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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

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Devotion and Defiance: My Journey in Love, Faith and Politics

Devotion and Defiance: My Journey in Love, Faith and Politics

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I Look Back and Wonder How I Got Over

I Look Back and Wonder How I Got Over

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Note to Self

Note to Self

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Elizabeth I, CEO: Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire

Elizabeth I, CEO: Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire

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Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

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Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

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The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

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Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts

Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts

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The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill

The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill

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Hoop Roots

Hoop Roots

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Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists

Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists

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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

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A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir

A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir

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Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

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Hat Tricks From Heaven: The Story of an Athlete in His Own Prison of Addiction

Hat Tricks From Heaven: The Story of an Athlete in His Own Prison of Addiction

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Hans's Story

Hans's Story

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Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology

Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology

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If I Only Knew Then...: Learning from Our Mistakes

If I Only Knew Then...: Learning from Our Mistakes

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A Song in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience

A Song in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience

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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press

Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press

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This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace

This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace

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Duke University Press Books

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The Fifth Book of Peace

The Fifth Book of Peace

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More Than Words

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The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out

The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out

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Ballantine Books

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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

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Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase

Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase

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My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure

My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure

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The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem

The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem

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More Than Words

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A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman

A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman

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More Than Words

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Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman

Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman

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Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker

Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker

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Music & Medicine: : Haydn, Mozart

Music & Medicine: : Haydn, Mozart

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Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case That Rocked Boston and Shocked the Nation

Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case That Rocked Boston and Shocked the Nation

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The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story

The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story

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