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The Gift of Failure: (And I'll rethink the title if this book fails!)

Dan Bongino - Liberatio Protocol
Format: Hardcover

Dan Bongino's brutally honest, deeply personal, unforgettable stories about how he transformed failures into victories will enthrall, entertain, and inspire readers.. In The Gift of Failure, leading conservative commentator Dan Bongino identifies failures in his life and how those failures...
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Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Yusef Salaam
Format: Hardcover

They didn't know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained...
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Barnum: An American Life

Robert Wilson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichs for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street JournalP. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever...
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

NICOLE CHUNG - Catapult
Format: Hardcover

A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection An Official Junior Library Guild Selection An ABA Indies Introduce Selection "This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story, then widens her aperture...
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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait

Blake Bailey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

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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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

Dean Jobb - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliantly researched tale of greed, ambition, and our desperate need to believe in magic, it's history that captures America as it really was--and always will be. A great read." - Douglas Perry, author of Eliot Ness It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder...
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The Women's Suffrage Movement

Sally Roesch Wagner - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

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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Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son

Penny Junor - Grand Central Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the British royal family, has had a colorful...
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Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut's Guide to Achieving the Impossible

Mike Massimino - Hachette Go
Format: Hardcover

Former NASA astronaut and New York Times bestselling author Mike Massimino - the first person to tweet from space, professor at Columbia University, and expert speaker - delivers lessons for teamwork, innovation, and leadership to the average person. Based on thrilling, firsthand accounts...
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Write for Your Life

Anna Quindlen - Random House
Format: Hardcover

In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourselffrom "one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life" (The New York Times Book Review) , #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should.What really matters in life...
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