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Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart
by Lisa Rogak
Drawing on interviews with current and former colleagues of Jon Stewart, the author of The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert chronicles the life of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, from his early stand-up days to his award-winning Comedy Central TV show.
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The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir
by Sheila E.
The Grammy Award-nominated artist traces four decades of Latin and pop music, sharing intimate details from her tours with fellow artists and her solo career while revealing how her faith has helped her work through her painful experiences with sexual abuse.
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Bowie: The Biography
by Wendy Leigh
Discover the man behind the myth in this new biography of one of the most pioneering and influential performers of our time.
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Daring: My Passages
by Gail Sheehy
In an inspiring story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared, the best-selling author of the self-help classic Passages candidly recounts her challenges and victories as a groundbreaking female journalist in the 1960s, reflects on ambition and shares her own major life passages.
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Death Punch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem
by Jeremy Spencer
The co-founder and drummer of the metal band Five Finger Death Punch presents a high octane look—and cautionary tale—which follows the transformation of a mischievous boy from small-town Indiana into rock royalty and how he almost destroyed it all for a good time.
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Eisenhower: A Life
by Paul Johnson
A portrait of the 34th president places particular emphasis on his years as a five-star general and his two presidential terms, sharing additional coverage of such subjects as his Kansas childhood, West Point education and volatile relationship with Richard Nixon.
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir
by Charles M. Blow
A respected journalist describes the abuse he suffered at the hands of a close family relative, the effect this had on his formative years and how he overcame the anger and self-doubt it left behind.
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Forgetting To Be Afraid: A Memoir
by Wendy Davis
A deeply personal memoir by the 2014 Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate traces her upbringing by a single-mom high school dropout, her early divorce, her Harvard Law School education and the early political achievements that led to her successful 2008 election to the Texas Senate.
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I'll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir
by Pat O'Brien
The long-time sportscaster and entertainment reporter documents his career in athletics and Hollywood while tracing his battle with substance abuse, discussing such topics as his Midwestern childhood, his witness to famous competitions and his encounters with figures ranging from Muhammad Ali and The Beatles to the Kennedys and Magic Johnson.
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Just Between Us
by Mario Lopez
From his breakthrough role on Saved by the Bell to his current job hosting Extra, a Hollywood success story provides never-before-told stories of his life and career, from his wild days as a young man to the happily-ever-after family he built.
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Living Like a Runaway
by Lita Ford
The legendary lead guitarist of The Runaways, as well as the woman who gave Ozzy Osbourne his first Top Ten hit, presents a brutally honest memoir in which she opens up about her violently abusive marriage to a metal rocker and how her escape and freedom cost her the sons she stayed in the marriage to protect.
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My Life As a Foreign Country: A Memoir
by Brian Turner
An Iraqi war veteran searches for meaning and parallels with family members who served in different wars, including his grandfather in World War I and his uncle in Vietnam, in a memoir from the poet who wrote The Hurt Locker.
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Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
by Rebecca Alexander
A woman who is slowly losing her sight and hearing chronicles her amazing life—from trying to hide her disability as a teenager to fully embracing life as an adult with humor and gratitude, completing a 600-mile bike race and hiking the Inca Trail—in a book where the author reflects not just on what she has lost, but also what she has gained.
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Parcells: A Football Life
by Bill Parcells
The Pro Football Hall of Famer and Super Bowl-winning coach traces his five decades in football, discussing such topics as his controversial methods, work with major teams and relationships with such players as Lawrence Taylor and Curtis Martin.
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
by John Lahr
A biography of one of America's most treasured playwrights describes the writer's public persona as well as his more personal life, including conflicts with his family, his sexuality and multiple affairs and even his misreported death.
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You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman
by Mike Thomas
Drawing on interviews with cast mates, friends and family; letters; recordings; and police records, an investigative journalist chronicles the life of Phil Hartman—made famous by his work on Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons and NewsRadio—focusing especially on the years and moments leading up to the comedian's murder.
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
by Lawrence Wright
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 presents a day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter convinced Israel and Egypt to sign a peace treaty--the first treaty in the modern Middle East, and one which endures to this day.
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1814: America Forged by Fire
by Willard Sterne Randall
America's tumultuous year of 1814 began with a ruined economy, a weak army and talk of a New England succession, but ended with peace, Westward expansion and the Treaty of Ghent.
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Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA
by Morten Storm
A Danish national-turned-associate of al-Qaida, provides an inside look at his decade as a radical Islamist, as well as his ultimate decision to leave the jihadist life and become a double-agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence.
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Dataclysm: Our Life in Numbers
by Christian Rudder
An irreverent analysis of what our online lives reveal about who we really are draws on information from major online sources, from Twitter and Facebook to Reddit and OkCupid, to explain how the science of human behavior is dramatically evolving.
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
by Nick Bunker
A British-perspective chronicle of the Boston Tea Party and other events that led up to the American Revolution traces three years of volatile politics, personalities and economics on both sides of the conflict.
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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
by Mark Kelly
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords—disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona—and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters of the Second Amendment themselves.
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For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens about Sexuality, Values, and Health
by Al Vernacchio
A high school sexuality educator presents a new approach to sex education for parents and teens that challenges traditional teaching models and instead embraces 21st-century realities by promoting healthy sexuality, values and body image in young people, in a book that includes real-life examples from the classroom, exercises and quizzes.
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
by Nicholas G. Carr
The best-selling author of The Shallows examines, from a human perspective, the psychological and neurological impact of spending so much time at work and at play with computers and technology and discusses the effect it has on happiness and satisfaction.
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Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations that Will Change Your Life
by Paul Williams
An alcoholic Hall of Fame songwriter and a teetotaling film and television screenwriter demonstrate how classic recovery principles can help non-addicts find contentment and happiness, explaining how to apply addiction therapies to challenges unrelated to alcohol or drugs.
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Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy
by Jamie Smith
The founder and director of Blackwater presents an intense real-life international spy thriller that takes readers into the world of America's private paramilitary warriors and their highly secretive work around the world.
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How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt
Two senior executives at Google discuss their sometimes opposing views on hiring, managing and motivating their employees and also on how to best guide business strategies when consumers have all the power. 100,000 first printing.
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How We Got to Now: 6 Innovations that Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson
An illustrated history of innovation shares lesser-known stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes, examines unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated fields and reveals how important inventions have had unintended consequences.
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The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
by Diane Ackerman
The best-selling author of The Zookeeper's Wife discusses how the advanced technologies, new inventions and synthetic species humans are developing may someday become smarter than their creators.
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Israel: Is It Good for the Jews? Can It Survive?
by Richard Cohen
Part reportage, part memoir, a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post since 1976 takes readers on a intimate journey through the history of Europe's Jews, while delving into his own Jewish history and sharing stories of his own relatives and his American boyhood.
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Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement
by Peter T. Coleman
Two conflict-resolution experts describe the power dynamics that are at the root of all workplace conflicts and offer strategies to help determine where you stand, negotiate a dispute and reach the best resolution.
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The New Puberty: Navigating Girls' Early Development in Today's World
by Louise Greenspan
Based on original research and clinical experience, two experts in the field present a reassuring, empowering guide for parents that offers practical strategies for supporting girls as they enter puberty and helps them navigate through this complex stage of their lives.
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One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
by Bing West
The award-winning correspondent and author of The Wrong War presents a moving account of a persevering Marine platoon's experiences in one of the most violent districts in Afghanistan.
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A Path Appears: Enriching the Lives of Others--and Ourselves
by Nicholas D. Kristof
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of Half the Sky present a narrative road map about making a difference in the world, explaining how to identify effective local and global aid initiatives and participate in successful fundraisers and charities.
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Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
by Roger Kahn
In what he declares to be his last book, a noted sportswriter unearths his notebooks from the 40s and 50s—a time when sportswriters were known to "protect" players and baseball executives—to give an unvarnished, and likely to be controversial, account of Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey and the integration of baseball.
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The Simpsons Family History
by Matt Groening
In honor of the 25th anniversary of The Simpsons comes a history of the famous cartoon family, which unravels 25 years of Simpsons facts and fun from the TV show and presents them in a never-before-seen chronological format, accompanied by 400 full-color illustrations.
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
by Dana Goldstein
Traces 175 years of teaching in America to demonstrate how educators have characteristically endured shifting and often impossible expectations, comparing the practices and test scores of other nations while revealing the cultural and political factors compromising education today.
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
by Sam Harris
A guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology considers how to learn from the examples of religious sages and saints from a secular and philosophical perspective without formally committing to religion.
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What I Know for Sure
by Oprah Winfrey
Collects inspirational wisdom shared by the Presidential Medal of Freedom-winning cultural icon as penned for her O column throughout years marked by her retirement from her show, her launch of a television network, her honorary degree from Harvard and other high-profile milestones.
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World Order
by Henry Kissinger
A Nobel Peace Prize-winning former national security adviser and secretary of state provides a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder.
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by Peter A. Thiel
The billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind such companies as PayPal and Facebook outlines an innovative theory and formula for building the companies of the future by creating and monopolizing new markets instead of competing in old ones.
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