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Not From Here

Leah Lax - Pegasus Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"Leah Lax understands that everyone has a story and a secret. To experience this ourselves, we have only to read her utterly irresistible Not from Here."--GLORIA STEINEM. When Leah Lax was asked to write an opera to celebrate local immigrants, she began by spending a year listening...
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Tales of the Yankee Clipper (Yankees Icon Trilogy, 3) (Volume 3)

Jonathan Weeks - Lyons Press
Format: Paperback

There has probably never been a professional baseball player more of a puzzle than Joe DiMaggio. DiMaggio had a talent for keeping his emotions suppressed and his innermost thoughts to himself. Few could say that they really knew him. And even the ones who did found him to be unpredictable....
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The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Nancy Goldstone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe - Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France - and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue,...
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The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story: A Memoir

Victoria Belim - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A timely and deeply moving memoir of a Ukrainian family and the country's tumultuous history. Inspired by the author's love for her family, and peopled by warm, larger-than-life characters who jostle alongside the ghostly absences of others, The Rooster House is at once a riveting...
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In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo's Daughter

Mark Bostridge - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover

From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adèle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later.. It's 1863. The daughter of the most famous writer in the world, Victor Hugo,...
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The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

Jeffrey Rosen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating examination of what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation's Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.. The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable...
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