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Después de usted
Rubén Aguirre - Planeta Publishing
Format: Print book
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Hurgar en los recuerdos de quien dio vida al Profesor Jirafales permite adentrarnos en la trayectoria de un hombre que con su talento, humor blanco y creatividad contribuy a consolidacin de uno de los fenmenos de la televisin ms impactantes de Amrica Latina. Rubn Aguirre Fuentes cuenta... |
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Converts to Judaism: Stories from Biblical Times to Today
Lawrence J Epstein - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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From the biblical story of Ruth to the star conversion of Elizabeth Taylor, Converts to Judaism tells the stories of people who have converted to Judaism throughout history. The book introduces readers to origins of Judaism and shares the first conversion stories of the people who helped... |
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Eric Rohmer : a biography
Antoine de Baecque; Noël Herpe; Steven Rendall; Lisa Neal - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book : Biography : English
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The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
Ben Barres - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly... |
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Live Fast Die Hot
Jenny Mollen - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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By the New York Times bestselling author, an outrageous collection of personal essays about adulthood, responsibility, and other potential disasters Jenny Mollen is a writer and actress living in New York. Until two years ago, her lifewas exciting, sexy, a little eccentric, and one hundred... |
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The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition
Ulysses S Grant - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was one of the most esteemed individuals of the nineteenth century. His two-volume memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, have never gone out of print and were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Mark Twain, Gertrude... |
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Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo - New Press
Format: Print book
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Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda - threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist,... |
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
Althea McDowell Altemus - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York... |
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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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Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation
Marc Mappen - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition era—men born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1905—who came to power with the Eighteenth Amendment.On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution... |
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"-- |
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Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks
Ronin Ro - Griffin
Format: Print book
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With a brand-new introduction and chapter that cover the last five years of Prince's life and work and his untimely death in April 2016.In his three decades of recording, Prince had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. He is the only artist since the Beatles to have a number-one... |
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Appetites: A Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain - Ecco
Format: Print book
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Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family... |
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40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World
Howard G Buffett - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With a foreword by Warren Buffett, 40 Chances is an “inspiring manifesto…both an informative guidebook and a catalyst for igniting real changes” (Booklist) in the struggle against world hunger.If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in the world,... |
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Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence
Martin Bailey - Frances Lincoln
Format: Print book
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Studio of the South tells the story of Van Gogh's period in Arles in 1888-9, when his powers were at their height. Based on original research, the book reveals discoveries that throw new light on the legendary artist and give a definitive account of his fifteen months spent in Arles,... |
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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Tom Robbins - Ecco; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novelsincluding Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesnt, what may cause harm,... |
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RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream
Jerry Oppenheimer - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer comes a sensational biography of the son of the legendary Senator and troubled standard bearer of America's most fabled political dynasty. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inherited his assassinated father's piercing blue eyes and Brahmin... |
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Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge
Lindy Woodhead - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge's.Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field's in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn... |
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Makers of Modern Asia
Ramachandra Guha - Belknap Press
Format: Book
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Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India’s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators—gross national product, per capita income,... |
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Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice
Emily Winslow - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book
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In the vein of Alice Sebold s Lucky, comes a compelling, real-life crime mystery and gripping memoir of the cold case prosecution of a serial rapist, told by one of his victims. On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at hisapartment in Brooklyn.... |
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Fallen: Out of the Sex Industry & Into the Arms of the Savior
Annie Lobert - Worthy Publishing
Format: Print book
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Read the harrowing account of a high class call girl in the clutches of the sex trafficking industry.Annie Lobert was not so different from most girls, growing up in a small town and experiencing common struggles with friends, school, and boys. But her home was filled with turmoil, and at nine... |
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Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power
Kevin Peraino - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating look at how Abraham Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign-policy presidents—and helped point the way to America’s rise to world power. This is the story of one of the most breathtaking feats in the annals of American foreign policy—performed... |
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Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life
Kim Severson - Riverhead Hardcover; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the prominent New York Times food writer, a memoir recounting the tough life lessons she learned from a generation of female cooks-including Marion Cunningham, Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, Rachael Ray, and Marcella Hazan. Somewhere between the lessons her mother taught her as a child... |
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Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway
Cherie Currie - It Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this candid autobiography, Cherie Currie—the original lead singer of ‘70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways—powerfully recounts her years in the band, her friendship with guitarist Joan Jett, and her struggle with drugs. An intense, behind-the-scenes look at rock... |
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My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir
Domingo Martinez - Lyons Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. His first book shockingly ended with his fianc Stephanie... |
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Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero
Douglas Perry - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a citys soulAs leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables daring raids were... |
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Coming to My Senses: One Woman's Cochlear Implant Journey
Claire H. Blatchford - Gallaudet University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Deafened at the age of six, Claire Blatchford was educated orally with speech lessons, speechreading, and hearing aids. Though successful both professionally and domestically, at the age of 67 Blatchford decided to undergo a cochlear implantation. In this memoir, she describes in prose... |
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Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
Kate Williams - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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From CNN's official royal historian, a highly praised young author with a doctorate from Oxford University, comes the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the woman who conquered Napoleon's heart - and with it, an empire. Their love was legendary, their ambition flagrant and unashamed.... |
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Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers
Eleanor Henderson - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Print book
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Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories--the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profaneIt's an elemental, almost animalistic urge--the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy... |
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Flyover Lives: A Memoir
Diane Johnson - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Smart . . . perceptive . . . Flyover Lives is a memoir of the Midwest sure to charm readers." - Maureen Corrigan, NPRFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape... |
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Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book
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Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret:... |
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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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The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Edition Revised
David Farmer - Oxford University Press; 5 Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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Praised as splendid The Economist and the kind of book that gives hagiography a good name The Times, this entertaining and authoritative dictionary breathes life into its subjects and is as browsable as it is informative. First published in 1978, the Oxford Dictionary of Saints offers more... |
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The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women
Edward Lewis - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women’s magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkable story of what it took to earn that distinction.The Man from Essence depicts with candor and insight how Edward Lewis, CEO and publisher... |
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T Bone Burnett: A Life in Pursuit
Lloyd Sachs - University of Texas Press
Format: Print book
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T Bone Burnett is a unique, astonishingly prolific music producer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and soundtrack visionary. Renowned as a studio maven with a Midas touch, Burnett is known for lifting artists to their greatest heights, as he did with Raising Sand, the multiple Grammy... |
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La Americana: A Memoir
Melanie Bowden SimoÌn - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simn, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Brown's Talk magazine following the death of her mother and decided to take a vacation in Havana, Cuba, with a friend. Little did she know that she would meet and fall in love with... |
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The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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"From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a KGB assassin whose defection to the West changed the face of Cold War espionage" In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets... |
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Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America
Doran Larson - Michigan State University Press
Format: Book : English
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At 2.26 million, incarcerated Americans not only outnumber the nation’s fourth-largest city, they make up a national constituency bound by a shared condition. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America presents more than seventy essays from twenty-seven states, written by incarcerated... |
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Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
Count Basie - University of Minnesota Press
Format: Print book
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Count Basie was one of America's pre-eminent and influential jass pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Goin' to Chicago Blues," "Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today," and "One... |
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Wilfred Owen
Guy Cuthbertson - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's rationale and conduct. He left behind a body... |
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Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find
John Batchelor - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In what will be the definitive biography of Alfred Lord Tennyson, an enthralling new study of the major poet of the Victorian era. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure... |
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Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
Molly Brodak - Black Cat
Format: Print book
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"Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so honest, I found myself nodding like I was agreeing with her, sometimes cringing at what she sustained, and laughing - often. I can't wait to buy a copy for everyone I know."... |
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May Cause Love: An Unexpected Journey of Enlightenment After Abortion
Kassi Underwood - HarperOne
Format: Print book
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In this powerful memoir, told with fierce honesty and surprising humor, a young woman goes on a journey of healing after abortion - a road trip across the United States with a diverse crew of spiritual teachers and a caravan of new friends.Nineteen years old, a thousand miles from her Kentucky... |
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What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life
Marc Leepson - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Book
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What So Proudly We Hailed is the first full-length biography of Francis Scott Key in more than 75 years. In this fascinating look at early America, historian Marc Leepson explores the life and legacy of Francis Scott Key. Standing alongside Betsy Ross, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Paul... |
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Gail Sheehy - William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoira chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern... |
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A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot in the Houses of Parliament
John Preston - Other Press
Format: Print book
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A behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets As a Member of Parliament and Leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, Jeremy Thorpe's bad behavior snuck... |
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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Blake Bailey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Autobiography' The renowned biographer's unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins - his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown... |
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Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
Hazel Rowley - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's... |
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Off the Grid: My Ride from Louisiana to the Panama Canal in an Electric Car
Randy Denmon - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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The rollicking tale of a first-of-its-kind adventure - driving a Tesla through Central America.Only a week after the nation's newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt... |
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Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Anthony Summers - Open Road Media
Format: Book
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New York Times Bestseller: The definitive biography based on over six hundred interviews with people who knew Marilyn Monroe both professionally and intimately. Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked... |
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Say It Out Loud: Revealing and Healing the Scars of Sexual Abuse
Roberta Dolan - She Writes Press; New edition
Format: Print book
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Breaking the silence about sexual abuse is vital -- but it's only the first step. What happens next? For most survivors, the wounds left by such abuse are often left to fester, slowly destroying their lives. Say It Out Loud -- a unique blend of memoir and how-to -- exposes the emotional... |
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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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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Alison Weir - Ballantine Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMany are familiar with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of England and the celebrated reign of his daughter, Elizabeth I. But it is often forgotten that the life of the first Tudor queen, Elizabeth of York, Henrys mother and Elizabeths grandmother,... |
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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move... |
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George Orwell: A Life in Letters
George Orwell - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Appearing for the first time in one volume, these trenchant letters tell the eloquent narrative of Orwell’s life in his own words. From his school days to his tragic early death, George Orwell, who never wrote an autobiography, chronicled the dramatic events of his turbulent life... |
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Forgiveness: A Memoir
Chiquis Rivera - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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"I wrote this book not to dismiss a rumor but to share something much more important: my journey to forgiveness." Chiquis Rivera is a singer and the daughter of the late music superstar Jenni Rivera. In Forgiveness, her memoir, Chiquis bravely reveals the abuse she suffered at the hands... |
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Olivier
Philip Ziegler - MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover
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A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered... |
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Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
Martin Sixsmith - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 yearsWhen she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent... |
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Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, Father Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gangs in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of radical kinship.In his first... |
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Beethoven: The Man Revealed
John Suchet - Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable... |
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If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir
Jessica Hendry Nelson - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three... |
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The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran
Nazila Fathi - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 2009, as she was covering the popular uprisings in Tehran for the New York Times, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi received a phone call. "They have given your photo to snipers," a government source warned her. Soon after, with undercover agents closing in, Fathi... |
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Boston Mob: The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer
Marc Songini - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. Psychopathic strongman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most... |
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Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
Sharan Newman - Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Jerusalem sits at the crossroads of three continents and has been continuously invaded for millennia. Yet, in the middle of one of the region's most violent eras, the Crusades, an amazing multicultural world was forming. Templar knights, Muslim peasants, Turkish caliphs, Jewish merchants,... |
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How Did I Get Here: The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO
Tony Hawk - Wiley; 1 edition
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The most famous skateboarder ever shares the business secrets to his success!He's the man who put skateboarding on the map. He's the first to land a 900 (two and a half full rotations). He's also among the richest pitchmen in any sport. And, in a sport that's especially... |
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The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'Sullivan - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed... |
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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Tracy Borman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As Henry VIIIs right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation, secured Henrys divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of Anne Boleyn,... |
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I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
Lee Grant - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue "It... |
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Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words
Maeve Binchy - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans.Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they... |
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Play Life More Beautifully: Conversations with Seymour
Seymour Bernstein - Hay House Inc, 2016.
Format: Print book
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This inspiring book based on a series of passionate and illuminating conversations between two dear friends discusses everything from God, music, friendship, teaching, death, and more. One friend is religious scholar, poet, and teacher of mystical traditions, Andrew Harvey. The other is acclaimed... |
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Autobiography
Morrissey - Putnam Adult; 1 edition
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Autobiography covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day. |
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Charlemagne
Johannes Fried - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating... |
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
Margot Mifflin - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback
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In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned... |
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Love Lessons from the Old West: Wisdom From Wild Women
Chris Enss - TwoDot; First edition
Format: Paperback
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From Calamity Janes relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Mastersonand learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today. Meet Agnes Lake Hickok, the intrepid wife... |
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Whitney and Bobbi Kristina
Ian Halperin - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Shocking new revelations emerge about superstar Whitney Houston and her only daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, in #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian Halperin's account of their tumultuous lives.On July 26, 2015, after nearly six months in a coma, Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of musical... |
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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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A Lenape among the Quakers : the life of Hannah Freeman
Dawn G Marsh - University of Nebraska Press,
Format: Print book
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On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency - a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately,... |
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Cold-Blooded
John Gilmore - Amok Books; 2014 edition
Format: Print book
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COLD-BLOODED is the classic account of the murder of three young girls by Charles Schmid, Jr., teen-age idol of the lower depths of Tucson, Arizona in the Hot-Rodder mid-60s - a lost city surrounded by a bone-dry ocean of rocky deserts. Lover to many scrawny, broken girls, Schmid a champion... |
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Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes
Elizabeth Bard - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the world's... |
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A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write
Melissa Pritchard - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Print book
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"In A Solemn Pleasure, Melissa Pritchard presents an undeniable case for both the power of language and the nurturing constancy of the writing life. This is nonfiction vividly engaged with the world, encompassing the author's journeys into the deeply interior imaginative life required... |
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Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America
Mark Perry - Random House
Format: Print book
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In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter not only both their lives but the course of American literature. Over the next... |
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HEMINGWAY: LIFE & WORK
Kenneth S. Lynn - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition
Format: Hardcover
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Traces Hemingway's life, attempts to depict his complex personality, and analyzes the autobiographical aspects of his fiction |
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The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins
Robert B. Baer - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, "It's a bullet with a man's name on it." Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most... |
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The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
Howard Bryant - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry (Hank) Aaron's reputation has only grown in magnitude. But his influence extends beyond statistics, and at long last here is the first definitive biography of one of baseball's immortal figures. Based on meticulous research and extensive... |
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Criminal That I Am: A Memoir
Jennifer Ridha - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A candid memoir from a talented young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with the convicted drug felon she represents - Cameron Douglas, son of film actor Michael Douglas - and who soon makes the mistake of her life. Or does she?Criminal That I Am is a defense attorney's account... |
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Herod the Great: Statesman, Visionary, Tyrant
Norman Gelb - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea, was a brutal, ruthless, vindictive and dangerously high-strung tyrant. He had many of his subjects killed on suspicion of plotting against him and was accused of slaughtering children in Bethlehem when informed that a new king of the Jews had been... |
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Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem
Paul Martin - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying.Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this disreputable cast of characters:... |
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In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett
Tony Fletcher - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Wilson Pickett was arguably the greatest male soul screamer of the 1960s and '70s. With a career spanning half a century, he sold millions of albums and tens of millions of singles, leaving a legacy of unforgettable hits, including "In the Midnight Hour," "Land of 1000 Dances,"... |
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A Short Life of Martin Luther
Thomas Kaufmann - Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Print book
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Accessible yet authoritative biography of the colorful character who instigated the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar who set the Protestant Reformation in motion with his famous Ninety-Five Theses, was a man of extremes on many fronts. He was both hated and honored,... |
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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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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John Le Carr - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur - by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,... |
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Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
Bettina Stangneth - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmannmdasha superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendtrsquos notion... |
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The Geraldo Show: A Memoir
Geraldo Rivera - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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In public life for half a century, my image and reputation have had more ups and downs than the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island. I have been called savior and sinner, fool and wise man, crusader and exploiter, hot head and dope. I am routinely scorned, admired, beloved, and belittled.... |
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The First Nazi: Erich Ludendorff, The Man Who Made Hitler Possible
William Brownell - Counterpoint, 2016.
Format: Print book
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General Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important military individuals of the last century, yet today, one of the least known. One of the top two German generals of World War I, Ludendorff dominated not only his superior - General Paul von Hindenburg - but also Germany's head of state,... |
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Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain
Josh Sundquist - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Read Josh Sundquist's posts on the Penguin Blog. One moment Josh Sundquist was your typical energetic and inquisitive nine year- old boy. The next, his entire life changed when he was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a particularly virulent cancer strain that would eventually... |
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I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway: A Memoir
Tracy McMillan - It Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Television writer Tracy McMillan’s comic literary road trip into the heart and soul of her relationship with her father—a convicted pimp, drug dealer, and felon—and what it has meant for her relationships with men. Like a cross between The Glass Castle and Hypocrite in a Poufy... |
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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Michael Korda - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Korda's Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale: a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile - including his blond, sun-burnished good looks and flowing white robes... |
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Start the Fire: How I Began A Food Revolution In America
Jeremiah Tower - Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Print book
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AS SEEN IN THE NEW DOCUMENTARY JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENTNewly revised and reissued to coincide with The Last Magnificent, a documentary feature produced by Anthony Bourdain, the indelible and entertaining memoir from Jeremiah Tower which chronicles life at the front lines of redefining... |
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Jung Chang - Knopf; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable BookEmpress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s... |
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Jenny Nordberg - Crown; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as "dressed up like a boy") is a third kind of child -- a girl temporarily... |
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Whistler's Mother: Portrait of an Extraordinary Life
Daniel E. Sutherland - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the extraordinary woman behind one of the most famous images of motherhood in Western art Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 (1871) , painted by her son James McNeill Whistler, Anna Whistler (1804-1881) appears to have been a pious, unassuming, domestic... |
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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
Peter Maguire - Columbia University Press
Format: Book
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Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation... |
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Sueños Sencillos: Memorias musicales
Linda Ronstadt - Simon & Schuster; Original edition
Format: Print book
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Al rastrear la cronología de su extraordinaria vida, Linda Ronstadt, una artista cuya carrera ha abarcado cinco décadas e incluye una amplia gama de estilos musicales, se entreteje una historia cautivante de sus orígenes en Tucson, Arizona, y su ascenso a la fama en la escena... |
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The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817
Myron Magnet - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success. Through the Founders' own voices -- and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve -- we come to understand why the American Revolution,... |
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Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One
Karen Duffy - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain. For two decades, Karen Duffy --New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress-- has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy... |
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Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.
Marion Barry Jr. - Strebor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most powerful cities in the world.Known nationally as the disgraced mayor caught on camera smoking crack... |
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90 Church: Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
Dean Unkefer - Picador USA
Format: Hardcover
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MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORKBefore Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs," there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam... |
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Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga
Maureen Callahan - Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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"Stop feeding me bullshit. Tell me the truth." - Lady Gaga, 2009"I hate the truth. I hate the truth so much I prefer a giant dose of bullshit any day over the truth." - Lady Gaga, 2010In little over a year, Stefani Germanotta, a struggling performer in New Yorks Lower... |
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Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Format: Hardcover
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HISTORY AS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE TOLD: TRUE AND THRILLING. Thomas Edison was a bad guy--and bad guys usually lose in the end. World War II radio host "Tokyo Rose" was branded as a traitor by the U.S. government and served time in prison. In reality, she was a hero to many.... |
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Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away
David Dekok - Globe Pequot Press; 1st Edition edition
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On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania... |
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Patagonian Road: A Year Alone Through Latin America
Kate McCahill - Santa Fe Writer's Project
Format: Paperback
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Spanning four seasons, 10 countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road chronicles Kate McCahill's solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, romance, culture, service, and homesickness, she personifies a growing culture of women... |
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Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success
Michael D'Antonio - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American businessman had played the role of provocateur so often that pundits, reporters, and voters... |
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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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The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969
Christopher Isherwood - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war... |
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But Enough About You: Essays
Christopher Buckley - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Christopher Buckley at his best: an extraordinary, wide-ranging selection of essays both hilarious and poignant, irreverent and delightful.In his first book of essays since his 1997 bestseller, Wry Martinis, Buckley delivers a rare combination of big ideas and truly fun writing. Tackling... |
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Sounds like me : my life
Sara Bareilles - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The singer-songwriter presents a series of confessional writings about the searches for growth, healing, and self-acceptance behind some of her most popular songs. |
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Black and White: The Way I See It
Richard Williams - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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He’d set his mind to raise two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis well before they could even hold a racket. The father of Venus and Serena Williams had a grand plan for his daughters. The source of his vision, the method behind his execution, and the root of his indomitable... |
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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
Cullen Murphy - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut SchoolFor a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nations top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stones throw of one another... |
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The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
Bart Moore-Gilbert - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"I've always had difficulty imagining my father as a policeman. He seemed most himself in the informal setting of safari life, clothes disheveled, sometimes not shaving for days. So why did he join the Indian Police, with its rigid hierarchies and complex protocols?"Setting... |
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Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
Anna Whitelock - Random House
Format: Book
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She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britain’s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution earned her the nickname “Bloody Mary.” Now, in this impassioned and absorbing debut, historian Anna Whitelock... |
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Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away: A Love Letter to My Family
Ben Utecht - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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After five major concussions, NFL tight-end Ben Utecht of the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals is losing his memories. This is his powerful and emotional love letter to his wife and daughters - whom he someday may not recognize - and an inspiring message for all to live every moment... |
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Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days
Javon Beard - Weinstein Books
Format: Hardcover
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Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary at Neverland, Michael Jackson spent his final years moving from city to city, living with his three children in virtual seclusiona futile attempt to escape a world that wouldnt leave him alone. During that time, two men served... |
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Pharrell Williams: Blurring the Lines
Malcolm Croft - Carlton Books
Format: Print book
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Pharrell Williams tells the story of the global megastar, including details of his prolific and varied collaborations with the best-known musicians of the 21st century. It charts his extraordinary life, from his pre-fame days to becoming pop's most sought-after and inventive pioneer,... |
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Junipero Serra: California's Founding Father
Steven W. Hackel - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book
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Winner of the Historical Society of Southern California's 2015 Neuerburg Award for the best book on Pre-Gold Rush CaliforniaFinalist for the Southern California Independent Bookseller Association's Best Nonfiction Book of 2014 A Zocalo Public Square Best Nonfiction Book of 2013A... |
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Here to Help: A Guide to Overcoming Opiate and Heroin Addiction
Jason M Scholl - Outskirts Press
Format: Print book
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Here to Help: A Guide to Overcoming Opiate and Heroin Addiction is the ultimate tool for educating and guiding addicts considering, or working toward sobriety. With opiate addiction on the rise, so is the demand for practical assistance in overcoming it. But the reality is, that time and money... |
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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
Sheila Kohler - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS"A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." - The BBC"An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." - PeopleWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister... |
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Hieronymus Bosch: Visions and Nightmares
Nils Büttner - Reaktion Books
Format: Print book
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In his lifetime the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch was famous for his phantasmagoric images, and today his name is synonymous with the infernal. The creator of expansive tableaus of fantastic and hellish scenes - where any devil not dancing is too busy eating human souls - he has been... |
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