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Paris: The Memoir
Paris Hilton - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Behind Paris Hilton's meteoric rise from Upper West Side club kid to household name lies her self-proclaimed "superpower" of ADHD and a hidden history that traumatized and defined her. Shocking, funny, and surprisingly profound, Paris is the deeply personal memoir of the ultimate... |
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The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Memoir
Justin Hocking - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Paperback
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Surfing in Far Rockaway, romantic obsession, and Moby-Dick converge in this winning and refreshing memoirWinner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative NonfictionJustin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift-he's jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and disoriented by the city, struggling... |
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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Blake Bailey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Autobiography' The renowned biographer's unforgettable portrait of a family in ruins - his own. Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's "Citizen of the Year" in his tiny hometown... |
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The Women's Suffrage Movement
Sally Roesch Wagner - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria SteinemComprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage... |
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What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
Barbara Butcher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher.. Barbara Butcher was recovering from addiction problems and unhappy relationships when she landed a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York... |
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Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
Stanley G. Payne - University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nations long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all the preceding works have tended toward... |
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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
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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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