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Victoria: A Life
A. N. Wilson · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
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PENJacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015 LONGLISTA shimmering and rather wonderful biography. --The Guardian UK When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe... |
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Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality
Jonathan Aitken · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A strong and sometimes divisive figure in British and world politics, Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century and the only woman to ever hold the office. Drawing from an abundance of new, previously unpublished material from the Thatcher Archive... |
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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
Joseph Kim · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 274
Format: Print book |
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A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young... |
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Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians
Linda Gray Sexton · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover |
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The Sexton family's long love affair with the Dalmatian began in Linda's childhood. There, on a snowy morning in the family home just outside Boston, LInda heard a whimpering coming from the basement. She discovered their first family dog giving birth to a litter. Witnessing the intimate... |
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The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power
Jules Witcover · Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The American Vice Presidency is an all-inclusive examination of the vice presidency throughout American history. Acclaimed political journalist and author Jules Witcover chronicles each of the 47 vice presidents, including their personal biographies and their achievements--or lack thereof--during... |
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How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
Jim Grimsley · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover |
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"White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of separate schools were... |
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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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