NYT - Celebrities

1) The magnolia story

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Gaines, Chip

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#1 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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Chip and Joanna Gaines, the stars of the TV show Fixer Upper, describe their lives and renovation projects and the origins of the show.

2) New threat

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Bauer, Brandon

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#2 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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3) Settle for more

Author

Kelly, Megyn

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#3 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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Megyn Kelly, one of the most respected, hardest-hitting TV journalists in America, speaks candidly about her decision to "settle for more" -- a motto she credits as having changed her life, and the reason she abandoned a thriving legal career to follow her dream in the news business. She opens up about Donald Trump's feud with her, and the challenges she has faced as a professional woman and working mother. A deeply personal and surprising account,...

4) The big Halloween scare

Author

Banks, Steven

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#4 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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SpongeBob ends up as the scariest undersea creature at the Halloween party after he scares a real ghost.

5) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

Author

Noah, Trevor

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#5 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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The compelling, inspiring and comically sublime story of a young man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah is one of the comedy world's brightest new voices, a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life. As host of The Daily...

6) Washington's farewell: the founding father's warning to future generations

Author

Avlon, John P

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#6 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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"The Farewell was published at the end of Washington's second term. It was reprinted in newspapers across the country. The President began the letter during his first term intending to retire but was persuaded by Hamilton and Jefferson to run for a second. By the end of that term he was the object of scurrilous press attacks and alarmed by the growing partisan bitterness. Fearful for the country's future, Washington pled with his countrymen to resist...

7) The complete encyclopedia of cats: by Esther J.J. Verhoef-Verhallen

Author

Verhoef-Verhallen, Esther J. J

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#7 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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8) Scrappy Little Nobody

Author

Kendrick, Anna

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#8 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.
Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and "10 percent defiant."
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9) The princess diarist

Author

Fisher, Carrie

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#9 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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"When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she had kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved--plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1976, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar. With these...

10) Phenomena: the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis

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Jacobsen, Annie

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#10 on the Celebrities list for 2017-01-15.

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For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets; to divine other nations' secrets; and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include the CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army--and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, Jacobsen...