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The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process

Francesca Lia Block · Seal Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For devotees of Bird by Bird and The Artist's Way, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing A cinematic exploration of the writing life by Francesca Lia Block, the bestselling author of the Weetzie Bat series of magical-realism novels, The Thorn Necklace offers visceral...
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Top Hoodlum: Frank Costello, Prime Minister of the Mafia

ANTHONY M DESTEFANO · Citadel
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The definitive book on the ultimate mob boss - featuring new FBI revelations, rare family photos, and never-before-published material . . . The press nicknamed him "The Prime Minister of the Underworld." The U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics described him as "one...
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Still Smiling

Linda Pellegrino · Wavecloud Corporation
Pages: 153
Format: Print book

This book is a compilation of memories of a life in front of and behind the camera. The take-away is that her most profound memories had to do with everyday people in friendly Buffalo, New York who changed lives for the better, simply because it was the right thing to do.
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The Buccaneer King: The Biography of Sir Henry Morgan, 1635-1688

Dudley Pope · Dodd Mead
Pages: 379
Format: Hardcover

Describes the military brilliance that accounts for Morgan the Pirate's success in a time when Jamaica depended on self-serving buccaneers for protection against the ships of the failing Spanish Empire
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Eisenhower at War 1943-1945

David Eisenhower · Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Eisenhower: At War 1943-1945, by Eisenhower, David
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Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

Christina Rickardsson · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir of one woman's fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given.Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves...
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LIFE Magazine - The Hidden World Of Secret Societies. 2012.

Life Books (Firm) · Life Books
Pages: 112
Format: Single Issue Magazine

Nothing intrigues us like a secret. And nothing entertains us as much as a secret revealed. In this LIFE Book, the editors of such other classic volumes as The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of All Time look energetically into the hidden recesses of the world's prominent -- and sometimes...
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We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out

Annie E Clark · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From young activists at the forefront of the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses, a collection of survivor stories that will connect with students and inform and inspire us allAcross the U.S. student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college...
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Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel

Alon Shaya · Knopf
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover

An exciting debut cookbook that confirms the arrival of a new guru chef . . . A moving, deeply personal journey of survival and discovery that tells of the evolution of a cuisine and of the transformative power and magic of food and cooking. From the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef...
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Greenpeace Captain: My Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet

Peter Willcox · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A Man. A Mission. GREENPEACE CAPTAIN PETER WILLCOX has been a Captain for Greenpeace for over 30 years. He would never call himself a hero, but he is recognized on every ocean and continent for devoting his entire life to saving the planet. He has led the most compelling and dangerous...
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The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia

Alex Perry · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias - and how they risked everything to bring it down.The Calabrian Mafia - known as the 'Ndrangheta - is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with...
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The Lives of Robert Ryan

J.R. Jones · Wesleyan
Format: Hardcover

The Lives of Robert Ryan provides an inside look at the gifted, complex, intensely private man whom Martin Scorsese called “one of the greatest actors in the history of American film.” The son of a Chicago construction executive with strong ties to the Democratic machine,...
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Mckinley, Murder and the Pan-American Exposition: A History of the Presidential Assassination, September 6, 1901

Roger Pickenpaugh · McFarland & Company
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley held a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In the receiving line, holding a gun concealed by a handkerchief, was Leon Czolgosz, a young man with anarchist leanings. When he reached McKinley, Czolgosz fired...
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