Simple Childlike Faith, Amazing Things Can Happen
Riley Banks Snyder - Zondervan
Format: Print book
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Riley Unlikely is the inspiring story of Riley Banks, who first traveled to Kenya at age 13, and has been back every year since bringing backpacks of school supplies and hygiene kits for young girls, developing relationships and friendships, and is currently, as a young millennial, raising... |
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Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope
Karamo Brown - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown - Queer Eye's beloved culture expert - as he shares his story for the first time, exploring how the challenges in his own life have allowed him to forever transform the lives of those in need.When Karamo Brown first auditioned... |
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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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Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe A Memoir, A History, A Warning
Geraldine Schwarz - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Graldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember... |
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Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives
Sunil Khilnani - Farrar
Format: Print book
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An entertaining and provocative account of India's past, written by one of the country's leading thinkersFor all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing... |
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Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Reading this book is like coming home from a bad date and finding the person who knows you best in the world sitting on your couch, ready to pour you a glass of wine and give you a hug." - Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat PersonThe wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally... |
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. Hoffman - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA's Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While... |
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This Is How You Say Goodbye: A Daughter's Memoir
Amanda Lindhout - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A razor-sharp memoir in which a young woman travels to Cambodia, Stockholm, and Paris to overcome the legacy of her difficult and charismatic fatherWhen Victoria Loustalot was eight years old her father swept her up in a fantasy a trip around the world. It was a grandiose plan and she had fallen... |
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El Papa que ama el futbol
Michael Part - Urano
Format: Book
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Esta es la conmovedora historia de un nino apasionado por la musica y por ese hermoso deporte. Los valores del joven Jorge se forjaron tanto en la cancha como en el calido ambito de su familia, en especial gracias al carino y la inspiracion de su abuela. Los sentimientos de amor y compasion... |
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Dead in the Water: My Forty-Year Search for My Brother's Killer
Penny Farmer - Diversion Books
Format: Paperback
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In this shocking true-crime drama, a forty-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers -- just kids when they witnessed their father commit the brutal act -- to track down a psychopath once suspected as being the Golden State Killer "A real-life page turner... |
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Betsey: A Memoir
Betsey Johnson - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style iconMention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful... |
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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Rachel Corbett - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters.Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet is one of the most beloved books of the twentieth century. It has sold millions of copies and inspired generations with its galvanizing wisdom on how to lead... |
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A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-blooded Murder
Gregg Olsen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith,... |
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George Sand
Martine Reid - Penn State University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France's most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid's acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English.Drawing... |
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Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Frances Wilson - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of Wordsworth's circle and the last of the RomanticsThomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgnger--is embedded in our culture. Modeling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth,... |
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Pablo Escobar: My Father
SebastiaÌn MarroquiÌn - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER!THE POPULAR SERIES NARCOS CAPTURES ONLY HALF THE TRUTH. HERE, AT LAST, IS THE FULL STORY.Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time, but these versions have... |
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Los Seores del narco
Anabel Hernández - Debolsillo
Format: Paperback
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Los seores del narco es una descarnada crnica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos crculos polticos, policiacos, militares y empresariales con el crimen organizado. Anabel Hernndez tuvo acceso no slo a una vasta documentacin, indita hasta hoy, sino a testimonios directos de autoridades... |
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Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President
Richard Kigel - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President tells the true story of how this great American hero grew up and became a man. The story begins with Lincoln's cousin describing the murder of Abe's grandfather in 1782 by the Wabash Indians in the Kentucky wilderness.... |
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until... |
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Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself: A Memoir
Eileen Rockefeller - Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering philanthropist and daughter of American royalty reveals what it was like to grow up in one of the world’s most famous families. The great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, Eileen Rockefeller learned in childhood that while wealth and fame could open any door,... |
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The Sportscaster's Daughter: A Memoir
Cindi Michael - She Writes Press
Format: Print book
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Millions of people watched sportscaster George Michael each week on the Sports Machine, including his daughter Cindi. Cindi Michael appears to live a charmed life: she's happily married, has a successful career, and is a loving mom to two wonderful children. Yet she longs for a father... |
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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
Bob Drury - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn astonishing untold story of the American West The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers... |
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO?the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation... |
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Siren Song: My Life in Music
SEYMOUR STEIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The autobiography of America's greatest living record man: the founder of Sire Records and spotter of rock talent from the Ramones to Madonna.Seymour Stein is America's greatest living record man. Not only has he signed and nurtured more important artists than anyone alive, now sixty... |
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The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act
Alex Prud'homme - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The enchanting story of Julia Child's years as TV personality and beloved cookbook author--a sequel in spirit to My Life in France--by her great-nephew Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much deeper. Now, her great-nephew and My Life in France... |
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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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The Best "Worst President": What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama
Mark Hannah - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and renowned New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake give Barack Obama the victory lap he deserves in this compendium that takes the president's critics head-on and celebrates the president's many underappreciated triumphs.Barack Obama's... |
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In Defense of Andrew Jackson
Bradley Birzer - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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The tide of working class anxiety that drove Donald Trump into the White House is not a new, 21st century American phenomenon. For Professor Bradley J. Birzer, who teaches a class on "Jacksonian America" at Hillsdale College, today's working class anxieties are all too familiar... |
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Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest
Cyrus Copeland - Blue Rider Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A spy story, a mystery, a father-son heartbreaker: Cyrus Copeland seeks the truth about his father, an American executive arrested in Iran for spying at the time of the 1979 hostage crisis, then put on trial for his life in a Revolutionary Court.As a young boy living in Tehran in 1979,... |
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