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• In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever…
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  An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood, Paperback/Jimmy Carter

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• "Kanye West Owes Me $300 might be the funniest rap memoir ever." -LA Weekly After Vanilla Ice, but before Eminem, there was "Hot Karl," the Jewish kid from the L.A.…
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  Kanye West Owes Me $300: And Other True Stories from a White Rapper Who Almost Made It Big, Paperback/Jensen Karp

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• "Lorde's words -- on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice -- burn with relevance 25 years after her death." -- O, The Oprah Magazine Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation…
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  A Burst of Light: And Other Essays, Hardcover/Audre Lorde

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• Becoming a writer the hard way In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a…
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  Hole in My Life, Paperback/Jack Gantos

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• Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth…
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  Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker, Paperback/Stanley Crouch

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• Aged nine Joss came home from school to discover her father's suicide. She's never got over it. This is the true story of Joss, 13 who is angry and out…
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  Girl Alone: Joss Came Home from School to Discover Her Father’s Death. Angry and Hurting, She’s Out of Control., Paperback/Cathy Glass

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• Katie Nicholl, bestselling author and royal correspondent for The Mail on Sunday , gives an inside look into the life of the future Queen of England, Kate Middleton. Since becoming…
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  Kate: The Future Queen, Paperback/Katie Nicholl

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• You have a lot of enemies, Hipolito. I heard rumors in jail that some of the people you busted are going to try to kill you, so you better watch…
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  Deep in the Shadows: Undercover in the Ruthless World of Human Smuggling, Paperback/Hipolito Acosta

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• Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, two well-educated Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families were notorious. Revealing secret testimony, this book separates fact from myth as it unravels…
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  Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century, Paperback/Hal Higdon

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• Jeanne Cooper, the Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for her portrayal of Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless , recounts the steps and…
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  Not Young, Still Restless, Paperback/Jeanne Cooper

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• Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson Commentary by Van Wyck Brooks and E. B. White Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of…
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  Walden and Other Writings, Paperback/Henry David Thoreau

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• A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, -perfect Paul- earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret--from himself…
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  Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Paperback/Paul Monette

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• For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the most comprehensive edition ever published of Mark Twain's short writings -- the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches,…
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  The Collected Shorter Works of Mark Twain, Hardcover/Mark Twain

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• -An exemplary and eloquently written story that makes it easy for nonbelievers in intuition to believe. You must read this book.- - Psychology Today Now with a new foreword from…
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  Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How to Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom, Paperback/Judith Orloff

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• There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). Between 1915, when they first began to…
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  My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933, Hardcover/Sarah Greenough

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• Combining the art of storytelling with biography, Church history, and Catholic teaching and belief, this collection shows how real people lived the eight beatitudes and seven sacraments, revealing the richness…
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  Saints Alive!: The Faith Proclaimed, Paperback/Marie Paul Curley

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• Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected,…
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  Love Letters, Hardcover/Peter Washington

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• This three-volume project produces a translation of the extant texts of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that present the life and writings of Francis of Assisi. It 1) provides…
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  Francis of Assisi: The Saint: Early Documents, Vol. 1, Paperback/Regis J. Armstrong

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• From the author of the award-winning, best-selling novel Matterhorn, comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland…
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  What It Is Like to Go to War, Hardcover/Karl Marlantes

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• Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent in…
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  Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening, Hardcover/Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

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• One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation,…
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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, Paperback/Harriet Jacobs

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• The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback-- -Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary, - ( Elle UK ) Caitlin Moran's debut--an instant runaway bestseller in the UK--puts…
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  How to Be a Woman, Paperback/Caitlin Moran

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• Scandinavia's most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stolen…
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  The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth, Paperback/Edvard Munch

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• What is genius? Define it. Now think of scientists who embody the concept of genius. Does the name John Bardeen spring to mind? Indeed, have you ever heard of him?…
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  True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen; The Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics, Paperback/Lillian Hoddeson

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• Reading the word of God and not allowing it to take root to produce good fruit can deem to be futile. Gwendolyn Howze found that God's word is the road…
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  What Will You Allow to Abide in Your House’, Paperback/Gwendolyn Howze

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• John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent's birdlife. And yet few people…
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  Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America, Paperback/William Souder

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• Josephine Reynolds was Britain's first ever female firefighter. An inspiring true story, it is both funny, sad and uplifting, and tells the extraordinary life of this young woman who triumphed…
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  Fire Woman, Paperback/Josephine Reynolds

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• Fauna and Family, also known as The Garden of the Gods, is the third in Durrell's Corfu trilogy that begins with his beloved classic, My Family and Other Animals and…
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  Fauna & Family: An Adventure of the Durrell Family on Corfu, Paperback/Gerald Durrell

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• The Untold Story is a channelled book, brought to you the reader by an ordinary woman, mother, and wife. Nothing like this had ever happened to her before - it…
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  The Untold Story: Peter and Jesus – The Gap Years, Paperback/Denise Devlin

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• ``Insouciant`` and ``irreverent`` are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books--and, invariably, ``hilarious.`` Between Panic and Desire , named after two towns in…
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  Between Panic and Desire, Paperback/Dinty W. Moore

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• A companion book to Land's Edge, one is a youthful and effervescent piece about the sea and the other a reflection from a man in middle age, on the forces…
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  Island Home, Paperback/Tim Winton

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• Charlie Moore never broke his stride after winning an Olympic gold medal in Helsinki in 1952. His professional life achievements feature notable accomplishments in business as well as successful leadership…
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  Running on Purpose: Winning Olympic Gold, Advancing Corporate Leadership and Creating Sustainable Value, Hardcover/Charles H. Moore Jr

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• Paperback edition of the phenomenally successful biography, which sold over half a million copies in 20 countries. This is his personal story of his career to date, with Manchester United,…
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  David Beckham: My Side, Paperback/David Beckham

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• Vic Damone is one of the enduring legends of American pop music. His early days were spent as an usher who longed to take the stage at New York City's…
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  Singing Was the Easy Part, Paperback/Vic Damone

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• The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was a brilliant, eccentric, complicated man. Born into a comfortable English family and educated at Eton, he was, at various times, a member…
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  The Orwell Tapes, Paperback/Stephen Wadhams

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• Michael Lewis examina en este brillante libro como la amistad entre David Kahneman y Amos Tversky revoluciono radicalmente nuestra manera de entender el funcionamiento de la mente humana. Hace mas…
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  Deshaciendo Errores / The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Kahneman, Tversky y La Amistad Que Cambio El Mundo, Paperback/Michael Lewis

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• "Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys." --Michael Chabon "What a riveting, touching, and painful read " --Maria Semple "Fun, moving, raw,…
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  Kickflip Boys: A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood, Hardcover/Neal Thompson

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• With the excitement, humor, and pathos of a novel, Josephine B. Pasquarello recounts growing up in 1950s and '60s Philadelphia in colorful detail. She paints the many characters of her…
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  Love & Loyalty: An Immigrant Italian Mom Raising Her Family of Twelve in the Shadow of a Mafia Crime, Paperback/Josephine B. Pasquarello

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• In Broadway, Schrafft's and Seeded Rye -- Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side, Lyla Blake Ward, author of How to Succeed at Aging Without Really Dying, tells…
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  Broadway, Schrafft’s and Seeded Rye: Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side, Paperback/Lyla Blake Ward

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• Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now…
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  The Journal of Helene Berr, Paperback/Helene Berr

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• Superman. Diesel. The Big Aristotle. Shaq Fu. The Big Daddy. The Big Shaqtus. Wilt Chamberneezy. The Real Deal. The Big Shamrock. Shaq. You know him by any number of names,…
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  Shaq Uncut: My Story, Paperback/Shaquille O’Neal

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• " These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." -- Los Angeles…
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  Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, Paperback/Zadie Smith

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• Susan Inman's memoir describes her family's nine year journey to help her younger daughter recover from a catastrophic schizoaffective disorder. "Highly recommended" by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey author of Surviving…
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  After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity, Paperback/Susan Inman

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• Alistair Urquhart was among the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore during World War II. He not only survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave…
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  The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific, Paperback/Alistair Urquhart

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• Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season Selected by Emma Watson for…
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  How To Be A Woman/Caitlin Moran

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• A new paperback edition to mark 70 years since Anne Frank began her diary. This is the definitive edition of the text, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler,…
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  Diary of a Young Girl, Paperback/Anne Frank

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• The true story of 2 abandoned children who join a foster family, but whose mother returns for them, beginning an emotional struggle. From the author of }Four Waifs On Our…
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  Cast-Off Kids, Paperback/Trisha Merry

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• Published over eighty years after its inception, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography" edited by Pamela Smith Hill gave readers new insight into the truth behind Wilder's fiction. "Pioneer Girl Perspectives"…
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  Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder, Hardcover/Nancy Tystad Koupal

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• Made into a movie starring Patrick Swayze, this is the inspiring story of an American doctor who experienced a spiritual rebirth in an impoverished section of Calcutta.
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  The City of Joy, Paperback/Dominique Lapierre

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• In February 1959, Carl Sandburg gave an address on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's 150th birthday before the Joint Session of Congress. The Lincoln biographer spoke of the nation's 16th…
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  Abraham Lincoln, Hardcover/Carl Sandburg

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• An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and…
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  Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, Paperback/Louisa Thomas

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• "The Great One" weaves memories of his legendary career with an inside look at the sport of professional hockey, and the heroes and stories that inspired him. From minor-hockey phenomenon…
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  99: Stories of the Game, Hardcover/Wayne Gretzky

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• Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the…
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  American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Paperback/Joseph J. Ellis

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• Kay Redfield Jamison, award-winning professor and writer, changed the way we think about moods and madness. Now Jamison uses her characteristic honesty, wit and eloquence to look back at her…
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  Nothing Was the Same, Paperback/Kay Redfield Jamison

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• Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who'd been born into a middle-class Jewish family…
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  How I Became Hettie Jones, Paperback/Hettie Jones

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• The story of the most feared and active football hooligan gangs in Britain: the Leeds Service Crew. Recalling their rise to international notoriety and their most infamous incidents, it also…
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  Service Crew, Paperback/Caroline Gall

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• National Bestseller In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation's…
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  The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, Paperback/David Remnick

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• Steck was considered by many to be one of the strongest climbers who ever lived The holder of six amazing speed-climbing records The first and only English-language book by this…
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  Ueli Steck: My Life in Climbing, Paperback/Ueli Steck

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• NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES - #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered…
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  Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, Paperback/Piper Kerman

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• Powerful insight into the effects of civil war on the Syrian people, by the award-winning Syrian journalist. Samar Yazbek was well known in her native Syria as a writer and…
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  The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria, Paperback/Samar Yazbik

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