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How We Do Harm
A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America

St. Martin's Press
How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest...
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Goering
Hitler's Iron Knight

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Hermann Goering was Hitler’s most loyal supporter, his designated successor, and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. One of the main architects of...
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And Furthermore

St. Martin's Griffin
“I can hardly believe that it is more than half a century since I first stepped on to the stage of the Old Vic Theatre and into a way of life that has brought...
  
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Falling for Icarus
A Journey among the Cretans

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen...
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A Box of Darkness
The Story of a Marriage

St. Martin's Griffin
In the tradition of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, comes a poignant memoir about a marriage that was as deep and strong as it was mysterious and...
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The Godfather Effect
Changing Hollywood, America, and Me

Thomas Dunne Books
A brilliant examination of our forty year obsession with the classic film trilogy—and a personal  reflection on what it means to be Italian-American  Forty...
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Love Affair

St. Martin's Griffin
A searing literary memoir of a disconnected childhood, a multigenerational upbringing and incest— from the daughter of legendary jazz pianist Stan Kenton...
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The Silence of Our Friends

First Second
As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families—one white, one black—find common ground. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas,...
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William Henry Harrison
The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841
The American Presidents

Times Books
The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's...
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A Smile as Big as the Moon
A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp

St. Martin's Griffin
Mike Kersjes always believed that his students could do anything—even attend the prestigious Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, where some of America’s best...

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Night

Hill and Wang
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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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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The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger’s Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld

Forge Books
Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk-show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into...
  
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All But My Life
A Memoir

Hill and Wang
A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...
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Justin Bieber
The Fever!

St. Martin's Griffin
Justin Bieber is the world's hottest new pop star and every music fan’s favorite heartthrob! After being discovered on YouTube, Justin’s singles have taken the...
  
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Hole in My Life

Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper
"This true tale of the worst year in the author's life will be a big surprise for his many fans . . .This is a story of mistakes, dues, redemption, and finally...
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True Boo
Gator Catchin', Orangutan Boxin', and My Wild Ride to the PGA Tour

St. Martin's Press
From the deep South to the PGA Tour, the hilarious and inspiring memoir of golfer Boo Weekley Ever since his breakout performance at the 2008 Ryder Cup,...
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North by Northwestern
A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
New York Times bestseller “A chronicle that reads like a collection of your crazy buddy's bar stories about his crazier old man.” –Outside Magazine The...
  
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Angelina
An Unauthorized Biography

St. Martin's Press
"I like to collect knives," says Angelina Jolie, "but I also collect first edition books." At first glance, she might seem to be someone without any secrets,...
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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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A God Who Hates
The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam

St. Martin's Griffin
On Feb. 21, 2006, the Syrian-born and raised Wafa Sultan gave one of the most provocative interviews ever given by a Muslim woman on the Al Jazeera network. ...
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A Charmed Life
Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
A Charmed Life tells the story of Liza Campbell, the last child to be born at the impressive and renowned Cawdor Castle, the same locale featured in...
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When Giants Walked the Earth

St. Martin's Griffin
The first significant fresh reporting on the legendary band in twenty years, built on interviews with all surviving band members and revealing a...
  
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The Shah

Palgrave Macmillan
Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, the life of Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, continues to resonate today. Here,...