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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of...

Mark Owen

The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the res...

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Published: May 2014

Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk

An intriguing literary portrait of one of the world's most complex and diverse cities by the renowned author of My Name Is Red interweaves the history of Istanbul with observations and reflections on the city's landmarks, art, people,...

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Published: Jul 2006

Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, ...

Julie Powell

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING.Her marriage challenged by an ...

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Published: Nov 2010

Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declar...

Jenni Schaefer

A unique new approach to treating eating disorders Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. L...

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Published: Jan 2004

Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and B...

Julia Scheeres

Accused . . . Targeted . . . Sentenced . . .Wrongfully Imprisoned. Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a world-famous trial so bizarre that it defied all reason. Charged with a crime neither could fathom, let alone ...

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Published: Apr 2013

Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understa...

William Shatner

You love William Shatner.br You admire his many and varied talents.br You appreciate his creativity and willingness to take risks.br You want to learn his master negotiation techniques.br You wish you could hang out with him.br Admit ...

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Published: Sep 2012

Jane Austen (Lives)

Carol Shields

IIt's a perennial source of frustration to Jane Austen's admirers that so little is known about her quiet existence as an unmarried woman seeking an outlet for her ferocious intelligence in genteel, rural England at the turn of the 19...

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Published: May 2005

Pimp: The Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim

As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Slim's life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. Only he could tell this story and make the reader feel it. If you thought Hustle & Flow was the true pimp story, this...

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Published: May 2011

Kennedy: The Classic Biography

Ted Sorensen

A powerfully moving biography of JFK by one of his closest friends and advisors. Sorensen's work was first published in 1965 when the wounds caused by the assassination had barely time to heal. It has remained a classic and is indi...

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Published: Nov 2009

Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The G...

Hilary Spurling

One of the twentieth century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestselle...

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Published: Jun 2011

Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

Walter Stahr

The New York Times bestselling biography of Lincoln's closest adviser and friend William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York, outspoken United States senator...

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Published: Sep 2013

Women of Means: The Fascinating Biogr...

Marlene Wagman Gellar

Glimpse Behind the Façade of Rich and Famous WomenIf you liked The Last Castle and Lean In, you’ll love Women of Means.The Grass Isn't Greener on the Other Side: Heiresses have always been viewed with eyes of envy. They were t...

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Published: May 2019

John Wayne: My Father

Aissa Wayne

The daughter of John Wayne and his third wife, Pilar, Aissa delves into her father's childhood, his film career, and his life off the screen. John Wayne: My Father reports Wayne's life faithfully and compassionately, resulting in an a...

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Published: Jan 1998

One Man Against the World: The Traged...

Tim Weiner

A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner.Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One ...

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Published: Jun 2016

Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and ...

Alison Weir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.Many are familiar with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of England and the celebrated reign o...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantasti...

Simon Winchester

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ('Elegant and scrupulous'—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ('A mesmerizing page-turner'—Time) brings to life t...

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Published: May 2009

Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assau...

Primo Levi

Levi's haunting memoir about his ten months in the German death camp Auschwitz is an unforgettable chronicle of systematic cruelty and miraculous survival. First published in 1947, this bestselling work now includes a new afterword--a...

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Published: Sep 1995

why I'm like this: True Stories

Cynthia Kaplan

Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world -- her bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her gadget-obsessed father and her mother, who, if ...

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Published: Jun 2003

Something Like Beautiful: One Single ...

Asha Bandele

From the author of The Prisoner's Wife, a poetic, passionate, and powerful memoir about the hard realities of single motherhood When Asha Bandele, a young poet, fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and bec...

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Published: Jan 2010

Life on Planet Rock: From Guns N' Ros...

Lonn Friend

A leading music journalist and editor of RIP magazine chronicles the heyday of heavy metal and grunge rock music, furnishing revealing portraits of Kurt Cobain, Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Axl Rose, Elvis Costello, and other notable a...

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Published: Jul 2006

Posh & Becks

Andrew Morton

SHE IS A FASHION ICON WITH A LUST FOR FAME. HE IS POSSIBLY THE MOST FAMOUS ATHLETE ON THE PLANET.Together they are one of the most loved -- and hated -- pairs on Earth. This sensational, highly addictive biography delves beneath the B...

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Published: Jul 2007

Mortician Diaries: The Dead-Honest Tr...

June Knights Nadle

After 50 years in the funeral business, 80-year-old grandmother/undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all — at least all of what goes on before, during, and after life's ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries, she combines equ...

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Published: Sep 2006

Everything Is Perfect When You're a L...

Kelly Oxford

From her beginnings as a wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds, through her spirited adventures watching self-satisfying monkeys, throwing up on Chinese food deliverymen, and stalking Leo DiCaprio, here ar...

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Published: Jan 2014

Hana's Suitcase: The Quest to Solve a...

Karen Levine

This award-winning true Holocaust story, newly updated, connects generations through one woman's quest to find the truth behind a mysterious suitcase.  In March 2000, Fumiko Ishioka, the curator of a small Holocaust education center ...

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Published: Mar 2016

My Name Is Amelia, and I'm a Sociopat...

Amy D. Brooks

For nearly a decade, a novelist wrote gripping, scandalous, and often disturbing fiction using her life as a canvas and herself as the protagonist in a massive web of lies. In this revealing memoir by author Amy D. Brooks, the complex...

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Published: Jan 2014

Holy Hunger: A Woman's Journey from F...

Margaret Bullitt-Jonas

The psychology underlying eating disorders is fraught with contradictions and uncertainties; researchers are just beginning to formulate the exact biochemical and emotional combination that impels a woman to binge and purge, or starve...

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Published: Apr 2000

James Madison: A Life Reconsidered

Lynne Cheney

A major new biography of the fourth U.S. president, from New York Times–bestselling author Lynne CheneyJames Madison was a true genius of the early republic, the leader who did more than any other to create the nation we know today....

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Published: May 2015

Diary of a Provincial Lady

E. M. Delafield

The Provincial Lady has a nice house, a nice husband (usually asleep behind The Times) and nice children. In fact, maintaining Niceness is the Provincial Lady's goal in life — her raison d'être. She never raises her voice, rarely v...

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Published: Dec 1990

Passionate Sage: The Character and Le...

Joseph J. Ellis

A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers. 'The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew h...

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Published: Jan 2001

Fate is the Hunter

Ernest Kellogg Gann

This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of the author's nearly ten thousand hours aloft in peace and (as a member of the Air Transport Command) in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the ph...

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Published: Jul 1986
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