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Knife : meditations after an attempted murder
Rushdie, Salman
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered...
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Sonny Boy : A Memoir
Pacino, Al
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller "The book is a beautiful trip." (New York Times Magazine) * "Soulful . . . Feels like hanging out within a history of American movies over the last 50 years." (Los Angeles Times) * "Startlingly...
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Elements of Marie Curie : How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Sobel, Dava
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The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her laboratory who...
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Men Have Called Her Crazy : A Memoir
Tendler, Anna Marie
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*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "This book is so many things I didn't know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny's insipid, predictable, infuriating reign." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award...
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Unfinished Love Story : A Personal History of The 1960s
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from "America's historian-in-chief" (New York magazine). An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography,...
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My Name Is Barbra
Streisand, Barbra.
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The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy,...
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Brothers
van Halen, Alex
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this intimate and open account--nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read--Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. Told...
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Henry V : The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
Jones, Dan.
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'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' - Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was...
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My beloved monster : Masha, the half-wild rescue cat who rescued me
Carr, Caleb
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The most brilliant feline portrait in literary history." -People Magazine (Book of the Week) The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half...
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Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
Fox, Margalit
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America's first great organized-crime lord was a lady--a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum. "A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket's finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York."--Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood
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