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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
Plum Johnson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 279
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three... |
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Turning the tables : from housewife to inmate and back again
Teresa Giudice · Gallery Books
Pages: 261
Format: Print book
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The star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and three-time New York Times bestselling author offers a behind-the-scenes look at life in prison, her marriage, her rise to fame, the importance of her family, and the reality TV franchise that made her a household name in her explosive and ultimately... |
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Judy Melinek MD · Scribner; Reprint edition
Format: eBook
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The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologists rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases—hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex—that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek... |
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Sarah Perry · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal.... |
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Great Composers: Their Lives and Times
Marshall Cavendish Corporation. · Marshall Cavendish Corp.
Pages: 1104
Format: Paperback
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The Great Composers, Their Lives and Times (11 book set) (10 vol 1 index) |
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Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan
Ian Bell · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The second volume in Ian Bell's magisterial two-part biography of the ever-evolving and enigmatic Bob Dylan By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that... |
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Life
Keith Richards · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards.With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.Now, at last,... |
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
Betty Halbreich · Penguin Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women... |
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Letters To My Granddaughter: A Grandmother's Gems Connecting Family, Community and Service
Eleanor Williams-Curry · iUniverse, Inc.
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Without grandmothers or grandfathers, too many children from eighteen years old and younger would not receive the emotional support or have their basic needs met, which could contribute to them becoming healthy adult people. Letters To My Granddaughter focuses on the life of one family's... |
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Coach: The A. L. Williams Story
Art Williams · Art Williams Productions; 1st edition
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
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In a story rich with details and anecdotes, heroes and villians, Art Williams chronicles how A.L. Williams and it "ragtag army of part-timers" took on a Goliath-sezed insurance industry. |
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1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election amid the Storm
Ms. Susan Dunn · Yale University Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency—Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie—found themselves on the defensive... |
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Disaster Falls: A Family Story
Stephane Gerson · Crown
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stéphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stéphane huddled... |
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Julius Chambers: A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights
Richard A Rosen · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 408
Format: Print book
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Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936-2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked... |
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The Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1956
Sidney Blumenthal · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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Volume II of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president's genius during the most decisive period of his political life when he seizes the moment, finds his voice, and helps create a new political party.In 1849,... |
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