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Exit Interview

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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The Shah

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

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

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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Land's End
A Walk in Provincetown

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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Hitman

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

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

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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Jimi Hendrix
A Brother's Story

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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The Blueberry Years
A Memoir of Farm and Family

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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Mob Daughter
The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!

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From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with...
  
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The Queen Mother
The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

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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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The Red Circle
My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen

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BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS… HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF. Brandon Webb’s experiences in the world’s most elite sniper corps are the stuff...
  
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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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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That Woman
The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

St. Martin's Press
The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth...
  
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Mad Women
The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond

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“Hilarious! Honest, intimate, this book tells it as it was.” –Mary Wells Lawrence, author of A Big Life (In Advertising) and founding president of Wells Rich...
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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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And Then Life Happens
A Memoir

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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Below Stairs
The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"

St. Martin's Press
Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powell’s classic memoir of...
  
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Like Any Normal Day
A Story of Devotion

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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Mike Wallace
A Life

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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All But My Life
A Memoir

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

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...