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A different life
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Quinn Bradlee |
Describes growing up as a learning-disabled child of famous parents, discussing how he dealt with health problems, frustrations in school, and his attempts to become an independent, contributing memb… |
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Let's get free
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Paul Delano Butler |
Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who traded in his corporate law salary to fight the good fight. It was those years on the front lines that convinced him that the A… |
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Bitch Is the New Black
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Helena Andrews |
Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitch—but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black!When Helena Andrews heard this declaration on Saturday Night Live, her first reaction wa… |
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Innocent spouse
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Carol Ross Joynt |
Traces how the author learned after her husband's sudden death that he owed millions of dollars in taxes to the IRS and that she was going to be held liable or even imprisoned, and recounts her long … |
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The forever box
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Kristin Clark Taylor |
"In The Forever Box, Kristin Clark Taylor embarks on a journey into the happiest days of her own youth. Through her refreshing voice as a seven-year-old girl in Detroit, she leads us through four sum… |
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Bitch is the new black
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Helena Andrews |
Meet Helena Andrews. Sassy, single, smart, and yes, a bitch. After watching a skit on Saturday Night Live, she was at first offended, then came to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way… |
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Speaking ill of the dead
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Emilee Hines |
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Washington, D.C., history features 15 short biographies of notorious badguys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful anti… |
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Mayor For Life
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Marion Barry |
Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most powerful c… |
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A Very Private Woman
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Nina Burleigh |
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of Pres… |
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A Washington tragedy
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Dan E. Moldea |
In A Washington Tragedy, veteran true-crime reporter and bestselling author Dan Moldea investigates all the details surrounding the death of Vincent Foster. Was Vincent Foster murdered? What did he k… |
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Academic child
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Hazard Adams |
"This memoir describes a life-long professional career in education and academics. The author grew up as the child of academically-minded parents. The memoir begins with his family's experiences at H… |
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Run, don't walk
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Adele Levine |
"M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, absurdly funny, inspiring, and totally unique debut memoir from a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the birthplace of physical thera… |
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The big tiny
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Williams, Dee (Builder) |
"A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"-- |
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The Girl I Left Behind
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Judith Nies |
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the spee… |
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