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The Bond

Sampson Davis

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller The Pact, a "timely, healing and hope-filled" exploration of fatherhood (Detroit Free Press).Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt discovered early in their fri...

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Published: Oct 2008

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of...

Richard Dawkins

An Appetite for Wonder is a disarming account of world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins's early life, from his childhood in colonial East Africa to the writing of one of the twentieth century's seminal works, The Selfish ...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II

Karen Dolby

A charming collection of quotes and anecdotes celebrating the incomparable Queen of EnglandWhen we think of the queen, we probably picture a serious, dignified personage complete with majestic hat and matching handbag. But The Wicked ...

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Published: Nov 2017

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of S...

Martin Dugard

With the utterance of a single line—"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. Da...

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Published: Apr 2004

My Wicked Wicked Ways: The Autobiogra...

Errol Flynn

Scandalous film star Errol Flynn tells all in this autobiography, detailing his pre-Hollywood career as a mercenary, and his trial for rape in 1943.

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Published: Feb 2003

438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story...

Jonathan Franklin

“The best survival book in a decade” (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, a pair ...

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Published: Sep 2016

Living to Tell the Tale

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed...

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Published: Oct 2004

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Translated by Randolf Hogan. In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. T...

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Published: Mar 1989

The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Ha...

Melanie Gideon

"We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are y...

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Published: Aug 2010

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable ...

Sujatha Gidla

A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly...

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Published: Jul 2018

This Family of Mine: What It Was Like...

Victoria Gotti

For decades, scandalous rumors and sensational tabloid headlines have obscured the truth about one of the most famous and intriguing families in modern history: the real players, the real relationships, behind the closed doors of the ...

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Published: Dec 2010

The Negro Travelers' Green Book: 1954...

Victor H. Green

In the segregated US of the mid-twentieth century, African-American travelers could have a hard time finding towns where they were legally allowed to stay at night and hotels, restaurants, and service stations willing to serve them. V...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Proud Bastards: One Marine's Jour...

E. Michael Helms

In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened Marines -- and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. It was the first stop on a journey that would forever ...

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Published: Feb 2004

All Creatures Great and Small: The Wa...

James Herriot

A tie-in to the PBS Masterpiece series and Christmas special. The first volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series. Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and ...

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Published: Aug 2020

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up ...

Chanrithy Him

In this luminous memoir, Chanrithy Him takes readers into the chaotic world of the Khmer Rouge. Over the course of four years five members of her family, including her parents, die, and so do nearly two million other Khmer. Out of sha...

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Published: Apr 2001

Snake Charmer, The: A Life and Death ...

Jamie James

Absolutely riveting. This sensitive, fascinating exploration of a scientist's quest for knowledge deepens with relentless suspense into a classic tale of a man's fight for survival in the wilderness.' --Linda Greenlaw, author of The ...

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Published: Jun 2009

A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Sp...

Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho is the first undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the WWE and WCW, and has been called one of the fifty greatest wrestlers of all time. Now retired, he is writing his memoir, telling the story of his journey from wrestling...

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Published: Oct 2008

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Me...

Sebastian Junger

"There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real." ―Los Angeles TimesIt was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high―a tempest created by so rare a combination of f...

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Published: Jul 1998

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

Martin Luther King

Back in print in this handy pocket paperback format, ideal for Martin Luther King's Birthday (January 15) and Black History Month. (February). Over 200,000 copies sold--this perennial classic belongs in every home, school and library....

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Published: Apr 2001

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind o...

Robert Kolker

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR PEOPLE'S #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Named a BEST...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Stor...

Lily Koppel

As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. T...

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Published: Jun 2014

Posterity: Letters of Great Americans...

Dorie McCullough Lawson

An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America’s most storied families.Poster...

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Published: Mar 2008

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of th...

John Lewis

The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of t...

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Published: Oct 1999

White Like Her: My Family's Story of ...

Gail Lukasik

As seen on The Today Show and in the Washington Post's most inspiring stories of the year! “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history.”—Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS&rsqu...

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Published: Feb 2021

Company Commander: The Classic Infant...

Charles Blair Macdonald

As a newly commissioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish-the Battle of the Bulge.

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Published: Jan 1999

Paris Letters

Janice MacLeod

Two days into her stop in Paris, she met Christophe, who worked in the butcher shop across from the cafe where she wrote. A sizzling romance began, yet soon her wanderlust pushed her to continue her travels. But his Daniel Craig good...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, a...

Myra MacPherson

A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world...

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Published: Mar 2015

Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary B...

Don Malarkey

Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and was one of the one in six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the ground for the largest amphibious military attack i...

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Published: May 2009

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiograp...

Nelson Mandela

The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself inLong Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretlywhile Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid...

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Published: Oct 1995

Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Gr...

Eric Metaxas

In Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas presents seven exquisitely crafted short portraits of widely known—but not well understood—Christian men, each of whom uniquely showcases a commitment to live by certai...

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Published: Mar 2015
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