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Golda

Elinor Burkett

The first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history, Golda Meir was a member of the tiny coterie of founders of the State of Israel, the architect of its socialist infrastructur...

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Published: Jul 2009

Most Talkative: Stories from the Fron...

Andy Cohen

The man behind the Real Housewives writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brought him from the suburbs of St. Louis to his own television showFrom a young age, Andy Cohen knew one thing: He loved television. Not i...

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Published: Mar 2013

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentl...

Katie J. Davis

What would cause an eighteen-year-old old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disappoint her parents by forgoing college, break her little brother's heart, lose all but a handful of her friends (b...

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Published: May 2012

The Pact

Sampson Davis

They grew up on the streets of Newark, facing city life's temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the l...

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Published: May 2003

The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abrah...

Thomas J. Dilorenzo

A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary WarMost Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books...

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Published: Dec 2003

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Pract...

Tony Dungy

Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach--especially a football coach--to win the r...

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Published: May 2008

Anne Perry and the Murder of the Cent...

Peter Graham

A New York Times Best Seller!"A worthy retrospective that feels chilling in the manner of novelist Perry." -Kirkus ReviewsOn June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme-better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry-a...

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Published: Jan 2016

Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends

William Guarnere

Tom Hanks introduces the "remarkable"(Publishers Weekly) story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heff...

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Published: Oct 2008

Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mex...

Rose Castillo Guilbault

In this memoir, Guilbault invites us into her girlhood, revealing what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming community during the turbulent 1960s. With openness, courage, and charm, she recalls her early struggles...

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Published: May 2006

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of El...

Peter Guralnick

There's no mention of sequins, drugs, or peanut butter in thisunderstated biography of the teenaged Elvis, a serious and worthy attempt toanswer the question, 'Who was this guy before he was an icon, thevoice of a generation, the King...

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Published: Sep 1995

Vacationland: True Stories from Painf...

John Hodgman

"I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size." —Jon StewartAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that ...

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Published: May 2018

The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals an...

Tim Howard

In this inspiring, down-to-earth memoir the revered goalkeeper and American icon  idolized by millions worldwide for his dependability, daring, and humility recounts his rise to stardom at the 2014 World Cup, the psychological and pr...

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Published: May 2015

Mama Made The Difference: Life Lesson...

T. D. Jakes

Inspirational writer and minister T. D. Jakes writes lovingly about the key role that his mother played in his life, as he reflects on mothers from scripture and shares memories from other prominent African Americans about their mothe...

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Published: Apr 2007

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the A...

Sue Klebold

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own ...

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Published: Feb 2017

Oprah Winfrey (Rookie Biographies)

Wil Mara

Presents a brief look at the life of Oprah Winfrey

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Published: Sep 2005

The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary ...

Sy Montgomery

“Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am.”–from The Good Good PigA naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among...

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Published: Apr 2007

Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Ki...

Mike Rothmiller

Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Murdered Marilyn Monroe tells the essential truth of the death of Marilyn Monroe at the hand of Robert Kennedy, Attorney General of the United States. Drawing on unseen police files, Marilyn Mon...

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Published: Oct 2021

The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir

George Lucius Salton

In September, 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation. His father, a lawyer, was forbidden to work, but eleven-year-old George dug potatoes, split...

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Published: Mar 2004

Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Ind...

Alma H. Snell

“I became what the Crows call káalisbaapite—a ‘grandmother’s grandchild.’ That means that I was always with my Grandma, and I learned from her. I learned how to do things in the old ways.”—Al...

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Published: Sep 2001

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of Hist...

Ted Sorensen

In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and t...

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Published: May 2008

Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eigh...

Pat Head Summitt

Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down h...

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Published: Mar 2014

Dixieland Delight: A Football Season ...

Clay Travis

There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot a...

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Published: Aug 2007

Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight Pe...

Nick Trout

"The lessons that these animals taught me have been subtle, startling, and inspirational, playing a small but vital part in helping to shape the person you see with the stethoscope around his neck." —Dr. Nick Trout New Yo...

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Published: Feb 2012

Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the Amer...

Steven Watts

Hugh Hefners life behind the public persona, from awkward schoolboy to cultural iconwritten with his full cooperation.

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Published: Oct 2008

Life on the Color Line: The True Stor...

Gregory Howard Williams

The author recounts the shock he experienced when he learned that his father's relatives in Muncie, Indiana, were poor and black, and describes the prejudice that he and his brother endured from both sides. Reprint. NYT.

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Published: Feb 1996

Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awak...

Manal Al-Sharif

"A vital, inspiring book" (O, The Oprah Magazine): a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the rig...

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Published: Jun 2018

These Few Precious Days: The Final Ye...

Christopher P. Andersen

They were the original power couple—outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare, behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kennedys in their final year together, #1 New York Times bestselling biogr...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Amityville Horror

Jay Anson

In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in that house. But the property co...

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Published: Mar 2010

My (Underground) American Dream: My T...

Julissa Arce

What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most...

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Published: Sep 2017

Swing That Music

Louis Armstrong

The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Louis Armstrong's Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature. Armstrong wrote most of the biographical material, which is of a different nature and scope than that of his other, late...

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Published: Aug 1993
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