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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

by Adam Hochschild

Published: 2012-03-06

Paperback: 496 pages

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"This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirWorld War I was supposed to be the “wa...

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Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother

by Dennis Love, Stacy Brown

Published: 2007-09-20

Paperback: 288 pages

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Hardship, sacrifice, determination, and ultimate triumph are the elements that make up Blind Faith, the frank and compelling biography of Lula Hardaway, mother of superstar musician and singer Stevie Wonder. Written with her full cooperation and participation, this is the first ever author...

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Screening Room: Family Pictures

by Alan Lightman

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams, here is a stunning, lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s that includes the early days of the movies and a powerful grandfather whose ghost remains an ever-present force in the lives of his...

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On the Move: A Life

by Oliver Sacks

Published: 2015-04-28

Hardcover: 416 pages

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“Intimate. . . . Brim[s] with life and affection.” —The New York Times “[A] wonderful memoir, which richly demonstrates what an extraordinary life it has been. . . . A fascinating account—a sort of extended case study, really—of Sacks’ remarkably active, iconoclastic adult...

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Beach Town

by Mary Kay Andrews

Published: 2015-05-19

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Greer Hennessy needs palm trees. As a movie location scout, picture-perfect is the name of the game. But her last project literally went up in flames, and her career is on the verge of flaming out. Greer has been given one more chance, if she can find the perfect undiscovered beach hideaw...

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Enchanted August: A Novel

by Brenda Bowen

Published: 2015-06-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Set on a picture-perfect island in Maine, a sparkling summer debut that offers readers a universal fantasy: one glorious month away from it all   On a dreary spring day in Brooklyn, Lottie Wilkes and Rose Arbuthnot spot an ad on their children’s preschool bulletin board:   Hopewell Cot...

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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65

by Taylor Branch

Published: 1999-01-20

Paperback: 768 pages

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In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they comma...

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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Chris Bohjalian

Published: 2015-05-26

Paperback: 288 pages

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A Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the YearEmily Shepard is on the run; the nuclear plant where her father worked has suffered a cataclysmic meltdown, and all fingers point to him. Now, orphaned, homeless, and certain that she’s a pari...

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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

by Robert Kurson

Published: 2015-06-16

Hardcover: 304 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea...

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The Idea of Love: A Novel

by Patti Callahan Henry

Published: 2015-06-23

Hardcover: 256 pages

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As we like to say in the south,"Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story."Ella's life has been completely upended. She's young, beautiful, and deeply in love--until her husband dies in a tragic sailing accident while trying save her. Or so she'll have everyone believe. Screenwrit...