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How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals–her friends–who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca...

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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip

By: Jeff Guinn

The fascinating story of two American giants—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship...

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime “A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was...

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Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy

By: Jonathan Clements

“An exemplary and generously illustrated account; it incorporates new historical material, and he describes the journey as if he had been there.”–“The Times Literary Supplement” Gustaf Mannerheim was one of the...

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Cooking for Friends

By: Gordon Ramsay

In Cooking for Friends, award-winning chef, world-renowned restaurateur, bestselling author, and Hell’s Kitchen star Gordon Ramsey offers us more than 100 exceptional recipes from his own family table. The holder of ten Michelin stars...

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Letters from Tove

By: Tove Jansson

A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels....

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War Hero: The Unlikely Story of A Stray Dog, An American Soldier and the Battle of Their Lives

By: Stephan Talty

The dramatic and heartfelt story of the Great War's most unlikely hero – a Parisian stray dog named Rags. On a July evening in 1918, four brutal years into World War I, a young American soldier, private James Donovan, stumbled on a pile...

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Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall (War Memoirs, #4)

By: Spike Milligan

RO60139794. MUSSOLINI, His Part in My Downfall. 1980. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 287 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc dans le texte.. . . . Classification...

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