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Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and ...

Luis Carlos Montalvan

* Now a New York Times bestseller * A heartwarming true dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, transforms a former soldier's life forever Excerpt: "Tuesday combines a golden retriever's innate playful...

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Published: Nov 2011

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Sto...

Richard Lloyd Parry

Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.  Richard L...

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Published: May 2012

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life ...

Janet Wallach

Turning away from the privileged world of the 'eminent Victorians,' Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in...

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Published: Jul 2005

Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The Tru...

Mark Mathabane

The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South AfricaMark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his r...

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Published: Oct 1998

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

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.

Paperback
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 ...

Abridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2006

My Detachment: A Memoir

Tracy Kidder

The award-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains reminisces about his own life, in a unromanticized profile of a young man coming of age during the Vietnam War, chronicling his experiences as a former ROTC intelligence officer i...

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Published: Oct 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

The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of ...

Alison Weir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT • From bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of...

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Published: Jan 2017

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

Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and ...

Luis Carlos Montalvan

* Now a New York Times bestseller *A heartwarming true dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, transforms a former soldier's life forever Excerpt: "Tuesday combines a golden retriever's innate playfulness ...

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Published: Apr 2012

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

I Love You, Miss Huddleston: and Othe...

Philip Gulley

With his ear for the small town and his knack for finding the needle of humor in life's haystack, Philip Gulley might well be Indiana's answer to Missouri's Mark Twain. In I Love You, Miss Huddleston we are transported to 1970's Danv...

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Published: May 2010

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...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2004

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...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2004
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