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Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recoveri...

Jenny McCarthy

Dearest Reader,By now you might be wondering: Jenny McCarthy has more to say?! After six New York Times bestsellers, I've talked about pregnancy, autism, and motherhood. I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope it's made you laugh and cry and...

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Published: Apr 2013

Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-...

Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American Communist Party, and was married to...

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Published: Jun 1993

Through My Mother's Eyes: The Story o...

Michael McCoy

Jean-Marie Faggiano and her family were living in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. The following month, she and her family, along with over 3,600 other non-national civilians, were forced to surrende...

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Published: Feb 2015

Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen

Jimmy McDonough

From the New York Times bestselling biographer-the first book-length portrait of music legend Tammy Wynette. Known for his acclaimed biographies of Neil Young, Russ Meyer, and Andy Milligan, Jimmy McDonough now delivers an emotional ...

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Published: Feb 2011

All the Available Light: A Marilyn Mo...

Yona Zeldis McDonough

No star in any genre has affected the world as deeply or has lasted as long without fading as Marilyn Monroe. This thought-provoking and wide-ranging collection of essays examines the undiminished incandescence of Marilyn Monroe -- th...

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Published: Aug 2002

After Perfect: A Daughter S Memoir

Christina McDowell

A "searing memoir of loss and redemption" (People) that "exposes the side of The Wolf of Wall Street we didn't get to see" (Metro), After Perfect is a cautionary tale about one family's destruction in the wake of t...

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Published: Apr 2016

Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from t...

Scott McEwen

Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the dead...

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Published: Mar 2015

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir o...

Jennifer McGaha

When life gets your goat, bring in the herdJennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and naming his doeling Merlene. She didn't expect to be buying organic yogurt for her chickens. Sh...

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Published: Jan 2018

Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nich...

Patrick McGilligan

"Jack's Life feels true. . . . Fascinating."―Entertainment Weekly Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America's outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews...

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Published: Nov 2015

No Happy Endings: A Memoir

Nora McInerny

The author of It's Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking--interviews that are "a gift to be able to listen to]" (New York Times)--returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, won...

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Published: Jan 2020

Like Family: Growing Up in Other Peop...

Paula McLain

In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sTheLiar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early 70s, after bein...

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Published: Jun 2013

Hollywood: A Third Memoir

Larry McMurtry

"One thing I've always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Ang...

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Published: Aug 2011

Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the W...

Eileen McNamara

In this “revelation” of a biography (USA TODAY), a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family’s most profound political legacy.While Joe ...

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Published: Apr 2019

Nine and a Half Weeks

Elizabeth McNeill

The classic erotic memoir of an intense and haunting relationship that spawned the film.This is a love story so unusual, so passionate, and so extreme in its psychology and sexuality that it takes the reader's breath away. Unlike The ...

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Published: Jun 2014

A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradle...

John McPhee

When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the ...

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Published: Jun 1999

The Ocean of Truth: The Story of Sir ...

Joyce McPherson

Sir Isaac Newton is one of history's most renowned scientists. He independently developed the mathematical techniques known as Calculus, wrote a treatise on the properties of light and color that is still consulted by scientists, and ...

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Published: Jul 1997

Zvi: The Miraculous Story of Triumph ...

Elwood McQuaid

For more than half a century, ZVI has endured as the best-selling book produced by the ministry of The Friends of Israel. Millions of people have been touched, inspired, and encouraged by this story of a World War II waif in Warsaw, P...

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Published: Sep 2000

This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with...

Daphne Merkin

"One of the most accurate, and therefore most harrowing, accounts of depression to be written in the last century...Ms. Merkin speaks candidly and beautifully about aspects of the human condition that usually remain pointedly sil...

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Published: Feb 2018

An Appalachian Boy's Life: A Walk in ...

Flem R. Messer

In the years since my retirement in 2009, I have taken a great deal of time to look back on the past 81 years of my life. I have had an extraordinary variety of experiences going back to a world of almost no education in one-room scho...

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Published: Jun 2017

Bonhoeffer Abridged: Pastor, Martyr, ...

Eric Metaxas

From the New York Times best-selling author, Eric Metaxas, an abridged version of the groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, a man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, de...

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Published: Oct 2014

Seven Women: And the Secret of Their ...

Eric Metaxas

In this highly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history's greatest women, each of whom changed the course ...

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Published: Oct 2016

Sea Stories: True Adventures of Great...

Richard Metz

The Triumphs, Struggles, and Secrets of a Captain's LifeRichard Metz was a Great Lakes captain for 20 years. He experienced wild weather, close calls, near misses, and events that can only be described as "unimaginable." He ...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Lost Airman: A True Story of Esca...

Seth Meyerowitz

For fans of Unbroken, the remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months bef...

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Published: Nov 2016

Zelda: A Biography

Nancy Milford

Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age...

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Published: Dec 2011

Timebends: A Life

Arthur Miller

The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller-the famous playwright of The Crucible, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, and other plays-Timebends reveals Miller's incredible trajectory as a man and a writer.Born in 191...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Church of Cheese: Gypsy Ritual in...

Carol Miller

A disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies have yet to enter the American public consciousness, yet they have been arriving since the late sixteenth century. Columbus brought several, forcibly transported to the Colonies, and man...

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Published: Jan 2010

Know My Name: A Memoir

Chanel Miller

\"Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful.\"\r\n—Washington Post\r\n\r\nUniversally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an instant New York Timesbestseller, Chanel Miller\'s breathtaking memo...

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Published: Aug 2020

Coming Clean: A Memoir

Kimberly Rae Miller

Kimberly Rae Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a beautifully tidy apartment in Brooklyn. You would never guess that behind the closed doors of her family's idyllic Long Island h...

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Published: May 2014

The Bronte Myth

Lucasta Miller

In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, The Bronte Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte became cultural icons whose ever-changing reputations reflected the obsessions of various eras.When ...

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Published: Jan 2005

Anything but Simple: My Life as a Men...

Lucinda Miller

Like her grandmother, Lucinda J. Miller wears long dresses and a prayer covering. But she uses a cellphone and posts status updates on Facebook, too. Anything but Simple is the riveting memoir of a young woman's rich church tradition,...

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Published: Jul 2017
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