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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
Bob Boilen · William Morrow, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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From the beloved host and creator of NPR's All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff... |
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I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
Joanna Connors · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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"This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn."When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown... |
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On Duty with the Queen: My Time as a Buckingham Palace Press Officer
Dickie Arbiter · BLINK
Format: Hardcover |
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Dickie Arbiter was the Press Officer for Buckingham Palace for 12 years. Previously a royal correspondent for a tabloid newspaper, Dickie was a poacher turned gamekeeper, moving to the palace in 1988. At the forefront of royal engagements, Dickie was privileged to work alongside Princess... |
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Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters
Jane Dunn · William Collins
Format: Paperback |
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Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of 'Rebecca',... |
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The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War
Peter Moreira · Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the slogan “The Arsenal of Democracy” to describe American might during the grim years of World War II. The man who financed that arsenal was his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr. This is the first book to focus on the wartime... |
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Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England
Catherine Hanley · Yale University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book |
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In 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with the weak and despicable King John, decided that they needed a new monarch. They wanted a strong, experienced man, of royal blood, and they found him on the other side of the Channel: astonishingly, the most attractive candidate for the crown... |
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud
Elizabeth Greenwood · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 246
Format: Print book |
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A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn.Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find... |
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Celebrate 100: Centenarian Secrets to Success in Business and Life
Steve Franklin · Wiley; 1 edition
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover |
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A thoroughly enthralling book that proves the truth of the adage, "with age comes wisdom"Based on video recorded interviews and extensive surveys of more than 500 Centenarians, this unforgettable book brings you into a world few human beings have ever known. What must it be like... |
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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Michael Sims · Bloomsbury
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover |
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Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.Working from nineteenth-century... |
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