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Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin
David Kaufman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make... |
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Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story
Carol Burnett · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the one we bestow on a total stranger who needs it right then, and God has put us there to deliver. — Carrie Hamilton You are about to meet an extraordinary young woman, Carrie Hamilton.... |
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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Clare Mulley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The Untold Story of Britain’s First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived... |
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
Kenneth Womack · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so. The second and final volume of the definitive biography of the man, Sound Pictures traces... |
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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Sheila McCauley Keys · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero - "the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother... |
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Reporter: A Memoir
Seymour M Hersh · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time--a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a decades-long career breaking some of the most impactful stories of the last half-century, from Washington to Vietnam to the Middle East.Seymour... |
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Peter Stark · Ecco
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and groundbreaking portrait of a young, struggling George Washington that casts a new light on his character and the history of American independence, from the bestselling author of AstoriaTwo decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young... |
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My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food
Lidia Bastianich · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling cookbook author, beloved and award-winning television personality, and hugely successful restaurateur--a heartwarming, emotional, revelatory memoir told with all her hallmark warmth and gusto.Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city... |
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Mean
Myriam Gurba · Coffee House Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing,... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 564
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison... |
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
NICK BILTON · PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported, riveting,... |
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