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The Marriage Bureau: True Stories fro...

Penrose Halson

A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by.In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four...

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Published: May 2017

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadverten...

Gabrielle Hamilton

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBefore Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional jour...

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Published: Jan 2012

I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir o...

Janelle Hanchett

"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood."--POPSUGAR"By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir."--Kirkus"Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction... ...

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Published: May 2019

North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Fa...

Captain Sig Hansen

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerou...

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Published: Apr 2011

A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of ...

Robert Earl Hardy

 Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandt's background as the scion of a promin...

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Published: Feb 2010

Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey

Patricia Harman

A midwife's memoir of living free and naturally against all oddsIn her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-mid...

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Published: Mar 2012

Teresa of Avila: Selections from the ...

HarperCollins Spiritual Classics

Teresa of Avila, a renowned sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, received the vision for The Interior Castle one Sunday in 1577. In this signature work, Teresa uses the castle as a symbol for the interior life to describe her mystical ex...

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Published: Sep 2004

Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Litt...

Heather Harpham

Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine's April 2018 book pickA shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming co...

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Published: Nov 2018

The Longest Kill: The Story of Maveri...

Craig Harrison

It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig H...

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Published: Feb 2017

Melissa Explains It All: Tales from M...

Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart explained it all--from dating to bullies--in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, ...

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Published: Nov 2014

Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined ...

Maggie Hartley

The powerfully moving new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maggie Hartley.Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning...

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Published: Nov 2018

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter:...

Lucinda Hawksley

Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.The secrets of Queen Victoria's six...

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Published: Aug 2017

Playing to the Edge: American Intelli...

Michael V. Hayden

An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change  For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge m...

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Published: Feb 2016

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sack...

Bill Hayes

Amazon’s Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2017 List\r\n“This touching memoir of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks, by a photographer and writer with whom he fell in love near the end of his life, turns a story of death into...

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Published: Jan 2018

When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War...

Glyn Haynie

It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who'd enlisted or been drafte...

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Published: Mar 2017

A Young Man in the Wild Blue Yonder: ...

David K. Hayward

David Hayward, a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, takes the reader through his adventures and challenges as a young man serving his country in World War II. Would he "wash out" of flying school? Would he survive the dange...

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Published: Dec 2013

A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramed...

Kevin Hazzard

A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.In the aftermath of 9/11 Ke...

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Published: Sep 2016

Henry Clay: The Essential American

David S. Heidler

He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidat...

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Published: May 2011

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Di...

Jill Heinerth

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planetMore people have died exploring unde...

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Published: Aug 2020

Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview:...

Ernest Hemingway

An extraordinary collection of pugnacious, charming, and revealing interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who defined and transformed American literature.Hemingway was not only known for his understated style, but for his publ...

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Published: Dec 2015

Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story o...

Bruce Henderson

[Read by Brett Barry]In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2017

Walking in the Shadow of Death: The S...

William Henderson

This is a story of a Vietnam Infantry Soldier who along with his second platoon survived the mountainous jungles of South Vietnam against a determined enemy.My prayers, which always gives me comfort in the most difficult moments of my...

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Published: Oct 2017

Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Hims...

Doc Hendley

The captivating story of an ordinary bartender turned humanitarian who's changing the world through clean water. Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. A small-town bartender, Doc loved his Harley, music, and booze. Then he learned...

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Published: Dec 2012

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and...

Diana B. Henriques

The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking new details from Madoff himself.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2011

A Ship With No Name

Richard Hersey

This is the story of rescue operations in the English Channel just before, during, and after the D-Day invasion aboard an ocean-going tug, "a ship with no name." The memoir, written by the executive officer of ATR-3, tells ...

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Published: Sep 2011

All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet U...

Clinton Heylin

The Velvet Underground, among the most influential bands of all time, are credited with creating a streetwise, pre-punk sensibility that has become inseparable from the popular image of downtown New York. 'Discovered' by Andy Warhol i...

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Published: Jan 2005

Corruption Officer: My Journey from J...

Gary Heyward

In this shocking memoir from a former corrections officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, and devastating account of his descent into criminal life, smuggling contraband inside the infamous Rikers Island jails.Gary Heywar...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of...

Naoki Higashida

The Reason I Jump

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Published: Mar 2016

Hill 488

Ray Hildreth

On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2015

Princess Masako: The Tragic True Stor...

Ben Hills

The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author. IIt's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that's not how it turn...

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Published: Jan 2008
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