Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix original documentary that "consumed the pop-cultural imagination" and transfixed a nation in the midst of a global crisis, opens up about his outlandish journey from Midwestern farmer to...
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Author:Exotic, JoeSummary: - Author:Kanefield, TeriSummary:
When Thurgood Marshall-the great-grandson of a slave-was born, African Americans were denied equal rights in America. Segregation was legal. Lynching was common. In some places, African Americans were entirely excluded from public life...
- Author:Tebow, Tim.Summary:
Over the course of the last five years, Tim Tebow established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and a top prospect in the NFL. During that time he amassed an unparalleled resume - winning two...
- Author:Popova, ElenaSummary:
The American dream has been part of world mythology for generations now. As the land of opportunity, America still entices people from around the world to taste it for themselves. Marrying an American has been one of the most popular...
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Author:Carroll, AbigailSummary:We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we...
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Author:Rhodes-Courter, AshleySummary:Ashley reveals the nuances of life after foster care: college, marriage, and having kids--from fostering children and the heartbreak of watching them return to destructive environments, to the miraculous joy of blending biological and...
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Author:Rhodes-Courter, AshleySummary:Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage to succeed and in doing so discovers the power of her own voice.
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Author:Baier, BretSummary:A gripping historical account of President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, adapted for young readers from the book by #1 bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier On May 31, 1988, President Ronald Reagan...
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Author:Baier, BretSummary:1,000 MILES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, HE STOOD FOR FREEDOM The #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier reveals as never before Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War. In his...
- Author:Keith, Anges NewtonSummary:
"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately...
- Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary:
Aurora Teagarden islaunching a new career in real estate. Unfortunately, at Roe's first showing of a house, a corpse is the star attraction. Worse still, the body belongs to a rival realtor.
- Author:Nelson, CraigSummary:
John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that "history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine." Thomas Edison called him "the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible." He was a founder of both the United States...
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Author:Hitchens, ChristopherSummary:Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it. Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a...
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Author:Jerkins, MorganSummary:From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to...
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Author:Burnett, CarolSummary:In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such at Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; her television show that won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run; and the...
- Author:Lohans, AlisonSummary:
The novel opens in August of 1941 when the world is at war with Germany and Italy and tensions between the Japanese and Caucasians are rising in their community. As the war overseas escalates, so do the tensions in the San Joaquin...
- Author:Schieffer, Bob.Summary:
In this memoir, the chief Washington correspondent for CBS News goes beyond the news events everyone is familiar with to share the compelling anecdotes only his colleagues were previously privy to.
- Author:Perlroth, NicoleSummary:
"Part John le Carré and more parts Michael Crichton . . . spellbinding." - The New Yorker From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market—the most secretive, invisible,...
- Author:Poor, NigelSummary:
An illuminating view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle "A must-read for fans of the legendary podcast...
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Author:Merkin, DaphneSummary:A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime.
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