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Speech-less : Tales of a White...New York Times Bestseller - From a former White House speechwriter comes a del... New York Times Bestseller - From a former White House speechwriter comes a deliciously candid memoir about official Washington--a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest. [An] entertaining... more
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Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age...As the son of two Jungian therapists the young Micah Toub got a double dose of... As the son of two Jungian therapists the young Micah Toub got a double dose of insight ranging from the flaky to the profound. Dreamwork archetypes conflict resolution the mind-body connection--Toub s childhood was a virtual laboratory of psychology.... more
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Lillian Hellman : A Life with ...Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spo... Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian Hellman. Even fewer have been doubted as absolutely as Hellman famously denounced by rival Mary McCarthy. Attacked by critics and idealized by admirers... more
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Gridiron Gauntlet : The Story ...One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball ... One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball in 1947 four black players joined the Browns and Rams to become the first professional football players of African-American descent in the modern era. Here twelve players... more
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I Choose Everything : Embracin...I Choose Everything : Embracing Life in the Face of Terminal Illness I Choose Everything : Embracing Life in the Face of Terminal Illness more
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Intern : A Doctor s Initiation...Jauhar s story of his residency at a busy hospital in New York City a trial th... Jauhar s story of his residency at a busy hospital in New York City a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. more
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Comrade J : The Untold Secrets...When the Cold War ended the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible ... When the Cold War ended the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy. Between 1995 and 2000 Comrade J was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB)... more
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nat...Rachel Carson s Silent Spring published in 1962 did more than any other single... Rachel Carson s Silent Spring published in 1962 did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that would alter the course of American history. This... more
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Convictions: A Prosecutor s Ba...As an Assistant United States Attorney John Kroger pursued high-profile cases ... As an Assistant United States Attorney John Kroger pursued high-profile cases against mafia killers drug kingpins and Enron executives. In Convictions Kroger reveals how to flip a perp how to conduct a cross how to work an informant how to placate a... more
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Sea of Dangers : Captain Cook ...In 1769 two ships set out independently in search of a missing continent: a Fr... In 1769 two ships set out independently in search of a missing continent: a French merchant ship the St. Jean-Baptiste commanded by Jean de Surville and a small British naval vessel the Endeavour commanded by Captain James Cook. That Christmas in New... more
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Painting Below Zero: Notes on ...From James Rosenquist one of our most iconic pop artists--along with Andy Warh... From James Rosenquist one of our most iconic pop artists--along with Andy Warhol Jim Dine Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein--comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms with highly... more
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Paul Newman The Man Behind the...This is a pioneering and posthumous biography of a charismatic icon of Tinselt... This is a pioneering and posthumous biography of a charismatic icon of Tinseltown whose rule over the hearts of American moviegoers lasted for more than half a century. It s loaded with never-before-published revelations that look behind the... more
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Charlatan : America s Most Dan...The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary NUTS!. An extr... The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary NUTS!. An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing -USA Today In 1917 John R. Brinkley-America s most brazen con man-introduced an outlandish surgical method... more
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Vintage Departures: The Open R...NATIONAL BESTSELLER - For Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike an exceptionally i... NATIONAL BESTSELLER - For Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike an exceptionally intimate portrait (Elizabeth Gilbert author of Eat Pray Love) of the Dalai Lama--one of the most singular figures of our time. For over three decades Pico Iyer one of our most... more
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The Snows of Yesteryear (Paper...Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz a onetime provincial capital of the ... Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania the USSR and the Ukraine--a town that was everywhere and nowhere with a population of... more
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Annotated Sailing Alone Around...In this annotated account of the world s first solo circumnavigation Rod Scher... In this annotated account of the world s first solo circumnavigation Rod Scher s material helps us understand the world of 1895 so we can better appreciate author Joshua Slocum s accomplishment. If I could read only one boating book this year I d... more
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Lit: A Memoir (Paperback)(Larg...Mary Karr s bestselling unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars ... Mary Karr s bestselling unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars Club and Cherry--and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year--Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother;... more
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Lincoln Legends: Myths Hoaxes ...In the more than 140 years since his death Abraham Lincoln has become America ... In the more than 140 years since his death Abraham Lincoln has become America s most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon Lincoln... more
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An Outsider in the White House...Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that ... Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a team of rivals who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding relations with the... more
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Dating Jesus : A Story of Fund...By the age of twelve Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time... By the age of twelve Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time and in her mind Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn t he? She went to his house three times a week listened to his stories loudly and lustily sang songs to him. She... more
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