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Orange Is the New Black (Movie Tie-in...

Piper Kerman

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But tha...

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Published: Aug 2013

Lost in the Meritocracy: The Underedu...

Walter Kirn

A New York Times Notable Book A Daily Beast Best Book of the YearA Huffington Post Best Book of the Year From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and p...

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Published: Jun 2010

Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story ...

Ben Macintyre

In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich's bigoted, imperious sister, founded a "racially pure" colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivo...

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Published: Apr 2011

White Tigers: My Secret War in North ...

Ben S. Malcom

Operating from a clandestine camp on an island off western North Korea, Army Lt. Ben Malcom coordinated the intelligence activities of eleven partisan battalions, including the famous White Tigers. With Malcom's experiences as its foc...

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Published: Apr 2003

Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckonin...

Martha Manning

The memoir of an ordinary woman--a mother, a daughter, a psychologist, a wife--who skillfully, uncannily tells the tale of her spiraling descent into a severe, debilitating depression, Manning's is a witty and graceful account that be...

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Published: Jan 1994

Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and ...

Luis Carlos Montalvan

* Now a New York Times bestseller *A heartwarming true dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, transforms a former soldier's life forever Excerpt: "Tuesday combines a golden retriever's innate playfulness ...

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Published: Apr 2012

Making Toast: A Family Story

Roger Rosenblatt

From O magazine to the New York Times, from authors such as E. L. Doctorow to Ann Beattie, critics and writers across the country have hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as an evocative, moving testament to the enduring power of ...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story ...

Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry met in Buenos Aires in 1930—she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his pass...

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Published: Jan 2003

Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbuc...

Howard Schultz

Since 1987, Starbucks's star has been on the rise, growing from 11 Seattle, WA-based stores to more than 1,000 worldwide. Its goals grew, too, from the more modest, albeit fundamental one of offering high-quality coffee beans roasted ...

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Published: Jan 1999

The Pillow Book

Sei Shonagon

The classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of ...

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Published: Nov 2007

Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story o...

John Soennichsen

Channeled Scablands, between Idaho and the Cascades, is a unique landscape of basalt cliffs, dry waterfalls, canyons, and coulees. Legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz was the first to explore the area, starting in the 1920s. This drama...

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Published: Nov 2009

Lost In Tibet

Richard Starks

Set against the majestic yet unforgiving Himalayan landscape of World War II Tibet-an unknown and tightly sealed land deeply suspicious of foreigners--LOST IN TIBET recounts the taut adventure of five American airmen facing the greate...

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Published: Nov 2005

The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Ta...

Jon M. Sweeney

At the close of the tumultuous Middle Ages, there lived a man who seemed destined from birth to save the world. His name was Peter Morrone, a hermit, a founder of a religious order, and, depending on whom you talk to, a reformer, an i...

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Published: Mar 2012

A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilli...

Neal Thompson

A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, ...

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Published: Jun 2014

Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After ...

Rebecca Walker

From the international bestselling author of Black, White, and Jewish comes a 'wonderfully insightful' (Associated Press) book that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade. Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-ol...

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Published: Mar 2008

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoi...

Neil White

Daddy is going to camp. That's what I told my children. A child psychologist suggested it. "Words like prison and jail conjure up dangerous images for children," she explained. But it wasn't camp . . . Neil White, a journali...

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Published: Jun 2010

The Right Steph: How Stephen Curry Is...

Mike Yorkey

In the last couple of years, Stephen Curry has reshaped the way basketball is played, been proclaimed the best shooter in basketball history (with the stats to back him up), morphed into the baby-faced face of the NBA, and has been la...

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Published: Nov 2016

Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of Fran...

Christine Pevitt Algrant

This biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV offers dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a ri...

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Published: Aug 2003

A Wedding in Haiti

Julia Alvarez

In a story that travels beyond borders and between families, acclaimed Dominican novelist and poet Julia Alvarez reflects on the joys and burdens of love—for her parents, for her husband, and for a young Haitian boy known as Piti. I...

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Published: Mar 2013

He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and M...

Mimi Baird

Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony KushnerA Washington Post Best Book of 2015A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back to...

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Published: Feb 2016

Nothing To Be Frightened Of

Julian Barnes

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA New York Times Best Book of the YearDeadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly funny, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting, highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the fin...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Boys of My Youth

Jo Ann Beard

Jo Ann Beard beautifully evokes her childhood in the early '60s, a time in which mothers continued to smoke right up to labor, one's own scabs were deeply interesting, and Barbie dolls seemed to get naked of their own volition, knowin...

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Published: Jan 1999

Bark If You Love Me

Louise Bernikow

A single city woman meets Mr. Right-he has amber eyes and a wily heart. There's only one catch . . . he has four legs and a tail.Relatively indifferent to the natural world, allergic to dogs, and happily independent, writer Louise Ber...

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Published: Sep 2001

You Can't Win

Jack Black

An amazing autobiography of a criminal from a forgotten time in american history. Jack Black was a burgler, safe-cracker, highwayman and petty thief.

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Published: Jun 2007

The Black Hand: The Story of Rene 'Bo...

Chris Blatchford

Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up in East L.A., where gang fights and drive-by shootings were everyday occurrences fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. Sent to prison at nineteen, he was recruited by La Eme, the near-mythic Mexi...

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Published: Sep 2009

Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and U...

Eric Blehm

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afgh...

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Published: May 2013

The Last Season

Eric Blehm

Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mounta...

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Published: Feb 2007

Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite ...

Molly Bloom

Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world—an insider's story of excess and danger, glamour and greed.In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunet...

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Published: Jan 2015

Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on th...

Leo Bretholz

A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--'riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history' (Library Journal).Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escap...

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Published: Sep 1999

Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous H...

Pope Brock

In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley–America's most brazen young con man–arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an o...

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Published: Jan 2009
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