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The Elephant Whisperer

My Life with the Herd in the African Wild

Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence St. Martin's Griffin/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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Exit Interview

David Westin Sarah Crichton Books

When David Westin became president of ABC News in March 1997, the division was treading water. “It looked like all the really important news was behind us,” he...

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Hitman

Howie Carr 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...

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Land's End

A Walk in Provincetown

Michael Cunningham Picador

"Cunningham’s short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." —The Washington Post "Easily read on a plane-and-ferry...

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The Last Natural

Bryce Harper's Big Gamble in Sin City and the Greatest Amateur Season Ever

Rob Miech Thomas Dunne Books

Before Bryce Harper was the top pick in the Major League Baseball draft, before he signed the sport’s biggest contract ever for a first-year pro, he gambled...

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The Shah

Abbas Milani Palgrave Macmillan

Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social...

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Tasteful Nudes

...and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation

Dave Hill St. Martin's Press

From the Book Jacket: Dear ridiculously attractive person who just so happens to be holding Tasteful Nudes in his or her soft and supple yet commanding...

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Battleground Pacific

A Marine Rifleman's Combat Odyssey in K/3/5

Sterling Mace and Nick Allen St. Martin's Press

A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WWII’S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary “K-3-5” (for Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

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The Blueberry Years

A Memoir of Farm and Family

Jim Minick St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

“A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family’s journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading.” —Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America...

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Double Time

How I Survived---and Mostly Thrived---Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins

Jane Roper St. Martin's Press

What do you do when you find out you’re pregnant – times two?! When Jane Roper found out she was pregnant with twins, she searched high and low for a memoir...

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Effie

The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais

Suzanne Fagence Cooper St. Martin's Griffin

Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England’s Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading...

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Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	George VI Denis Judd I.B. Tauris Despite his struggle with a crippling shyness and sense of inadequacy, exacerbated by the stammer that was the focus of the Oscar-winning film The King’s...

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The Guttenberg Bible

A Memoir

Steve Guttenberg Thomas Dunne Books

The hilarious, insightful memoir of the highs and lows of Hollywood by the actor who starred in multiple iconic blockbusters: Diner, Police Academy and Three...

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Jimi Hendrix

A Brother's Story

Leon Hendrix with Adam Mitchell Thomas Dunne Books

More than forty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix—recently named the greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine—continues to inspire fans. Many...

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Sparky and Me

My Friendship with Sparky Anderson and the Lessons He Shared About Baseball and Life

Dan Ewald Thomas Dunne Books

In the tradition of Tuesdays With Morrie, Dan Ewald pens a memoir of his friendship with legendary Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, the man who taught him not...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Virgil A Life Peter Levi Tauris Parke Paperbacks Born in 70 BC, in a small village near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro—Virgil—grew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet. And although his work has...

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And Then Life Happens

A Memoir

Auma Obama; Translated by Ross Benjamin St. Martin's Press

A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama. While her younger brother Barack...

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Cuban Star

How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball

Adrian Burgos, Jr. Hill and Wang

When the selection committee voted Alejandro “Alex” Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball’s...

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The Jack Bank

A Memoir of a South African Childhood

Glen Retief St. Martin's Griffin

An extraordinary, literary memoir from a gay white South African, coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s. Glen Retief's childhood was at once...

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Like Any Normal Day

A Story of Devotion

Mark Kram, Jr. St. Martin's Press

A profound, powerful narrative of a golden boy's tragedy, a woman's unlived life, and a brother's complicated devotion In the mid-1970s, brothers Buddy and...

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Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man

Guts, Glory, and Blood in the World's Greatest Game

Jay Atkinson Thomas Dunne Books

If all sports are really about war, then rugby is a heart-thumping epic of bayonet charges and hand-to-hand fighting. In Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man,...

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One Dog at a Time

Saving the Strays of Afghanistan

Pen Farthing St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

The remarkable true story of one man’s fight to save the stray dogs of Afghanistan in the spirit of From Baghdad, With Love In the remote outpost of Now Zad,...

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The Queen Mother

The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Lady Colin Campbell St. Martin's Press

Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about...

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Mike Wallace

A Life

Peter Rader Thomas Dunne Books

The untold story of how the world's most feared TV reporter transformed his inner darkness into a journalistic juggernaut that riveted millions and redefined...

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