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My Life at Grey Gardens: Thirteen Months and Beyond
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My Life at Grey Gardens: Thirteen Months and Beyond
by L Wright

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Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, known as Big Edie and Little Edie, were the aunt and cousin of former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. They led an unconventional existence in Grey Gardens, a mansion in East Hampton. Their...
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Dreams from My Father
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Dreams from My Father
by Barack Obama

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a...
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Alfred and Emily
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Alfred and Emily
by Doris Lessing

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I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in...
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In His Sights
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In His Sights
by Kate Brennan

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What if the man you'd loved for years vows, when you leave him, to destroy you? What if he transforms into a ruthless tormentor, stealing your freedom, undermining your sanity, and threatening your safety? This is not a fictional scenario. It is Kate...
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In His Sights
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In His Sights
by Kate Brennan

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What if the man you'd loved for years vows, when you leave him, to destroy you? What if he transforms into a ruthless tormentor, stealing your freedom, undermining your sanity, and threatening your safety? This is not a fictional scenario. It is Kate...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert

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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career...
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Alfred and Emily
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Alfred and Emily
by Doris Lessing

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I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in...
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Alfred and Emily
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Alfred and Emily
by Doris Lessing

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I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in...
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In His Sights
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In His Sights
by Kate Brennan

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What if the man you'd loved for years vows, when you leave him, to destroy you? What if he transforms into a ruthless tormentor, stealing your freedom, undermining your sanity, and threatening your safety? This is not a fictional scenario. It is Kate...
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Woman of Rome
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Woman of Rome
by Lily Tuck

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Elsa Morante was born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means. She grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and a commitment to writing—she wrote her first poem when she was just two years old. During World War II, Morante...
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Masters of Doom
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Masters of Doom
by David Kushner

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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they...
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Jubilee City
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Jubilee City
by Joe Andoe

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Joe Andoe is an internationally exhibited painter. His work, hailed by The New Yorker as "cowboy noir with a fashionista twist," is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, and countless other...
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Theodore Rex
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Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris

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The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down...
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Waiter Rant
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Waiter Rant
by The Waiter

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According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by Barbara Kingsolver

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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one...
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Woman of Rome
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Woman of Rome
by Lily Tuck

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Elsa Morante was born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means. She grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and a commitment to writing—she wrote her first poem when she was just two years old. During World War II, Morante...
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Jack: Straight from the Gut
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Jack: Straight from the Gut
by Jack Welch

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I gave kicks followed by hugs. That's the basic philosophy of how Jack ran the vast and extraordinarily profitable General Electric company for more than two decades. During his tenure, GE was recognized annually as the best company in the world by...
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Waiter Rant
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Waiter Rant
by The Waiter

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According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales...
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A Moveable Feast
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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway

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"Memories of 1920s Paris. Favorite quote: 'The beer was very cold and wonderful to drink.'" Carole Reichstein, Powells...
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
by A. , J. Jacobs

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'33,000 pages 44 million words 10 billion years of history 1 obsessed man Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the...
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