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The Elephant Whisperer
My Life with the Herd in the African Wild

Thomas Dunne Books
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his...
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Sinatra in Hollywood

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Oscar-winning actor, acclaimed director, and recipient of the Golden Globe Award for lifetime achievement in film, Frank Sinatra carved out one of the biggest...
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Aesop's Mirror
A Love Story

Sarah Crichton Books
“Everything I needed to know about Fox and Grapes mirror, I knew the moment I first I saw it” What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she...
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The Paris Review Interviews (Boxed Set) I-IV

Picador
For more than half a century, The Paris Review has conducted in-depth interviews with our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. These revealing,...
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The Paris Review Interviews, IV

Picador
With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the...
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Jackie Under My Skin
Interpreting an Icon

Picador
Jackie Under My Skin is a passionate investigation of the ways Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed America's definition of celebrity, identity, and style....
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Breaking News
A Memoir

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Martin Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to Tel Aviv bureau chief for...
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The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

St. Martin's Griffin
Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical...
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Che
A Graphic Biography

Hill and Wang
A symbol of counterculture worldwide, Ernesto “Che” Guevara is one of the most, if not the most, recognizable and influential revolutionary figures of the...
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Growing Up bin Laden
Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

St. Martin's Press

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Night

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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
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My Life Outside the Ring

St. Martin's Press
Hulk Hogan, born Terry Bollea, burst onto the professional wrestling scene in the late seventies and went on to become a world wrestling champion many times...
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Sarah Crichton Books
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean,...
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Step Out on Nothing
How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges

St. Martin's Press
It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing...
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A Wolf at the Table
A Memoir of My Father

Picador
Nominated for the 2009 Audiobook of the Year “As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried...
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Thin Is the New Happy

St. Martin's Griffin
You’ve heard the phrase “the mirror is not your friend.” For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much more than “not a friend.” It was the mean girl who stole...
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A God Who Hates
The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam

St. Martin's Press
From the front page of The New York Times to YouTube, Dr. Wafa Sultan has become a force radical Islam has to reckon with. For the first time, she tells her...
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The Sound of Wings
The Life of Amelia Earhart

St. Martin's Griffin
When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous female...
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Dry
A Memoir

Picador
From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry—the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not...
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Chanel
A Woman of her Own

Holt Paperbacks
Alex Madsen brings to life Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the queen of fashion who revolutionized women's styles forever.
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The Boy from Baby House 10
From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America

St. Martin's Press
In 1990, a young boy afflicted with cerebral palsy was born, prematurely, in Russia. His name was Vanya. His mother abandoned him to the state childcare system...
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Possible Side Effects

Picador
National Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of...
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Magical Thinking
True Stories

Picador
From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True...
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Saving Cinnamon
The Amazing True Story of a Missing Military Puppy and the Desperate Mission to Bring Her Home

St. Martin's Press
Set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, Saving Cinnamon chronicles the love story of Navy Reservist Mark Feffer and a stray puppy he bonded with...