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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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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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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...
  
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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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The Guttenberg Bible
A Memoir

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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Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man
Guts, Glory, and Blood in the World's Greatest Game

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

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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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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Turning Two
My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets

Thomas Dunne Books
Only one man, Bud Harrelson, can say he was in uniform for both New York Mets world championships: as the shortstop who anchored the infield of the 1969...
  

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Mad Women
The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond

Thomas Dunne Books
“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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Triggered
A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Thomas Dunne Books
***AS FEATURED ON NPR’S TALK OF THE NATION*** Imagine the worst thing in the world. Picture it. Construct it, carefully and deliberately in your mind. Be...
  
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Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings
A Life in Construction

Thomas Dunne Books
Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings is an engaging memoir about one man's career in construction--rising to the top of an industry renowned for...
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Life Among the Cannibals
A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It

Thomas Dunne Books
A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the better During a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to...
  
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Courage Beyond the Game
The Freddie Steinmark Story

Thomas Dunne Books
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title Jim Dent, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Junction Boys, returns with a powerful...
  
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SEAL Warrior
The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
During the Vietnam era, many of the U.S. Navy SEALs (SEa, Air, Land commandos) never filed for a Purple Heart unless they were severely wounded. Thomas H....
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Alphaville
New York 1988: Welcome to Heroin City

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
A raw, gritty memoir – part true-life cop thriller, part unputdownable history of a storied time and place – that will grip you by the throat until the...
  
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Boardwalk Gangster
The Real Lucky Luciano

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
For the first twenty-five years of his career, Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who became the king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five, he...
  
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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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The Crusader
The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan

Thomas Dunne Books
The Crusader tells the fascinating life story of Pat Buchanan, the three-time presidential candidate, Nixon confidant, White House communications director...
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America's Quarterback
Bart Starr and the Rise of the National Football League

Thomas Dunne Books
A powerful biography of one of the greatest football players of all time, in the spirit of Johnny U and Namath No one can touch Bart Starr's record setting...
  
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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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Genghis Khan
Life, Death, and Resurrection

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a...
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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980--1988

Thomas Dunne Books
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title The second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries covers the bulk of the 1980s, a decade in which the ties...