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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings

Alison Weir

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE brNew York Times bestselling author and noted British historian Alison Weir gives us the first full-scale, in-depth biography of Mary Boleyn, sist...

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Published: Sep 2012

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Ma...

Candice Millard

The extraordinary New York Times-bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Mi...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Bolter

Frances Osborne

She was irresistible. She inspired fiction, fantasy, legend, and art.Some say she was "the Bolter" of Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love. She "played" Iris Storm in Michael Arlen's celebrated novel about fas...

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Published: May 2010

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Benjamin S. Carson

This is the mass market edition of the popular book by Dr. Ben Carson whose inspiring story tells of a frustrated inner-city kid whose faith in God helped him become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospi...

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Published: Feb 1992

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina...

Misty Copeland

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school com...

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Published: Jan 2015

Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Y...

Brian Eule

Each year on the third Thursday in March, more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital residencies in almost ev...

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Published: Mar 2010

Them

Francine du Plessix Gray

At the height of their fame, Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix Gray were the grandest power couple in the New York City fashion world, gifted Russian 'migr's who consorted with Dali and Dietrich and told American women how to ...

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Published: Jun 2006

The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey...

Bernd Heinrich

Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his 'old-fashioned' father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a naturalist's sensibilities. In...

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Published: Jul 2008

American Sniper: The Autobiography of...

Chris Kyle

He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers . . . From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper ...

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Published: Feb 2013

Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me

Howie Mandel

A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host's ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respe...

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Published: Sep 2010

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Li...

Clare Mulley

The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War IIIn June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died...

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Published: May 2014

Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Anto...

Susan Nagel

The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution.Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention ...

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Published: Aug 2009

Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir

Diana Athill

The New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —"An honest joy to read" (Alice Munro). Hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph), this book reflects candid...

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Published: Dec 2009

The True Adventures of the Rolling St...

Stanley Booth

Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together l...

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Published: May 2000

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's ...

Edmund de Waal

The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining o...

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Published: Aug 2011

Resilience: Reflections on the Burden...

Elizabeth Edwards

The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a ...

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Published: Jun 2010

Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural H...

Bill Hayes

"This beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes Five Quarts something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy."–Entertainment WeeklyFrom ancient Rome, where gladiato...

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Published: Feb 2006

The Dark Side of Camelot

Seymour M. Hersh

If the Kennedys are America's royal family, then John F. Kennedy wasthe nation's crown prince. Magnetic, handsome, and charismatic, his perfectlycoifed image overshadowed the successes and failures of his presidency, and hisassassinat...

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Published: Sep 1998

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: An...

Alyssa Mastromonaco

New York Times bestseller!If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this...Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama ...

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Published: Mar 2018

Devotion: A Memoir

Dani Shapiro

In her midforties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do l...

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Published: Feb 2011

Michelle Obama: A Life

Peter Slevin

This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to ...

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Published: Jan 2016

A Million Little Pieces

James Frey

At the age of twenty-three, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his four front teeth had been knocked out. His nose was broken and there was a hole through his cheek. He had no idea where the plane was headed or what had happened ov...

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Published: Sep 2005

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really l...

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Published: Sep 2009

Assassination Vacation

Sarah Vowell

A tour of key historic sites in America where incidents of political violence have occurred reveals lesser-known points of interest pertaining to each and shares information about how history has been shaped by popular culture and tou...

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Published: Jan 2006

Audition

Barbara Walters

With a New Afterword by the AuthorIn her bestselling autobiography, Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, describes her extraordinary public and private journey.Audition is the story of an am...

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Published: May 2009

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale ...

Simon Winchester

The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed 10,000 definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane. Rep...

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Published: Jul 2005

The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir

Farah Ahmedi

An inspirational memoir of the teenage author's struggles to survive her youth in war-torn Kabul describes her witness to brutal conflicts between the mujahideen and the Soviets during her earliest years, her extensive injuries after ...

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Published: Jun 2006

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop ...

Catherine Friend

Describes how an urban bookworm and children’s book author, along with her partner, set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a working farm in Minnesota, offering a heartwarming, frequently humorous take on their crash cour...

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Published: Mar 2006

The Language of Baklava

Diana Abu-Jaber

In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author of Arabian Jazz describes her life in upstate New York with an extended Arab and American family, her family's move 'home' to Jordan, and her return to...

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Published: Mar 2006

Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

Jillian Lauren

A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's hare, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audit...

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Published: Apr 2010
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