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Stella Grey's Dating Diary

Stella Grey

Nora Ephron meets Bridget Jones's Diary in Guardian columnist Stella Grey's heartrendingly honest, witty memoir about her online odyssey to find real love in a virtual world. "The literary equivalent of the When Harry Met Sally l...

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Published: May 2017

Lessons of Love in Afghanistan: A Lif...

Suzanne M. Griffin

Often risky, sometimes dangerous, Suzanne Griffin's work in Afghanistan has been sustained by love. In 1968, she went to Afghanistan a neophyte. Romantic love had led her there as a newlywed, the wife of a Peace Corps Officer. Love fo...

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Published: Mar 2014

Al Pacino

Lawrence Grobel

For more than a quarter century, Al Pacino has spoken freely and deeply with acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Lawrence Grobel on subjects as diverse as childhood, acting, and fatherhood. Here, for the first time, are the co...

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Published: Apr 2008

Travelers Along the Way: The Men and ...

Benedict J. Groeschel

In a series of always moving, sometimes surprising, and often hilarious stories, Fr. Benedict Groeschel introduces you to the men and women who have influenced him over the course of his life. Some are unknown, such as Mr. Graff, a Je...

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Published: Nov 2010

The Life of Milarepa: A New Translati...

Gtsa

Now recognized as the standard translation of one of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people, The Life of Milarepa is both a portrait of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist saint and folk hero and a profoundly detailed guidebook to t...

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Published: Feb 1992

Death Be Not Proud

John J. Gunther

Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, h...

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Published: Apr 2007

The Book of Honor : The Secret Lives...

Ted Gup

In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeter...

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Published: May 2001

The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman'...

Eve Haas

A New York Times bestseller, the true story of a girl who learns she's descended from a princess, told with the suspense of a Cold War thriller."The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life - August your protecto...

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Published: Oct 2016

Defying Hitler: A Memoir

Sebastian Haffner

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account ...

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Published: Aug 2003

Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock

Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar—legendary lead singer of Van Halen, founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, and one of rock music's most notoriously successful performers—tells his unforgettable story in this one-of-a-kind autobiography of a life at ...

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Published: Mar 2012

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, ...

Thomas Hager

A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own.At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicte...

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Published: Aug 2009

A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing N...

Donald Hall

Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall's final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh‑out‑loud funny."* *(New York Times)"Why should a ...

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Published: Apr 2019

Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount...

Lincoln Hall

The amazing story of Australian mountain climber Lincoln Hall's rescue following a night spent near the summit of Mount Everest, where he had been left for dead by the other members of his expedition. Lincoln Hall likes to say that on...

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Published: May 2009

Kardashian Dynasty: The Controversial...

Ian Halperin

Investigator and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian Halperin pulls back the curtain on America's notorious Kardashian family's seemingly meteoric rise to fame, and the dark secrets they've struggled to hide in Kardashian Dynasty...

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Published: Nov 2016

The Marriage Bureau: True Stories fro...

Penrose Halson

A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by.In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four...

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Published: May 2017

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadverten...

Gabrielle Hamilton

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBefore Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional jour...

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Published: Jan 2012

I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir o...

Janelle Hanchett

"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood."--POPSUGAR"By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir."--Kirkus"Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction... ...

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Published: May 2019

North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Fa...

Captain Sig Hansen

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerou...

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Published: Apr 2011

A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of ...

Robert Earl Hardy

 Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandt's background as the scion of a promin...

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Published: Feb 2010

Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey

Patricia Harman

A midwife's memoir of living free and naturally against all oddsIn her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-mid...

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Published: Mar 2012

Teresa of Avila: Selections from the ...

HarperCollins Spiritual Classics

Teresa of Avila, a renowned sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, received the vision for The Interior Castle one Sunday in 1577. In this signature work, Teresa uses the castle as a symbol for the interior life to describe her mystical ex...

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Published: Sep 2004

Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Litt...

Heather Harpham

Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine's April 2018 book pickA shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming co...

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Published: Nov 2018

The Longest Kill: The Story of Maveri...

Craig Harrison

It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig H...

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Published: Feb 2017

Melissa Explains It All: Tales from M...

Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart explained it all--from dating to bullies--in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, ...

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Published: Nov 2014

Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined ...

Maggie Hartley

The powerfully moving new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maggie Hartley.Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning...

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Published: Nov 2018

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter:...

Lucinda Hawksley

Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.The secrets of Queen Victoria's six...

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Published: Aug 2017

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sack...

Bill Hayes

Amazon’s Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2017 List\r\n“This touching memoir of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks, by a photographer and writer with whom he fell in love near the end of his life, turns a story of death into...

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Published: Jan 2018

When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War...

Glyn Haynie

It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who'd enlisted or been drafte...

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Published: Mar 2017

A Young Man in the Wild Blue Yonder: ...

David K. Hayward

David Hayward, a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, takes the reader through his adventures and challenges as a young man serving his country in World War II. Would he "wash out" of flying school? Would he survive the dange...

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Published: Dec 2013

A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramed...

Kevin Hazzard

A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.In the aftermath of 9/11 Ke...

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Published: Sep 2016
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