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In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of ...

Leigh Anne Tuohy

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring storyFirst came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has ...

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Published: Feb 2011

Call the Midwife: Farewell to the Eas...

Jennifer Worth

The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a m...

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Published: Mar 2013

Adrift [movie Tie-In]: A True Story o...

Tami Oldham Ashcraft

The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest).“An inspirational and empowering read.”—Shailene WoodleyYoung and in love, thei...

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Published: May 2018

The Great Expectations School: A Rook...

Dan Brown

At 22, Dan Brown was an idealistic first-year elementary teacher at P.S. 85 in the Bronx. He was even assigned a class of his own: 4-217. What he wasnÕt told was that 4-217 was the dumping ground for all fourth-grade problem cases, a...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living a...

Nina Riggs

* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *"Stunning…heartrending…this year's When Breath Becomes Air." —Nora Krug, The Washington Post"Beautiful and haunting." —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY"Deeply affecting...

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Published: Feb 2018

Confessions of a Crack Head

Zach Samuels

Zach Samuels is a devoted father, musician, teacher, and counselor who simply cannot put the pipe down. One day worth half a million dollars, the next day he's picking up butts off the ground, homeless. Zach tells of his trials and tr...

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Published: Mar 2008

Elizabeth & Leicester

Elizabeth Jenkins

An absorbing and illuminating account of the relationship between Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I-a dramatic romance that has inspired countless films. Leicester's influence on the Queen was constant and incalculable, though he wa...

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Published: Oct 2002

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Anonymous

Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more...

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Published: Jun 2008

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the wo...

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Published: Apr 1983

The Imaginary Girlfriend (Ballantine ...

John Irving

“The Imaginary Girlfriend is a miniature autobiography detailing Irving’s parallel careers of writing and wrestling. . . . Tales of encounters with writers (John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut) are intertwined with ...

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Published: Dec 2002

The Water is Wide

Pat Conroy

The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now...

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Published: Mar 2002

My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under t...

Latifa

An astonishing first-hand account of a young womans life lived under the tyranny of the Taliban.Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, Latifa spent her teenage days talking fashion and movies with her friends, listen...

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Published: Jan 2001

An Italian Affair

Laura Fraser

When this memoirist's husband left her after a year of marriage, she retreated into the splendor of Southern Italy to recover. Knowing that there's nothing like a fling with Parisian art historian to cheer one up, she slowly came back...

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Published: May 2002

Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of...

Rob Edelman

Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. This meticulously res...

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Published: Sep 1999

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Histo...

Jonathan Franzen

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen’s tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a “small and fundamentally ridiculous person,” into an adult wi...

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Published: Aug 2007

Charlemagne

Derek Wilson

“Every country has its heroes; men and women, part fact, part legend, who exist to explain and reinforce elements of the national psyche. None has been as powerful and influential as Charles the Great.... While the Charlemagne s...

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Published: Jun 2007

What's Eating Johnny Depp?

Nigel Goodall

Johnny Depp, Hollywood’s most famous outsider, is one of this generation’s most impassioned, highly lauded stars. Nigel Goodall looks at his often turbulent life, his highprofile love affairs, and his extraordinary career ...

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Published: Jul 2004

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

Catherine Millet

Since it was first published in France, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. has become a bestseller all around the world and has been hailed as one of the most important books on sexuality to be published in decades. Since her youth,...

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Published: Apr 2003

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl

Shauna Reid

At just twenty-three years old, Shauna Reid weighed 351 pounds. Spurred into action by the sight of her enormous white knickers billowing on the clothesline, she created the hugely successful blog 'The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl....

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Published: Jan 2009

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Conf...

Dublanica Aka the Waiter Steve

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...

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Published: Aug 2009

About My Sisters

Debra Ginsberg

The author of Waiting and Raising Blaze explores the connection she shares with her three sisters, recounting how their parents' frequent moves resulted in a deep bond between the four siblings that continues into their adult lives. R...

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Published: Mar 2005

High Achiever: The Incredible True St...

Tiffany Jenkins

An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis. "Raw, brutal, and shocking. Move over, Orange I...

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Published: Jun 2019

An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander ...

Henning Mankell

An Inspector Kurt Wallander short novel by the bestselling author Henning Mankell, available in English for the first time. A Vintage Canada Original.      Soon after Inspector Kurt Wallander moves into a new house with a charmin...

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Published: Aug 2014

Assholes Finish First

Tucker Max

What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you've got anot...

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Published: Oct 2011

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fa...

Wes Moore

Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of t...

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Published: Dec 2010

Behind Sad Eyes: The Life of George H...

Marc Shapiro

Shrouded in a sea of mystery, the elusive George Harrison has long been the most private and enigmatic member of the Beatles. From his hard knock childhood in Liverpool to his ascendance into rock infamy, George Harrison's life has b...

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Published: Jan 2003

A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth...

Liza Campbell

A Charmed Life tells the story of Liza Camell, the last child to be born at the impressive and renowned Cawdor Castle, the same locale featured in Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was at the historical ancestral home that Liza's seemingly id...

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Published: Nov 2008

The Emperor Charlemagne

Russell Chamberlin

Few men have exerted such a lasting influence on the course of Western history as Charlemagne (742-814). At the height of his power in the early ninth century Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and Emperor of the Romans, rul...

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Published: Aug 2004

Model Patient: My Life As an Incurabl...

Karen Duffy

In this memoir, Karen Duffy, best known as a former MTV VJ and Revlon model, reveals how her acting and modeling career came to an abrupt halt when she was diagnosed with sarcoidosis of the central nervous system--a rare and potential...

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Published: Nov 2001

Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it T...

Danny Evans

In his early thirties, Danny Evans had a smokin' hot wife, a new baby boy, and the highest paying job he'd ever had. Then, in the span of one week, a sudden layoff and the events of 9/11 plunged Evans into a crushing depression. At tu...

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Published: Aug 2009
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