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The House of Gucci [Movie Tie-in]: A ...

Sara G. Forden

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new aft...

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Published: Oct 2021

My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad...

Tom Foreman

CNN correspondent Tom Foreman's remarkable journey from half-hearted couch potato to ultra-marathon runner, with four half-marathons, three marathons, and 2,000 miles of training in between; a poignant and warm-hearted tale of parenti...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

Frederick Forsyth

From the grand master of international suspense comes his most intriguing story ever—his own.  For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from The Day of the Jackal on...

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Published: Oct 2016

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the...

Amaryllis Fox

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \r\n\r\n“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love.\" —The New York Times\r\n\r\nAmaryllis Fox\'s riveting mem...

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Published: Sep 2020

No Time Like the Future

Michael J. Fox

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, ...

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Published: Dec 2021

Ice and Bone: Tracking an Alaskan Ser...

Monte Francis

In the Fall of 2000, in Anchorage, Alaska, a series of murders captured headlines, stoking fears a serial killer was on the loose. Six women, mostly Alaska Natives, were found slain, all under similar circumstances. An anonymous tip...

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Published: Apr 2016

Thin Is the New Happy

Valerie Frankel

"Val Frankel is a woman of amazing insight. . . . Read this, weep, and heal."—Stacy London, cohost of What Not to WearYou've heard the phrase "the mirror is not your friend." For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was s...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Autobiography and Other Writings

Benjamin Franklin

This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin's most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame...

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Published: Apr 1982

One Second to Glory: The Alaska Adven...

Lew Freedman

Dick Mackey, one of Alaska's great storytellers and one of its toughest men, approaches life in the North as one continuous adventure. It seems as if he has been everywhere and done everything in Alaska, soaking up more adventure and ...

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Published: Nov 2001

Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken Stab...

Mike Freeman

The first in-depth biography of one of the most talented and infamous legends to play in the National Football League—the life and times of pro football's first bad boy, famed Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler.Ken "The Sn...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Escape Artist

Helen Fremont

A luminous new memoir from the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller After Long Silence, The Escape Artisthas been lauded by New York Timesbestselling author Mary Karr as “beautifully written, honest, and psycho...

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Published: Oct 2020

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of ...

Matti Friedman

"A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last."—The Wall Street Journal "Friedman's sober and striking new memoir ....

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Published: Apr 2017

Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir

Alan D. Gaff

The lost memoir from Lou Gehrig—“a compelling rumination by a baseball icon and a tragic hero” (Sports Illustrated) and “a fitting tribute to an inspiring baseball legend” (Publishers Weekly). At the t...

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Published: May 2021

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story o...

Mohandas Gandhi

Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New PrefaceThe only authorized American editionMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he devel...

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Published: Jun 1983

Kings & Queens: The History of the Br...

Anita Ganeri

Kings & Queens, part of our exciting new series of Haynes Pocket Manuals for children, provides information, facts and figures on all the kings and queens of England, from William I (1066-1087) to Elizabeth II (1952-present), includin...

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Published: Feb 2011

Sixty People Who Shaped the Church: L...

Alton Gansky

The Church exists today in its current form because of the people who have come before us. Who were those people? Staid and dour scholars? Cultural movers and shakers? How does their contribution to history affect us today?From a cons...

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Published: May 2014

Garcia: A Signpost To New Space

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) is an American icon. The guitarist and de facto leader of the Grateful Dead was a gregarious talker, keenly engaged with the new world exploding around him. In 1972, Garcia was visited by Charles Reich, a Yale...

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Published: Aug 2003

Everywhere I Look

Helen Garner

Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.'PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection…No matter the topic,...

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Published: Jun 2016

Guts 'N Gunships: What it was Really ...

Mark Garrison

Synopsis In the summer of 1967, Mark Garrison had dropped out of college at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, just before entering his third year. He had run out of money and had to work for a while. These were the...

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Published: Oct 2015

Mozart (A Life)

Peter Gay

The National Book Award-winning author of The Enlightenment chronicles the life and work of the great composer, from child prodigy to mature musical genius, and assesses his seminal influence on the history of Western music. Reprint. ...

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Published: Sep 2006

Rena's Promise

Rena Kornreich Gelisssen

A Story of Sisters in AuschwitzAs a young woman, Rena Kornreich endured the Nazi death camps for almost three and a half years. Rena's Promise, the remarkable story of her survival, shows how her relationship with her younger sister, ...

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Published: Oct 1996

Travels with Myself and Another: A Me...

Martha Gellhorn

A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.'Gellhorn is incapabl...

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Published: May 2001

Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya S...

Jane Fletcher Geniesse

Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of Th...

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Published: Jul 2001

Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way:...

Robin Gerber

Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable ability to confront and overcome hurdles-be they political, personal, or social-made her one of the greatest leaders of the last century, if not all time. In Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way, author ...

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Published: Aug 2003

The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?...

Brittany Gibbons

A sartorial follow-up to her hilarious memoir in stories, Fat Girl Walking, internet personality Brittany Gibbons once again deep dives into the world of the plus size woman, this time chronicling her love/hate (but mostly hate) relat...

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Published: Dec 2017

The Last Children of Mill Creek

Vivian Gibson

Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood of St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as “progress.” The three rooms of h...

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Published: Apr 2020

Gabby: A Story of Courage, Love and R...

Gabrielle D. (Gabrielle Dee) Giffords

Now in paperback with a bonus new chapter, the INew York Times bestseller by Gabrielle Giffords /bband her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly—an incredibly inspiring story of adventure, service, love, and overcoming tragedy. /PGabrielle ...

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Published: Oct 2012

Rifleman/Doctor: A Marine Corps Physi...

Warren S. Gilbert MD

Warren S. Gilbert grew up on the streets of Chicago, and no one expected him to accomplish much. Even so, his athleticism paved the way for him to attend Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and his intellect led him to Rush Medical ...

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Published: Apr 2014

Herb Brooks: The Inside Story of a Ho...

John Gilbert

The U. S. hockey team's victory at the 1980 Olympics was a "Miracle on Ice"--a miracle largely brought about by the late Herb Brooks, the legendary coach who forged that invincible team.  Famously antagonistic toward the ...

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Published: Oct 2010

Living with Honor: A Memoir

Sal Giunta

Medal of Honor winner Staff Sergeant "Sal" Giunta's empowering memoir describes a boy working at a Subway shop who was attracted to an Army recruiting center by a free T-shirt, but left inspired by the thought of making a di...

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Published: Jul 2013
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