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Eisenhower and Churchill: The Partnership That Saved the World

James C Humes - Forum
Format: Hardcover

Although born and raised more than an ocean apart, Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill - the two titans of the greatest generation - led remarkably parallel lives whose paths would intersect during history's most harrowing days. Through their youth, education, and military training,...
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I...
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Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family

Kathy Mckeon - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny - and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from...
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Our French-Canadian ancestors

Gerard Lebel - LISI Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

Genealogy of the following ancestors: Audet dit Lapointe, Berube, Blais, Blanchet, Couture, Deblois, Dionne, Fortin dit Bellefontaine, Gagnon, Lacasse, Lavergne, LeRoy, Lessard, Levesque, Paquin, Paradis, Pilote, Pothier, Rheaume, Rondeau, Savard, Trudeau, Vachon, Veilleux and many more...
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Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing

Christy Wilson Beam - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

"Miracles from Heaven is a powerful, healing story about family, love, faith, and hope. It amazed me and it will inspire readers everywhere." -- T.D. Jakes, bestselling author of Destiny. In a remarkable true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter,...
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Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball

Mark Ribowsky - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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The Great American Read: The Book of Books

PBS - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series...
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Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America

Zachary Wood - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Drawing upon his own powerful personal story, Zachary Wood shares his perspective on free speech, race, and dissenting opinions--in a world that sorely needs to learn to listen.As the former president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at his alma mater, Williams College, Zachary...
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Rising Star, Setting Sun: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and the Presidential Transition that Shaped America

JONATHAN SHAW - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A monumental new history reveals how the transition of power from Eisenhower to Kennedy marked more than a succession of presidents -- it was the culmination of a generational shift in American politics, policy and culture. After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November...
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Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen

Kate Williams - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A lively and poignant biography of the young princess who, at the impressionable age of eleven, found that she was now heiress to the throne, by the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria. We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems...
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The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World

Kim Dinan - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book

What Would You Do with a Yellow Envelope?After Kim and her husband decide to quit their jobs to travel around the world, they're given a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away. The only three rules for the envelope: Don't overthink it; share your...
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America

MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A young man's moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen,...
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This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home

Margot Kahn - Seal Press
Format: Paperback

Home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it's a place that can be comforting, difficult, nourishing, war-torn, or political. In this breathtaking, thought-provoking collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness,...
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The Middle Place

Kelly Corrigan - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback

The Middle Place
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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life

Richard Russo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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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Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir

STEVE RUSHIN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhoodIt's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons...
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott - Pantheon Books
Format: Book

From the bestselling author of Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise and very funny.With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often...
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The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir

Maude Julien - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, a memoir to be read in one breathless sitting that will leave you astonished by the courage and creative power of even the most neglected soul. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into...
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The Color of Water: A Black Mans Tribute to His White Mother

James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Kill Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love...
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No One Tells You This: A Memoir

Glynnis MacNicol - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

ELLE's The 30 Best Books to Read This Summer"A piercing examination of what it means both to love grown-up, complicated women - and to be one." -- Rebecca Traister, All The Single Ladies "Glynnis has written a book that is honest, hilarious and raw...it misses...
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Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond

Larry Loftis - Caliber
Format: Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A sensational book, telling a remarkable true story that few know, even those in the intelligence business. Written in the style of the best spy thrillers, the book is impossible to put down. A must read." - Michael Morell, CIA Director (acting, 2011,...
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It's Okay to Laugh:

Nora McInerny Purmort - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book

"An emotional rollercoaster of the highest order...It's Okay to Laugh is that rare gem of a read, equal parts heartwarming and hysterical, that'll make you laugh out loud, only to leave you tearing up a few pages later. I can't recommend it highly enough." - Lincoln Thompson,...
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Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

Sands Hall - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"I could not put down this book -- it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." -- Karen E. Bender, author of Refund In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology....
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

David G MacCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Examines the life of Theodore Roosevelt from age ten to twenty-seven, focusing on the influence of his family relationships and experiences on his growth to manhood
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee - Ecco
Format: Print book

A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the author's viral Buzzfeed essayChristine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form...
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Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders

Brady Carlson - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

An entertaining exploration into the death stories of our nation's greatest leaders -- and the wild ways we choose to remember and memorialize them.To public radio host and reporter Brady Carlson, the weighty responsibilities of being president never end. As Carlson sees it, the dead presidents...
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

NICK BILTON - PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Format: Print book

From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported,...
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The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation

Jodie Patterson - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the story of a family's history and transformation. As an African American growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1970s, when neighborhoods defined people, Jodie...
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Feel Free: Essays

Zadie Smith - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant...
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir

John Oates - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never...
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Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes

Maya Angelou - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Throughout Maya Angelou's life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome...
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

MARK DERY - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But...
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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

ADA CALHOUN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Poignant and witty essays on the beautiful complexity of marriage.Inspired by her wildly popular New York Times essay "The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give," Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip) , smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate...
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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia

Gerda Saunders - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience...
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Role Reversal: How to Take Care of Yourself and Your Aging Parents

Iris Waichler - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

Designed to help caregivers understand how to cope with and overcome the overwhelming challenges that arise while caregiving for a loved one -- especially an aging parent -- Role Reversal is a comprehensive guide to navigating the enormous daily challenges faced by caregivers. In these...
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Warren G. Harding & the Marion Daily Star:: How Newspapering Shaped a President

Sheryl Smart Hall - History Press
Format: Book

President Warren G. Harding's thirty-nine-year career as a newspaperman is often treated as a footnote. This book offers a unique approach to the Harding story, presenting him as he saw himself: as a newspaperman. His political successes were based on the thinking of a newspaper editor--balancing...
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

John Lahr - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book Award. The definitive biography of Americas greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams...
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The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables: The Enchanting Island that Inspired L. M. Montgomery

CATHERINE REID - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Anne of Green Gables is a worldwide phenomenon that has sold over fifty million copies and inspired numerous films, plays, musicals, and television series. It has turned Prince Edward Island into a multimillion-dollar tourist destination visited by hundreds of thousands of people...
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You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

PIPER WEISS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir - The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep - that presents an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within Manhattan's exclusive prep-school scene in the early 1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession...
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays

Megan Stielstra - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal...
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Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire

Barbara Lynch - Atria Books
Format: Print book

Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in the Kitchen in this funny, fierce, and poignant memoir by world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch, recounting her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to culinary stardom.Celebrated chef...
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The Comfort Food Diaries

Emily Nunn - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.One life-changing night, reeling from...
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents

RICHARD FORD - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty...
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Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life

Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Oprah Winfrey will be the first to tell you, she has had a complicated relationship with food. It's been both a source of delight and comfort for her, but also the cause of an ongoing struggle with her weight. In Food, Health, and Happiness, Oprah shares the recipes that have allowed...
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive

Dave Pelzer - HCI
Format: Paperback

This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that...
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Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson

Randall Sullivan - Grove Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again."—People“The first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast...
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

ROXANE GAY - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. "Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your...
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal

Mark Owen - Dutton
Format: Print book

The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused...
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The Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco,...
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The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog

Nancy Ellis-Bell - Harmony Books
Format: Print book

The last thing Nancy Ellis-Bell expected to descend on her life was a neglected, too-tall, smart-mouthed, one-legged, blue-and-gold rescue macaw named Peg Leg. And yet, it made perfect sense. A lifelong animal lover, Nancy could never turn away a stray cat, dog, squirrel, or raccoon from...
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

DANIELLE ALLEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison...
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 A World on the Edge

Helen Rappaport - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former...
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Level Zero Heroes: The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan

Michael Golembesky - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best seller!In Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to break the Taliban's...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,...
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Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

Tony Dungy - Tyndale Momentum; Edition Unstated edition
Format: Paperback

2008 Retailer's Choice Award winner!Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach—especially a football coach—to win the respect...
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever

JAMES PATTERSON - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover

In deze aantekening gaan we in op de uitzondering van de aftrekuitsluiting van werkkleding en persoonlijke verzorging voor artiesten, presentatoren en sporters (aant. 14.1) en de relatie van de aftrekuitsluiting van deze kosten in het tweede lid, onderdeel c en de uitzondering voor artiesten,...
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill OReillys Killing Lincoln. More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill OReillys Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction...
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Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older...
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

SARAH KRASNOSTEIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes...
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See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy

Frances Mayes - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisineThe Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous...
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Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body

Martin Pistorius - Thomas Nelson Publishers
Format: Paperback

They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, age twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within...
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." -- Paula Hawkins,...
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How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

Though they have the vote and the Pill and havent been burned as witches since 1727, life isnt exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies?...
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Mortal Danger (Ann Rule's Crime Files #13)

Ann Rule - Pocket Books; 1st Pocket Books Pbk. Ed edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

FROM TRUST TO TERROR... FROM SECURITY TO SURVIVAL The author of The Stranger Beside Me brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting truecrime collection. Only Ann Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy -- America's...
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I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50

Annabelle Gurwitch - Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Actress and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with I See You Made an Effort, a book of essays so wickedly funny it may make you forget your last birthday. Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the slyly subversive O, The Oprah Magazine Gurwitch confronts the various...
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King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor

PAUL WILLETTS - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante - the king of Jazz Age con artists - who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling...
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Son of a Midnight Land

ATZ KILCHER - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A powerful new memoir by Atz Kilcher about growing up with a hard father in a hard land. Atz Kilcher learned many vital skills while helping his parents carve a homestead out of the Alaskan wilderness: how to work hard, think on his feet, make do, invent, and use what was on hand to accomplish...
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller - and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz - that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one womans struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old...
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Been So Long: My Life and Music

Jorma Kaukonen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"A modern parable." -- from the foreword by Grace Slick"Jorma Kaukonen is a force in American music, equally adept at fingerpicked acoustic folk and blues as he is at wailing on an electric." - Acoustic Guitar"Jorma Kaukonen lit a fuse and transformed his electric...
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Up Up, Down Down: Essays

Cheston Knapp - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

For fans of John Jeremiah Sullivan and Wells Tower, a "glittering," (Leslie Jamison) , "always smart, often hilarious, and ultimately transcendent" (Anthony Doerr) linked essay collection from the managing editor of Tin House that brilliantly explores the nature of identity.Daring...
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death

ADRIAN OWEN - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In this startling and thought-provoking book, which will remind readers of works by Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial, groundbreaking work with patients whose brains were previously thought vegetative or non-responsive but turn out - in up to 20 percent...
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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books

ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story...
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story

PIETRO BARTOLO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of the man hailed as "the doctor on the front lines of the migrant crisis" (CNN) . For 25 years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo has run the lone medical clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa. In that time he has rescued, welcomed, and cared for many of the hundreds...
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Linda Kay Klein - Touchstone
Format: eBook

From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's purity culture has had on a generation of young women - in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.In the 1990s, a "purity industry"...
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Manderley Forever

Tatiana De Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier."It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor....
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Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

Simon Morrison - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book

An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.On a freezing night in January 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. The crime, organized...
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes

Elizabeth Bard - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. Was it love at first sight Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pav au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper...
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Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir

Pat Benatar - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising...
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The Geraldo Show: A Memoir

Geraldo Rivera - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Last Dance, Last Chance

Ann Rule - Pocket Books
Format: Paperback

"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files -- and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences. LAST DANCE LAST CHANCE Dr. Anthony...
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The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry

CLARE MULLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley's The Women Who Flew for Hitler -- a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make...
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I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends

Kelsey Miller - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

This definitive retrospective of Friends incorporates interviews, history and behind-the-scenes anecdotes to offer a critical analysis of how a sitcom about six twentysomethings changed television foreverWhen Friends debuted in 1994, no one expected it to become a mainstay of NBC's "Must...
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice

KHIZR KHAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover

This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream."Khan's aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands." - Kirkus Reviews In fewer...
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The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

JENIFER LEWIS - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

The "Mega Diva" and legendary star of Black-ish looks back on her memorable journey to fame and the unforgettable life lessons she learned along the way.Jenifer Lewis keeps it real in this provocative and touching memoir by a mid-western girl with a dream whose journey from poverty...
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Castaway Kid: One Man's Search for Hope and Home

R B Mitchell - Focus on the Family
Format: Paperback

Rob Mitchell is one of the last "lifers" raised in an American orphanage. Left by a dysfunctional family in an Illinois children's home, he grew up with kids who were not friends but rather "co-survivors." After becoming a Christian as a teenager, Rob found what...
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The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

Ed Boland - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

THE BATTLE FOR ROOM 314In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable...
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime

Cutter Wood - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes the facts aren't the only truth. When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest - her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car - and the residents...
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First in His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton

David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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A Girl Named Zippy

Haven Kimmel - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in small-town Indiana, from the author of The Solace of Leaving Early. . When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt...
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

DANIEL MENDELSOHN - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey...
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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

JOHN HODGMAN - Viking
Format: eBook

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth:...
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The Downing Street Years

Margaret Thatcher - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

The first volume of memoirs by Margaret Thatcher frankly recalls the former British prime minister's dealings with U.S. presidents, the Falkland War, and her election victories in 1983 and 1987. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Fail Until You Don't: Fight Grind Repeat

BOBBY BONES - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bare Bones, host of the marquee morning program "The Bobby Bones Show," comedian and dedicated philanthropist delivers an inspirational and humorous collection of stories about his biggest misses in life and how he turned them into lessons...
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Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music

PAUL KILDEA - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The captivating story of Frdric Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.In November 1838, Frdric Chopin, George Sand, and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled...
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Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

Nell Irvin Painter - Counterpoint
Format: Book

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school -- in her sixties -- to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode...

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A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades

Marie Brenner - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook

Now a major motion picture starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci, and Jamie Dornan, A Private War is the story of legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war.In February 2012, Marie Colvin crossed into Syria on the back of a motorcycle....
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 19411942

Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House...
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Garden of the Lost and Abandoned: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Woman and the Children She Saves

JESSICA YU - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala - part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan...
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Its All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the Worlds Family Tree

A. J. Jacobs - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family - where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "Family of Humankind."....
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Sicilian Genealogy and Heraldry

Louis Mendola - Trinacria Editions LLC
Format: Paperback

In Sicilian genealogy, a generation by generation lineage to the Late Middle Ages isn't unusual. This definitive guide shows you how to do it. Sicily boasts the world's best genealogical records, revealing the deep roots of a Sicilian identity and facilitating the construction of many...
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary true story of the black detective who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the major motion picture written and directed by Spike Lee, and produced by Jordan Peele.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado...
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

DARNELL L MOORE - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured...
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Harry: Life, Loss, and Love

Katie Nicholl - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

In anticipation of the upcoming royal wedding comes a new in-depth biography of Prince Harry, from royal expert Katie Nicholl--journalist, broadcaster, and author of the bestselling William and Harry and Kate.From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded...
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Michelangelo & Sebastiano

MATTHIAS WIVEL - National Gallery London
Format: Hardcover

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1541) . The two men met in Rome in 1511, shortly...
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Haunted Ohio 4: Restless Spirits

Chris Woodyard - Kestrel Pubn
Format: Paperback

Ohio proves it is truly The Haunt of It All in this return to the popular Haunted Ohio series by ghosthunter Chris Woodyard. You just can't keep a good ghost down and Woodyard has unearthed over 100 more spirited tales from around the state including a ghost who introduces himself as George...
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The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

Laura Smith - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventureAt twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fianc, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard...
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The French House: An American Family, a Ruined Maison, and the Village That Restored Them All

Don Wallace - Sourcebooks; 1st edition
Format: Book

On a tiny French island, a couple of American dreamers redefine their lives by restoring a ruinxwhich in this lovely, shimmering story becomes a parable of a saner, greener, more sustainable path that we all can follow if we will but listen to the wisdom of the villagers the way the Wallaces...
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84, Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff - Penguin Books; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

A dramatization of the American Helene Hanff's 20-year correspondence with a London antiquarian bookshop. Also on this cassette is a witty duologue between a elderly general and his wife, played by John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable...
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Trump: The Art of the Deal

Donald J. Trump - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From the Impresario of NBC’s hit show The ApprenticeTRUMP ON TRUMP: “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”And here’s how he does it: the art of the deal.Beginning...
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

LAUREN MARKHAM - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins...
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Mid-Life Ex-Wife: A Diary of Divorce, Online Dating, and Second Chances

STELLA GREY - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Nora Ephron meets Bridget Jones's Diary in Guardian columnist Stella Grey's heartrendingly honest, witty memoir about her online odyssey to find real love in a virtual world. "The literary equivalent of the When Harry Met Sally line, 'tell me I'll never be out there...
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True Love

Jennifer Lopez - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

In Jennifer Lopez's first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life's most defining periods - the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person...
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Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance

MIKE SCARDINO - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college student's experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James PattersonBad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account...
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

Rob Lowe - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked...
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

HEATHER HARPHAM - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,...
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Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons

Steven S Gaines - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover

Steven Gaines is a bestselling storyteller with a special gift for capturing social nuance, colorful detail, and quirks of character. Just a few examples: -- A well-to-do former ballet dancer arrested for stealing his neighbors' furniture -- and showered with thank-you notes from his victims,...
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Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios

Holly FitzGerald - Vintage
Format: Paperback

A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride - the wildest - down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles...
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Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

Joel Selvin - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed...
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The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer

J REUBEN APPELMAN - Gallery Books
Format: eBook

Enthralling. Gripping. Cinematic. Raw. A cold case murder investigation paced like a podcast, as visually stunning as a film, and as brave and personal as our darkest memoirs. J. Reuben Appelman cracks open one of America's most notorious murder sprees while simultaneously banging the gavel...
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The Old Man and the Gun: And Other Tales of True Crime

David Grann - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales."The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures...
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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice

WILLIE PARKER - 37 INK
Format: Print book

In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor...
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art

Sebastian Smee - Random House
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In The Devil in the White City, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect...
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Captive: One House Three Women And Ten Years In Hell

Allan Hall - Viking
Format: Paperback

One monster. Three innocent girls. Ten years in captivity. 22 August 2002: 21-year-old Michelle Knight disappears walking home. 21 April 2003: Amanda Berry goes missing the day before her seventeenth birthday. 2 April 2004: 14-year-old Gina DeJesus fails to come home from school. For over...
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The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers

Terry McDonell - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the legendary editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur: a memoir about writers, writing, editing--and the fast-paced, high-stakes life in the publishing business. Over the last four decades, Terry McDonell has been at the helm of some of the most influential beacons of American...
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Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

Ron Hall - Thomas Nelson; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana...
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Haunted Ohio II: More Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State

Chris Woodyard - Kestrel Publications
Format: Paperback

They're baaaack..... Those Buckeye ghosts just won't stay buried. Over 100 more tales from around Ohio including the ghostly guests at the Buxton Inn, a real Jaycee Haunted House, and the many ghosts at Dayton's United States Air Force Museum. There are tales from haunted Native American...
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Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel

Alon Shaya - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An exciting debut cookbook that confirms the arrival of a new guru chef . . . A moving, deeply personal journey of survival and discovery that tells of the evolution of a cuisine and of the transformative power and magic of food and cooking. From the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)...
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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

Bradley Hope - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios) .. Now a #1 international...
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How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Building a Happy Marriage

Jo Piazza - Harmony
Format: Paperback

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled...
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

Dani Shapiro - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book

The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass...
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The King's Assassin: The Secret Plot to Murder King James I

BENJAMIN WOOLLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An absorbing account of the conspiracy to kill King James I by his handsome lover, the Duke of Buckingham, an historical crime that has remained hidden for 400 years.The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber...
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968

Ryan H. Walsh - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched...
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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir

ZACK MCDERMOTT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot....
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Raising Trump: Family Values from Americas First Mother

Ivana Trump - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children - Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka - and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up.. As her former husband serves as the 45th President of the United States, his children have also...
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

PAMELA PAUL - HENRY HOLT
Format: Print book

Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her lifeFor twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books...
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

MICHAEL CHABON - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays - heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise - on the meaning of fatherhood, anchored by the viral sensation, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion".For the September 2016...
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Adventures of a Psychic: A Fascinating and Inspiring True-Life Story of One of America's Most Successful Clairvoyants

Sylvia Browne - Hay House; Rev Sub edition
Format: Paperback

This is the fascinating and inspiring true-life story of one of America's most successful clairvoyants! "Psychic, Medium, Clairvoyant, Channel" - these are all words used to describe Sylvia Browne's unique power.
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Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix - Sony Legacy
Format: Audio CD

Experience Hendrix brings together the major singles with a stack of majestic album tracks and the career-defining live Woodstock version of "The Star Spangled Banner" on a fat 20-tracker. While best used as a sampler to direct new listeners to the immortal Are You Experienced,...
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Legendary Locals of Cleveland

Thea Gallo Becker - Legendary Locals
Format: Paperback

In 1796, when Gen. Moses Cleaveland founded the settlement on Lake Erie's shores that would become the city of Cleveland, he opened the way for many dynamic, visionary, and diverse individuals who would not only help Cleveland prosper as one of the greatest cities in the Midwest, but also...
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The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies

Megan Griswold - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

The Book of Help traces one woman's life-long quest for love, connection, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies, Megan Griswold's narrative spans four decades and six continents -- from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil,...
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Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez

Jose Baez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

The unabridged, inside story of the trial and final days of New England Patriots superstar Aaron Hernandez, by his attorney and New York Times bestselling author Jose Baez ("The best defense lawyer in the country." - Sean Hannity) .When renowned defense attorney Jose...
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Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder

Ann Rule - Pocket Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

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Fashion Climbing

BILL CUNNINGHAM - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and styleFor Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings...
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The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art

Philippe Costamagna - New Vessel Press
Format: Hardcover

"Exhilarating and informative ... Mr. Costamagna is catholic in his enthusiasm and is open to the new. He tells delicious stories." -- The Wall Street JournalIt's a rare and secret profession, comprising a few dozen people around the world equipped with a mysterious mixture...
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Disaster Falls: A Family Story

Stephane Gerson - Crown
Format: Print book

A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stphane huddled in a tent...
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World

Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

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 Elvis

Ray Connolly - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book

On the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death comes this rocking biography of an iconic artist who fundamentally transformed American culture.Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic...
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Chasing Light: Michelle Obama Through the Lens of a White House Photographer

Amanda Lucidon - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best Seller. A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama - many never before seen - coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format. Michelle Obama...
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Martha's Vineyard Isle of Dreams.

Branch Susan; Branch Susan - Spring Street Publishing
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller, Travel
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The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

Justin Spring - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France During les trente glorieuses -- a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis -- Paris was not only the world's most delicious,...
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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

JAMIE BERNSTEIN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television...
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