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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons Publisher Comments The legend behind such songs as “Suzanne,” “Bird on the Wire” and “Hallelujah” andthe poet and novelist behind such groundbreaking literary works as Beautiful Losers and Book of Mercy, Leonard Cohen is one of the most... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments Based on new interviews with previously undiscovered relatives and filled with revelations and unpublished photographs, this is the most authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson. After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller that NPR calls “stunningly brave…a kind of anti-memoir, an out-of-body personal account of a young woman’s fight to survive one of the cruelest diseases imaginable….An unexpected gift of a book from... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays by Davy Rothbart Publisher Comments Named a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, and NPR In My Heart Is an Idiot, Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much every girl he meets... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Alone Together: My Life with J. Paul Getty by Theodora Getty Gaston Publisher Comments It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing "Alone Together" at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her friends' table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil tycoon and America'... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? by Billy Crystal Publisher Comments Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career. Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Men We Reaped Signed Edition by Jesmyn Ward Publisher Comments “We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.”... (read more) Available October 11, 2013 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death by Katy Butler Publisher Comments In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents' desires for "Good Deaths" and the forces within medicine that stood in the way. Katy Butler was living thousands... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Leaving Rollingstone by Kevin Fenton Publisher Comments In 1959, Kevin Fenton was born on a family farm overlooking Rollingstone, Minnesota—a tight-knit village founded by Luxembourgers and so Catholic that the parish school was the only school in town. The farm, and Kevin’s memory, is... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno Publisher Comments Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people — and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company — Salinger is a... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $26.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Wilson by A. Scott Berg Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prizewinning, #1 New York Timesbestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitive and revelatory biography of one of the great American figures of modern times. One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Kindred Beings: What 73 Chimpanzees Taught Me about Life, Love, and Connection by Sheri Speede Publisher Comments Enter a world of tender friendships, staunch loyalties, violent jealousies — and enduring love. As a child, Sheri Speede knew that she wanted to advocate for animals in any way she could. But it was not until many years after veterinary school,... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames (City Lights/Sister Spit) by Beth Lisick Publisher Comments Peering into life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, these are the kind of memories that haunt us all, the small awful moments of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Breeding in Captivity: One Woman's Unusual Path to Motherhood by Stacy Bolt Publisher Comments Breeding in Captivity takes us on Stacy Bolt's journey to have a child at "advanced maternal age," first with the help of a Really Expensive fertility specialist, and then ultimately through a local adoption agency. But this isn't your typical serious... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber Publisher Comments Outrageous, rich, and remarkable, Pastrix turns spiritual memoir on its ear in this sardonically irreverent and beautifully honest page-turner. Nadia Bolz-Weber takes no prisoners as she reclaims the term "pastrix"(pronounced "pas-triks," a term used by... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir by Phyllis Chesler Publisher Comments Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett Publisher Comments The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia — a story of courage... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb by William Lanouette Publisher Comments Well-known names such as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller are usually those that surround the creation of the atom bomb. One name that is rarely mentioned is Leo Szilard, known in scientific circles as “father... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater by Michael Sokolove Publisher Comments Friday Night Lights meets Gleethe incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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