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Marie Antoinette
David Grubin · PBS Home Video
Format: eVideo
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The story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French Revolution. It is also the tale of a fragile young woman struggling to find herself during one of the most turbulent moments in human history. |
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A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
Gertrude Bell · Penguin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the upcoming major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson, and directed by Werner HerzogGertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl... |
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Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World
Kembrew McLeod · New York University Press
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
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From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman's attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profiling the most notorious mischief... |
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Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way
Ken Abraham · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover. Thats the real life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. Its a miracle that Jimmy survived being... |
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Media Lynching: The Persecution of Michael Skakel
Robert F Kennedy · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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In 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also fifteen, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation,... |
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Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
Daniel Schulman · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 424
Format: Print book
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Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now.Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family... |
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Make Your Mind Up: My Guide to Finding Your Own Style, Life, and Motavation!
Bethany Mota · Gallery Books
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover
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From tips on life, love, and everything in between; to original DIYs, recipes, and style hacks; to the incredible story of a girl next door turned Internet sensation, Make Your Mind Up is the ultimate guide to rocking your look and ruling your world - from inspirational YouTuber, designer,... |
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
MICHAEL CHABON · Harper
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays - heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise - on the meaning of fatherhood, anchored by the viral sensation, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion".For the September 2016... |
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Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar
David Thomas · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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In Wrestling for My Life, WWE superstar Shawn Michaels shares from his heart about the highs and lows of his life inside the WWE. Included are some never-before-shared stories and an intimate look into his career as well as stories of hunting, family, and faith. With millions of fans, Michaels... |
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The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty
J Randy Taraborrelli · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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THE HILTONS is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary ideas and unyielding will established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry. But outside the boardroom, Conrad struggled with... |
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For What It's Worth: Business Wisdom from a Pawnbroker
Les Gold · Portfolio Hardcover; 1st Edition edition
Format: Book
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Businesses these days talk a lot about figuring out what the customer wants. Well, here’s your first lesson: the customer doesn’t know what he wants. This book is going to show you how to convince him he wants the thing you’re selling. Les Gold has been in business... |
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JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power
Thomas J. Whalen · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The famed 19th century humorist Finely Peter Dunne once commented that life “would not be worth living if we didn’t keep our enemies.” Certainly John F. Kennedy could appreciate the wisdom behind this observation. At nearly every stage of his noteworthy political career,... |
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