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Wondering Who You Are: A Memior

Sonya Lea

In exploring her husband's traumatic brain injury and loss of memory, Sonya Lea has written a memoir that is both a powerful look at perseverance in the face of trauma and a surprising exploration into what lies beyond our fragile ide...

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Published: Jul 2015

Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge ...

Mike Leach

SWING YOUR SWORD is the first ever book by one of the most fascinating and successful coaches in sports today. A maverick who took an unlikely path to coaching through law school, Mike Leach talks about his unorthodox approach to coac...

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Published: Aug 2012

L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters ...

David Lebovitz

Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French ...

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Published: Nov 2018

May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yog...

Cyndi Lee

"For the millions of people-especially women-who fight the fat talk in their heads, her words will be familiar and comforting." -Associated Press In the opening pages of her memoir, Cyndi Lee shares a surprising revelation. ...

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Published: Jan 2014

Silent Sisters

Joanne Lee

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of not one, but three newborn babies hidden in a bin in her wardrobe.She had buried a fourth baby in newspaper and ragsin St Helens Cemet...

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Published: Jul 2019

Joe Gould's Teeth

Jill Lepore

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the missing longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time."Joe...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir

Betsy Lerner

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lo...

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Published: May 2017

An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir

Ariel Leve

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but...

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Published: Jun 2017

Paul Newman: A Life

Shawn Levy

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy a...

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Published: May 2010

Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refu...

Eric Lichtblau

The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis’ rise to power....

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Published: Oct 2020

Great Captains Unveiled

Basil Henry Liddell Hart

Great Captains Unveiled incisively examines the brilliant military careers and intriguing personalities of six masters of the battlefield: Jenghiz Khan (1167?–1227) and Sabutai (1172?–1245), who led their Mongol cavalry into the h...

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Published: Mar 1996

Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Li...

Jim Lindberg

Jim Lindberg is a Punk Rock Dad. When he drives his kids to school in the morning, they listen to the Ramones, the Clash, or the Descendents and that's it. He goes to all the soccer games, dance rehearsals, and piano recitals, but wh...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My...

Joselin Linder

A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicineWhen Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs sudde...

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Published: Jun 2018

The Code of Love: An Astonishing True...

Andro Linklater

For fifty years, Pamela Kirrage longed to unlock the secrets of her husband's encrypted war diary. She was on the verge of giving up when she at last found a mathematician who became as obsessed with learning the secrets of the diary ...

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Published: Jan 2002

I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal ...

Elinor Lipman

"Lipman is always in top form as an essayist." – New York Times Book Review In her two decades of writing, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they're old f...

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Published: Apr 2014

Life in the Garden: A Memoir

Penelope Lively

From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening ...

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Published: Jun 2019

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicil...

Tembi Locke

This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and found" (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food,...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The ...

Paul Douglas Lockhart

The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating fi...

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Published: Feb 2010

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

Patricia Lockwood

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:  The Washington Post * Elle * NPR * New York Magazine * Boston Globe * Nylon * Slate * The Cut * The New Yorker * Chicago Tribune“Affectionat...

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Published: May 2018

The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of...

Sandra Tsing Loh

From an "imaginatively twisted and fearless" writer (Los Angeles Times), a hilarious memoir of middle age. In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of h...

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Published: May 2015

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life

Sophia Loren

In her first memoir, the Academy Award–winning actress Sophia Loren tells her incredible life story from the struggles of her childhood in war-torn Naples to her life as a screen legend, icon of elegance, and devoted mother.In her a...

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Published: Jul 2015

Straight on Till Morning: The Life of...

Mary S. Lovell

The New York Times bestseller: "Every page is filled with revelations, gossip and fascinating details about Markham."—Diane Ackerman, The New York Times Book Review Born in England and raised in Kenya, Beryl Markham was a...

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Published: May 2011

Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir

Ivana Lowell

Born into one of the most celebrated Anglo-Irish families, the Guinnesses, Ivana Lowell grew up at the whim of two literary heavyweights—her mother, writer Lady Caroline Blackwood, and stepfather, poet Robert Lowell. Now, with an in...

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Published: Nov 2011

Secret Lives of Great Composers: What...

Elizabeth Lunday

In the fine tradition of 'Secret Lives of Great Authors' and 'Secret Lives of Great Artists' comes the latest entry in Quirk's successful series: 'Secret Lives of Great Composers'. You've heard their scores in countless movies, from '...

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Published: Sep 2009

Patti LuPone: A Memoir

Patti LuPone

"I have been incredibly fortunate over the course of my career to have been associated with some extraordinary dramatic and musical productions, and also some rather spectacular disasters. Looking back, I can find gifts and life ...

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Published: Nov 2011

My Two Italies

Joseph Luzzi

A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in...

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Published: Jul 2015

The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The...

Callum MacDonald

If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942)—chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Czechosl...

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Published: Aug 1998

Battleground Pacific: A Marine Riflem...

Sterling Mace

A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MILITARY MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WORLD WAR II'S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and hi...

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Published: May 2013

Jeff Bezos: The Force Behind the Bran...

Jr. MacGregor

What is it about him that makes him a super achiever?What about him can turn an idea into a world-changing mega-company?What about him is like you and what isn't?What can you learn from him? Read, and find out.The need to understand ...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Camino : A Journey of the Spirit

Shirley MacLaine

It has been nearly three decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. In testament to the endurance and vitality of her message, each of her ei...

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Published: Apr 2001
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