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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Esca...

Seth Meyerowitz

For fans of Unbroken, the remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months bef...

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Published: Nov 2016

Zelda: A Biography

Nancy Milford

Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age...

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Published: Dec 2011

Timebends: A Life

Arthur Miller

The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller-the famous playwright of The Crucible, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, and other plays-Timebends reveals Miller's incredible trajectory as a man and a writer.Born in 191...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Church of Cheese: Gypsy Ritual in...

Carol Miller

A disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies have yet to enter the American public consciousness, yet they have been arriving since the late sixteenth century. Columbus brought several, forcibly transported to the Colonies, and man...

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Published: Jan 2010

Know My Name: A Memoir

Chanel Miller

\"Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful.\"\r\n—Washington Post\r\n\r\nUniversally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an instant New York Timesbestseller, Chanel Miller\'s breathtaking memo...

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Published: Aug 2020

Coming Clean: A Memoir

Kimberly Rae Miller

Kimberly Rae Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a beautifully tidy apartment in Brooklyn. You would never guess that behind the closed doors of her family's idyllic Long Island h...

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Published: May 2014

The Bronte Myth

Lucasta Miller

In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, The Bronte Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte became cultural icons whose ever-changing reputations reflected the obsessions of various eras.When ...

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Published: Jan 2005

Anything but Simple: My Life as a Men...

Lucinda Miller

Like her grandmother, Lucinda J. Miller wears long dresses and a prayer covering. But she uses a cellphone and posts status updates on Facebook, too. Anything but Simple is the riveting memoir of a young woman's rich church tradition,...

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Published: Jul 2017

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss...

Lulu Miller

A Best Book of 2020:The Washington Post* NPR *Chicago Tribune *Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (TheWall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don&rs...

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Published: Apr 2021

Called to Be Amish: My Journey from H...

Marlene C. Miller

Fewer than one hundred people have joined the Old Order Amish and stayed since 1950. Marlene C. Miller is one of them. In this rare memoir, Marlene recounts her unhappy and abusive childhood, how she throws herself into cheerleading a...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Re...

Steve Miller

In this frank memoir, Steve Miller, who has spent the majority of his career salvaging American companies on the verge of ruin, reveals a rarely seen side of American management. This is a blunt and unsparing look at Miller's own educ...

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Published: Apr 2008

Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower and...

William Lee Miller

From William Lee Miller, the highly regarded biographer of Abraham Lincoln, a riveting dual examination of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower that explores the similarities and equally striking differences of two remarkable men in the...

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Published: Jan 2013

Forever Young: A Memoir

Hayley Mills

In this New York Times and USA Todaybestseller, iconic actress Hayley Mills shares personal memories from her storied childhood, growing up in a famous acting family and becoming a Disney child'star, trying to grow up in a world that ...

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Published: Jul 2022

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with ...

Marja Mills

"A winning, nuanced portrait. . . . It seems unlikely we'll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life." —USA TodayTo Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. Yet for the la...

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Published: Jun 2015

It Was Me All Along: A Memoir

Andie Mitchell

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell ha...

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Published: Dec 2015

Frederick the Great

Nancy Mitford

The Prussian king Frederick II (1712–1786) is perhaps best known for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), a feat th...

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Published: Jun 2013

Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Lov...

Azadeh Moaveni

Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with...

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Published: Apr 2010

Young Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless poli...

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Published: Oct 2008

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One...

Kate Moore

From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change f...

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Published: Feb 2022

A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rema...

Caroline Moorehead

The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose ...

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Published: Oct 2018

I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Priv...

Bill Morgan

In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give ...

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Published: Oct 2007

Diary of a Submissive: A Modern True ...

Sophie Morgan

In Diary of a Submissive, Sophie Morgan candidly explains what exactly an independent, twenty-first century woman gets out of relinquishing her power and personal freedom in a submissive relationship with a dominant man for their mutu...

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Published: Apr 2013

Edison

Edmund Morris

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous Americ...

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Published: Oct 2019

A Great and Terrible King: Edward I a...

Marc Morris

The first major biography of a truly formidable king, whose reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale. Edward I is familiar to millions as "L...

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Published: Jun 2016

A Life Unburdened: Getting Over Weigh...

Richard Morris

A Life Unburdened chronicles the amazing transformation of Richard Morris, whose life of personal and public pain--a life burdened by more than 400 pounds--undergoes an amazing transformation as Richard discovers the redemptive power ...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Spiral Shell: A French Village Re...

Sandell Morse

When granted a residency at an artists’ retreat in the picturesque village of Auvillar, in southwestern France, writer Sandell Morse noticed a puzzling lack of Jewish memorials and landmarks there that marked the resistance of l...

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Published: Apr 2022

A Place to Land: A Story of Longing a...

Kate Motaung

A Place to Land is a globe-spanning memoir that wrestles with the question, ''Where is my home?'' Kate Motaung watched ''home'' slip away again and again--through her parents' divorce, a foreclosure, two international moves, ten renta...

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Published: Apr 2018

Born with Teeth: A Memoir

Kate Mulgrew

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdene...

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Published: Jan 2016

The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's E...

Craig M. Mullaney

A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow.

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Published: Apr 2009

365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy

Charla Muller

When Charla Muller's husband turned 40, she gave him something memorable. Sex. Every day. For an entire year. The Mullers had a solid marriage and two wonderful children, but over the years sex had fallen low on their to-do list. The ...

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Published: Jul 2008
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