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  • SEPARATED @ BIRTH
    SEPARATED @ BIRTH
    FUTERMAN, SAMANTHA
    Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, "I think we might be twins...don't freak out..." It all began when design student Anais Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anais found that the Los Angeles actress Samantha Futerman was born in a South Korean port city called Busan on November 19...
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    Q. 270

  • FACING THE MUSIC
    FACING THE MUSIC
    KNAPP, JENNIFER
    Jennifer Knapp's meteoric rise in the Christian music industry ended abruptly when she walked away and came out publicly as a lesbian. This is her story--of coming to Christ, of building a career, of admitting who she is, and of how her faith remained strong through it all. At the top of her career in the Christian music industry, Jennifer Knapp quit. A few years later, she pub...
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    Q. 240

  • GREEN VANILLA TEA
    GREEN VANILLA TEA
    WILLIAMS, MARIE
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    Q. 170

  • SAVING SIMON
    SAVING SIMON
    KATZ, JON
    In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, "New York Times" bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would challenge every idea he ever had about mercy and compassion. An animal control officer had found...
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    Q. 250

  • RAISING GIRLS IN BOHEMIA
    RAISING GIRLS IN BOHEMIA
    KATROVAS, RICHARD
    A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, "Raising Girls in Bohemia" chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into a range of intricately related yet far-flung subjects including fine dini...
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    Q. 160

  • SEASON OF THE WITCH
    SEASON OF THE WITCH
    BEBERGAL, PETER
    This epic cultural and historical odyssey unearths the full influence of occult traditions on rock and roll--from the Beatles to Black Sabbath--and shows how the marriage between mysticism and music changed our world. From the hoodoo-inspired sounds of Elvis Presley to the Eastern odysseys of George Harrison, from the dark dalliances of Led Zeppelin to the Masonic imagery of to...
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    Q. 280

  • PANDORA'S DNA
    PANDORA'S DNA
    STARK, LIZZIE
    Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA, a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In "Pandora's DNA," Stark u...
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    Q. 270

  • HERBIE HANCOCK
    HERBIE HANCOCK
    HERBIE HANCOCK
    The long-awaited memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In "Herbie Hancock" the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on a life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator, Hancock has had an enormous influence on both acoustic and electric jazz, R&B and hip-hop, with his ongoing exploration of different musica...
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    Q. 300

  • AMERICAN SNIPER (MTI)
    AMERICAN SNIPER (MTI)
    KYLE, CHRIS / SCOTT MCEWEN / JIM DEFELICE
    Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real number is even much higher) in the history of the United States military, any branch, from 1776 to present. Nicknamed “The Legend” by his fellow SEALS, Kyle’s service in Iraq and Afghani...
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    Q. 105

  • JERRY LEE LEWIS
    JERRY LEE LEWIS
    BRAGG, RICK
    For nearly sixty years, Jerry Lee Lewis has been a monumental figure in American life. The wildest and most dangerous of the early rock and rollers, he electrified the world with hit records such as "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Great Balls of Fire," and "Breathless." His music was raucous, exuberant, slyly sexual; his wailing vocals were grounded by the locomotive force of ...
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    Q. 280

  • WALKING THE WOODS AND THE WATER
    WALKING THE WOODS AND THE WATER
    HUNT, NICK
    "Nick Hunt has written a glorious book, rich with insight and wit, about walking his way both across and into contemporary Europe. . . . So many memorable encounters with people and places! A book about gifts, modernity, endurance and landscape, it represents a fine addition to the literature of the leg."--Robert Macfarlane, award-winning travel writer, author of "The Wild Plac...
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    Q. 180

  • BEIJING BASTARD
    BEIJING BASTARD
    WANG, VAL
    A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider's perspective to China's shift from ancient empire to modern superpower Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese dance troupe--until she shaved her head and became a leftist, the stuff of many ...
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    Q. 270

  • AFTER THE WIND
    AFTER THE WIND
    KASISCHKE, LOU
    Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. Now he tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before including why the climbers were desperately late and out of time. His personal story, captured in the title AFTER THE WIND, tells about the intense m...
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    Q. 250

  • GOD'LL CUT YOU DOWN
    GOD'LL CUT YOU DOWN
    SAFRAN, JOHN
    An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson. A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came t...
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    Q. 280

  • THE PERFECT KILL
    THE PERFECT KILL
    ROBERT BAER
    What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, "It's a bullet with a man's name on it." Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict--one bullet, one death, case closed. Assassination has been drama...
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    Q. 280

  • COMING ASHORE
    COMING ASHORE
    GILDINER, CATHERINE
    Picking up her story in the late '60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London's swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate. After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from...
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    Q. 250

  • WHO KNOWS TOMORROW
    WHO KNOWS TOMORROW
    LISA LOVATT-SMITH
    Born in Spain and raised by a struggling single mother, Lisa Lovatt-Smith became an editor at British "Vogue" at nineteen, the youngest in Conde Nast history. She helped launch Spanish "Vogue" and partied across Europe with celebrities, fashion designers, photographers, and supermodels. By her thirties, Lisa has her dream career and a glamorous life in Paris, but when her adopt...
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    Q. 260

  • MY HEART IS A DRUNKEN COMPASS
    MY HEART IS A DRUNKEN COMPASS
    DOMINGO MARTÍNEZ HEDMANN
    With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. His first book shockingly ended with his fiance Stephanie plummeting off the side of an overpass in Seattle, after having a seizure while driving. ...
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    Q. 270

  • A BACKPACK, A BEAR, AND EIGHT CRATES OF VODKA
    A BACKPACK, A BEAR, AND EIGHT CRATES OF VODKA
    GOLINKIN, LEV
    A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases, $600, and the vague promise of help awaiting in Vienna. Years later, Lev, now an American adul...
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    Q. 260

  • FRANCOTIRADOR AMERICANO
    FRANCOTIRADOR AMERICANO
    KYLE, CHRIS
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    Q. 100

  • FRANCOTIRADOR AMERICANO
    FRANCOTIRADOR AMERICANO
    KYLE, CHRIS
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    Q. 160

  • MUJICA
    MUJICA
    MIGUEL ÁNGEL CAMPODÓNICO.
    La relevancia de la figura de José “Pepe” Mujica no ha parado de crecer y despertar admiración en los últimos años desde que en 1999 se publicó en Uruguay la primera edición del libro de Campodónico. Hacía cuatro años ya que el viejo tupamaro era diputado en el Parlamento de Uruguay y faltaban diez años para que ganara las elecciones presidenciales; en ese momento, «había adqui...
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    Q. 215

  • NO MAN'S LAND
    NO MAN'S LAND
    SAMET, ELIZABETH D
    As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peace Elizabeth D. Samet, a professor of English at West Point and the author of the critically acclaimed "Soldier's Heart," came to question her settled understanding of post-9/11 America as a clear arc from peace to war. Over...
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    Q. 250

  • THERE WAS AND THERE WAS NOT
    THERE WAS AND THERE WAS NOT
    TOUMANI, MELINE
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    Q. 280

  • I MUST SAY
    I MUST SAY
    SHORT, MARTIN
    In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Short takes the reader on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toron...
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    Q. 270

  • THE STORY OF MY HEART
    THE STORY OF MY HEART
    JEFFERIES, RICHARD
    "The Williamses anchor Jefferies' profound inquiry to our churning world and illuminate their own passionate quests for truth and understanding."--"BOOKLIST," starred review "Brooke and Terry give a sense of cohesion to Jefferies's writing, and leave readers with much to ponder about our own chaotic, fast-paced, work-obsessed world."--"PUBLISHERS WEEKLY" "This perfect little pa...
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    Q. 220

  • PHILIP LARKIN
    PHILIP LARKIN
    BOOTH, JAMES
    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen years a colleague of the poet's at the University of Hull, offers a very different portrait. Drawn from years of research ...
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    Q. 350

  • IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
    IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
    JAMES GAVIN
    From the author of the "definitive" ("Vanity Fair") biography of Lena Horne, "Stormy Weather," comes a brilliantly written portrait of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee. ""She made you think that she knew who you were, that she was singing only to you..."" Miss Peggy Lee cast a spell when she sang. She purred so intimately in nightclubs that couples clasped hands an...
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    Q. 320

  • AMORE
    AMORE
    FRIEDLAND, ROGER
    As his twin daughters approached adolescence, sociologist Roger Friedland was worried. The thing that most bothered him was not the erotic heat of America's youth culture, but the lovelessness of its sex. Offered the chance to live and teach in Rome, Roger and his wife, Debra, seized the opportunity to take their family to live in a city where love is alive, family bonds hold, ...
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    Q. 160

  • GIL SCOTT-HERON
    GIL SCOTT-HERON
    BARAM, MARCUS
    Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron was a musical icon who defied characterization. He tantalized audiences with his charismatic stage presence, and his biting, observant lyrics in such singles as "The Bottle" and "Johannesburg" provide a time capsule for a decade marked by turbulence, uncertainty, and racism. While he was exa...
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    Q. 270