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Trump: The Art of the Deal

Donald J. Trump

From the Impresario of NBC's hit show The ApprenticeTRUMP ON TRUMP: "I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big."And here's how he does it: ...

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Published: Dec 2004

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

The author of Asa, as I Knew Him offers a compelling and poignant memoir of her two years as a teenager in a psychiatric hospital, sharing vivid portraits of her fellow patients, their keepers, and her experiences during treatment. Re...

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Published: Jan 1994

Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their...

Carolyn Spiro

A dual memoir tells the alternating stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces their childhoods, the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the othe...

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Published: Aug 2006

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary ...

Joseph J. Ellis

In lesser hands the fractious disputes and hysterical rhetoric of these contentious nation-builders might come across as hyperbolic pettiness. Ellis knows better, and he unpacks the real issues for his readers, revealing the driving a...

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Published: Jan 2000

unSweetined: A Memoir

Jodie Sweetin

Beloved Full House star Jodie Sweetin recounts her journey from being one of America's sweethearts to a life of drug abuse and finally recovery.

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Published: Jul 2010

In Pieces

Sally Field

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her own story for the first time--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her j...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2018

Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Woo...

Suzanne Finstad

A definitive portrait of the acclaimed film actress describes Wood’s youth as an abused and exploited child star and troubled teen, her years as a top movie star, her romances, her two marriages to Robert Wagner, and her tragic ...

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Published: Mar 2006

The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Ch...

Tilar J. Mazzeo

Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow - the 'Veuve' - Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and R...

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Published: Oct 2009

Just Kids

Patti Smith

Smith's evocative, honest, and moving coming-of-age story reveals her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Part romance, part elegy, 'Just Kids' is about friendship in the truest sense, and the artist's calling.

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Published: Nov 2010

The Jew Store

Stella Suberman

The Bronsons were the first Jews to ever live in the small town of Concordia, Tennessee-a town consisting of one main street, one bank, one drugstore, one picture show, one feed and seed, one hardware store, one beauty parlor, one bar...

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Published: Sep 2001

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Othe...

Alan Alda

Alan Alda's autobiography travels a path less taken. Instead of a sensationalist, name-dropping page-turner, Alda writes about his life as a memory play, an exercise in recollecting his childhood, his parents (dad Robert was a veteran...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2005

Sex Money Kiss

Gene Simmons

Let's face it, just because I stick out my tongue a lot and spit fire doesn't mean I have any qualifications to advise anyone on relationship, money or career issues. I don't. Yet I've lived with a beautiful woman for twenty years wit...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

Not Even My Name: A True Story

Thea Halo

Not Even My Name is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I. As told ...

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Published: Jun 2001

My Greatest Day in Baseball: Forty-Se...

John P. Carmichael

My Greatest Day in Baseball, one of the earliest collections of the game's oral histories, presents forty-seven famous stars from the golden age of baseball relating their most unforgettable moments in the sport. Ty Cobb vividly recre...

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Published: Jan 1996

Grant

Ron Chernow

#1 New York Times bestsellerNew York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of 2017Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.  Uly...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Kennedy Assassination Cover-up

Donald Gibson

Over the course of half a century, polls have repeatedly shown that most Americans refuse to accept the official story of the Kennedy Assassination. That story, set forth by the media and by a Presidential Commission dominated by repr...

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Published: Dec 2014

Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leade...

R. Eli Paul

Red Cloud was the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. Here, for the first time in print, is Red Cloud's 'as-told-to' autobiography in which he shares the story of his early years.

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Published: Jan 1997

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold ...

Sonia Purnell

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERChosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator...

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Published: Mar 2020

Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home

Nina Stibbe

"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, BernadetteIn 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to Lon...

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Published: Nov 2014

Divorced from the Mob

Andrea Giovino

Divorced from the Mob breaks the mob code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Mafia and her courageous escape. A view of mob life largely unexplored by film and literature, this is an inspirational true...

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Published: May 2004

Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Trage...

Jerry Oppenheimer

From the founders of the international health-care behemoth Johnson & Johnson in the late 1800s to the contemporary Johnsons of today, such as billionaire New York Jets owner Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV, all is revealed i...

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Published: Aug 2014

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About H...

Jenny Lawson

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened...In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled read...

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Published: Sep 2016

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

Jimmy Carter

In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and "reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian" (Bo...

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Published: Jul 2016

I, Rhoda

Valerie Harper

The heartwarming memoir from beloved, award-winning television actress Valerie Harper.Valerie Harper is finally ready to tell her story. In this, her first memoir, the beloved and award-winning television actress reflects on the role ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2013

Titanic Survivor

Violet Jessop

A bestseller both in the U.S. and U.K. now available in paperback. This biography succeeds due to its unique authenticity and wrenching firsthand account of that unforgettable tragedy. Jessop served as a stewardess for first-class pa...

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Published: Oct 2004

Irena's Children: The Extraordinary S...

Tilar J. Mazzeo

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the "female Oskar Schindler"—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and d...

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Published: Jun 2017

Bowing to the Emperor: We Were Captiv...

Robine Andrau

More than 10,000 women and children. That's how many civilian prisoners of the Japanese were packed into Tjideng, reportedly the worst Japanese concentration camp in Java during World War II. Among these 10,000 mostly Dutch women and ...

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Published: Aug 2015

Untold Stories Part One: Stories (Pt....

Alan Bennett

Untold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his UK-bestselling Writing Home, brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last ten years. Two recordings feature selected material from Untold...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2010

Federer

Chris Bowers

This admired biography traces the rise of Roger Federer, from his first tentative strokes with a racket to legendary status, and perhaps even the title of greatest tennis player ever. It looks at his development as a sportsman and how...

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Published: Sep 2016

You Never Forget Your First: A Biogra...

Alexis Coe

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER AN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book….Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor… [You Never Forget Your Fi...

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Published: Feb 2021
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