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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Craig Brown · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon... |
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Clancys of queens
Tara Clancy · Crown Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House Pages: 440 Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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The Disabled Veteran's Story: The Sacrifices of our Veterans and Their Families
Miguel Reece · Createspace Pages: 238 Format: Paperback
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Our American Heroes: The Stories behind the Fight for Freedom and Democracy This book is not about the author. This book is not about the battle. This book is about military members who are now veterans. Their memories are about some of the most legendary battles as well as their own private... |
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The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes
Anthony Sadler · PublicAffairs Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed... |
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Kirstin Downey · Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity... |
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime
Cutter Wood · Algonquin Books Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes the facts aren't the only truth. When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest - her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car - and the residents... |
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At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic
Lawrence Millman · St Martin'S Press Pages: 208 Format: Print book
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At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful... |
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
David Leite · Dey Street Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite... |
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Undercover brother.
Eddie Huang · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 218 Format: Print book
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"Fresh Off the Boat was Huang's story of growing up in his wild family as a first-generation Chinese-American in the comically hostile world of suburban America; a rejection of the typical narrative of assimilation, it was a rallying cry for cultural integrity. But as he entered adulthood... |
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Queering the Kitchen: A Manifesto
Daniel Isengart · Outpost19 Pages: 54 Format: Paperback
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Gay identity has long been openly linked to the decorative and performing arts - fashion, interior design, dance, opera, and theater. Daniel Isengart aims to add the culinary arts to the list. Even though gay men widely populate America's food industries, their role and impact remain... |
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 401 Format: Print book
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs... |
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