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ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE

ERIC IDLE · CROWN
Format: Print book

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Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks

Ronin Ro · Griffin
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

With a brand-new introduction and chapter that cover the last five years of Prince's life and work and his untimely death in April 2016.In his three decades of recording, Prince had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. He is the only artist since the Beatles to have a number-one...
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The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation

Mark Bowden · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective...
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Baseball Cop

Anonymous · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A story of baseball in American and the Americans who love baseball.
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table

Rick Bragg · Knopf
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-five mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern...
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Anne Boleyn

P. Friedmann · Amberley Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Anne Boleyn entered Henry's life just as he was seeking to discard his wife, Catherine of Aragon, for failing to give him a son. Henry courted Anne, but she refused to yield to his advances until he promised her marriage. At that moment, Anne was his. Driven by his love for a woman...
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Cut: The true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family

Cathy Glass · Harper Element
Format: Paperback

In her latest paperback, the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her....
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

MAXWELL KING · Abrams Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children...
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A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story

Jeremy Grimaldi · Dundurn
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

A sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets. From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University...
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Stay Interesting: I Don't Always Tell Stories About My Life, but When I Do They're True and Amazing

JONATHAN GOLDSMITH · Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A real-life memoir from the actor who played "The Most Interesting Man in the World" in the wildly popular television ads for Dos Equis.Jonathan Goldsmith's memoir features stories about his truly fascinating life both in and out of Hollywood: getting shot by John Wayne, competing...
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James Patterson's Murder Is Forever

James Patterson · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover

De aanleg van een heuvel om daarop bij eb gesneden riet te bewaren, werd door Hof 's\xFD\xFD\xFDGravenhage 29 juni 1962, BNB 1963/29 , aangemerkt als een grondverbetering, met gevolg dat de kosten geactiveerd moesten worden. De aanleg van de onderhavige heuvel stelde niet meer voor dan een plaatselijke...
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Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service

Gary Sinise · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to cofounder of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company, world-famous actor, and tireless advocate for America's active...
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Don't Tell a Soul

M William Phelps · Pinnacle Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

"Phelps is a true-crime veteran." - New York PostCherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor's little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn't...
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling...
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Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)...
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