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My Art, My Life: An Autobiography

Diego Rivera

A richly revealing document offering many telling insights into the mind and heart of a giant of 20th-century art. 'There is no lack of exciting material. A lover at nine, a cannibal at 18, by his own account, Rivera was prodigiously ...

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Published: Jan 1992

Blessed, Blessed . . . Blessed: The U...

Missy Robertson

Missy Robertson knew that marrying duck-hunting family man Jase Robertson would be an adventure . . . and she was up to the challenge. Their life together was good (even after Jase grew the beard). They had two children, worked hard t...

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Published: Mar 2017

Testimony

Robbie Robertson

The New York Times BestsellerOn the 40th anniversary of The Band's legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey,...

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Published: Oct 2017

There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock an...

Lisa Robinson

From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider's behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll. Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music—including Led Ze...

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Published: Apr 2015

The Lion of Sabray: The Afghani Warri...

Patrick Robinson

Patrick Robinson, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor and "preeminent writer of modern naval fiction" (The Florida Times Union) shares the gripping untold story of Mohammed Gulab, the Afghani warrior w...

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Published: Nov 2016

Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself:...

Eileen Rockefeller

A pioneering philanthropist and daughter of American royalty reveals what it was like to grow up in one of the world's most famous families. The great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, Eileen Rockefeller learned in childhood that...

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Published: Aug 2014

Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promi...

Daniel Rodriguez

"Harrowing, heartbreaking, redemptive." —Sports Illustrated"An inspiring story of a resilient warrior who knows what it means to keep a promise. " —Eric Greitens, Navy SEAL and best-selling author of The Heart...

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Published: Sep 2015

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and t...

Sue Roe

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the vibrant figures who invented modernist art in bohemian Paris at the dawn of the twentieth century  When the young Pablo Picasso first arrived in Paris in 1900, the most progressiv...

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Published: Apr 2016

Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlit...

Susan Ronald

The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. G...

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Published: Jan 2017

Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pitt...

Dan Rooney

Legendary chairman of the five-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, Dan Rooney, tells his life story for the first time. From growing up on Pittsburgh's notorious North Side, to vying with Johnny Unitas for top high school qu...

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Published: Sep 2008

Such Good Girls: The Journey of the H...

R. D. Rosen

The story of the generation of hidden child survivors told through the true experiences of three Jewish girls—from Poland, Holland, and France—who transcended their traumatic childhoods to lead remarkable lives in America.Only one...

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Published: Sep 2015

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John L...

Robert Rosen

Shortly after John Lennon's murder in 1980, Robert Rosen was given access to Lennon's personal journals chronicling the reclusive last five years of his life. Haunted by the journals, Rosen interviewed key figures from Lennon's final ...

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Published: Aug 2002

Return to Paris: A Memoir

Colette Rossant

Food writer Colette Rossant writes about her early life, beginning with her irresponsible mother and her difficult grandmother, who raised her, and including her delighted introduction to French cooking when she was taken to France to...

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Published: Apr 2004

A Soldier's Journal: With the 22nd In...

David Rothbart

An intimate, humorous and gripping memoir of WWII's 22nd Infantry Regiment, describes the drive across France to the battle of the Hurtgen Forest and recounts the chaos of war and how accidental atrocities, such as the use of poison g...

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Published: Dec 2005

The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir

Victoria Rowell

Born as a ward of the state of Maine, the child of an unmarried Yankee blueblood mother and an unknown black father, Victoria Rowell beat the odds. The Women Who Raised Me is the remarkable story of her rise out of the foster care sy...

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Published: May 2008

War in the Boats: My WWII Submarine B...

William J. Ruhe

Submarine duty in World War II took the lives of more than 20 percent of U.S. submariners. As a young ensign, William J. Ruhe kept a journal on eight action-filled patrols in the South Pacific. His colorful memoir has earned a place w...

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Published: Apr 2005

Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving ...

Michael Ruhlman

Described by one surgeon as "soul-crushing, diamond-making stress," surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties. Drawing back the hospital curtain for a unique and captivati...

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Published: Mar 2004

Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour

Marti Rulli

Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long-awaited, detailed account of events that led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie Wood off the coast of Catalina Island on November 28, 1981. It is a story told by a haunte...

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Published: Aug 2014

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Salman Rushdie

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYSan Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPageOn February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telepho...

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Published: Sep 2013

Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard T...

Ross Russell

This work on Charlie 'Bird' Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; h...

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Published: Mar 1996

Dustoff 7-3

Erik Sabiston

This book is for heroes. Dustoff 7-3 tells the true story of four unlikely heroes in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, where medics are forced to descend on wires to reach the wounded and helicopter pilots must fight wind, weather...

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Published: May 2015

On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks ...

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Published: Feb 2016

Bob Marley: The Untold Story

Chris Salewicz

What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock 'n' roll? How is it that he not only has remained the single most successful reggae artist ever but also has become a shining beacon of radicalism and ...

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Published: Jun 2011

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forge...

Laney Salisbury

A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayProvenance is the extraordinary narra...

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Published: May 2010

The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir

Jonathan Santlofer

Written with unexpected humor and great warmth, The Widower's Notebook is a portrait of a marriage, an account of the complexities of finding oneself single again after losing your spouse, and a story of the enduring power of famili...

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Published: Jul 2018

Journal of a Solitude

May Sarton

May Sarton writes with keen observation of both inner and outer worlds--a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideas--and throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey. 'An honorable confession ...

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Published: Oct 1992

Drinking with Men: A Memoir

Rosie Schaap

A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars. Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and espec...

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Published: Jan 2014

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Inno...

Arthur Meier Schlesinger

From America's most celebrated living historian comes this "sprightly, straightforward account of the first third of an active and charmed life" (New York Times). Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. turns a studied eye on a personal past and reco...

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Published: Jun 2002

The Blink of an Eye: What Dying Taugh...

Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard

"A highly personal, deeply affecting account of what it is to be yanked from a happy, well-ordered life and thrust into a sudden, unimaginable, terrifying darkness. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard has done the impossible of putting into...

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Published: May 2019

Christopher Walken A to Z: The Man-Th...

Robert Schnakenberg

Is Christopher Walken from Mars? He must be. How else can you explain his incredible range of talents and experiences? He has worked as a lion tamer, he has danced in music videos for Madonna, Duran Duran, and Fatboy Slim, and he has ...

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Published: Oct 2008
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