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Should Auld Acquaintance: Discovering the Woman Behind Robert Burns
MELANIE MURRAY · Nightwood
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Robert Burns' "Belle of Mauchline" is given a voice in this lyrical and intimate depiction of the life of Jean Armour, known simply as the wife of the infamous poet and mother of nine of his children. Melanie Murray's biographical Should Auld Acquaintance reveals the historical... |
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Paul McCartney: The Life
Philip Norman · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 853
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost... |
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Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness
Lisa Appignanesi · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial. A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors.... |
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Strange Beauty: A Portrait of My Son
ELIZA FACTOR · Parallax Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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A unique and hopeful story of how one woman and her family were transformed by her child's multiple disabilities and inability to talk and how she, in turn, transformed a community.This intimate, no-holds barred memoir shares one family's experiences with a child who is both autistic... |
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr · Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride’s family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys’ club to a more inclusive elite.Sally Ride made history... |
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The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss
Sandra Marinella · New World Library
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
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A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella's pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true... |
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The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney
William J Birnes · Gallery Books
Pages: 601
Format: Print book
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A definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on exclusive interviews, and with those who knew him best, including his heretofore unknown mistress of sixty years."I lived like a rock... |
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Plug Uglies
Howie Carr · Frandel LLC
Pages: 255
Format: Print book
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Plug Uglies is a perfect addition to the library of any true-crime fan anywhere. Plug Uglies is the final installment in best-selling author Howie Carr s series about organized crime in Boston. In this book, Howie tells a number of previously untold stories about the famous FBI bugging... |
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Been So Long: My Life and Music
Jorma Kaukonen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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"A modern parable." -- from the foreword by Grace Slick"Jorma Kaukonen is a force in American music, equally adept at fingerpicked acoustic folk and blues as he is at wailing on an electric." - Acoustic Guitar"Jorma Kaukonen lit a fuse and transformed his electric... |
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Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission
Bob Drury · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight... |
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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through... |
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Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias
Jane Velez-Mitchell · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexanders... |
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This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today
CHRISSY METZ · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A prescriptive and inspirational book of life lessons from the Emmy Award-nominee and breakout star of television's #1 hit show, NBC's This Is Us.Debuting in fall 2016, This Is Us quickly became America's most watched - and most talked about - network television show. Within weeks of its premier,... |
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The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
Belle Boggs · Graywolf Press
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot... |
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