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Pearls of Wisdom: Little Pieces of Advice

Barbara Bush - Twelve
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The best advice First Lady Barbara Bush offered her family, staff, and close friends.
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More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

Elaine Welteroth - Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own termsThroughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering...
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Choose Your Own Disaster

Dana Schwartz - Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions...
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Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon - Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that women could play a unique role on Special Ops teams: accompanying their male colleagues on raids and, while those...
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

Renia Spiegel - St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into EnglishRenia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939...
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

Jeff Guinn
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: A riveting, almost Dickensian narrativefour stars (People).More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune...
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World

Ramachandra Guha - Knopf
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover

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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Look Alive Out There: Essays

Sloane Crosley - MCD
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Sloane Crosley does the impossible. She stays consistently funny and delivers a book that is alive and jumping." -- Steve Martin From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There -- a brand-new collection of essays filled with...
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After This: When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go?

Claire Bidwell Smith - Avery
Format: Hardcover

In After This, acclaimed author, and therapist Claire Bidwell Smith confronts the question she encounters every day in private practice - what happens after we die? In an exploration of the afterlife that is part personal, part prescriptive - Smith invites us on her journey into the unknown....
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Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman

Robert Hardman - Pegasus Books
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Written by renowned royal biographer, Robert Hardman, and with privileged access to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, this is a brilliant new portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it.On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest....
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