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Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

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Elizabeth & Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage, and Monarchy

Elizabeth & Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage, and Monarchy

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Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

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We Never Die: Secrets of the Afterlife

We Never Die: Secrets of the Afterlife

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Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad

Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad

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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons

Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons

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The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)

The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)

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It Must've Been Something I Ate

It Must've Been Something I Ate

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Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me

Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me

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The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives

The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives

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Fear No Evil

Fear No Evil

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

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Frank Lloyd Wright (Penguin Lives)

Frank Lloyd Wright (Penguin Lives)

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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

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Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter`s Portrait

Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter`s Portrait

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The Angel in My Pocket: A Story of Love, Loss, and Life After Death

The Angel in My Pocket: A Story of Love, Loss, and Life After Death

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Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park

Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park

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The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time

The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time

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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

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Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...

Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...

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Mother Teresa's Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity

Mother Teresa's Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity

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A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World

A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World

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The Man Who Ate Everything

The Man Who Ate Everything

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The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

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An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

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What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

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Paula

Paula

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Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon (Destinations)

Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon (Destinations)

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Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film 'The Imitation Game'

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film 'The Imitation Game'

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Make Way for Nancy: A Life in Public Art

Make Way for Nancy: A Life in Public Art

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In Other Words

In Other Words

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God, Country, Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh

God, Country, Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh

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Young Men and Fire

Young Men and Fire

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