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Cheney: The Untold Story of the Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President in American History
by Stephen F. Hayes  Publisher Comments During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an...
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Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit
by Kerry Max Cook Publisher Comments Kerry Cook is an innocent man who wrongly served two decades in Texas's notorious death house for the brutal 1977 rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards. His struggle for freedom is said to be one of the worst cases of police and prosecutorial...
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Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full
by Conrad Black Publisher Comments From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR...
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Obit.: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People That Led Extraordinary Lives
by Jim Sheeler Book News Annotation This collection features 42 obituaries about regular people who lived Colorado. Sheeler aims for the stories to teach people about living life and for readers to learn from the lives of those who died. The stories were previously published by Sheeler...
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God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
by John Bul Dau Publisher Comments This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle--indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it's set in a Sudan shadowed by unrelenting...
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Ticket to Exile
by Adam David Miller Synopsis This is a memoir by poet Adam David Miller about his experience growing up in the Jim Crow South. The story opens with Millers arrest for attempted rape for pasing a white girl a note that reads I would like to get to know you better Adam David Miller...
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Touch and Go: A Memoir
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments The extraordinary life and times of an American icon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's long-awaited memoir—a major publishing event. At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In...
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Just Breathe Normally (American Lives)
by Peggy Shumaker Publisher Comments Just Breathe Normally opens with a traumatic accident. Shattered perceptions and shards of narrative recount the events, from wreck through recovery and beyond. In lyric prose, the stories spiral back through generations to touch on questions of...
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Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
by Rebecca Walker Publisher Comments From the bestselling author whom Time magazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an insightful, moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty. Like many women her age...
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The Mystery Guest
by Gregoire Bouillier Publisher Comments One gloomy Sunday afternoon, Gregoire Bouillier answers the phone only to hear the voice of the woman who left him, without warning, five years before. She isn't calling to apologize or explain the way she abruptly vanished from his life, but to invite...
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Sedaris
by Kevin Kopelson Publisher Comments < div> & #8220; When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris& rsquo; s every sentence, it& rsquo; s easy to miss the more serious side of what he& rsquo; s up to. & nbsp; Fortunately, Kevin Kopelson has come along to guide...
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At Home in the Vineyard: Cultivating a Winery, an Industry, and a Life
by Susan Sokol Blosser Publisher Comments This moving, evocative memoir, woven with lyrical descriptions of the sights and smells of vineyard life, tells the inspirational story of one woman's journey to success in an industry run mostly by men. At Home in the Vineyard, filled with colorful...
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
by William Kalush Publisher Comments Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and...
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Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Life
by Jim Lindberg Publisher Comments Jim Lindberg is a Punk Rock Dad. When he drives his kids to school in the morning, they listen to the Ramones, the Clash, or the Descendents—and that's it. They can listen to Britney and Justin on their own time. Jim goes to soccer games, dance...
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Love You, Mean It: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Friendship
by Patricia Carrington Synopsis Four 30-something women whose husbands worked at the World Trade Center, came together after 9/11, creating a bond too special to ignore. This volume is a celebration of friendship, optimism, and empathy--a shared memoir of rebuilt lives....
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A Mirror Garden: A Memoir
by Moni Farmanfarmaian Publisher Comments In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted...
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Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor
by Rick Marin Publisher Comments You know him. He's the funny, sweet guy with the great eyes who asks you a million questions and seems mesmerized by every reply. He takes you on the greatest, longest date of your life. He swears he loves cats and cuddling. And his apartment is so clean....
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Finding Magic Mountain: Life With Five Glorious Kids and a Rogue Gene Called Fop
by Carol Zapata-whelan Publisher Comments Carol Zapata-Whelan describes her son's struggle with the rare genetic disease Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), focusing on the time of diagnosis at age nine to his first year in college (he matriculated as a pre-med student at the University...
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American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
by Anne Sebba Publisher Comments A frank account of the tempestuous life of the American mother of Britain's most important twentieth-century politician. Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy in 1874, after a three-day romance. She became Lady Randolph...
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Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir
by John Hemingway Publisher Comments A memoir that is at once fascinating, compelling, and heartbreaking, Strange Tribe reveals the peculiar dynamics between Ernest Hemingway and his youngest son, Gregory, the author's father.Gregory tried to live up to Ernest's macho reputation throughout...
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