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New & Coming-Soon History and Biographies MAY 2017
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Between Them : Remembering My Parents
by Richard Ford
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Bascombe novels presents a memoir in two parts on the lives of his parents in the Depression-era South that explores their motivations and dreams, his traveling salesman father's early death and the family's transient lives in a series of hotels.
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Letterman : the last giant of late night
by Jason Zinoman
A definitive account of the life and career of comedic talk show host David Letterman evaluates how his ironic style transcended traditional television and how his remote and reclusive personality contrasts with his widely misunderstood achievements. 100,000 first printing.
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The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia
by Liudmila Petrushevskaia
A memoir from the best-selling and award-winning Russian author, describes waiting in bread lines with her Bolshevik family who once lived across the street from the Kremlin and being raised by her aunt and grandmother after her mother left.
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Nevertheless : a memoir
by Alec Baldwin
In a candid memoir, a noted, outspoken actor chronicles the highs and lows of his life and career.
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Grace notes : my recollections
by Katey Sagal
Lyrical, reflective personal essays by the award-winning actress best known as Peggy Bundy on Married With Children trace the highs and lows of her life, from the deaths of her parents and her years in the L.A. rock scene to her early diagnosis with cancer and the stillbirth of her first daughter.
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City of light, city of poison : murder, magic, and the first police chief of Paris
by Holly Tucker
Draws on transcripts, letters and diaries to chronicle how an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s led to Nicolas de La Reynie's appointment as Paris's first police chief, the installation of lanterns that turned Paris into the City of Light and the investigations in the criminal underground that implicated Louis XIV's mistress.
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Ice ghosts : the epic hunt for the lost Franklin expedition
by Paul Watson
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Where War Lives and expedition member describes how an unlikely combination of marine science and Inuit knowledge helped solve the mystery of the lost Franklin expedition of 1845.
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Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
by Scott Miller
A suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces. By a former Wall Street Journal writer and the highly recommended author of The President and the Assassin.
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Two paths : America united or divided
by John Kasich
The Ohio governor, and vocal Republican critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, answers the burning question of our time: "Where do Americans go from here?" Do we head down the right path ... or the garden path?
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From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization.
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