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The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
MARY S LOVELL · Pegasus Books Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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The author of the bestselling The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family brings her trademark brio and relish to the charming and fascinating world of the Chteau de l'Horizon on the French RivieraThe Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked... |
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Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
Ben Greenman · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related... |
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Avedon: Something Personal
Norma Stevens · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 688 Format: Hardcover
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A intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who "helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture" (The New York Times) by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson. |
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Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine-and Life-the American Way
Laure Dugas · Ballantine Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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Fresh, charming, and wholly irresistible, Champagne Baby turns a familiar tale on its head: Instead of another American seeking the French secret to good living, a Frenchwoman finds her purpose - much to her surprise - in America. Laure Dugas is a champagne baby, born into a family of winemakers... |
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Will & I: A Memoir
Clay Byars · Farrar Pages: 208 Format: Print book
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life. Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly and miraculously... |
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Good Grief: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village
Ellen Stimson · Countryman Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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An Endless Vacation Becomes a Way of Life! One vacation changed everything. Ellen Stimson and her husband had such a wonderful time in Vermont that they wondered what living there would really be like. “What if we stayed here . . . forever?” So began the series of adventures... |
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi · Scribner Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from... |
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First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His--and the Nation's--Prosperity
Edward Lengel · Da Capo Press Pages: 296 Format: Hardcover
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The United States was conceived in business, founded on business, and operated as a business - all because of the entrepreneurial mind of the greatest American businessman of any generation: George Washington.Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel... |
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Billy Joel
Fred Schruers · Crown Archetype Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, all-access biography of a music legendIn Billy Joel, acclaimed music journalist Fred Schruers draws upon more than one hundred hours of exclusive interviews with Joel to present an unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of the pint-sized kid from Long Island... |
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The Incest Diary
Anonymous · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover
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"Anonymous memoir of a daughter's abuse by, and attachment to, her father"-- |
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates · St. Martin's Press Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never... |
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Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me
Bill Hayes · Bloomsbury USA Pages: 304 Format: Paperback
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Amazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2017 List"This touching memoir of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks, by a photographer and writer with whom he fell in love near the end of his life, turns a story of death into a celebration." -- The New Yorker"A beautifully... |
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