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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson

Matt Richards · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson -- the biggest and most influential music...
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Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

Ayelet Waldman · Anchor

In our mothers day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers If you work, youre neglectful if you stay home, youre smothering. If you discipline, youre buying them a spot on the shrinks couch if you let them run wild, they...
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed

Paul Stanley · Fourth Estate
Pages: 462
Format: Hardcover

In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story...
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In the Darkroom

Susan Faludi · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age."In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project...
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John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963

Alan Brinkley · Times Books
Format: Hardcover

The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at homeJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nations chief executive. He was forty-three...
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

Dean Jobb · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliantly researched tale of greed, ambition, and our desperate need to believe in magic, it's history that captures America as it really was--and always will be. A great read." - Douglas Perry, author of Eliot Ness It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder...
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Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic

Kent Brantly · Waterbrook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"Kent, bud. We got your test result. And I'm really sorry to tell you that it is positive for Ebola." Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly moved with their children to war-torn Liberia in the fall of 2013 to provide medical care for people in great need - to help replace hopelessness with...
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Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne

Christopher Andersen · Gallery Books
Pages: 352
Format: Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of William and Kate and The Day Diana Died takes a compulsively readable look into the relationships and rivalries of Queen Elizabeth, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Kate Middleton.One has been famous longer than anyone on the planet...
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stephen Kotkin · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth a poor cobblers son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band...
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