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Doc: A Memoir
Dwight Gooden · New Harvest
Format: Hardcover
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A bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With fresh and sober eyes, Dwight Gooden shares the most intimate moments of his successes and failures, from endless self-destructive drug binges to three World Series rings. Known for his triumphs... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Michelle Knight · Weinstein Books; First Trade Paper Edition, domestic edition
Format: Print book
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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their... |
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Dan Jones · Viking; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Outstanding . . . A thrilling history of royal intrigues, violent skullduggery and brutal warfare." - Simon Sebag MontefioreThe first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem.... |
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
Miriam Pawel · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 548
Format: Book
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Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino leader in US history.... |
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Five Days in November
Clint Hill · Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me share the stories behind the five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFKs assassination—alongside revealing and iconic photographs—published in remembrance of the beloved president on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.... |
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90 Church: Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
Dean Unkefer · Picador USA
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORKBefore Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs," there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam... |
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Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings
Craig Brown · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Hello Goodbye Hello is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, a book that has been hailed by reviewers in London as “howlingly funny” (The Spectator), “original and a complete delight” (The Sunday Times), and “rich and hugely enjoyable” (The... |
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · Everyman's Library
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
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In Everyman's Library for the first time - one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose... |
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden · Scribner; Reprint edition
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead... |
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The Pacific
Hugh Ambrose · NAL; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five... |
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Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
Douglas Mastriano · University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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Alvin C. York 18871964devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War Iis one of Americas most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Coopers Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture... |
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Gran reformador, El (Spanish Edition)
Austeen Ivereigh
Format: Hardcover
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Una biografia del Papa Francisco que describe como este pensador revolucionario usara el poder de su posicion para desafiar y redirigir una de las religiones mas formidables del mundo. / A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position... |
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Cocaina: A Book on Those Who Make It
Magnus Linton · Soft Skull Press, 2013. ©2010 ©2014
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
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When Pablo Escobar, Colombia's "King of Cocaine," was killed, the world thought - or hoped - the cocaine industry would crumble. But ten years later the country's production had almost quadrupled, and since 2001, Colombia has produced more than 60% of all the cocaine consumed... |
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Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands
Charles Moore · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moores authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century.... |
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