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"Gregory Pratt had a rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot's uneasy tenure on the fifth floor at City Hall. What he delivers on these pages takes us backstage to give us a powerful, incisive portrait of the woman, the details of her mayoralty, and the many players who shared the stage." -Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune reporter and...
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At age thirty, Maya Golden was living a charmed life. She was an award-winning sports reporter, a loyal wife, and a new mom. Privately, she was battling addiction, perfectionism, dissociation disorders, and rage due to sexual abuse endured at the hands of her cousin and many other predators.But Maya wants to change. So, on a family road trip back to her Texas hometown, she is ready to put an end to the secrets that threaten her marriage and her career....
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In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of Neiman's, Daddy wrote that he was leaving us because Mother was crazy, and because she'd driven me crazy in a way that perfectly suited her own insanity.
In a memoir studded with delicious lines and...
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For those who are seeking to find answers to the deep questions of life, this book is to encourage and enlighten you on your journey to find peace with your past, yourself, and with God. You will discover the default settings of humanity that we all have to overcome, and you will discover some essential truths about God that you will rarely ever hear in any church. You will discover healthy ways to face your fears, your shame and much of the deception...
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2024
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El periodista Fernando Navarro ha escrito, después de años de entrevistas con los cuatro protagonistas y todo su entorno, la bella y conmovedora historia deSupersubmarina: el relato de su éxito y su tragedia.
Esta es la historia de cuatro amigos que subieron al cielo y bajaron a los infiernos. Cuatro niños que empezaron jugando al fútbol bajo el sol en el paseo de la Constitución de Baeza y que acabaron jugando a hacer música con su propio...
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"Engaging and immensely relatable, while at the same time offering deeply profound insights into Adam Nimoy's personal relationships, particularly with his famous father." -Eugene Roddenberry Jr., CEO Roddenberry Entertainment
Living with Dad was like living with a stranger-as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him.
Even before Star Trek I'd see him popping up in bit roles on some of my favorite...
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A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIII's long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn.
“Hunting the Falcon” is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his country forever. John Guy and Julia Fox, two of the most acclaimed and distinguished historians of this period, have joined forces to present Anne...
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A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belong
Prolific cookbook author Brigit Binns' coming-of-age memoir-co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother-reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth.
In the old Hollywood of her childhood,...
9) Cuchillo
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2024
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Enestasdesgarradorasnuevasmemorias, Salman Rushdie -escritor internacionalmenteadmirado,defensor de lalibertad deexpresión yganador del Premio Booker delos Bookers y del Premio de La Paz delos Librerosalemanes, entreotrosmuchos-narracómosobrevivió alatentado contra suvidatreintaañosdespués de la fatwa queordenóelayatoláJomeiní contraél.
Por primera vez, y con una franqueza conmovedora, Rushdie habla sobre los traumáticos acontecimientos...
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A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief.
Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he's often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves—on
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"For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her career, making a name for herself through her iconic roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn't It Romantic. Now, she's ready to chronicle the emotional and physical lessons she learned, as well as her most embarrassing experiences. A malaria-induced hallucination? An all-style martial arts fighting tournament? Junior handling at dog shows? And this was all BEFORE she moved to Hollywood!...
12) A Brilliant Life
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The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter, a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.
As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed, which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that...
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The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time--Barbara Walters--a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media...
14) The Next Chapter
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J. B Priestley's 1949 classic teaches us that joy may be found in even the simplest things, and that we all have the capacity to appreciate them. Delight comprises a series of short essays, all focusing on a single simple pleasure, from reading detective stories in bed to smoking a pipe in the bath, from 'Cosy planning' to the earliest summer mornings, and from mineral water in the bedrooms of foreign hotels to the smell of bacon in the morning. Combining...
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"A fast-paced, compelling narrative that goes far beyond the headlines." - KEVIN DONOVAN, author of The Billionaire Murders
For Joey Philion, surviving the fire was only the beginning.
On the morning of March 10th, 1988, in Orillia, Ontario, a house fire engulfed fourteen-year-old Joey Philion in flames. He suffered third degree burns on 95 percent of his body. Doctors didn't think he would make it through the night.
After the Flames is about...
16) Task Force Hogan
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A fourth-generation soldiers tells the story of his father's tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany, against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf, and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II.
At twenty-eight, Sam Hogan is one of the youngest lieutenant colonels in the US Army. The West Point graduate from Texas stands in...
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His wife died before their second son turned one. How can he keep her memory alive when there's so much he wants to forget?
There was a time before his wife got sick when Gonzalo could think about other things. They had full lives where death didn't factor. Where humour was more than a coping mechanism. Life wasn't all about treatments and recovery, or the emptiness he felt when she died.
They had kids together. Young kids. Less than a year...
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From Allyson McOuat, author of the popular 2020 New York Times Modern Love essay "The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems," comes her debut essay collection
In a series of intimate and humorous dispatches, McOuat examines her identity as a queer woman, and as a mother, through the lens of the pop culture moments in the '80s and '90s that molded her identity. McOuat stirs the ingredients required to conjure an unsettled spirit: the horrors of pregnancy...
19) Madre!
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HarperCollins Ibérica S.A
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2024
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Si existe un amor incondicional, ese es el de una MADRE!
Están para lo bueno y para lo malo. Conocen nuestros secretos, nos escuchan y saben cuándo se necesita un abrazo, una risa o el mejor consejo..., aunque lo den de aquella manera.
Tras el fenómeno editorial de El humor de mi vida, Paz Padilla vuelve a encogernos el corazón con este libro dedicado a Lola, su madre, describiendo con maestría el acompañamiento, la compasión, el amor y el...
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A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to...
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