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Wonder Drug : The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Vanderbes, JenniferRandom House Publishing Group 2023“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keef...
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Look for Me There : Grieving My Father, Finding Myself
Russert, LukeHarper Horizon 2023 UnabridgedINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the world's most stunning destina...
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Hollywood Ending : Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence
Auletta, KenPenguin Publishing Group 2022A vivid biography of Harvey Weinstein—how he rose to become a dominant figure in the film world, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all ca...
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Not on My Watch : How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
Morton, AlexandraRandom House of Canada 2021NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account o...
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Edison
Morris, EdmundRandom House Publishing Group 2019NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. N...
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life : A Sortabiography
Idle, EricCrown 2018NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heart...
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Killers of the Flower Moon : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Grann, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2017#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost C...
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Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood
Noah, TrevorRandom House Publishing Group 2016#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir abou...
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Take Six Girls : The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
Thompson, LauraBloomsbury Publishing 2015'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was...
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Reckless : My Life as a Pretender
Hynde, ChrissieKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2015Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure. Few other rock stars have managed to combine her...
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Negroland : A Memoir
Jefferson, MargoKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2015Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Heartland PrizeA New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, Los Angeles T...
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Empty Mansions : The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Dedman, Bill; Newell, Paul ClarkRandom House Publishing Group 2013#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedm...
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Bellow : A Biography
Atlas, JamesRandom House Publishing Group 2012With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent...
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American Prometheus : The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER
Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J.Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan...
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Alexander Hamilton
Chernow, RonPenguin Publishing Group 2005The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Ha...