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Lou and JonBenét: A Legendary Lawman's Quest to Solve a Child Beauty Queen's Murder

John Wesley Anderson - Tantor Audio
Format: Paperback

On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found, but it was hours before her father, John, found her body in the basement. She had been strangled with a garrote and her skull was fractured. The media...
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And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy

Joshua Fletcher - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, psychotherapist and host of the self-help podcast Disordered Joshua Fletcher provides a candid, funny, and revealing look inside the mind of a therapist as he faces his own struggles while treating patients with anxiety disorders.What goes...
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Playin' Possum: My Memories of George Jones

Nancy Jones - Forefront Books
Format: Hardcover

In Playin' Possum, readers get an intimate look at country music legend George Jones through the eyes of his wife of thirty years.. Ask anyone who knows country music, "Who was the GOAT - the greatest of all time?" and the answers will inevitably lead to George Jones. Millions...
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The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner

David Herszenhorn - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny - lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience...
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Sixty Years of Solitude: The Life of Empress Charlotte of Mexico

Gustavo Vazquez-Lozano - Libros de México
Format: Paperback

Princess Charlotte's life went from fairy tale to hell. This is the story of that hell.. Act I. In 1862, Napoleon III established a monarchy in Mexico, south of the Rio Grande, with Maximilian of Austria and Charlotte of Belgium as its young and idealistic monarchs. Under pressure from...
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Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

Anna Gazmarian - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"This moving memoir is always attuned to the possibilities of community and spiritual sustenance, even as it refuses to efface the struggles at its core - believing that this struggle, too, can be a thing of beauty." - Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering. In this revelatory...
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One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation . On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described an alleged sexual...
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When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and off-the-court drama between Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and Michael Jordan - from New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen.. "Cohen brings new life to these athletes...
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home - from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America. "Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period."...
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Failure Is Not NOT an Option: How the Chubby Gay Son of a Jesus-Obsessed Lesbian Found Love, Family, and Podcast Success . . . and a Bunch of Other Stuff

Patrick Hinds - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

Patrick Hinds has failed. A lot. In fact, he's kind of an expert at it - which is why he's uniquely qualified to say that failure is a good thing.. On paper, the chubby, poor, gay son of a lesbian who wrote pornographic letters to Jesus isn't the person that you think of when...
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