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Collection: Biographies & Memoirs

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I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: Sane, Slightly Neurotic (but in a Sane Way) Filmmaker into Good Yoga, Bad Reality TV, Too Much Chocolate, and a ... Point Anyone Who'll Let Me Watch Football

I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: Sane, Slightly Neurotic (but in a Sane Way) Filmmaker into Good Yoga, Bad Reality TV, Too Much Chocolate, and a ... Point Anyone Who'll Let Me Watch Football

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A Different Person: A Memoir

A Different Person: A Memoir

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In the Service of Others: America At Its Best (1)

In the Service of Others: America At Its Best (1)

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Oh Myyy!: There Goes The Internet

Oh Myyy!: There Goes The Internet

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Elvis: A Celebration in Pictures

Elvis: A Celebration in Pictures

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Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album

Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album

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Running Home: A Memoir

Running Home: A Memoir

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No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

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More Than Words

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The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington

The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington

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More Than Words

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An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice

An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice

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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

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Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

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Diamond in the Rough: A Memoir

Diamond in the Rough: A Memoir

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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

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Home Sweet Murder (ID True Crime, 2)

Home Sweet Murder (ID True Crime, 2)

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Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

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Modern Love, Revised and Updated (Media Tie-In): True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

Modern Love, Revised and Updated (Media Tie-In): True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

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The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me

The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me

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The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s

The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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W. W. Norton & Company

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The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena

The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena

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Free Ride: John McCain and the Media

Free Ride: John McCain and the Media

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Anchor

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Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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Letters to Kennedy

Letters to Kennedy

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Wrongful Death: A Memoir (Norton Paperback)

Wrongful Death: A Memoir (Norton Paperback)

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Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know

Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know

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There's No Plan B for Your A-Game: Be the Best in the World at What You Do

There's No Plan B for Your A-Game: Be the Best in the World at What You Do

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St. Martin's Press

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Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

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More Than Words

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One Tuesday Morning (9/11 Series, Book 1)

One Tuesday Morning (9/11 Series, Book 1)

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The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

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Granta 41: Biography

Granta 41: Biography

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More Than Words

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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution

Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution

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Henry Holt & Company

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Life With Maxie

Life With Maxie

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Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

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John Murray

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Adam Sandler: Not Too Shabby!

Adam Sandler: Not Too Shabby!

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More Than Words

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