#nonfiction #biography #autobiography #hardcover 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Hampshire

From Baghdad, With Love

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Utah

A collection of whimsical autobiographical essays by the actress and star of "Up in the Air" recounts memorable milestones, from her New England upbringing to the blockbuster films that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses.

Scrappy Little Nobody

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self

An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body.
In the opening pages of Passing for Thin, Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim. He strides past her without a glimmer of recognition because she barely resembles the woman he is expecting to see. Jim had last seen her when she was 188 pounds heavier.
What follows is one of the most piercing explorations of the limits and promises of a body since Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face. With unflinching honesty and a wickedly dark sense of humor, Frances describes her first fumbling introductions to the slender, alien body she is left with after losing half her weight, shining a light on the shared human experience of feeling, at times, uncomfortable in one's own skin.
Buoyed by support from a group of fellow compulsive eaters she deems "the Stepfords," Frances adjusts not only to her new waistline, but to a strange new world--the Planet of Thin--where she doesn't speak the language and, doesn't know the rules. Her lifetime of obesity had robbed her of the joys of lovers, a husband, children--and even made it impossible to enjoy a movie, when standing in line was too painful, or travel, when airplane seats were too small--and hadn't prepared her for the unexpected attention from strangers, the deep pleasure of trying on a tailored suit, the satisfaction of a good run on a treadmill, or for the saucy fun of flirting and dating. She joyfully moves from observer to player, while struggling to enjoy the freedom her new shape has given her.
As Frances gradually comes to know--and love--the stranger in the mirror, she learns that this body does not define her, butenables her to become the woman she's always wanted to be.

Passing for Thin

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#hardcover #juvenilehall #youngoffenders #prison  #teencrime

A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

"In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author of Iron & Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest, and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing."

True Notebooks (Young Offenders)

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North Dakota

A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned

The creator and star of HBO's Girls documents her coming-of-age in and out of the spotlight, recounting her experiences with everything from dieting and embarrassing sex to dirty old men and performing in less-than-ideal conditions. 250,000 first printing.

Not That Kind of Girl

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Aside from being a pre-owned library book with labels on the front cover, spine and on the 3rd or 4th page, this book is in good condition.  #nonfiction #autobiography #howardstern #bababooey #garydellabate #humor #radio

Maryland

The comedic producer and cast member of the Howard Stern Show recounts the story of his chaotic and music-driven childhood and some of his most memorable experiences at the side of the media giant. 175,000 first printing. Media tie-in.

They Call Me Baba Booey

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#hardcover #nasa #astronaut #spaceshuttle #biography #challenger 

New Jersey

The Story of Christa McAuliffe

An account of the life, teaching career, NASA training, and impact of the woman who was selected to be the first teacher in space

I Touch the Future...

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#hardcover #biography #corpse #death #elmermccurdy

Indiana

The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw

Elmer McCurdy 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

David Rockefeller was born in 1915, the youngest child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., one of the richest men in the United States, and the great patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He graduated from Harvard College in the depths of the Depression, when the capitalist order, which his grandfather had helped to create, was under relentless attack. He studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D." "He worked briefly for New York City's flamboyant mayor Fiorello La Guardia before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1942. His service as an intelligence officer in North Africa and France brought him into contact with many of the individuals who would soon dominate European politics and gave him a unique perspective on the events and personalities that eventuated in the "twilight struggle" of the Cold War." Rockefeller joined the Chase bank in 1946 as an assistant manager in the Foreign Department and rose through the ranks to become chairman of the board and chief executive officer. During that time, he struggled constantly to modernize and internationalize the bank's operations, often against a conservative and risk-averse corporate culture.

Memoirs

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#memoir #inspiration #religion #faith #christian #catholic

Michigan

A Miraculous, True Story of Faith, Love, and God's Goodness

On the lovely spring afternoon of April 20, 2018, a backyard tree cracked, and a heavy limb fell. 12-year-old Evelyn suffered a devastating blow to her head as she shielded her puppy. A significant, compressed skull fracture required emergency neurosurgery. This freak, life-threatening event shook the Overlease family to the core, and an unbelievable experience was instantly set in motion that may take a lifetime to fully understand.

 

The astounding details surrounding Evelyn's accident, medical care, and recovery are crazier than fiction. First-time author Julie Overlease tells the story in close detail, with frankness and honesty. This is a book of hope and miracles, in which Evelyn's mother tells a story of faith in action during a time of crisis, of prayer through pain and darkness, of devoted friendship, and the great goodness and love of God.

 

Hope upon Impact

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#paperback #strong #summerreading #sale #believe #YA #ya #teens #fun #schoolreading 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life





The profoundly affecting story of the former Rutgers defensive tackle who was left paralyzed after a devastating football accident, and how his faith, positive outlook, and motto "BELIEVE" inspire legions of fans and guide him in his quest to walk again.



On October 16, 2010, during a college football game against Army, a crushing tackle left Rutgers defensive lineman Eric LeGrand paralyzed from the neck down. The months to come would be a long, grueling, and emotional road to recovery but also a remarkable, transformative journey--one so profound that Eric would call the time since his accident the best years of his life.

In this moving memoir, Eric tells the uplifting story of how he is rebuilding his future with faith. Doctors said that he would never again breathe without a ventilator. Five weeks later, he astonished them by drawing breath on his own. A year after the accident, the nation watched as he led his Rutgers teammates onto the field in his wheelchair.

Believe

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Minnesota

A Life in Two Genders

The exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny.She’s Not Thereis the story of a person changing genders, the story of a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a love story. By turns funny and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the remarkable territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family.She’s Not Thereis a portrait of a loving marriage—the love of James for his wife, Grace, and, against all odds, the enduring love of Grace for the woman who becomes her “sister,” Jenny. To this extraordinary true story, Boylan brings the humorous, fresh voice that won her accolades as one of the best comic novelists of her generation. With her distinctive and winning perspective,She’s Not Thereexplores the dramatic outward changes and unexpected results of life as a woman: Jenny fights the urge to eat salad, while James consumed plates of ribs; gone is the stability of “one damn mood, all the damn time.” While Boylan’s own secret was unusual, to say the least, she captures the universal sense of feeling uncomfortable, out of sorts with the world, and misunderstood by her peers. Jenny is supported on her journey by her best friend, novelist Richard Russo, who goes from begging his friend to “Be a man” (in every sense of the word) to accepting her as an attractive, buoyant woman. “The most unexpected thing,” Russo writes in his Afterword to the book, “is in how Jenny’s story we recognize our shared humanity.” As James evolves into Jennifer in scenes that are by turns tender, startling, and witty, a marvelously human perspective emerges on issues of love, sex, and the fascinating relationship between our physical and our intuitive selves. Through the clear eyes of a truly remarkable woman,She’s Not Thereprovides a new window on the often confounding process of accepting ourselves.

She's Not There

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A collection of personal tales features the author's wry observations about such topics as eBay addiction, gay personal ads, and Santa Claus.

Possible Side Effects

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New York

My Genome: My Life

The story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era--the mapping of the human genome. After nearly flunking out of high school, Venter went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest ins

A Life Decoded

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Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them

Pays tribute to men and women who were important examples of composure, wisdom, and intellect in the face of tough decisions, in a volume that cites the examples of such figures as Henry Ford, Branch Rickey, and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

Hard Call

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Kentucky

The author describes how God has shaped her experiences in order to create the kind of person he could use, and shares her feelings at turning control of her life over to God

In the Hands of the Potter

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The Words of Theodore Roosevelt

#hardcover #women #historical #exlibrary #biography

Brief biographies emphasizing the courage of twelve women both famous and little-known in United States history.

Women of Courage

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Two Years in the City

The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes "place" as complex a character as his men and women. Now he brings these gifts to a spellbinding amalgam of memoir, reportage, and history in this intimate, luminous portrait of Calcutta.

Chaudhuri guides us through the city where he was born, the home he loved as a child, the setting of his acclaimed novels--a place he now finds captivating for all the ways it has, and, perhaps more powerfully, has not, changed. He shows us a city relatively untouched by the currents of globalization but possessed of a "self-renewing way of seeing, of inhabiting space, of apprehending life." He takes us along vibrant avenues and derelict alleyways; introduces us to intellectuals, Marxists, members of the declining haute bourgeoisie, street vendors, domestic workers; brings to life the city's sounds and smells, its architecture, its traditional shops and restaurants, new malls and hotels. And, using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks back to the nineteenth century, when the city burst with a new vitality, and toward the politics of the present, finding a city "still not recovered from history" yet possessed of a singular modernity.
Chaudhuri observes and writes about Calcutta with rare candor and clarity, making graspable the complex, ultimately ineluctable reasons for his passionate attachment to the place and its people. 


Calcutta

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#paperback #biography #nonfiction #motherteresa #faith #catholic 

Washington

The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta

This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history--Mother Teresa.

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time.

Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center, Mother Teresa brings together letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journey--including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation--these letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul.

"If I ever become a Saint-- I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from Heaven-- to light the light of those in darkness on earth." --Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light

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Virginia

William Jefferson Clinton

Georgia

Sensing the rhythm

#nonfiction #biography #autobiography #paperback #bestseller

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

One Man’s Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

Unblinded

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Hillary Clinton's Path to Power

"I don't quit. I keep going."

-Hillary Rodham Clinton

She is, quite simply, the most famous, most complex, most loved/hated/admired/reviled woman -- perhaps person -- in America. And, whether she fulfills her life's ambition or not, she can already lay claim to being the first woman ever considered a serious contender for the presidency.

From the beginning, there have been the inevitable comparisons to Argentina's legendary Eva Perón. Sex, power, money, lies, scandal, tragedy, and betrayal were the things that defined the lives of both women. Yet most of what we know about Hillary Rodham Clinton is seen in the context of her tumultuous marriage to the 42nd President. Now a power in the Senate, Hillary waits for the right moment to make her own run for the White House.

In the style of his #l New York Times bestsellers The Day Diana Died and The Day John Died, as well as Jack and Jackie, Jackie After Jack, George and Laura and Sweet Caroline, Christopher Andersen draws on important sources -- many speaking here for the first time -- to paint a startling portrait of America's most controversial woman. Among the revelations:

 * How U.S. history has been shaped -- and will continue to be shaped -- by the arrangement between Hillary and Bill known as "The Plan."
 * Important new details about the role Hillary played in the scandalous eleventh hour pardons of armed radicals, drug dealers, tax cheats, embezzlers, money launderers and more.
 * How the outgoing First Lady registered like a bride at a gift store and left the White House with $400,000 worth of "gifts" belonging to the American people.
 * How JFK Jr. almost thwarted her Senate plans.
 * New details about Hillary's relationship with Vince Foster.
 * How Hillary has coped with Bill's hundreds of affairs, and the new women in her husband's life.
 * What Martha Stewart did for Hillary, and how Hillary repaid her.
 * How Hillary is using the 2004 elections as a springboard to her own future presidential candidacy--regardless of who wins.

Whatever the ultimate judgment of history, the ongoing saga of Hillary Clinton's inexorable rise to power continues to stir passions, and to make her the American Evita.

Jay Kopelman

From Baghdad, With Love

Anna Kendrick

Scrappy Little Nobody

Frances Kuffel

Passing for Thin

Mark Salzman

True Notebooks (Young Offenders)

Lena Dunham; Joana Avillez (Illustrator)

Not That Kind of Girl

Gary Dell'Abate; Chad Millman

They Call Me Baba Booey

Robert T. Hohler

I Touch the Future...

Mark Svenvold

Elmer McCurdy

David Rockefeller

Memoirs

Julie Overlease

Hope upon Impact

Eric LeGrand; Mike Yorkey

Believe

Jennifer Finney Boylan

She's Not There

Augusten X. Burroughs

Possible Side Effects

J. Craig Venter

A Life Decoded

John McCain

Hard Call

Dale Evans; Les Stobbe

In the Hands of the Potter

William Davison Johnston

The Words of Theodore Roosevelt

Margaret Truman

Women of Courage

Amit Chaudhuri

Calcutta

Mother Mother Teresa; Brian Kolodiejchuk

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light

David R.Collins

William Jefferson Clinton

Mandy Harvey and Mark Atteberry

Sensing the rhythm

Traci Medford-Rosow, Kevin Coughlin

Unblinded

Christopher Andersen

American Evita