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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

Amy Tan - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir, Where the Past Begins Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity...
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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

Michele Harper - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went...
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I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections

Nora Ephron - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet)...
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Walking Again

JP Lane - Independently published
Format: Paperback

Justin "JP" Lane joined the U.S. Army in 2008 at the age of 20 years old. Like most young men watching the Twin Towers fall in 2001, JP knew he wanted to join the military when he was old enough to do so. As a combat engineer, he was deployed to Afghanistan as a Specialist with...
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We the people : the modern-day figures who have reshaped the founding fathers' vision of what... america is.

Juan Williams - Crown
Format: Print book

What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different...
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Paw Prints in the Moonlight: The Heartwarming True Story of One Man and his Cat

Denis O'Connor - Thomas Dunne Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A snowy January night. A cat that beat the odds. A man whose life would be forever changed.  This is the remarkable story of Toby Jug, the extraordinary cat who thought he was human.Paw Prints in the Moonlight is the truly special tale of one kind man and the cat that changed his life....
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The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal

Charles van Onselen - Walker & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A masterwork of historical reconstruction--the life and times of an arch criminal who may well have been Jack the Ripper. During the three turbulent decades before World War I, Joseph Silver became the greatest criminal of his time, perfecting his skills as a burglar, gun runner, jewel...
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Making Circles: The Memoir of a Cowboy Journalist

Barney Nelson - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Hardcover

In Making Circles, Barney Nelson unveils working-class cowboy culture through the eyes of one who has lived the life she chronicles. From living on ranch camps to surviving both cowboy school and graduate school, Nelson's story is a journey through time and place, pointing out that...
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Baseball: More Than 150 Years

David Nemec - Publications International
Format: Hardcover

HARDCOVER...Baseball More than 150 Years...Large Coffee Table Size--12 1/4 Inches Tall x 9 1/2 Inches Wide...576 Crisp Clean Pages...Full of Great Photographs, and History of the Greatest Game Ever!
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