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Candy Darling: Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar
Candy Darling · Open Road Media
Format: Kindle Edition
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A look into what moved Andy Warhol's greatest muse Located at 33 Union Square West in the heart of New York City's pulsing downtown scene, Andy Warhol's Factory was an artistic anomaly. Not simply a painter's studio, it was the center of Warhol's assembly-line production of films, books,... |
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Power Forward: My Presidential Education
Reggie Love · Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook
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Every path to adulthood is strewn with missteps, epiphanies, and hard-earned lessons. Only Reggie Love’s, however, went through the White House by way of Duke University’s Cameron Indoor Stadium. Mentored by both Coach Krzyzewski and President Obama, Love shares universal insights... |
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But Seriously
John McEnroe · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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John McEnroe's long-awaited follow-up to his #1 bestseller He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in history, a tennis legend and a volcanic, mesmerizing presence. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? Fifteen years after his international number-one... |
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Dead of Night
Gary C. King · Pinnacle; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Details of the abduction and murder of a Santa Barbara City College student, Brianna Denison home on winter break in Reno, Nevada by serial rapist, James Biela. |
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird · Random House Inc
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover
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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded... |
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 401
Format: Print book
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs... |
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Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem
Paul Martin · Prometheus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying.Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this disreputable cast of characters:... |
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Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
BRETT ARCHIBALD · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." -- The Wall Street JournalIn April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a surf-charter boat, making a night-time crossing of the remote Mentawai Strait off Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle of a storm, ill with... |
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Matter of honor
Anthony Summers · Harpercollins
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Michelle Knight · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerMichelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed... |
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Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
Jason Porath · Dey Street Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog. Well-behaved women seldom make... |
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Eisenhower: A Life
Paul Johnson · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he’s famous for, celebrated biographer Paul Johnson offers a fascinating portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, focusing particularly... |
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