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Her Last Death: A Memoir
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The Secret Life Of Houdini: The Making Of America's First Superhero [abridged]
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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz And The Secret History Of L.a.
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure...
The Elephant In The Room: One Fat Man's Quest To Get Smaller In A Growing America
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live...
The Boys In The Cave: Deep Inside The Impossible Rescue In Thailand
From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story...
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Kind Is The New Classy: The Power Of Living Graciously
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Pretty Mess
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “another rich bitch with a plane”—so get ready for the dishy,...
