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A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat', and the Struggle for Honor in Washington
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Mark Felt
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Mark Felt's role in history was secured when he decided to share his views on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter on the Washington Post named Bob Woodward.
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A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck
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Trace Adkins
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Country-music superstar Trace Adkins isn't exactly known for holding back what's on his mind. And if the millions of albums he's sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things ought to be.
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American Bloomsbury
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Susan Cheever
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A brilliant, controversial, and fascinating biography of those who were, in the mid-nineteenth century, the center of American thought and literature.
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An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love
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Richard Carlson
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Richard Carlson's Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series has been an incredible hit, with over nine million copies of the original book and over 16 million copies of the entire series in print. Sadly, Richard died unexpectedly in December 2006 at the age of 45.
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Annie Oakley: Woman at Arms
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Courtney Ryley Cooper
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This is the exceptional story of the sharpshooting markswoman whom Will Rogers once called "the finest and truest of American women."
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
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Considered to be one of the best autobiographies written in colonial America, Franklin portrays a fascinating picture of life in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia.
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Barbra: The Way She Is
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Christopher Andersen
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She is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra Joan Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossomed into a modern-day Nefertiti…
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Body of Work
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Christine Montross
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This is a hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open.
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Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend
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Paul Schneider
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In Paul Schneider's hands, the legend behind the daring movie that revolutionized Hollywood becomes the true story of Bonnie and Clyde. Told in the lovers' own voices, it offers verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
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Books: A Memoir
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Larry McMurtry
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Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. Audiences are therefore sure to be eager to hear this intimate and surprisingly personal memoir of the brilliant writer's love affair with books.
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Boots on the Ground by Dusk
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Mary Tillman
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Pat Tillman was seen by many as an American hero. A star college-football player turned pro, he walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract after the 9/11 attacks, choosing to enlist in the U.S. Army.
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Born on a Blue Day
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Daniel Tammet
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One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story-and explain how his incredible mind works.
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Breaking News
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Martin Fletcher
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Martin Fletcher doesn't claim to be a hero. Yet he didn't flinch, either. During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to top network correspondent, facing down his own fears while facing up to mass killers, warlords, and murderers.
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Breathing the Fire
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Kimberly Dozier
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CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier battled back from critical injuries sustained in a Baghdad bombing, a prominent incident that claimed the lives of her two crew members, an Army officer, and his interpreter. In Breathing the Fire, Dozier offers a personal memoir of tenacity as well as dedication and drama.
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Brotherhood of Warriors
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Aaron Cohen
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Beverly Hills native Aaron Cohen was 18 years old when he left behind his privileged American life with the single-minded ambition of joining Israel's top anti-terrorist commando unit.
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Call of Duty
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Lynn D. Compton
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As part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton fought in the critical battles of Normandy and Market Garden and in the freezing cold of Bastogne. Easy Company, immortalized as the Band of Brothers, stands today as an unparalleled icon of brotherhood and bravery under fire.
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Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
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Jeffry D. Wert
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Acclaimed historian Jeffry D. Wert presents the first full-scale biography in more than twenty years of J. E. B. Stuart, the most colorful---and controversial---Confederate cavalryman.
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Change in the Weather: Life After Stroke
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Mark McEwen
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Change in the Weather signals a change in America's mind-set, led by one of our most dynamic new crusaders for stroke victims and their families.
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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Pope Brock
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This is the enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men. "Doctor" John Brinkley became a world renowned authority on sexual rejuvenation in the 1920s, with famous politicians and even royalty asking for his services.
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Chaucer
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Peter Ackroyd
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In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet’s works.
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Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
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Stephen F. Hayes
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During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an end to the Vietnam War.
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Churchill and America
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Martin Gilbert
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In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.
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Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile-57 B.C.
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Kristiana Gregory
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Established "Dear America" author Kristiana Gregory kicks off "The Royal Diaries" with the captivating story of a young Cleopatra's life.
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Closing Time: A Memoir
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Joe Queenan
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Joe Queenan's acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop culture have made him one of the most popular humorists and commentators of our time. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s.
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Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
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David Cordingly
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From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.
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