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The White Road: Journey into an Obses...

Edmund de Waal

An extraordinary blend of narrative history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with Amber EyesIn The White Road, artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate portrait of his ...

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Published: Nov 2016

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

Mary Dearborn

A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most nuanced portrait to date of t...

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Published: Sep 2018

The Hunger: A Memoir of an Accidental...

John Delucie

A page-turning memoir from the chef of The Waverly Inn, New York City's vaunted celebrity gathering spot The Hunger is an insider's romp through the crazy life of the restaurant business, told by a journeyman chef who fought his way ...

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Published: May 2010

The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men W...

Sally Denton

From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the "compelling corporate history" (The National Book Review) and inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they've controlled since the construction of the H...

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Published: Feb 2017

Creeker: A Woman's Journey (Women in ...

Linda Scott Derosier

"Mine was not the Kentucky of bluegrass, juleps, and cotillions; the Kentucky of my youth was one of coal banks, crawdads, and country music." A memoir of growing up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, Creeker heralds the...

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Published: Jul 2002

The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arith...

Keith Devlin

Leonardo of Pisa-better known today as Fibonacci-was the first Westerner to recognize the power of the Hindu-Arabic number system (featuring the numerals 0 through 9), which offered a much simpler method of calculation than the finger...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

Roman Dial

NATIONAL BESTSELLER  “A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out.” —Jon Krakauer "Gripping." —New York Times Book Review(Editor's Choice) * "Beautiful." &#...

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Published: Feb 2021

Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A M...

Amy Dickinson

In Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love. By pe...

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Published: Mar 2018

FALLING INTO GRACE

Michael Dietrich

He had jumped 28 times before, exhilarated by the panoramic view. Why should this jump be any different? But it was. First, there was no familiar tug when the canopy should have billowed out. Next, all he could see over his head...

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Published: Jan 2015

An American Childhood

Annie Dillard

A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

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Published: Sep 1988

Morgue: A Life in Death

Vincent Dimaio

"[AN] ENGROSSING LOOK BEHIND THE HEADLINES OF NOTORIOUS HOMICIDES."―PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)In this clear-eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide ...

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Published: May 2017

TALK ABOUT A MESS, It Happened in Vie...

Terrance R. Dinan

This is a riveting account of the inept and incredible, brilliant and absurd, hilarious and sometimes tragic events witnessed by Lieutenant Terrance R. Dinan in Vietnam from April 1967 to November 1968. If you have ever served anywher...

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Published: Apr 2015

Catching Hell: A True Story of Abando...

Jay Dobyns

Four days on the job Jay Dobyns was shot point-blank in the back by a criminal suspect. The bullet travelled through his lung and exited his chest. For the next twenty-seven years, he accepted every dirty and dangerous undercover assi...

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Published: May 2018

The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True St...

John (Chick) Donohue

In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing...

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Published: May 2017

From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir...

Beck Dorey-Stein

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One? “[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York Times RECOMMENDED READING th...

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Published: May 2019

Single State of Mind

Andi Dorfman

The breakout star of ABC's The Bachelorette and New York Times bestselling author of It's Not Okay returns with a "relatable AF" (Cosmopolitan) collection of her adventures as a still-single gal surviving and thriving in New...

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Published: Oct 2018

Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Be...

Mike Dowling

The thrilling and inspiring story of a U.S. Marine and his dog Rex, a bomb sniffing German Shepard, who forged a bond of trust and loyalty while serving on the war-torn streets of Iraq's most dangerous city./PDeployed to Iraq's infamo...

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Published: Oct 2012

Isabella: The Warrior Queen

Kirstin Downey

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influent...

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Published: Nov 2015

Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission Tha...

Bob Drury

"A fast-paced, well-researched…irresistible" (USA TODAY) World War II aviation account of friendship, heroism, and sacrifice that reads like Unbroken meets The Dirty Dozen from the authors of the #1 New York Times bestsell...

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Published: Oct 2017

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Gerald Malcolm Durrell

Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Birds, Be...

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Published: Jul 2004

Crazy: A Father's Search Through Amer...

Pete Earley

Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son- in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to me...

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Published: Apr 2007

Bare: The Naked Truth about Stripping...

Elisabeth Eaves

Her curiosity began as a teenager, with an awareness of her body and the reaction other people had to it. It continued with the realization that women's bodies often gave them a strange power over men. As an adult, it became a fascina...

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Published: Aug 2004

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and...

Alice Echols

Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a ...

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Published: Feb 2000

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line

Mari Eder

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and ma...

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Published: Mar 2022

Judy Garland: A Biography

Anne Edwards

Praised as "undoubtedly the best of the many books on Judy Garland" by no less a critic than John Lahr (the son of Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz), Anne Edwards's biography attempts to present a complete pi...

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Published: Apr 2013

Vivien Leigh: A Biography

Anne Edwards

This is the story of the actress who became a Hollywood legend by winning the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, and whose circle included both theatrical and political celebrities, from Winston Churchill to Noel C...

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Published: Apr 2013

What the Private Saw: The Civil War L...

Larry M. Edwards

"The generals did not see what the privates saw." So wrote U.S. Civil War veteran Pvt. Oney Foster Sweet, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, 43rd Pennsylvania Volunteers (14th Reserves) Battery F (Ricketts' Battery), 1861-186...

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Published: Apr 2015

Who Was King Tut? (Who Was...?)

Roberta Edwards

Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. Now, a two-and-a-half-year-long museum exhibit of Tut's treasures is touring major c...

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Published: Mar 2006

The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and th...

Joseph Egan

One of Hollywood’s first scandals was nearly its last. 1936 looked like it would be a great year for the movie industry. With the economy picking up after the Great Depression, Americans everywhere were sitting in the dark watching...

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Published: Nov 2016

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever...

Barbara Ehrenreich

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educ...

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Published: Apr 2015
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