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Born Trump

Inside America's First Family

by Emily Jane Fox
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018

Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America’s forty-fifth president, argues Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to unlocking what makes him tick. Born Trump is Fox’s dishy, deeply reported, and richly detailed look at Trump’s...
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Sharon

The Life of a Leader

by Gilad Sharon
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011

Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled withstartling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates hislife and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad Sharon—one of his father’s closest confidants.Readers of George W. Bush’s Decision Points,...
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Ulysses S. Grant

The Unlikely Hero

by Michael Korda
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

A lavishly illustrated edition of Michael Korda's acclaimed biography of the man who ended the Civil War, served two terms as president, and wrote one of the most successful military memoirs in American literature Ulysses S. Grant was the first officer since George Washington to become a four-star...
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Chasing Hillary

Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

by Amy Chozick
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton’s pursuit of the presidency. Chozick’s front-row seat, initially covering Clinton’s imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to “The Hillary Beat” ahead of the 2016 election, took her to...
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Enter Helen

The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman

by Brooke Hauser
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

This cinematic story about legendary Cosmopolitan editor and champion of the single girl Helen Gurley Brown chronicles her rise as a cultural icon who redefined what it means to be an American woman. In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Sex and the Single...
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Wanted Women

Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui

by Deborah Scroggins
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012

The author of Emma’s War offers a compelling account of the link between Muslim women’s rights, Islamist opposition to the West, and the Global War on Terror, as explored through the experiences of two fascinating female champions from opposing sides of the conflict: Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali...
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by Jim Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

A minute-by-minute narrative account of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, The Day Kennedy Was Shot captures the action, mystery, and drama that unfolded on November 22, 1963.  Author Jim Bishop’s trademark hour-by-hour suspenseful storytelling drives this account of an unforgettable...
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Only One Year

A Memoir

by Svetlana Alliluyeva
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017

After the success of her New York Times-bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva—subject of Rosemary Sullivan’s critically acclaimed biography Stalin’s Daughter—penned this riveting account of her year-long journey to defect from...
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High Price

A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

by Carl Hart
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013

High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a man who grew up in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real lives.   Young Carl didn't see the value of school,...
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by Amy Silverstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017

In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant. Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first...
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The Secret Life of Plants

A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial bestseller. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich psychic...
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Sick

A Memoir

by Porochista Khakpour
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

Time Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018 Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books GQ Best Non Fiction Book of 2018 Bustle’s28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list Nylon’s50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read...
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Francis Crick

Discoverer of the Genetic Code

by Matt Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012

Francis Crick—the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life—will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic...
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Rebbe

The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History

by Joseph Telushkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016

“One of the greatest religious biographies ever written.” – Dennis Prager In this enlightening biography, Joseph Telushkin offers a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a towering figure who saw beyond conventional boundaries to turn his movement, Chabad-Lubavitch,...
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