Covering subjects ranging from healthcare to the economy to food, Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track. The political satirist, comedian, and host of "The Colbert Report" puts his signature...
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Author:Colbert, StephenSummary: -
Author:Prentice, AndrewSummary:Before Amelia Earhart (1897-1939) became a world-famous pilot, she was a little tomboy from Kansas with a taste for adventure. When she visited an airfield and took a short plane ride, she knew she had to be a pilot. She signed up for...
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Author:Collins, JackieSummary:Des couples riches et célèbres d’Hollywood, des aventures torrides, une obsession pour la minceur et la beauté, un meurtre passionnel… Amour et infidélité sont au rendez-vous! Cameron Paradise est jeune, musclée et magnifiquement belle...
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Author:Gitelman, LisaSummary:In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the...
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Author:Roberts, David, Honnold, AlexSummary:A thirty-year-old climbing phenomenon, Alex Honnold pushes the limits of free soloing beyond anything previously attempted. If he falls, he dies. Honnold recounts the seven most astonishing achievements thus far in his meteoric career...
- Author:Alzayat, DimaSummary:
The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or the great-aunt struggling...
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Author:Patterson, James, Abramovich, Alex, Harvkey, MikeSummary:Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground investigative reporting that gives readers...
- Author:Woodward, Bob, Bernstein, CarlSummary:
The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it...
- Author:Fagan, KateSummary:
When New York Knicks basketball star Chris Fagan was diagnosed with ALS, his daughter Kate decided to leave her high-profile job at ESPN to be closer to him and take part in his care. Kate spent the last year of her father's life...
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Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with his mother, Thao, and his four-year-old sister, who was born severely disfigured from the effects of...
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Author:Nellums, ElizaSummary:With her imaginary friend Teddy by her side and the detecting skills of her nosy neighbor, six-year-old Aoife sets out to uncover what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital.
- Author:Miles, TiyaSummary:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST -KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST -A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the...
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Author:Griffin, MarkSummary:Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Mark Griffin shows how beneath Rock Hudson's suave movie star persona, was a deeply insecure man continually threatened with public exposure of his closeted homosexuality and contraction of AIDS by...
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Author:Fraser, LauraSummary:As a divorced 30-year-old travel writer, Laura experienced an affair with a Frenchman. Now 40, Laura wonders if her traveling lifestyle has deprived her of the kind of life she truly wanted.
- Author:Mengestu, DinawSummary:
A young man comes of age during an African revolution, drawn from the hushed halls of his university into the intensifying clamour of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, and...
- Author:Wolk, DouglasSummary:
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"-and to the past sixty years of American culture-from a beloved authority on the subject...
- Author:Taylor, BradSummary:
Elite Taskforce operative Pike Logan and his partner Jennifer Cahill are trailing two terrorist organizations from Asia to Egypt when a deadly threat arrives in the U.S.
- Author:Trump, Fred C.Summary:
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record... Fred Trump never...
- Author:King, Billie JeanSummary:
An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice. In this spirited account, Billie Jean King...
- Author:Brooks, Mel.Summary:
At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now, for the first time, this EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner shares his story in his own words. "Laugh-out-...
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