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Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things Im Learning to Say
Kelly Corrigan - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place "Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth... |
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Kelly Sundberg - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The Liars Club, a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse - examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship,... |
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Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption
Benjamin Rachlin - Back Bay Books
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping account of one mans long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.. During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic... |
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Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There
MORRA AARONS-MELE - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the marketing guru and host of the popular Forbes.com podcast Hiding in the Bathroom, a breakthrough introverts' guide that broadens the conversation sparked by Quiet and moves away from the "Lean In" approach, offering wisdom and practical tips to help readers build strong... |
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration... |
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Kenneth Whyte - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert Hoover--a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune,... |
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Penny Junor - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled... |
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
MICHAEL CHABON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Unmasked
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Published to coincide with his seventieth birthday, a memoir by revered, award-winning composer, producer, and impresario of some of the most recognized musicals in the history of theater, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Evita. In Unmasked, internationally acclaimed composer... |
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The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox
VANDA KREFFT - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting story of ambition, greed, and genius unfolding at the dawn of modern America. This landmark biography brings into focus a fascinating brilliant entrepreneur - like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney, a true American visionary - who risked everything to realize his bold dream of a Hollywood... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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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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Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
Michael Giorgione - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The first insider account, timed to the 75th anniversary of Camp DavidCamp David is American diplomacy's secret weapon. The home of the 2015 GCC and 2012 G8 summits, the 2000 Peace Summit, and the 1978 Peace Accords, the camp has played a vital role in American history over the past century,... |
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
Art Garfunkel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"Poetic musings on a life well-lived - one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isnt your typical autobiography. Garfunkels history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." - Bookreporter... |
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Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
Kimberly Harrington - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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"Kimberly Harrington deftly and hilariously uncovers all of the lies and bullshit women are told about motherhood. This book made me laugh, sure, but it also made me feel seen." - Jennifer Romolini, chief content officer at Shondaland.com and author of Weird in a World Thats... |
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JELL-O Girls: A Family History
ALLIE ROWBOTTOM - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its faade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor... |
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This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today
CHRISSY METZ - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A prescriptive and inspirational book of life lessons from the Emmy Award-nominee and breakout star of television's #1 hit show, NBC's This Is Us.Debuting in fall 2016, This Is Us quickly became America's most watched - and most talked about - network television show. Within weeks of its premier,... |
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Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived
Simon Callow - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Simon Callow, the celebrated author of Orson Welles, delivers a dazzling, swift, and accessible biography of the musical titan Richard Wagner and his profoundly problematic legacy--a fresh take for seasoned acolytes and the perfect introduction for new fans.Richard Wagner's music... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
Henry Jay Przybylo - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A moving exploration of the most common but most mysterious procedure in medicine.For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is the source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo -- an anesthesiologist with more than thirty... |
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Fran Leadon - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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Calypso
David Sedaris - Little, Brown and Company
Format: eBook
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David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina... |
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The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II
Karen Dolby - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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A charming collection of quotes and anecdotes celebrating the incomparable Queen of EnglandWhen we think of the queen, we probably picture a serious, dignified personage complete with majestic hat and matching handbag. But The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II reveals a side of the monarch... |
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
CLEMANTINE WAMARIYA - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not - could not - live in that tale." Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear,... |
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Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
A N WILSON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life.With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin - hailed as the man who "discovered evolution" - was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo,... |
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The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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 Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing... |
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
ELLEN ULLMAN - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably... |
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Start to Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking
Eric Lax - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A cinephile's dream: the chance to follow legendary director Woody Allen throughout the creation of a film--from inception to premiere--and to enjoy his reflections on some of the finest artists in the history of cinema. Eric Lax has been with Woody Allen almost every step of the way. He chronicled... |
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Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
Ramie Targoff - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian RenaissanceRamie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa... |
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
RUBY LAL - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire.When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in her parents' mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson's Taj Mahal.... |
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Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere
Hillary L Chute - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The massive impact that comics have had on our culture becomes more and more clear every day, from the critically acclaimed musical Fun Home, based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking comic, to the dozens of superhero films hitting cinemas every year. What is it that makes comics so special?... |
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The Unknowns
PATRICK O'DONNELL - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives... |
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oral fortune, the victim of a con man Or were her own family the real villains This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause clbre that has captivated... |
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
Tessa Fontaine - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Tessa Fontaine's astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery-- through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.... |
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Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel
Robert L Gandt - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state.In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate... |
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition
Erich Von Daniken - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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Now in a beautiful 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword and afterword by the author, this is the groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens.Immediately recognized as a work of monumental importance, Chariots of the Gods endures... |
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Higher Is Waiting
Tyler Perry - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate book of inspiration by the one and only Tyler Perry - actor, producer, director, philanthropist, and the creator of Madea Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire readers to climb... |
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Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul... |
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The Art of the Wasted Day
PATRICIA HAMPL - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A sharp and unconventional book - a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers." - Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydreamThe Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque... |
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
Lucy Worsley - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Take a trip back to Jane Austens world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austens childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother... |
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Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
John Lingan - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate account of country music, social change, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first... |
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Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
David Giffels - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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"A lifetime's worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son" (Kirkus Reviews) - the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking... |
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Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
Leslie Odom Jr. - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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Leslie Odom, Jr. burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the phenomenon Broadway musical "Hamilton." Since then, he has performed for sold-out audiences, sang for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.... |
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Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
Greg King - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old... |
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Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart
Claire Harman - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and with siblings whose astonishing creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman's biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts to reveal... |
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
Annie Spence - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Gen-X librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in her life.Librarians spend their lives weeding. Not weeds, but books! Books that have reached the end of their shelf life, both literally and figuratively. They remove the ones... |
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Tango Lessons: A Memoir
MEGHAN FLAHERTY - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut memoir about a young woman learning to dance tango, becoming comfortable in her own skin and in the arms of others Tango was an unlikely choice for Meghan Flaherty. A young woman living with the scars of past trauma, she was terrified of being... |
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Almost Gone: Twenty Days and One Chance to Save Our Daughter
John Baldwin - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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This is the never-before-told, riveting true story about a teenage Christian girl who was seduced online by a charming young Muslim man from Kosovo, and her father who ultimately worked with the FBI to save her from disappearing forever.The Baldwins were a strong Christian family, living... |
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Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
Tim Fernholz - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the new race to conquer space, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend billions of their own money to explore the final frontier For the largerthanlife personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead... |
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Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
BRETT ARCHIBALD - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." -- The Wall Street JournalIn April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a surf-charter boat, making a night-time crossing of the remote Mentawai Strait off Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle of a storm,... |
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Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas
TOM PAPA - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"I have been a close friend of Tom Papa for 17 years. His lack of ability to perceive even the most basic principles of human functioning have made him an invaluable asset to me as a friend and colleague. Because he sees nothing, knows nothing and understands nothing, I always seek... |
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President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White... |
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Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at London's National Theatre
NICHOLAS HYTNER - Knopf
Format: Book
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From the Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning former director of London's National Theatre--this is a fascinating, candid, eloquent memoir about his career directing theater, producing films and opera, and working closely with some of the world's most celebrated actors.
The... |
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Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy
THOMAS MOORE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Moore is the renowned author of Care of the Soul, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller. In Ageless Soul, Moore reveals a fresh, optimistic, and rewarding path toward aging, one that need not be feared, but rather embraced and cherished. In Moore's view, aging... |
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The Cookie Cure: A Mother-Daughter Memoir
Susan Stachler - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give upWhen twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by dj vu: the same illness that took her sister's life was threatening to take her daughter's too. Heartbroken but steadfast, Laura pledged... |
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The Origin of Others
TONI MORRISON - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct... |
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It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir
Simon Fitzmaurice - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming." - Alan RickmanA luminous memoir in the tradition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker gives us "a story of courage, of heart, of coming back... |
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Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit
Mark Hasara - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Afghan War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and moral lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, and in their everyday... |
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
William I Hitchcock - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial... |
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
Rick Bragg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-five mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Two's Company: A Fifty-Year Romance with Lessons Learned in Love, Life & Business
Suzanne Somers - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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In her most personal and inspiring book yet, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Somers shows readers how to shape a healthy, lasting relationship through the lens of her 50-year love affair with her husband, Alan Hamel. For the first time, Suzanne will expose the inner workings... |
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Joni: The Anthology
BARNEY HOSKYNS - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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Nine Grammys. More than ten million albums sold. Named one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time by Rolling Stone. Here, for the first time, an essential collection of writings on Joni Mitchell that charts every major moment of the famed troubadour's extraordinary career,... |
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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
BART EHRMAN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The "marvelous" (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) , New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire... |
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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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Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
David MacNeal - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs -- there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an off-beat scientific journey that weaves together... |
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The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers
Marcia Gay Harden - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this poetic and inspiring memoir, one of America's most revered actresses uses the imagery of flowers and the art of Ikebana to depict the unique creative bond that she has had with her mother throughout the years - and how, together, they are facing her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's... |
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Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Steven Ujifusa - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. "Consistently intelligent and funny ... The book succeeds wonderfully." - The New York Times... |
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For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors
Laura Esther Wolfson - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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Laura Esther Wolfson's literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard,... |
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Gold Dust Woman: A Biography of Stevie Nicks
Stephen Davis - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock, but her energy and magnetism sparked new interest in this icon. At 68, she's one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known, and the rare woman who's a real rock 'n' roller.Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers"... |
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Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air
HAROLD BLOOM - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra - one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters.Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare,... |
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The Timothy Leary Project: Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment
Jennifer Ulrich - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first collection of Timothy Leary's (1920-1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop... |
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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Richard Ratay - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Part pop history and part whimsical memoir in the spirit of National Lampoon's Vacation - Don't Make Me Pull Over! is a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips - a halcyon era that culminated in the latter part of the twentieth century, before portable DVD players,... |
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Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
JOHN BANVILLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.As much about the life of the city as it is about a life... |
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Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
SCOTT EYMAN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman tells the story of the remarkable friendship of two Hollywood legends who, though different in many ways, maintained a close friendship that endured all of life's twists and turns.Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest... |
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Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
Jennet Conant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant - a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War - told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center... |
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Lear: The Great Image of Authority
Harold Bloom - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear - the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last... |
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A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
Benjamin C Bradlee - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee - with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path... |
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Faith: A Journey For All
JIMMY CARTER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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President Jimmy Carter contemplates faith, how it has sustained him in happiness and disappointment, and how we may find it in our own lives as it shapes our belief in religious freedom, moral politics, and how we relate to one another.All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's... |
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The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior
MICHAEL K JONES - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable and inspiring story of one of the greatest warrior-princes of the Middle Ages -- and an unforgettably vivid portrait of warfare and chivalry in the fourteen century.As a child he was given his own suit of armor; at the age of sixteen, he helped defeat the French at Crcy.... |
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No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Ursula K Le Guin - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's... |
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
Robert W Merry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A deft character study of a president." - The New York Times Book Review "A valuable education on where America has been and, possibly, where it is going." - National Review "Magisterial." - The Christian Science Monitor In this... |
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
NELSON MANDELA - Liveright
Format: eBook
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An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African... |
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Edith Eger - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award and 2018 Christopher Award "Edith's strength and courage are remarkable ... her life and work are an incredible example of forgiveness, resilience, and generosity." - Sheryl SandbergIt's 1944 and sixteen-year-old ballerina and gymnast... |
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Hug Everyone You Know: A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer
Truglio Martin - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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Antoinette Martin believed herself to be a healthy and sturdy woman -- that is, until she received a Stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis. Cancer is scary enough for the brave, but for a wimp like Martin, it was downright terrifying. Martin had to swallow waves of nausea at the thought of her body... |
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Can't Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist
Meredith Goldstein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A disarmingly honest memoir about giving advice when you're not sure what you're doing yourself, by the woman behind The Boston Globe's Love Letters column. Every day, Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein takes on the relationship problems of thousands of dedicated... |
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Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir
H JON BENJAMIN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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H. Jon Benjamin--the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers--helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd like... |
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Joel R Paul - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more... |
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Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir
Jennifer McGaha - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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When life gets your goat, bring in the herdJennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and naming his doeling Merlene. She didn't expect to be buying organic yogurt for her chickens. She never thought she would be pulling camouflage carpet... |
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A World to Win: The Life and Thought of Karl Marx
SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Epic new biography of Karl Marx for the 200th anniversary of his birthIn this essential new biography - the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx - Sven-Eric Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent... |
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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
James Reston, Jr. - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious "art war" that raged between 1979 and 1984... |
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Dying: A Memoir
CORY TAYLOR - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply affecting meditation on dying and a wise tribute to lifeAt the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor's retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience -- the vulnerability... |
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
MARK KURLANSKY - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's... |
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Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country
Tim Scott - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover
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In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship -- even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey... |
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The Art of Failing: Notes from the Underdog
Anthony McGowan - Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback
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I've invented a new pastime. I call it Hedgerow Russian Roulette. It involves randomly eating fruits and berries I find in bushes along the side streets of West Hampstead. My reasoning is that I'd be bloody unlucky to find any single berry deadly enough to kill me. It's not really... |
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White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
ALEXANDRA SILBER - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and luminous story of grief and coming-of-age and a beautiful tribute to the relationship between a father and daughter. Alexandra "Al" Silber seems to have everything: brilliance, beauty, and talent in spades. But when her beloved father dies after a decade-long battle... |
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Partner to Power: The Secret World of Presidents and Their Most Trusted Advisers
K WARD CUMMINGS - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A former congressional staffer and Capitol Hill veteran recounts the colorful history of presidential advisers, showing how influential these unelected appointees have been.This revealing book examines the relationships between U.S. presidents and their closest advisers from a psychological,... |
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor
FLO GROBERG - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg... |
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