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Sweet Mandarin
The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West
Thomas Dunne Books
Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary...
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Unto the Daughters
The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family
St. Martin's Griffin
“Nearly every family has a skeleton in its closet, an ancestor who "sins" against custom and tradition and pays a double price. Karen Tintori refused to allow...
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Dali & I
The Surreal Story
Thomas Dunne Books
An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name:...
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Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
St. Martin's Press
Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening...
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Looking for Anne of Green Gables
The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
St. Martin's Press
In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne...
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Imperfect Presidents
Tales of Misadventure and Triumph
Palgrave Macmillan
A refreshingly irreverent and illuminating history of ten great American presidents and their biggest mistakes
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Ty and The Babe
Baseball's Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship
St. Martin's Griffin
Early in the twentieth century, fate thrust a young Babe Ruth into the gleaming orbit of Ty Cobb. The resulting collision produced a dazzling explosion and a...
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Fire-Breathing Liberal
How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress
Thomas Dunne Books
There’s a reason The Nation, America’s leading progressive magazine, named Robert Wexler the country’s “Most Valuable Congressman.” It's the same reason...
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The Man Who Ate the World
In Search of the Perfect Dinner
Henry Holt and Co.
An astronomical gastronomical undertaking —one of the world’s preeminent restaurant critics takes on the giants of haute cuisine, one tasting menu at a time ...
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Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen
A Memoir
Thomas Dunne Books
“Sidney Offit has devised a marvelous mirror of his unique personality as well as a one of a kind tour of the New York literary world in the last half century....

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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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The Last Campaign
Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Henry Holt and Co.
The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a revelatory history that is especially resonant now After John...
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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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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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Because They Hate
A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
St. Martin's Griffin
"Her writing is eloquent and her passion tremendous." --Publishers Weekly “Brigitte Gabriel's words should be read, and studied carefully, by all the law...
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Apples and Oranges
My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
To be sure, some brothers and sisters have relationships that are easy. But oh, some relationships can be fraught. Confusing, too: How can two people share the...
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Running with Scissors
A Memoir
St. Martin's Paperbacks
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist...
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Mississippi Sissy
Picador
Mississippi Sissy is destined to become an American classic In a book that echoes the time-honored fiction of Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor and memoirs...
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Backcast
Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska
St. Martin's Press
While father and son fishing trips can be the stuff of American legend, they can also turn out to be the stuff of anger, love and self-discovery. In his...
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Hole in My Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Becoming a writer the hard way In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a...
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Gertrude Bell
Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to...
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Intern
A Doctor's Initiation
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Intern is Sandeep Jauhar’s story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption...
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House of Wits
An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
Henry Holt and Co.
An American odyssey that reveals the fascinating complexities of one of history’s most brilliant, eccentric, and daring families The James family, one of...