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Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home
JESSICA BERGER GROSS - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman's childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adversity.To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's childhood - growing up in a "nice"... |
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Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
Melanie Brooks - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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Acclaimed memoirists describe the process of writing their most painful memoriesIn her attempt to write a memoir about her father's death from a secret AIDS infection in 1985, Melanie Brooks was left with some painful questions: What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens... |
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Killing for You: A Brave Soldier, a Beautiful Dancer, and a Shocking Double Murder
Keith Elliot Greenberg - St. Martin's True Crime
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Killing For You is True Crime veteran Keith Elliot Greenberg's shocking, authoritative account of a brutal double murder. A KILLER PLOT Twenty-six-year-old actor Daniel Wozniak was unemployed, facing eviction, and deep in debt for his upcoming wedding. So he devised a diabolical plan:... |
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Reporter: A Memoir
Seymour M Hersh - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time--a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a decades-long career breaking some of the most impactful stories of the last half-century, from Washington to Vietnam to the Middle East.Seymour... |
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The Icon Hunter
Tasoula Georgiou Hadjitofi - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Tasoula Hadjitofi was only a child when her homeland, Cyprus, was invaded. As bombs fell and soldiers marched through the streets, her mother stood guard, reminding her children to not be afraid - not of the bombs or anything else that may follow. They would always have their family and their... |
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Don't You Ever: My Mother and Her Secret Son
MARY CARTER BISHOP - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From a prizewinning journalist, Mary Carter Bishop, a moving and beautifully rendered memoir about the half-brother she didn't know existed that hauntingly explores family, class, secrets, and fate.Applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery. She had a secret... |
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
RAYMOND ARSENAULT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943,... |
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
Brandon Harris - Amistad Press
Format: Print book
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A young African American millennial filmmaker's funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City - a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with... |
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Believe It: My Journey of Success, Failure, and Overcoming the Odds
Nick Foles - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover
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*New York Times Bestseller*Get ready to defy the odds when everyones counting you out.When the Philadelphia Eagles starting quarterback went down with a torn ACL in week 14 of the 2017 NFL season, many fans -- and commentators -- assumed the Eagles season was over.Instead, Nick Foles came... |
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The Pianist from Syria: A Memoir
Aeham Ahmad - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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An astonishing but true account of a pianist's escape from war-torn Syria to Germany offers a deeply personal perspective on the most devastating refugee crisis of this century.Aeham Ahmad was born a second-generation refugee - the son of a blind violinist and carpenter who recognized Aeham's... |
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Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man
MARTIN CORONA - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost)... |
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TBITo Be Injured
Carol Gieg - ArchwayPublishing
Format: Paperback
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Carol Gieg, a licensed clinical social worker, has always thrived on helping other people solve problems.<p> But one day - unknown to her - she'd soon be facing serious problems of her own. After dropping her husband off at work, she went on a bike ride. As someone who enjoyed... |
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents
RICHARD FORD - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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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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Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter
Lis W Wiehl - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl uses new research and first-hand interviews to tell the heart-pounding story of Charles Manson's horrific crimes, the painstaking investigation that followed, and the inspired prosecution that put him away.In... |
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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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"[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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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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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback
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The extraordinary true story and basis for the major motion picture BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs... |
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The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
Mayte Garcia - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the one-year anniversary of his death, legendary musician Prince's first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside the personal and professional life of one of the world's most beloved icons. In The Most Beautiful,... |
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Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
Aldo Schiavone - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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A world-renowned classicist presents a groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross.The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross?... |
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Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
THOMAS PAGE MCBEE - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with "hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love" (Maggie Nelson) , an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity... |
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
Kwame Onwuachi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoreeBy the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most... |
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Sharp
Michelle Dean - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm -- these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history... |
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A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart
MASSIMO VACCHETTA - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover
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A feel-good memior of a man and his hedgehog Massimo Vacchetta, an Italian veterinarian specializing in large animals, is recently divorced and feeling heartbroken and depressed -- until the day that someone brings an orphaned baby hedgehog into his clinic. As the tiny hedgehog cries and whimpers,... |
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The Death of Hitler: The Final Word
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BRISARD - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Based on unprecedented access to a long-buried archive, a dramatic and revealing account that sheds new light on Hitler's final hours, his death and his remains.What actually happened in Hitler's bunker? What happened to Hitler's body in those last desperate days after Germany's... |
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Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music
PAUL KILDEA - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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From the Corner of the Oval
REBECCA DOREY-STEIN - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love, and finding her place in the world. In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist... |
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From a Small Town to the Big World
Norman Boehm - Hamilton Books
Format: Paperback
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This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ. He worked in the oil industry for 16 years in Saudi Arabia, 4 years in London, England, and 3 years in Stavanger, Norway. 23 years of exposure to the world's diverse cultures and peoples... |
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My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Abigail Pogrebin - Fig Tree Books LLC
Format: Print book
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The much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culture -- not in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps that's because we haven't all looked at religion... |
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And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
Meaghan O'Connell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most anticipated books of 2018 -- Esquire, Elle, Nylon, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, GoodReads, The Millions, BookRiot, The Week."The biggest compliment of all: I used several hours of daylight childcare hours reading this book, just because I didn't want to put it down."... |
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Fearless: How an Underdog Becomes a Champion
DOUG PEDERSON - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Doug Pederson's winning and inspiring memoir of becoming the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and their against-all-odds march to the Super Bowl championship. Doug Pederson took the Philadelphia Eagles to their first championship in 58 years with his fearless approach. With rare candor,... |
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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
LENORA CHU - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors' PickIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bb, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system... |
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The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
DEBORAH LEVY - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find... |
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Jane Austen: A Life
Claire Tomalin - Knopf
Format: Print book
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Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions,... |
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The Graphic Work
M C Escher - Taschen
Format: Paperback
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Presenting the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature |
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My Days: Happy and Otherwise
Marion Ross - Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . . Before she was affectionately known to millions as "Mrs. C.," Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount... |
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Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves
Meredith Maran - Plume
Format: Print book
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Everything an aspiring memoirist needs to know, in one readable volume, a follow-up to the acclaimed writers' handbook Why We Write For the many amateurs and professionals who write about themselves - bloggers, journal-keepers, aspiring essayists, and memoirists - this book offers... |
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
NICOLE CHUNG - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection An Official Junior Library Guild Selection An ABA Indies Introduce Selection "This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story, then widens her aperture... |
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Its All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the Worlds Family Tree
A. J. Jacobs - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers... |
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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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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Gareth Russell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political... |
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
MAXWELL KING - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted... |
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The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
JONATHAN SANTLOFER - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Written with unexpected humor and great warmth, The Widower's Notebook is a portrait of a marriage, an account of the complexities of finding oneself single again after losing your spouse, and a story of the enduring power of familial love."This is deeply moving ... beautifully... |
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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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Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon
Dorothea Salo - Backbeat Books
Format: Paperback
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(Book) . Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his and our psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something . The music... |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018.A Publisher's Weekly Best... |
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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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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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Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton
RANDY L SCHMIDT - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly," declares Dolly Parton. Dolly's is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly's metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar.... |
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The Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall
Jeff Biggers - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A role model for those of us living in the age of Trump" -- Dorothy AllisonThe Trials of a Scold, by American Book Award-winning author Jeff Biggers, is a well-researched and passionate biography of Anne Royall, one of America's first female muckrakers, who was convicted... |
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Searching for booker wright.
Yvette Johnson - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal... |
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Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles
Sarah K Rich - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The newly discovered illustrated recipes of wildly influential yet unsung designer Cipe Pineles, introducing her delectable work in food and art to a new generation.Not long ago, Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton discovered a painted manuscript at an antiquarian book fair that drew them... |
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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
Alan Walker - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life... |
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Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale
Dan Pearson - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafia. Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's mafia back to prominence in the 1990s.... |
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
NICK BILTON - PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Format: Print book
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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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A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
Karen Piper - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missilesThe China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware.... |
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Rumis Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love
Brad Gooch - Harper
Format: Audiobook
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers.Ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born over eight centuries... |
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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
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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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Kingpin: Prisoner of the War on Drugs
Richard Stratton - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants. Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish... |
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,... |
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The Impostor: A True Story
Javier Cercas - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of Soldiers of Salamis, a propulsive and riveting narrative investigation into an infamous fraud: a man who has been lying his entire life.Who is Enric Marco? An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds... |
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The King's Assassin: The Secret Plot to Murder King James I
BENJAMIN WOOLLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Marina Abramovic - Crown
Format: Print book
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"I had experienced absolute freedom - I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn't matter, that nothing mattered at all - and it intoxicated me."In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramovi's MoMA retrospective for the chance... |
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The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time
LESLIE SCHWARTZ - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, award-winning novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in county jail for a DUI and battery of an officer of the law.... |
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Fractured Mind: The Healing of a Person with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Debra Bruch - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2016 eLit Awards: Silver in Psychology/Mental Health. Fractured Mind: The Healing of a Person with Dissociative Identity Disorder chronicles the healing process of a person suffering from DID. The disorder happened due to a long sustained period of traumatic violence during... |
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Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love
Michelle LeClair - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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The revelatory memoir by former "poster girl for Scientology" Michelle LeClair about her defection from the Church, her newly accepted sexual identity, and the lengths to which Scientology went to silence it.For years, Michelle LeClair, former President of Scientology's international... |
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Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
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From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
VIRGINIA GROHL - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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While the Grohl family had always been musical-the family sang together on long car trips, harmonizing to Motown and David Bowie-Virginia never expected her son to become a musician, let alone a rock star. But when she saw him perform in front of thousands of screaming fans for the first... |
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Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Donna M Lucey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance and potency -- Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous." -- Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder,... |
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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Richard Russo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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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America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery
David C Ward - Smithsonian Books
Format: Paperback
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A striking collection of presidential portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, this volume encapsulates the spirit of the most powerful office in the world.America's Presidents showcases the nation's largest collection of portraits of all the presidents beyond the White House's... |
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Escape from Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt
Michael Benson - ForeEdge
Format: Paperback
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It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade - two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude... |
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An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
Khizr Khan - Thorndike Press Large Print
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This inspiring memoir by the Gold Star parent and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream and why--especially in these tumultuous times--we must not be afraid to step forward for what we believe in when it matters most. An American Family is an intensely... |
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
KHIZR KHAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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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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Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman's Story of Surviving the Music Industry
Dorothy Carvello - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Carvello knows all about the music biz. She was the first female A&R executive at Atlantic Records, and one of the few in the room at RCA and Columbia. But before that, she was secretary to Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic's infamous president, who signed acts like Aretha Franklin... |
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BRAVE
ROSE MCGOWAN - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A voice for generationsRose McGowan... |
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My Accidental Jihad
Krista Bremer - Workman Pub Co
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways her marriage would change... |
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Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
Bill Hayes - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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"If you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York--which is to say, New Yorkers--will take care of you."Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But,... |
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Neruda: The Poet's Calling
Mark Eisner - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other... |
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
PATRISSE KAHN-CULLORS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born."This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized... |
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SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
Howard E. Wasdin - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team SixSEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep... |
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The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
Virginia DeJohn Anderson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general,... |
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Undefeated: From Tragedy to Triumph
Marc Buoniconti - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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Marc Buoniconti, son of an NFL Hall of Fame legend Nick Buoniconti, enjoyed an admittedly reckless lifestyle until a paralyzing football injury changed his outlook and pushed him to dedicate himself to helping others.Hurtling into a tackle, Marc Buoniconti made contact, and then - he felt... |
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SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening
Chloe Schwenke - Red Hen Press
Format: Paperback
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SELF-ish is a narrative drawn from an international life, beginning with some early glimpses out at the world by a girl in a boy's body. Chloe Schwenke was raised as Stephen in a Marine Corps family, and was sent off at age fourteen to "man-up" at a military... |
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books
PBS - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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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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Robin
Dave Itzkoff - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams - a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork &... |
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A Woman First: First Woman: The Deeply Personal Memoir by the Former President
David Mandel - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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In this brave, beautiful, revealing, and deeply personal memoir, Selina Meyer, one of our most beloved former presidents, tells her own extraordinary story.Born and raised deep in the American heartland of God-fearing suburban Maryland, young Selina Eaton learned to love her country and her fellow... |
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Anne Boyd Rioux - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world,... |
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
Amy Gary - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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For decades children and their parents around the world have cuddled together to read Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. While the lulling words of these stories have formed nighttime rituals for millions, few know that these classic works were part of a publishing revolution led by Margaret... |
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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Bradley Hope - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
Alex Wagner - One World
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration, race, and identity: Who are my people? Alex Wagner has always been fascinated by stories of exile and migration. Her father's... |
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The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation
Matthew McGough - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect - a female detective within the LAPD's own ranks.On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband,... |
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Promise me, Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
Joseph R Biden - Thorndike Press
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""Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's... |
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The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
Francesca Lia Block - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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For devotees of Bird by Bird and The Artist's Way, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing A cinematic exploration of the writing life by Francesca Lia Block, the bestselling author of the Weetzie Bat series of magical-realism novels, The Thorn Necklace... |
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Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults
LAURIE PENNY - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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"An invaluable case for truth-telling in an age of chaos and lies." --Emily Nussbaum "[Penny] bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better." --Caitlin MoranSmart and provocative, witty and uncompromising, this collection of Laurie... |
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House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row
Lance Richardson - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men's fashion - and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film. From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in an austere... |
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Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
John Mauceri - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An exuberant, uniquely accessible, beautifully illustrated look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century. John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informative,... |
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Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
Vanessa McGrady - Little A
Format: Paperback
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From a story first told in the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomes more than a new daughter into her home.After two years of waiting to adopt - slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair - a miracle finally... |
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Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
TED GELTNER - University of Georgia Press
Format: Paperback
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In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell... |
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The Book Of Separation: A Memoir
Tova Mirvis - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world. Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life.... |
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Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
Maurice Rajsfus - DoppelHouse Press
Format: Paperback
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A two-volume book in which Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's role in the Holocaust. In the first volume, "Operation Yellow Star," Rajsfus... |
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The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone
ROBIN GREEN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A raucous and vividly dishy memoir by the only woman writer on the masthead of Rolling Stone Magazine in the early Seventies.In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices Rolling Stone magazine. She had just moved to Berkeley, California, a city that promised... |
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The Place of Cold Water: A memoir
Anand Panwalker - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Two Indian families arrived in East Africa at a time when the British ruled much of the world. They started from scratch, helped build the infrastructure of the new nations they settled in and often fought for their freedom. But historical tensions and the color of their skin made it impossible... |
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Verdi: The Man Revealed
JOHN SUCHET - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Giuseppe Verdi remains Italy's greatest operatic composer and a man of apparent contradictions -- vividly brought to life through a nuanced examination of his life and monumental music.Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced.... |
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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Why Bob Dylan Matters
Richard F. Thomas - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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"The coolest class on campus" - The New York TimesWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous... |
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Reminiscing in Tempo: Farewells and Recollections of Showbiz, Jazz and Drums
Bruce H Klauber - Centerstream Publications
Format: Paperback
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(Book) . By way of incisive interviews, tributes, remembrances and eye-opening anecdotes about his personal association with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Lou Rawls to Mel Torme and Norman Mailer, this book chronicles Bruce Klauber's incredible, five-plus decades as an author, acclaimed... |
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Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first authoritative biography - featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs - of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.Forty-five years... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world;... |
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Listen Up!: Recording Music with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2, R.E.M., The Tragically Hip, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits...
Mark Howard - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field. Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing... |
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
PETER MAYLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife,... |
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The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings
Gabriel García Márquez - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction. "I don't want... |
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Never Grow Up
Jackie Chan - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world.Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers... |
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DeRay Mckesson - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs,... |
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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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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Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground
Ian Purkayastha - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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"[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells--caviar, truffles, fish. He knows the stories that we need to sell the stuff tableside . . . he can disrupt the entire luxury foods market." ---From the Foreword by David Chang Ian Purkayastha is New York City's... |
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
MAYA JASANOFF - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Enlightening, compassionate, superb" - John Le CarrA visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing todayMigration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism... |
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In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire
PETER HELLMAN - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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True crime pairs well with fine wine in this astonishing story of a con man who rides his gift for tasting wine to the highest reaches of society - and then comes crashing downIn Vino Duplicitas marks a new, notorious legend in wine: the story of Rudy Kurniawan, a 20-something Indonesian... |
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Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black
Alan Light - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated biography of Johnny Cash that tells his life story through never-before-seen personal photographs and memorabilia from the Cash familyJohnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black is a Cash biography like no other. It reveals Cash's personal and professional... |
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
CAMILLE T DUNGY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A 2018 Colorado Book Award Finalist As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy's livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware... |
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
DARNELL L MOORE - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Cat Marnell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From Cat Marnell, "New York's enfant terrible" (The Telegraph) , a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty... |
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The Big Heist: The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder
ANTHONY M DESTEFANO - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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"Terrific DeStefano. He finally gives us a fitting end to the murderous and fabled story of the 1978 Lufthansa heist." - Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino"A comprehensive account of the legendary 1978 heist . . . impressive." - Publisher's... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like
ASHLEY GRAHAM - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoirVoluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been modeling professionally... |
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What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home
Mark Mazower - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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Uncovering their remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family which fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British... |
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The Memory of You
Catherine West - Center Point Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen years ago, Natalie lost a part of herself when her twin sister died. Will traveling back to the family winery finally put the memory to rest, or will it completely destroy her? |
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The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence
NOT AVAILABLE. - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this well-rounded, deeply-investigated biography, the first full look at the vice president, two award-winning journalists unmask the real Mike Pence. Little-known outside his home state until Donald Trump made him his running mate, Mike Pence -- who proclaims himself a Christian first,... |
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Tooth and Nail: The Making of a Female Fight Doctor
Linda D. Dahl - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fresh out of medical school, Linda Dahl began her surgical residency in the Bronx as a total fish out of water. Growing up in a Middle Eastern family in the American Midwest, she was a born outsider, and in her new community in New York, she felt even more isolated. Even at work she struggled... |
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Touching the Dragon: And Other Techniques for Surviving Life's Wars
James Hatch - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief; master naval parachutist (four Bronze Stars with Valor, Navy and Marine Corps Medal recipient, etc.) ; fighter in 150 missions (Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Africa) ; expert military dog trainer and handler whose SEAL dogs were partners... |
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Kickflip Boys: A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood
NEAL THOMPSON - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"With a dispassionate but tender eye, Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys - and of adolescence itself, observed and remembered." - Michael ChabonWhat makes a good father, and what makes one a failure? Does less-is-more... |
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The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
Edmund White - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past,... |
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World
Ramachandra Guha - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history.This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's... |
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Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power
WILLIAM STADIEM - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The life of Madame Claude, the brilliant and complicated and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world.In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles and famous... |
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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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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
DANIELLE ALLEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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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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