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Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne
Christopher Andersen · Gallery Books
Pages: 341
Format: Print book |
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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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Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir
John Galvin USA · University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover |
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When four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man without peer among living generals. In Fighting the Cold War A Soldiers Memoir, the celebrated soldier, scholar, and statesman... |
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Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director
Gary Vikan · SelectBooks
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Sacred and Stolen is the memoir of an art museum director with the courage to reveal what goes on behind the scenes. It lays bare the messy part of museums: looted antiquities, crooked dealers, deluded collectors, duplicitous public officials, fakes, inside thefts, bribery, and failed exhibitions.... |
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The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
Kevin Lacz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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A gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle. Experience his deployment, from his first mission to his first kill to his eventual successful return to the United States to play himself in the Oscar-nominated... |
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Samuel Johnson: A Life
David Nokes · Henry Holt and Co.; 1 edition
Format: Book |
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A modern biography of Samuel Johnson that will serve as the definitive work on the legendary British man of lettersIn this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, David Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder... |
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The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball
Willie Randolph · It Books; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Legendary New York Yankee Willie Randolph tells the story of his life playing and coaching for the most storied professional sports franchise in the world, detailing his career on and off the field with some of baseball biggest stars.In his long-awaited memoir, Willie Randolph shares stories... |
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Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
Andrea Di Robilant · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover |
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From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy... |
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Helen Keller: The Story of My Life and Selected Letters
Helen Keller · Chartwell Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Despite the fact that scarlet fever rendered Helen Keller deaf, blind, and mute when she was only 19 months old, she grew into a prolific and opinionated writer in her adulthood. A poetic pacifist, Keller wrote extensively on issues of social justice and morality with boundless optimism.... |
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Packing Up: Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse
Brigid Keenan · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover |
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Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Her bestselling account of life as a "trailing spouse," Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts... |
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A History of American Sports in 100 Objects
Cait Murphy · Basic Books A Member of Perseus Books Group
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Sports historian Cait Murphy brings to life one hundred meticulously selected objects that make up the history of American sports. These iconic objects include the glove that Yogi Berra used to catch the only perfect game in World Series history, the jersey Lance Armstrong wore during one of his contentious... |
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