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Always Young and Restless: My Forty-Year Career as a Daytime TV Darling

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Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian

Bob Saget - It Books
Format: Hardcover

Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House, and as the charming wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos. And then there are the legions of fans who can't get enough of his scatological, out-of-his-mind...
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Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again

Crystal McVea - Howard Books
Format: Paperback

An inspirational memoir of near-death experience, rebirth, divine mercy, and finding faith.On December 10, 2009, McVea, a thirty-two-year-old mother of four, went to the hospital for a routine procedure. While undergoing treatment, her face suddenly turned a dark shade of blue, then black....
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Broken

Jenny Lawson - Henry Holt and Co.; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor. Jenny discusses the frustration of dealing with her insurance company...
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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing

Jacqueline Winspear - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her Kentish childhood and her family's resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing...
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See How Much You Love Me: A Troubled Teen, His Devoted Parents, and a Cold-Blooded Killing

Amber Hunt - St. Martin's True Crime
Format: Book

"I KILLED MY PARENTS."Seventeen-year-old Tyler Hadley posted an invitation on Facebook: party at my crib tonight. But this was no ordinary house party in the Florida suburbs; it was a grisly crime scene. Later that night, Tyler revealed to his best friend, Michael, that he'd...
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Backwards, in High Heels: Faith Whittlesey, Ronald Reagan's "Madam Ambassador" in Switzerland and the West Wing

Thomas Carty - Casemate
Format: Hardcover

“Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did,” so the saying goes, “but she did it backwards and in high heels.” Faith Whittlesey popularized this quotation during the 1980s, and many books attribute the line to her. The message clearly resonated with...
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A Search for Purple Cows: A True Story of Hope

Susan Call - Guideposts Books
Format: Print book

A wife and mother's amazing journey from darkness into a life fully restored in God's light. A whimsical comment from a kind stranger, 'Be sure to search for purple cows,' brings hope to a woman and her children fleeing from a life filled with trouble. In A Search for Purple...
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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

Mary Louise Kelly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic -- about the year before her son goes to college -- and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way.. The time for do-overs is over.. Ever...
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Audition: A Memoir

Barbara Walters - A.A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package."And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that "whole package,"...
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