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My Days with Princess Grace of Monaco

Joan Dale - IN-LIGHTNING
Format: Hardcover

Get to know the real Princess Grace, from the first years of her marriage to the last days of her life. "My Days with Princess Grace of Monaco: Our 25-Year Friendship, Beyond Grace Kelly" chronicles what it was like to be best friends with an iconic princess, with 70 never-before-seen...
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The Little Princesses

Marion Crawford - Orion Publishing Co


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Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

TOM FELTON - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen. Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers...
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My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

Martha Hodes - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha...
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Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood

Stephen Mills - ?Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

"An unparalleled achievement, a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance. I did not stop crying throughout. For Mills. For my young self. For all of us who have lived and continue to live in that pitiless abyss of childhood abuse. To read this courageous book is to be transformed...
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The Summer Friend: A Memoir

Charles McGrath - ?Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, Charles McGrath's evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends. It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come...
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Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

Valerie Bertinelli - HarperCollins and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Behind the curtain of her happy on-screen persona, Valerie Bertinelli’s life has been no easy ride, especially when it comes to her own self-image and self-worth. She waged a war against herself for years, learning to equate her value to her appearance as a child star on One Day at a Time...
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The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classic Stories

James Herriot - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

James Herriot's timeless, heartwarming, and perceptive stories about animals and people have charmed millions of readers around the world, and millions more have watched the popular PBS series All Creatures Great and Small, which is based on his four books. The Wonderful World of James...
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong
Format: Paperback

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times * The Washington Post * NPR * Time * New Statesman * BuzzFeed * Esquire * The New York Public Library * Book Riot Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural...
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37 seconds : dying revealed heaven's help--a mother's journey

Stephanie Arnold - HarperOne
Format: Print book

Like Proof of Heaven and To Heaven and Back, a medical drama with heavenly implications in which a woman receives premonitions of her death that come true, and her discovery of the heavenly help available to all of us.When she was pregnant with her second child, Stephanie Arnold had a sudden...
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