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American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
Alex Beam · Perseus Books Group Pages: 334 Format: Hardcover
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On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.At thirty-nine years... |
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M Gates · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 618 Format: Hardcover
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left... |
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Conversations with McCartney
Paul Du Noyer · The Overlook Press Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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The intimate portrayal of one of the most famous men in music, more than half of which is in McCartney's own words.In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London. They asked him to interview the star; McCartney and Du Noyer had met once before and enjoyed... |
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Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle
Anthony Russell · St. Martin's Press Pages: 306 Format: Hardcover
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In his stunning memoir, Outrageous Fortune, Anthony Russell takes us inside his childhood growing up at Leeds Castle, with luxury and opulence few can imagine, and how he found his way in a changing society."I was lucky with lineage. Money, and lots of it, appeared to grow on trees,... |
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The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty
J Randy Taraborrelli · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 560 Format: Hardcover
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THE HILTONS is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary ideas and unyielding will established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry. But outside the boardroom, Conrad struggled with... |
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Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire
Paul Sorrentino · Belknap Press Pages: 494 Format: Hardcover
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With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's short, compact life -- "a life of fire," he called it -- continues to be surrounded by myths and half-truths, distortions and outright... |
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Divine Fury: A History of Genius
Darrin M. McMahon · Basic Books; 1ST edition Format: Book
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Genius. With hints of madness and mystery, moral license and visionary force, the word suggests an almost otherworldly power: the power to create, to divine the secrets of the universe, even to destroy. Yet the notion of genius has been diluted in recent times. Today, rock stars, football... |
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Coreyography: A Memoir
Corey Feldman · St. Martin's Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Spares no details. —Starred Publishers Weekly Review An incredible read. —Richard Donner, Director People always ask me about life after childhood stardom. What would I say to parents of children in the industry? My only advice, honestly, is to get these kids out of Hollywood and let them... |
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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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Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden
Alain Baraton · Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated Pages: 290 Format: Hardcover
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INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistFor gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds,... |
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Nicholas Reynolds · William Morrow Pages: 357 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "riveting"* international cloak-and-dagger epic, here is the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life -- including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo" -- that fueled his art and his undoing.In 2010, while... |
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I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir
Brian Wilson · Da Capo Press Pages: 312 Format: Print book
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They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing.As a cofounding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever... |
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
Sebastian Smee · Random House Pages: 416 Format: Print book
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Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart... |
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Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS
Ken Sharp · It Books; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS (1972-1975) chronicles, for the first time, the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS, culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive! and the smash single "Rock and Roll All Nite," a song that... |
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The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'Sullivan · Bloomsbury Press Pages: 495 Format: Print book
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The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed... |
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