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Me: Elton John Official Autobiography

Elton John - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

Elton John’s autobiography left me wanting nothing. Woven with the threads of Elton’s music and the timeline of his story, Me revolves around album releases and the surrounding circumstances. Anyone could see that this man loves his craft because he filled the book...

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Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest

M. William Phelps - Kensington
Format: Paperback

A tragic missing person case spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. Intrigue, deception, and serial homicide erupt in the latest real-life thriller by New York Times bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps. In October 2014, after Chris Regan failed to arrive...
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family

EMILY JANE FOX - Harper
Format: Hardcover

As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President's children. She's developed a personal relationship with Ivanka and has cultivated sources close to Eric, Donald Jr., and Tiffany. She has scoured...
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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

Richard Ratay - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

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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Finding Zsa Zsa: The Gabors behind the Legend

Sam Staggs - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

For decades, the Gabor dynasty was the epitome of glamour and fairy tale success. But as biographer, film historian, and Gabor family friend Sam Staggs reveals, behind the headlines is a true story more dramatic, fabulous, and surprising than their self-styled legend would have you believe...
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The Pope: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World

Anthony McCarten - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour comes the fascinating and revealing tale of an unprecedented transfer of power, and of two very different men - who both happen to live in the Vatican. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE...
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Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin de Siecle Paris

CAROLINE WEBER - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes.Genevive Halvy Bizet Straus;...
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Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim

Sabeeha Rehman - Arcade Publishing
Format: Print book

This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on being Muslim in America today.Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United...
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How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

Kate Mulgrew - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents....
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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet

JULIE DOBROW - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the extraordinary mother and daughter who brought Emily Dickinson's genius to light.Despite Emily Dickinson's world renown, the story of the two women most responsible for her initial posthumous publication -- Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham...
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Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair

Nujeen Mustafa - Harper Wave
Format: Print book

Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany...
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

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

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes...
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art

Sebastian Smee - Random House
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart...
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Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim

Rob Kapilow - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

"Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow." -- Kansas City StarFew people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer,...
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee

SAM KASHNER - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else - Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill - from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger...
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Craig Brown - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon...
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A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator The Life of Florence Gould

SUSAN RONALD - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris.Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris, aged eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability...
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The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors

CARLA VALENTINE - ST MARTIN'S Press
Format: Print book

Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise. Using...
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Two's Company: A Fifty-Year Romance with Lessons Learned in Love, Life & Business

Suzanne Somers - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

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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Dying: A Memoir

CORY TAYLOR - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician -- or so she thinks.When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When...
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home

Megan K. Stack - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A National Book Award finalist's unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothersWhen Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book,...
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Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Alan Paul - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller!The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction...
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Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

David J. Skal - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book

A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society.First published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and multifaceted afterlife -- one rivaling even its immortal creation; yet Bram Stoker has remained...
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Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life

Randy Travis - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited, deeply personal story of one of American music's greatest icons, a remarkable tale of the utmost heights of fame and success, the deepest lows of life's sorrows, and a miraculous return from the brink of death - told as only Randy Travis can.Beloved around the world, Randy...
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You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For

Kyle Carpenter - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The youngest living Medal of Honor recipient delivers an unforgettable memoir that "will inspire every reader" (Jim Mattis) On November 21, 2010, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade...
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Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

R. Eric Thomas - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News," a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way."Pop culture-obsessed, Sedaris-level...
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted

Laura Caldwell - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity....
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The Last Job: "The Bad Grandpas" and the Hatton Garden Heist

Dan Bilefsky - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The definitive account of one of the most brazen jewel heists in history.Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six English thieves, several in their sixties and seventies, couldn't resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe...
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Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands

Roger D Hodge - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family...
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Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont

Saul Austerlitz - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling account of the Altamont Festival -- and the dark side of the '60s.If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones...
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The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi: My Journey into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began

KATHIE LEE GIFFORD - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

As a lifelong student of Scripture, Kathie Lee Gifford has always desired a deeper understanding of God's Word and a deeper knowledge of God Himself. But it wasn't until she began studying the biblical texts in their original Hebrew and Greek - along with actually hiking the ancient paths...
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Don't Tell a Soul

M William Phelps - Pinnacle Books
Format: Print book

"Phelps is a true-crime veteran." - New York PostCherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor's little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn't...
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Saving Sin City: William Travers Jerome, Stanford White, and the Original Crime of the Century

MARY CUMMINGS - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An operatic story of jealousy, obsession, vast fortunes, and moral crusaders set against the glittering backdrop of Gilded Age New York City.The murder of one of the most famous architects of the era, Stanford White -- whose mark on New York City is second to none -- became "The Crime...
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

DARNELL L MOORE - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured...
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War

NEAL BASCOMB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

"Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism." - David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Neal Bascomb, New York Times...
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Janis: Her Life and Music

Holly George-Warren - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white...
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Why Religion?: A Personal Story

ELAINE PAGELS - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help...
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A Survivor's Journey: From Victim to Advocate

Natasha Simone Alexenko - Amazon Publishing
Format: Paperback

An inspiring true story of love, hope, and victory - and of one woman who was determined to make a difference in the wake of a crime.On August 6, 1993, twenty-year-old Natasha Alexenko was assaulted at gunpoint. After nearly a decade, her backlogged rape kit was finally tested and her rapist,...
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Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

Michelle LeClair - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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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Small Fry

LISA BRENNAN-JOBS - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father...
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Kanye West Owes Me $300: And Other True Stories from a White Rapper Who Almost Made It Big

Jensen Karp - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book

" Kanye West Owes Me $300"might be the funniest rap memoir ever. " LA Weekly" After Vanilla Ice, but before Eminem, there was "Hot Karl, " the Jewish kid from the L. A. suburbs who became a rap battling legend and then almost became a star. When 12-year old Jensen...
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We Have Your Daughter

Paula Woodward - Prospecta Press
Format: Hardcover

In We Have Your Daughter:The Unsolved Murder of JonBent Ramsey Twenty Years Later, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Paula Woodward offers an unprecedented insider perspective on the twentieth anniversary of one of the most heinous, sensationalized, unsolved crimes in American...
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Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

Nell Irvin Painter - Counterpoint
Format: Book

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

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Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

Brooke McAlary - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Free yourself from the frantic and embrace the joy of slow..."After reading this book, you'll have an amazing list of ingredients that can help you create a meaningful life, too!" -- The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus"Finally, a slow living guide for the imperfect...
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Beautiful Scars

Kilee Brookbank - KiCam Projects
Format: Print book

A moment can change everything. Kilee Brookbank was a typical sixteen-year-old, thinking about school, soccer, her friends, and her boyfriend. But her last ordinary day erupted in an explosion that consumed her house, burning over 45 percent of her body and sending her to the very brink...
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Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob

Patrick Picciarelli - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Hollywood Godfather is Gianni Russo's over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when...
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Implosion: Memoir of an Architect's Daughter

Elizabeth W. Garber - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

What could be cooler, thinks teen Elizabeth Garber in 1965, than to live in a glass house designed by her architect dad? Ever since childhood, she's adored everything he loves -- his XKE Jaguar, modern art, and his Eames black leather chair -- and she's been inspired by his passionate...
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No Happy Endings: A Memoir

Nora McInerny - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The author of It's Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking - interviews that are "a gift to be able to listen [to]" (New York Times) - returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.Life...
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books

PBS - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series...
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Thank You for My Service

Mat Best - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The unapologetic, laugh-your-ass-off military memoir both vets and civilians have been waiting for, from a five-tour Army Ranger turned YouTube phenomenon and zealous advocate for veterans Members of the military's special operations branches share a closely...
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Ohio's Black Hand Syndicate: The Birth of Organized Crime in America

DAVID MEYERS - The History Press
Format: Paperback

Organized crime was born in the back of a fruit store in Marion. Before America saw headlines about the Capone Mob, the Purple Gang and Murder Inc., the specter of the Black Hand terrorized nearly every major city. Fears that the Mafia had reached our shores and infiltrated every Italian...
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Abby Norman - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issuesIn the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly...
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Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service

Gary Sinise - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to cofounder of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company, world-famous actor, and tireless advocate for America's active...
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I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism

Kate Coyne - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

The Executive Editor of People Magazine provides an unfiltered and hilarious look at her life alongside the rich and famous, as she reveals how being a fan-girl lead to celebrity close encounters she could only dream of growing up.From the NY Post's "Page Six" to Good Housekeeping...
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

PATRISSE KAHN-CULLORS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Frustrated Witness: The True Story of the ADAM WALSH Case and Police Misconduct

Willis Morgan - Bookbaby
Format: Print book

When six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from the Hollywood Mall on July 27, 1981, and his severed head found at the Florida Turnpike, no one could have guessed that it would take police almost thirty years to find the culprit or that even then they had still got it all so wrong. Willis...
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Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs

Beth Ricanati MD - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

What if you could bake bread once a week, every week? What if the smell of fresh bread could turn your house into a home? And what if the act of making the bread -- mixing and kneading, watching and waiting -- could heal your heartache and your emptiness, your sense of being overwhelmed?...
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The Warrior Code: 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You

Tee Marie Hanible - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From American Grit co-star, former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible comes the story of how she became a warrior...and how you can do it too.In The Warrior Code, entrepreneur, philanthropist, reality star and retired Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible serves up eleven...
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Hunting El Chapo: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord

COLE MERRELL - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Cole Merrell and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller - soon to be a major motion picture from Sony - chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American...
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The Jacksons: Legacy

The Jacksons - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

The only official, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Jacksons' lives and careers, celebrating 50 years of one of the greatest acts of all time. The Jacksons: Legacy is the first official book on the the Royal Family of Pop. Unrivaled access to the family archives as well as the private...
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Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder

Kathryn Casey - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

A WALKING NIGHTMARE - IN SIZE-NINE STILETTOS . . .The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston's hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could've prepared him for what he found: a beautiful woman...
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

Laurie Gwen Shapiro - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great...
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The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir

Maude Julien - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, a memoir to be read in one breathless sitting that will leave you astonished by the courage and creative power of even the most neglected soul. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into...
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition...
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Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

MARTIN CORONA - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

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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No One Tells You This: A Memoir

Glynnis MacNicol - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

ELLE's The 30 Best Books to Read This Summer"A piercing examination of what it means both to love grown-up, complicated women - and to be one." -- Rebecca Traister, All The Single Ladies "Glynnis has written a book that is honest, hilarious and raw...it misses...
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They're playing our song : a memoir

Carole Bayer Sager - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares the remarkably frank and darkly funny story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with some of the greatest composers and musical...
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The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family

William J Mann - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influential families - the Roosevelts - exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic...
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The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing

Adam Frankel - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family's painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own origins."The Survivors is an astonishingly...
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The Comfort Food Diaries

Emily Nunn - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

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

Lidia Bastianich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling cookbook author, beloved and award-winning television personality, and hugely successful restaurateur--a heartwarming, emotional, revelatory memoir told with all her hallmark warmth and gusto.Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city...
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

FIONA SAMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, a prize-winning poet delivers a major new biography of Mary Shelley -- as she has never been seen before.We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail -- the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft,...
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Raising Trump: Family Values from Americas First Mother

Ivana Trump - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children - Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka - and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up.. As her former husband serves as the 45th President of the United States, his children have also...
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Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

Eilene Zimmerman - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A journalist pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband's descent into drug addiction while trying to rebuild a life for her family, taking readers on an intimate journey into the world of white-collar drug abuse."A rare combination of journalistic rigor, personal courage,...
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The Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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

Mandy Stadtmiller - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the popular, "fresh, funny, and highly readable" (Bustle) dating columnist for New York magazine and the New York Post comes a whirlwind memoir recounting countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller's unflinching candor...
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In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter

Angalia Bianca - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Before Angalia Bianca became one of Chicago's foremost authorities on violence interruption and prevention, receiving international recognition and a Resolution for Bravery from the City of Chicago, she was a criminal, a master manipulator, and a brilliant con artist. Bianca spent twelve...
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Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir

C DANIELS - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

The Incredible Story of a Country Music Legend Few artists have left a more indelible mark on America's musical landscape than Charlie Daniels. Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie Daniels that has never before been documented. In his own words, he presents the path...
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Lennyball: A Memoir of Life on the Edge

Lenny Dykstra - William Morrow
Format: Print book

A TOP-TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AN INSTANT CLASSIC OF HUSSLE AND EXCESS ..."Tough, straight, upsetting, and strangely beautiful. ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES I'VE EVER READ. It comes from the heart." - Stephen King"THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BLOW YOUR MIND! Obviously...
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The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy

J. Randy Taraborrelli - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised...
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A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow

Mike Farris - W W Norton
Format: Print book

Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii.In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant's wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia's mother,...
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What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation

Mimi Lemay - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A mother's memoir of her transgender child's odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born "Em," adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand...
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If You Only Knew

M William Phelps - Pinnacle
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." --Allison Brennan"Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience." --Suspense MagazineWhen Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near...
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Robin

Dave Itzkoff - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

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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Novel Destinations, Second Edition: A Travel Guide to Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West

Shannon Mckenna Schmidt - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations - a guide for bibliophiles...
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World

Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until...
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A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart

MASSIMO VACCHETTA - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

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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You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For

Kyle Carpenter - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From the youngest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, an extraordinary inspirational memoir that will change the life of every reader. "Kyle displayed a heroism in the blink of an eye that will inspire for generations" - President Barack Obama, at Kyle Carpenter's Medal of Honor...
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In the Darkroom

Susan Faludi - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father...
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Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

KIM BROOKS - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." -- Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World"A beautifully...
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Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal

Jonathan Green - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. The use of crack cocaine surged, replacing heroin as the high of choice. Drug dealers claimed...
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Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France

Craig Carlson - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book

Paris was practically perfect...Craig Carlson was the last person anyone would expect to open an American diner in Paris. He came from humble beginnings in a working-class town in Connecticut, had never worked in a restaurant, and didn't know anything about starting a brand-new business....
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Pearls of Wisdom: Little Pieces of Advice

Barbara Bush - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

The best advice First Lady Barbara Bush offered her family, staff, and close friends.
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946

GARY GIDDINS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark...
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

Ron Stallworth - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary true story of the black detective who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the major motion picture written and directed by Spike Lee, and produced by Jordan Peele.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado...
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More Myself: A Journey

Alicia Keys - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expressionAs one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from...
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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

Karen Kilgariff - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

This program is read by the authors, with Paul Giamatti, and includes sections recorded in front of a live audience. The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the number-one hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Sharing never-before-heard stories...
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Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

Steve Turner - Ecco
Format: Print book

A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture.They started off as hysteria-inducing pop stars playing to audiences of screaming teenage fans and ended up as musical sages...
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Wild and Precious Life

Deborah Ziegler - Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Format: Print book

Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard - a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor - this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter's spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year of life as she chose her right to die with...
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

DAVID YAFFE - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty...
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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

KAYLEEN SCHAEFER - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A personal and sociological examination--and ultimately a celebration--of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society"Text me when you get home." After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love....
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The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation

Rich Cohen - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

Was he New York City's last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, port by port - for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire.Handsome and charismatic, Albert Hicks had long been known...
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Haben Girma - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New...
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Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly

Mick Wall - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

There's a reason why Dave Grohl is known, however naively, as "the nicest man in rock." A reason why millions have bought his Foo Fighters albums and DVDs, his concert and festival tickets. A reason why generations have bought into his story, his dream, his self-fulfilling prophecies....
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Sisters of Secrets: The Story of Sisters Leading Up to the Turpin Case Arrest

Elizabeth Flores - Creative Life Publishing & Learning Institute
Format: Hardcover

The Secrets Are OutThe life story of a Christ-following girl had been written. It was sent to the publisher just a week before the horrific event on January 15, 2018. Her story of surviving abuse, to holding fast to her faith, to be an overcomer was now forever changed. Her older sister,...
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The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry

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

Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley's The Women Who Flew for Hitler -- a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make...
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Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin

Lee Server - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century's darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue from Lee Server, the New York Times bestselling author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing...
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Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death

Richard Holloway - Canongate Books
Format: Hardcover

Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us?Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards...
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Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams

Jen Bricker - Baker Books
Format: Print book

Born without Legs, She Inspires Others to OvercomeJen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty...
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Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

Gregory Boyle - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

Shawn Levy - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A definitive history of Hollywood's most iconic, storied, and scandalous hotel.For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favored the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. An apartment house-turned-hotel, it has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore:...
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir

Plum Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three...
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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

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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Manderley Forever

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

The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier."It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor....
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PDMost of us have never heard...
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir

Susan Straight - Catapult
Format: Hardcover

One of NPRs Best Books of the Year"Straights memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the womens stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed...
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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story

CECILE RICHARDS - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

To Make Change, You Have to Make Trouble From Cecile Richards - president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and a "heroine...
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Trump as President: The Inside Story of His First Years in the White House

Doug Wead - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here is finally a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talking openly, on the record. In Trump as President, Doug Wead offers a sweeping, eloquent history of President Donald J. Trump's first years in the White...
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Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

Florence Welch - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic vocalist of Florence and the MachineSongs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't...
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Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

Tena Clark - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

For readers of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a riveting and profoundly moving memoir set in rural Mississippi during the Civil Rights era about a white girl coming of age in a repressive society and the woman who gave her the strength to forge her own path - the black...
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Diana: Case Solved: The Definitive Account That Proves What Really Happened

Dylan Howard - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry." - Letter written by Princess Diana, late 1996 It is a moment that remains frozen...
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

Jill Heinerth - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planetMore people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...
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The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation

Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective...
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Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War

Artemis Joukowsky - Beacon
Format: Print book

Official companion to the Ken Burns film premiering September 20, 2016, on PBS tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to undertake dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving...
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World

Ramachandra Guha - Knopf
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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Its All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the Worlds Family Tree

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

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

Linda D. Dahl - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

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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The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers

Terry McDonell - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the legendary editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur: a memoir about writers, writing, editing--and the fast-paced, high-stakes life in the publishing business. Over the last four decades, Terry McDonell has been at the helm of some of the most influential beacons of American...
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Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey

Nicola Tallis - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

A significant retelling of the often-misunderstood tale of Lady Jane Grey's journey through her trial and execution -- recalling the dangerous plots and web of deadly intrigue in which she became involuntarily tangled, and which ultimately led to a catastrophic conclusion. "Good people,...
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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir

Sheila Kohler - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS"A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." - The BBC"An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." - PeopleWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister...
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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

Daniel Okrent - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

By the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call - the powerful, definitive, and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America close the immigration door to "inferiors" in the 1920s.A forgotten, dark chapter of American history...
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Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

Alex Wagner - One World
Format: Hardcover

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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Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God

Joe Rigney - Crossway
Format: Paperback

C. S. Lewis excelled at plumbing the depths of the human heart, both the good and the bad, the beautiful and the corrupt. From science fiction and fantasy to essays, letters, and works of apologetics, Lewis has offered a wealth of insight into how to live the Christian life. In this book,...
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now

PETER MAYLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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 Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz- Age America

Karen Abbott - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy"Gatsby-era...
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BRAVE

ROSE MCGOWAN - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

"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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Turbulence: A True Story of Survival

Annette Herfkens - Regan Arts
Format: Print book

A riveting, inspirational true story of an incredibly resilient woman who broke professional barriers as a Dutch banker, was the sole survivor of Vietnam Airlines Flight 474, found love after the loss of her fiance, and continues to raise her autistic son, never wavering in her optimism....
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The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time

LESLIE SCHWARTZ - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years

Catherine Newman - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book

A comic and heartwarming memoir about childhood's second act from Real Simple journalist Catherine Newman. Much is written about a child's infancy and toddler years, which is good since children will never remember it themselves. It is ages 4-14 that make up the second act, as Catherine...
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime

Cutter Wood - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

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

Eve Ensler - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From Eve Ensler, author of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century--The Vagina Monologues--and one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Changed the World," comes a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.Like millions of women, Eve Ensler...
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert

Karen Piper - Viking
Format: Hardcover

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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Grit & Grace: Train the Mind, Train the Body, Own Your Life

Tim McGraw - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

From Grammy-Award winning music superstar and actor Tim McGraw comes a one-of-a kind lifestyle book that melds his personal fitness transformation story with practical advice to inspire healthy changes in readers' lives.Tim McGraw is as well-known for his unparalleled accomplishments in the entertainment...
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Darkness to Light: A Memoir

Lamar Odom - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock bottom depths. Desperation and elation. Sometimes in the same hour. Oh, and don't forget power . . . and the struggle for it. There has never been an athlete quite like Lamar Odom. And there has never...
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A Dream Called Home: A Memoir

Reyna Grande - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and national bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for belonging, a writing career, and a home built of more than words and dreams.A Dream Called Home is the follow...
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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

Sarah Weinman - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." - David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonVladimir...
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