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Searching for the Sound: My Life with...

Phil Lesh

In this ruthlessly honest, illuminating bestseller, the bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead.

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Published: Apr 2006

The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir

Ariel Levy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and loveNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYVogue• Time• Esquire�...

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Published: Apr 2018

Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fat...

Michael Lewis

When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first, this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fat...

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Published: May 2009

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicil...

Tembi Locke

This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and found" (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food,...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love an...

Judith Mackrell

"A breathtaking social portrait, peeling the glitter from privileged lives even as it fleshes out the spectacle they created." ―The Washington Post Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to th...

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Published: Sep 2018

Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Mis...

Don Mann

The Inside Story of America's Ultimate Warriors When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade...

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Published: Jun 2012

Paris: A Love Story; A Memoir

Kati Marton

[Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris -- and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journal...

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Published: Aug 2012

At Home in the World: A Memoir

Joyce Maynard

New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day\n\nWith a New Preface\n\n\n\nWhen it was first published in 1998, At Home in the Worldset off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard\'s memoir broke a silence concerning ...

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Published: Sep 2013

C.S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius...

Alister E. McGrath

Fifty years after his death, C.S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embra...

Glennon Doyle Melton

For years Glennon Doyle Melton built a wall between herself and others, hiding inside a bunker of secrets and shame. But one day everything changed: Glennon woke up to life, committing herself to living out loud and giving language to...

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Published: Apr 2014

A Country of Vast Designs

Robert W. Merry

When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2010

Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friends...

Ben Moon

The story of a dog, his human, and the friendship that saved both of their lives.When Ben Moon moved from the Midwest to Oregon, he hadn't planned on getting a dog. But when he first met the soulful gaze of a rescue pup in a shelter, ...

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Published: Jan 2020

Winded: A Memoir in Four Stages

Dawn Newton

When Dawn Newton, an adjunct professor and mother of three, gets a terminal lung cancer diagnosis, the path forward appears rutted. The Great Recession has left her exhausted and juggling multiple jobs. Then she learns of her cancer's...

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Published: Oct 2019

Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of ...

Robert L. O'Connell

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape—...

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Published: May 2015

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes w...

Maggie O'Farrell

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O'Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness tha...

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Published: Jan 2019

Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Docto...

Danielle Ofri

When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of New York's legendary Bellevue Hospital as a tentative medical student, she is plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, patients speaking any one of a dozen language...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the M...

Susan Page

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- The AtlanticA vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influe...

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Published: Apr 2019

James Patterson by James Patterson: T...

James Patterson

How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world?·         On the morning he was born, he nearly died. ·  ...

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Published: Jun 2022

Bird Cloud: A Memoir

Annie Proulx

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2011

Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection ...

Dwayne Raymond

In the spring of 2003 when Norman Mailer was 80 years old, he invited an improbable companion into his life: Dwayne Raymond, 40 years his junior, originally from a small town in Oregon, and now a waiter at a restaurant in Provincetown...

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Published: Feb 2010

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raise...

Cokie Roberts

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their fam...

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Published: Mar 2005

The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the...

Angus Roxburgh

Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democracy many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed. Angus Roxburgh charts the dramatic fight for Russia's future under Vladimir Putin—ho...

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Published: May 2013

Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Ma...

Jeremy Schaap

Includes a one-hour interview from 1970 with boxing legend James Braddock! Lost in the annals of boxing is the sport's true Cinderella story. James J. Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a once promising l...

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Published: Apr 2005

Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind th...

Paul Schneider

The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who shot their way across Depression-era America, based on archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviewsThe daring movie revolutionized Hollywood—now the true story of B...

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Published: Mar 2010

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasur...

Dani Shapiro

"Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers ...

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Published: Aug 2014

Beautiful Boy (Movie Tie-In Edition):...

David Sheff

#1 New York Times bestseller  With a new afterwordNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell * Timothée Chalamet * Maura Tierney * and Amy Ryan “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful mo...

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Published: Sep 2018

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, On...

Rob Sheffield

Rock critic Rob Sheffield, an editor at Rolling Stone, uses 15 mix tapes to help structure his lively, funny, and surprisingly touching ode to the 1990s, rock music, and his punk-rock wife who died suddenly five years into their marri...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2007

Little Failure: A Memoir

Gary Shteyngart

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "SO FAR" BY TIME AND THE WASHINGTON POST • NAMED ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' "NEW BOOKS DESTINED TO BECOME CLASSICS" • SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPEAR'...

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Published: Oct 2014

Boys in the Trees: A Memoir

Carly Simon

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Comp...

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Published: Nov 2016

Jackie Robinson and the Integration o...

Scott Simon

Biography/Sports 'An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk.' —Chicago Tribune 'Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson's arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this...

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Published: Mar 2007
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