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Are You My Mother?
A Comic Drama
Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.NPR Bestseller
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Traces the author's lifelong search for happiness as the adopted daughter of Pentecostal parents who raised her through practices of fierce control and paranoia, an experience that prompted her to search for her biological mother.NPR Bestseller
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The Passage Of Power
The Years Of Lyndon Johnson
Examines Lyndon Johnson's volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War.NPR Bestseller
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Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of A Short Guide to a Happy Life presents a candid and whimsical personal account that explores what matters to middle-aged women and how they regard life stages.NPR Bestseller
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Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.NPR Bestseller
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Prague Winter
A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
The former secretary of state paints a portrait of her early life from 1937 to 1948 during which she witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.NPR Bestseller
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Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Tells the gripping true story of a U.S. airman who was the sole survivor when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II. He faced thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. By the author of Seabiscuit.NPR Bestseller
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Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails
A Memoir
The author of Jarhead describes how he found redemption from a life of drugs, alcohol, fast cars and bad relationships by taking a series of RV trips with his ailing, Vietnam veteran father and the chance encounter with his future wife.
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Barack Obama
The Story
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of They Marched Into Sunlight draws on hundreds of interviews and written sources to present a richly textured account of the 44th President and the forces that shaped his character and beliefs, tracing the experiences of family members before his birth through his entry into politics.
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This Life Is In Your Hands
One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A luminous, evocative memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
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Johnny Appleseed
The Man, the Myth, the American Story
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It Worked for Me
In Life and Leadership
Collecting lessons and personal anecdotes that have shaped the four-star general and former Secretary of State's legendary career in public service, this blueprint for leadership offers wise advice for succeeding in the workplace and beyond.
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The Map of My Dead Pilots
The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska
Explores the history of Alaskan aviation, discussing small plane piloting in the wildest territory of the United States.
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Birdseye
The Adventures Of A Curious Man
A profile of eccentric genius inventor Clarence Birdseye chronicles how his innovative fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
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Notes On A Century
Reflections of a Middle East Historian
Presents the life and career of the Middle East specialist, from his professional relationships with world leaders to his accomplishments in world politics, and offers the author's analysis of the political transformation of the region.
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Mr. Hornaday's War
How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World
Recounts the life of the conservationist, who spent his life protecting wildlife as a taxidermist and museum collector; as the founder and first director of the National Zoo; as director of the Bronx Zoo; and as an author.
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My Father's Name
A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
Lawrence P. Jackson goes on a quest from Baltimore to Pittsylvania County, Va., to find the home that once belonged to his late grandfather. Part detective story, part memoir, Jackson traces his family's roots back to his grandfather's grandfather who was born or sold into slavery. My Father's Name is a detailed, historical portrait of an African-American Virginian family and a meditation on slavery and the struggles of postbellum freedom.
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Guest of Honor
Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
Traces the story of the 1901 White House dinner shared by the slave-turned-African-American-political-leader and the 26th President, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected period politics and race relations.
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A Sense Of Direction
Pilgrimage For The Restless And The Hopeful
Traces the author's wayward participation in three pilgrimages as part of a personal quest to resolve differences between his disciplinary skills and desires, an effort that illuminated a family mystery and gave him a greater sense of purpose.
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Moving the Mountain
Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
The Muslim leader best known for his contributions to the establishment of an interfaith community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero offers insight into his progressive beliefs, ambassador service and advocacy of tolerance and equal rights.
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Lizz Free Or Die
Essays
In a collection of autobiographical essays, The Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead vividly recounts how she fought to find her own voice, both as a comedian and as a woman, and how humor became her most powerful weapon in confronting life's challenges.
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Fug You
An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, The Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side
Former Fug Ed Sanders' memoir of his wild life on New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling numerous medical and scientific discoveries.NPR Bestseller
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The Happiness Project
Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Chronicles the author's year spent testing the edicts of conventional wisdom to assess their potential for improving life, describing various activities ranging from getting more sleep and singing to her children to starting a blog and imitating a spiritual master.NPR Bestseller
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Moonwalking With Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Having achieved the seemingly unachievable — becoming a U.S. memory champion — Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of his memory.NPR Bestseller
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Nothing Daunted
The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
A full-length account based on an admired New Yorker article that traces the experiences of classmates Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, who in 1916 left their affluent New York lives to teach school on the Western frontier.NPR Bestseller
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Just Kids
Artist and musician Patti Smith recounts her romance, lifetime friendship and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe in an illustrated memoir, with a colorful cast of characters including Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and William Burroughs.NPR Bestseller, Literary Award Winner
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Steve Jobs
A Biography
Draws on more than 40 interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors and colleagues, to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.NPR Bestseller
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Some Assembly Required
A Journal Of My Son's First Son
The best-selling author of Operating Instructions and her son chronicle his first year as a teenage father and her journey as a mother and new grandmother, describing their respective experiences with changing roles, the baby's mother and poignant family losses.NPR Bestseller
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Then Again
The award-winning actress documents her rise from everyday girl to acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.NPR Bestseller
