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Family Reins: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty

Billy Busch - ‎Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written -- for the first time -- by a Busch heir.As an heir to the Anheuser-Busch company and fortune, Billy Busch was raised on the real stories of how his family built one of America's oldest and most iconic brands. Since the company...
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Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

Amy Price - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

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Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

Shohini Ghose - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

An exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society.. Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have...
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Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends

Joan Collins - Permuted Press
Format: Hardcover

"I've had many amazing adventures in my life. Some stories, though, I have only ever shared with my friends. ... Until now!". Dame Joan Collins has always believed that one should retain some mystery in life and hide a knowing smile behind one's shoulder pads. In her new book,...
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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Samuel Graydon - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes.. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness...
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The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

Jonathan Miles - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin.. 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured...
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When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation

Tara Sidhoo Fraser - Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Paperback

A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated.Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together...
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

Raja Shehadeh - Other Press
Format: Hardcover

Finalist for the National Book Award and a Best Book of 2023 by NPR. A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee,...
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

Vicki Sokolik - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth - told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends'...
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Sleepless: Unleashing the Subversive Power of the Night Self

Annabel Abbs-Streets - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Why women's brains work differently at night - and how we can harness that altered state for greater creativity, insight, and courage.. In the winter of 2020, Annabel Abbs-Streets experienced a series of losses: her stepfather, then father, and finally her family's puppy. Unmoored...
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