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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Linda Ronstadt · Simon & Schuster
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Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ’70s.... |
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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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Lucky Me: My Life With--and Without--My Mom, Shirley MacLaine
Sachi Parker · Gotham
Format: Hardcover |
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Shirley MacLaine's only child shares shocking stories from her out-of-this-world childhood with the famously eccentric actressShirley MacLaine is an Academy Award winning actress who has graced Hollywood with her talent for decades, known for her roles in The Apartment, Terms of Endearment,... |
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Mourning Lincoln
Martha Hodes · Yale University Press
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover |
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The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons.... |
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Sex Object: A Memoir
Jessica Valenti · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. Sex Objectexplores the painful,... |
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I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend
Martin Short · Harpercollins
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Martin Short takes you on a rich, hilarious,... |
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Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha · Random House Inc
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover |
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Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential - and controversial - men in modern history. Ramachandra... |
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Queen of Thieves: The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
J. North Conway · Skyhorse Pub Co Inc
Pages: 240
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Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country's top receiver... |
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Joni and
Ken Tada · Zondervan
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This is the true love story of Joni and her husband of 30 years, Ken Tada. A love story showing what it truly means for a man and a woman to live in love ... in sickness and in health. Even the honeymoon wasn't easy. Did Ken realize what he was getting into when he proposed to Joni,... |
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