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So, Anyway...
John Cleese · Crown Archetype; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
In this rollicking memoir, Cleese takes his readers on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman) , to the founding of the landmark... |
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams · Portfolio/Penguin Pages: 248 Format: Print book |
Everything you want out of life is in that bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you've ever met or anyone you've even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator... |
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
Greg King · St. Martin's Press Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover |
Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War IIn the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished... |
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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940
Victoria Wilson · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
Frank Capra called her “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” She was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated stars. Now, Victoria Wilson gives us the first full-scale life of Barbara Stanwyck, whose astonishing career in movies (eighty-eight in all)... |
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Abraham Lincoln Civil War Stories: Heartwarming Stories about Our Most Beloved President
Joe L Wheeler · Howard Publishing Co Pages: 357 Format: Hardcover |
More books have been written about Abraham Lincoln than about any other president in United States history. And now, story archeologist Joe Wheeler has gathered - for the first time ever - the most beloved, the most deeply moving stories about Lincoln ever written. In this treasure you will... |
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Jung Chang · Knopf; First American Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
A New York Times Notable BookEmpress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s... |
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn · W W Norton & Co Inc Pages: 255 Format: Hardcover |
A Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, and BookPage Best Book of 2014 A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014 An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then... |
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Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir
Christopher R. Hill · Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover |
An “inside the room” memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in a career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless... |
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