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Care and Feeding : A Memoir
Woolever, Laurie
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedy In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces...
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Careless People A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.
Wynn-Williams, Sarah.
"Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "When one of the world's most powerful media...
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From the Rez to the Runway : Forging My Path in Fashion
Allaire, Christian.
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Growing up on the Nipissing First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario, Christian Allaire wanted to work in the fashion industry, a future that seemed like a remote, and unlikely, dream He was first introduced to style and design through his culture's traditional Ojibwe powwow regalia-...
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How to Survive a Bear Attack : A Memoir
Cameron, Claire.
In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an equally rare and terrifying event--a predatory bear attack. When Claire Cameron was nine...
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One Foot on the Platform: A Rock 'N' Roll Journey
Goddard, Peter
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The final word from one of popular music's greatest critics. In the summer of 2020, acclaimed music critic and journalist Peter Goddard began work on a new book that would take readers on a journey back through his fifty-plus years spent writing professionally about rock music and the...
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Saving five : a memoir of hope
Nguyen, Amanda
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller. One of TIME and Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2025. Natalie Portman's Book Club Pick for March. "Amanda's story--innovatively told by versions of herself at different ages--underscores the lasting...
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Say everything : a memoir
Skye, Ione
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gen X icon Ione Skye bares all in an achingly vulnerable coming-of-age memoir about chasing fame, desire, and true love in the shadow of her famous, absent father. In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye landed the breakout role...
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Spellbound : my life as a dyslexic wordsmith
Hanley, Phil
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An Amazon Best of Biography/Memoir Comedian and severe dyslexic Phil Hanley reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized...
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Sucker Punch
Koul, Scaachi.
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"Koul puts on a breezy and fleetingly filthy sideshow, but when she writes about gender and race she reveals that knife-throwing is her main act." --The New York Times One of W Magazine's 'Best Nonfiction Books of 2025 So Far' * Named by Vulture and Literary Hub...
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The Tell : A Memoir
Griffin, Amy
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * An astonishing memoir that explores how far we will go to protect ourselves, and the healing made possible when we face our secrets and begin to share our stories "A beautiful account of the journey of courage it takes to...
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Free : my search for meaning
Knox, Amanda
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Amanda Knox reflects on her world-famous confinement in an Italian prison and her return to an "ordinary" life--revealing hard-won truths about purpose and fulfillment. Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn't...
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in XI Jinping's China
Feng, Emily
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A "gripping and scrupulously reported" (The Washington Post) investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping's definition of who is "Chinese," from an award-winning NPR correspondent. ...
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The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Hammer, Joshua
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A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. It was one of history's...
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Women Who Woke Up the Law : Inside the Cases that Changed Women's Rights in Canada
Wells, Karin.
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"Who was the woman trying to convince a jury in a tiny courthouse in Nova Scotia that it was self-defense when she killed her partner; and who was the young woman walking into the palais de justice in small-town Quebec arguing that it was her choice, not his, to have an abortion? What was it that...
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Black Tunnel White Magic : A Murder, a Detective's Obsession, and '90s Los Angeles at the Brink
Jackson, Rick/ Mcgough, Matthew/ Connelly, Michael (FRW)
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Detective Rick Jackson, a decorated LAPD detective and a key inspiration in the development of Harry Bosch, delivers a shocking and immersive look into the one case he could never let go. In June 1990, Ronald Baker, a straight-A UCLA student, was found repeatedly...
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Trespassers at the Golden Gate : a true account of love, murder, and madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
Krist, Gary
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The sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city's transformation from raucous frontier town into modern metropolis--from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Sin
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Abundance
Klein, Ezra
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A terrific book...Powerful and persuasive." --Fareed Zakaria "Spectacular...Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward...Klein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge the...
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Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection
Green, John
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Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! * #1 Washington Post bestseller! * #1 Indie Bestseller! * USA Today Bestseller! John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's...
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Murder the Truth : Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
Enrich, David
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New York Times Bestseller "Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America." --...
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There is no place for us : working and homeless in America
Goldstone, Brian
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Through the "revelatory and gut-wrenching" (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend--the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America "An exceptional feat of reporting, full of an...
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Who Is Government? : The Untold Story of Public Service
Lewis, Michael
"Perhaps never before has there been a book better timed or more urgent." --Washington Post "Michael Lewis has this incredible ability to zoom in on one person's story, and from there reveals something much bigger about our culture. His books leave you seeing the world...
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The Art of Physics : How Science Explains the Chaos, Contradictions, and Unpredictability of Life
Bharmal, Zahaan
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Can physics change your life? It already has. "What does complex system theory teach us about getting fired? How does the study of subatomic particles help us predict elections? In his insightful and entertaining new book, Zahaan Bharmal applies lessons from physics to...
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Carbon : the book of life
Hawken, Paul
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Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earth's composition, our planet is lifeless without it. Yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilisation....
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Close to home : the wonders of nature just outside your door
Hanson, Thor
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An award-winning natural-history writer opens the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we know the...
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The Explorer's Gene : Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
Hutchinson, Alex
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New York Times bestselling author of Endure, Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, invigorating investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk-taking shape our behavior and wellbeing. For fans of On Trails and Range alike, The Explorer's...
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How to Feed the World : The History and Future of Food
Smil, Vaclav
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"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author."--Bill Gates An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food--and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet We have...
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These Strange New Minds : How Ai Learned to Talk and What It Means
Summerfield, Christopher
An insider look at the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are revolutionizing our relationship to technology, exploring their surprising history, what they can and should do for us today, and where they will go in the future--from an AI pioneer and neuroscientist In this...
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How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion
Pueblo, Yung
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The beloved author of Lighter offers a blueprint for deepening your compassion, kindness, and gratitude so you can truly grow in harmony with another person and build stronger connections in all your relationships. "A beautiful offering from...
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Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change
Khazan, Olga
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Is it really possible to change your entire personality in a year? An award-winning journalist experiments with her own personality to find out--and reveals the science behind lasting change. In recent years, Olga Khazan had been spiraling toward an existential crisis....
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The next conversation : argue less, talk more
Fisher, Jefferson
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everything No matter who you're talking to, The Next Conversation gives you immediately...
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Ordinary Magic : The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change With Small Acts
Walton, Gregory M.
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"By one of the great psychologists of our time, a book that shows us how we can answer the universal questions that define our lives: Can I succeed? Do I belong? Am I loved?"--Carol S. Dweck, PhD, bestselling author of Mindset Discover simple psychological shifts that...
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Tiny experiments : how to live freely in a goal-obsessed world
Le Cunff, Anne-Laure
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A transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, and the creator of the popular Ness Labs newsletter "I loved this profound, practical, and generous book."--Oliver Burkeman "A thought...
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