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American Rose
Karen Abbott
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America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people... Read More -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli, Foreword by Michael Ennis
Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.
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My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and... Read More
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Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou
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The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares... Read More -
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Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own... Read More
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who... Read More
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The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the... Read More
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Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition)
Cheryl Strayed
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection: This special eBookedition of Cheryl Strayed’s national best seller,Wild,features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal... Read More
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In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson
“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942... Read More
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Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II
Michael G. Walling
Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States... Read More
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To Heaven and Back
Mary C. Neal, MD
A kayak accident during a South American adventure takes one woman to heaven — where she experienced God’s peace, joy, and angels — and back to... Read More
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe
“What are you reading?”
That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer... Read More -
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in anew translation, this definitive edition containsentries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality andconfrontations with her mother that were... Read More
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Those Angry Days
Lynne Olson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World War II—a bitter,... Read More -
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler Translated by Susan Masso tty
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since... Read More
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a... Read More
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With or Without You
Domenica Ruta
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one... Read More -
Return of a King
William Dalrymple
From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable... Read More
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master... Read More
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Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil... Read More
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Brothers Emanuel
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
For years, people have been asking Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanuel clan, the same question: What... Read More -
Heads in Beds
Jacob Tomsky
In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry.
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen
INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MERYL STREEP AND ANNA QUINDLEN
“[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly... Read More -
The Black Count
Tom Reiss
Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten... Read More
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Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from... Read More
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With the Old Breed
E.B. Sledge
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes... Read More
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The Dispensable Nation
Vali Nasr
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and... Read More
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Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.
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The Borgias
G. J. Meyer
The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors... Read More
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Sugar in the Blood
Andrea Stuart
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle... Read More
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Out of Order
Sandra Day O'Connor
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court.... Read More -
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
The Countess of Carnarvon
Full-color photographs included throughout.
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration... Read More -
Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge
Lindy Woodhead
If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge’s.
Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five... Read More -
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to... Read More
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The Big Miss
Hank Haney
The Big Miss is Hank Haney’s candid and surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected... Read More
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Operation Storm
John J. Geoghegan
The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead... Read More
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Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend... Read More
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The Inventor and the Tycoon
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Shutterbabe
Deborah Copaken Kogan
What if the protagonist in that age-old tale—boy goes to war, comes back a man—were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that:... Read More
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The President's House
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Nothing If Not Critical
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The Science of Leonardo
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Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some... Read More
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Joan Mitchell
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“Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead.” —New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the 1950s
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From... Read More
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Start Something That Matters
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The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good.
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Sam Walton
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton... Read More
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The Snowball
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Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has... Read More
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The First Tycoon
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Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort
In this astounding account, Wall Street’s notorious bad boy—the original million-dollar-a-week stock chopper—leads us through a drama worthy ofThe... Read More
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The Accidental Billionaires
Ben Mezrich
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“The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times
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Meet You in Hell
Les Standiford
Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike... Read More
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The People's Tycoon
Steven Watts
How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been... Read More
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The Mailroom
David Rensin
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some... Read More
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The Richest Woman in America
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A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.
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Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions... Read More
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Wonderful Tonight
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An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself... Read More
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Light and Shade
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This “oral autobiography” of Jimmy Page, the intensely private mastermind behind Led Zeppelin—one of the most enduring bands in rock history—is the most complete and revelatory... Read More
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Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise... Read More
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Riders on the Storm
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And I Don't Want to Live This Life
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A Light That Never Goes Out
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A Freewheelin' Time
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Sweet Judy Blue Eyes
Judy Collins
A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now”... Read More
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