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Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - Simon & Schuster
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"Her book, as if she were a marine biologist, is a deep dive...Perhaps the highest praise I can give Seinfeldia is that it made me want to buy a loaf of marbled rye and start watching again, from the beginning." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review The hilarious... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich - Random House
Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works -- and really doesn't -- in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become... |
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The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
Tracy Daugherty - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published... |
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Avalanche: A Love Story
Julia Leigh - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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An intensely personal narrative of loss, hope, and longing for a child. In this brave and lucid account, Julia Leigh broaches a challenging life event often left undiscussed: how the struggle to have a child can take an agonizing toll. Leigh's experience at the vanguard of medical science... |
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Filthy Rich
James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book
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A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth... |
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No Room for Small Dreams: The Decisions That Made Israel Great
Shimon Peres - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth... |
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
Laurie Gwen Shapiro - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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Man of the world : the further adventures of bill clinton
Joe Conason - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Veteran political journalist Joe Conason takes readers inside the post-presidential exploits of the perpetually fascinating Bill Clinton - and finds his continuing adventures just as colorful, controversial, and significant as his earlier political career.The extraordinary post-presidency... |
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Had I Known: A Memoir of Survival
Joan Lunden - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this brave and deeply personal memoir, one of America's most beloved journalists, mother, and New York Times bestselling author speaks candidly about her battle against breast cancer, her quest to learn about it and teach others, and the transformative effect it's had on her life.When... |
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Shrinkage: Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor That Tried to Kill Me
Bryan Bishop - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller!An Amazon Best Books of 2014 selection"If you're reading this, it means I'm already dead. Just kidding."In 2009, at thirty years old, Bryan Bishop's life was right on track. Known to millions as "Bald Bryan," the sidekick and soundman... |
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Grin and Bear It: How to Be Happy No Matter What Reality Throws Your Way
Jenni Pulos - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Jenni Pulos, from Bravo's Flipping Out and Interior Therapy, pens a charming memoir-advice book on how to survive (and thrive) in any situationJenni Pulos has specialized in a lifetime of disappointments. She's been publicly humiliated, dumped by her spouse on national television,... |
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
David Leite - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite... |
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So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
ROGER STEFFENS - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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The definitive oral history of Bob Marley by one of the world's foremost reggae scholars. Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945-1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never... |
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist,... |
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
MICHAEL CHABON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays - heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise - on the meaning of fatherhood, anchored by the viral sensation, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion".For the September 2016... |
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The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir
Sheila E. - Pocket Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the Grammy-nominated singer, drummer, and percussionist who is world renowned for her contributions throughout the music industry, a moving memoir about the healing power of music and spiritual growth inspired by five decades of life and love on the stage.She was born Sheila Escovedo... |
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Irin Carmon - DEY ST.
Format: Print book
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame -- she was just trying to make the world a little better and a little freer. But along the way, the feminist pioneer's searing dissents and steely strength have inspired millions. Notorious RBG takes you behind the myth for an intimate,... |
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
Betty Halbreich - Penguin Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
Cookie Johnson - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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In her new memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.On November 7, 1991, basketball icon Earvin "Magic"... |
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The Rose Hotel: A Memoir of Secrets, Loss, and Love From Iran to America
Rahimeh Andalibian - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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A country in chaos, a clash of civilizations, and a family torn asunder. In this searing memoir, Rahimeh Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes a rape, solved by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused. She takes us first into her familys... |
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M Train
Patti Smith - Vintage
Format: Print book
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National Bestseller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the cafs and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life." M Train begins in the tiny... |
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And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side
Dana Perino - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times Bestseller1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller From her years as the presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News The Five, Dana Perino reveals the lessons shes learned that have guided her through life, kept her level-headed, and led to her success,... |
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches,... |
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Mississippi Sissy
Kevin Sessums - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie... |
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Resident On Call: A Doctor's Reflections on His First Years at Mass General
Scott A. Rivkees - Lyons Press; First edition
Format: Book
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In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, moving - and at times raucously humorous - one of the nation's leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A graduate of a state university medical... |
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Mississippi Sissy
Kevin Sessums - Picador
Format: Paperback
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Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie... |
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John Le Carr - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur - by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,... |
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Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes
Elizabeth Bard - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the world's... |
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Dreamland: The True Tale of Americas Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Amazons Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.coms... |
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Charlotte Bront: A Fiery Heart
Claire Harman - Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ©2015
Format: Print book
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On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing... |
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What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
Alan Light - Crown, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. From music journalist and former... |
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
Art Garfunkel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"Poetic musings on a life well-lived - one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isnt your typical autobiography. Garfunkels history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." - Bookreporter... |
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
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Trump and Me
Mark Singer - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book
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Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race - in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants - he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.It... |
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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Ken Burns - Knopf; MTI edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerA vivid and personal portrait of Americas greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation, which expands on the hugely acclaimed seven-part PBS documentary series, bringing readers even deeper into these extraordinary leaders lives With 796 photographs,... |
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Getting Real
Gretchen Carlson - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of Gretchen Carlsons lawsuit against former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, her memoir of her time at Fox - working alongside Megyn Kelly, Bill OReilly, Steve Doocy, and other prominent conservative news personalities - is more relevant than ever.. In this candid memoir,... |
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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
Frances Stroh - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist's struggle to find her way out of the ruins.Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great... |
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
Amy Seek - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoptionGod and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek... |
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Untitled Memoir
STEPHEN CARTER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York... |
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The Art of Neil Gaiman
Hayley Campbell - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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With unprecedented access to Neil Gaiman's personal archives, author Hayley Campbell gives an insider's glimpse into the artistic inspirations and musings of one of the world's most visionary writers.Over the last twenty-five years, Neil Gaiman has mapped out a territory in the popular... |
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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed
Michelle Knight - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their... |
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JFK Jr., George, & Me: A Memoir
Matt Berman - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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John Kennedy Jr.s creative director for George magazine presents a vivid portrait of JFK Jr. that only a select few have ever seen, offering a touching and honest tribute to Johns legacy BookReporter.com. If George magazine was about not just politics as usual, a day at the office with... |
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Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours
Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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"[S]tirring...a bold, inspiring and ultimately hopeful book." --Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and author of the New York Times bestseller ThriveKaitlin Roig-Debellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved... |
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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
Alexandra Robbins - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Nursing is more than a career; its a calling and one of the most important, fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline responders battling traumas, illnesses, and aggression from surprising sources, nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects... |
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Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage
Molly Wizenberg - Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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In this funny, frank, tender memoir and New York Times bestseller, the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette recounts how opening a restaurant sparked the first crisis of her young marriage. When Molly Wizenberg married Brandon Pettit, he was a trained composer with a handful... |
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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
KAYLEEN SCHAEFER - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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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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Power Forward: My Presidential Education
Reggie Love - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Reggie Love is a unique witness to history, whose introduction to Washington was working in Junior Senator Barack Obama's mailroom. As "body man" to Obama during his first presidential campaign, Love's job was to stay one step behind the candidate, but think and act three... |
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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
Joyce Carol Oates - Ecco Press
Format: Print book
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Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle... |
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Take This Man: A Memoir
Brando Skyhorse - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a boy’s turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth.When... |
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St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate
Karen Armstrong - New Harvest
Format: Hardcover
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St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir
Nadja Spiegelman - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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A memoir of mothers and daughters - and mothers as daughters - traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than... |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantvnamo detainee.. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantvnamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT" OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT" THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"January 1961: President... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)... |
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Anchor and Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service
Kate Braestrup - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Kate Braestrup's life was transformed by the loss of her husband; now Kate faces the possibility that she may lose her son.As a young mother Kate Braestrup discovered the fierce protectiveness that accompanies parenthood. In the intervening years--through mourning her husband and the joy of remarriage... |
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Nicholas Reynolds - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "riveting"* international cloak-and-dagger epic, here is the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life -- including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo" -- that fueled his art and his undoing.In 2010, while... |
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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
Matt Richards - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson -- the biggest and most influential music... |
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Randy Roberts - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam - a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult - saw the potential... |
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Untitled Roger Daltrey Autobiography
Roger Daltrey - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The frontman of one of the greatest bands of all time tells the story of his rise from nothing to rock 'n' roll megastar, and his wild journey as the voice of The Who."It's taken me three years to unpack the events of my life, to remember who did what when and why, to separate the myths... |
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
Lucy Worsley - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Take a trip back to Jane Austens world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austens childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother... |
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The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Janny Scott - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses, and money... |
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive... |
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Love, Lucy
April Lindner - Little
Format: Hardcover
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While backpacking through Florence, Italy, during the summer before she heads off to college, Lucy Sommersworth finds herself falling in love with the culture, the architecture, the food...and Jesse Palladino, a handsome street musician. After a whirlwind romance, Lucy returns home, determined... |
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I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir
Brian Wilson - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book
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They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing.As a cofounding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever... |
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Power Forward: My Presidential Education
Reggie Love - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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A Washington Post bestseller, Power Forward is a compelling professional coming-of-age story from Reggie Love, the man who spent more time with Barack Obama during his historic first campaign and term than anyone else.Reggie Love is a unique witness to history, whose introduction... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover
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In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story... |
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Make Your Mind Up: My Guide to Finding Your Own Style, Life, and Motavation!
Bethany Mota - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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From tips on life, love, and everything in between; to original DIYs, recipes, and style hacks; to the incredible story of a girl next door turned Internet sensation, Make Your Mind Up is the ultimate guide to rocking your look and ruling your world - from inspirational YouTuber,... |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly... |
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On My Own
Diane Rehm - Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him. With John gone, Diane was indeed "on her own," coping with... |
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Stronger
JEFF BAUMAN - GRAND CENTRAL PUB
Format: Print book
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Now a Major Motion Picture, the New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor.When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing... |
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The Kardashians: An American Drama
JERRY OPPENHEIMER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich comes a blockbuster unauthorized biography of one of the most famous and ubiquitous family dynasties in contemporary culture: The Kardashians. Secrets and scandals of the Kardashians, so closely held that not even hard core fans have... |
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C. White - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of Americas greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant.... |
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Prince: A Private View
AFSHIN SHAHIDI - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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When Prince wanted to document his One Nite Alone tour in 2002, he turned to Afshin Shahidi. Again in 2004, he went along on Prince's record breaking Musicology Tour. Afshin met Prince in 1989 and became his cinematographer and later his photographer. He was the photographer closest to Prince... |
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Just the Funny Parts: My 30 Years on the Hollywood Jungle Gym
Nell Scovell - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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Introduction by Sheryl SandbergIf Bossypants and Lean In got drunk and hooked up, their sloppy-sex-love-child would be this juicy and insightful memoir which blows the doors off the male dominated writers' room and offers a scathingly funny account of Hollywood's sexual politics over the last... |
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Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One.
Ginger Zee - Kingswell
Format: Hardcover
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ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
Laura Thompson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist... |
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Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
Daniel De Visé - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this "humorous, informative, and poignant book" celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs and "shows how the magic was created" (Library Journal)... |
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Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
Jeffrey Frank - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon had a political and private relationship that lasted nearly twenty years, a tie that survived hurtful slights, tense misunderstandings, and the distance between them in age and temperament. Yet the two men brought out the best and worst in each other,... |
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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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The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved
Christopher P Andersen - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers another dramatic look into the lives of the Kennedys - including new details about JFK Jr., his relationship with his mother, his many girlfriends, and the night of his tragic death.Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen is a master... |
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Hitler's Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich
Richard Weikart - Regnery History
Format: Print book
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For a man whom history can never forget, Adolf Hitler remains a persistent mystery on one front - his religious faith. Atheists tend to insist Hitler was a devout Christian. Christians counter that he was an atheist. And still others suggest that he was a practicing member of the occult.None... |
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Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy - Mariner Books
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Notable Book "This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable." - New York Times "Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] own wit and style... |
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Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind - Hyperion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia.... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Blanche Wiesen Cook - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Outstanding ... A winning concluding volume in a series that does for Eleanor Roosevelt what Robert Caro has done for Lyndon Johnson." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewThe final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady.Historians, politicians,... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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A Life in Parts
Bryan Cranston - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir - both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft - from Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history's most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad.Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven,... |
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Hows Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
David Gregory - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this "thoughtful, introspective, and moving account" (The Washington Post) , former NBC news anchor David Gregory probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer important questions about who we want to be and what we believe.When David Gregory... |
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy
William Doyle - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, during a chaotic nighttime skirmish amid the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri barreled through thick fog and struck the U.S. Navy's motor torpedo boat PT 109, splitting the craft nearly in half and killing two American... |
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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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Eleanor Marx: A Life
Rachel Holmes - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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Unrestrained by convention, lionhearted and free, Eleanor Marx 1855-98 was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flauberts Madame Bovary. She pioneered the theater of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers and gas workers trade unions.... |
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To Siri With Love: A Mother, her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the viral New York Times piece ''To Siri with Love'' comes a collection of touching and hilarious stories about a 13-year-old autistic boy and his intimate relationship with Apple's automated personal assistant, Siri.When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apple's... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to "Rolling Stone, " "The New Yorker, " "Vanity Fair, " and other premier magazines, "Alligator Candy "is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.... |
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Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
Jack Devine - Sarah Crichton Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A sophisticated, deeply informed account of real life in the real CIA that adds immeasurably to the public understanding of the espionage culture--the good and the bad." --Bob WoodwardJack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold... |
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JUST KIDS
PATTI SMITH - ECCO
Format: Print book
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Robert Matzen - GoodKnight Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered... |
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Higher Is Waiting
Tyler Perry - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate book of inspiration by the one and only Tyler Perry - actor, producer, director, philanthropist, and the creator of Madea Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire readers to climb... |
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In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
Rebecca Stott - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A father-daughter story that tells of the authors experience growing up in a separatist fundamentalist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller Ghostwalk. Rebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that... |
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Year of yes
Shonda Rhimes - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. "As fun to read as Rhimes's TV series are to watch" (Los Angeles Times)... |
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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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Kadian Journal: A Father's Memoir
Thomas Harding - Picador Usa
Format: Print book
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In July 2012, Thomas Harding's fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. This book is the result.Beginning on the day of Kadian's death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary, and beyond, Kadian Journal is a record... |
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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
Michael E Kinsley - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers - the largest age cohort in history - are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What... |
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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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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."-NPR.orgThe... |
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Good Grief: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village
Ellen Stimson - Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An Endless Vacation Becomes a Way of Life! One vacation changed everything. Ellen Stimson and her husband had such a wonderful time in Vermont that they wondered what living there would really be like. “What if we stayed here . . . forever?” So began the series of adventures... |
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MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Walter R Borneman - Little
Format: Print book
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The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period... |
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The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Joseph J Ellis - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book : Biography : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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"The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph... |
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Look Alive Out There: Essays
Sloane Crosley - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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"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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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worlds attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is "a raw story about courage, survival, and most certainly about love" (Tampa Bay Times) .David Kushner grew up in the suburbs of Florida in the early... |
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family
EMILY JANE FOX - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love
Bret Baier - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Special Heart is a deeply touching personal story told through the eyes of a journalist as he faces the most daunting challenge in life -- far more frightening than reporting from battlefields, infinitely more momentous than interviewing newsmakers of the day: caring for his critically... |
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