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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO?the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation... |
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It's So Easy: and other lies
Duff McKagan · Touchstone; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A founding member of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his personal crash and burn, and his phoenix-like transformation via a unique path to sobriety. |
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Chagall: A Biography
Jackie WullschlaÌ?ger · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 582
Format: Print book
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"When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is." As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune,... |
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Runaway girl : escaping life on the streets, one helping hand at a time
Carissa Phelps; Larkin Warren · Viking
Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this book is a story of triumph and a fierce determination to give back. The author was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she escaped... |
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Biographic Sherlock
Viv Croot · Ammonite Press
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Many people know that Sherlock Holmes was an enigmatic detective who, with his companion Dr. Watson, pursued criminals through Victorian and Edwardian England. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he investigated 60 fully documented cases, including 37 murders; that 46 of those cases... |
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Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story
Paul J Batura · Regnery
Pages: 291
Format: Print book
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"Hello Americans, I'm Paul Harvey."He was the voice of an era. Millions grew up listening to Paul Harvey News and Comment and The Rest of the Story, and trusted the great man who spoke for the little guy.Good Day! by Paul J. Batura follows the remarkable life of one of the founding... |
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If I Did It
Confessions of the Killer
The Goldman Family · Beaufort Books; 1 edition
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
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In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families... |
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The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale
James Atlas · Pantheon
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz.The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage. James Atlas takes... |
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Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis
Kathryn Sermak · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear. Miss D and Me is a story of two powerful... |
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Andrew Jackson
Sean Wilentz · Times Books - Henry Holt and Company; BCE edition
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover
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The towering figure who remade American politics -- the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would... |
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All Happy Families: A Memoir
JEANNE MCCULLOCH · Harper Wave
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families.On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a wedding... |
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