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Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny

Michael Broers · Pegasus Books
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

Written with great energy and authority -- and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself -- the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror. All previous lives of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored...
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The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy

Michael McCarthy · New York Review Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths "would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard," is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling...
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Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr

James Edward Carr · Three Rooms Press
Pages: 261
Format: Print book

An unapologetic, brutal memoir from notorious 60s career criminal and Black Panther James Carr. BAD covers Carr's life from his first arrest for burning down his school at age 10, through merciless stints in San Quentin, where he shared a cell with famed Soledad Brother George Jackson,...
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Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community

Rachel May · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to play with traditions and take liberties with fabrics, patterns, colors, stitching, and the ways in which they all connect. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles,...
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Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation

Robert J. Norrell · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) , and Roots (1976) . They changed the way white and black...
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The Spy's Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia

Bryan Denson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

"A haunting book as fast paced and as exciting as the best spy novel . . . and it's all true." - Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanInvestigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son co-conspirators...
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Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Story

Trudi Kanter · Scribner
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback

An "instantly mesmerizing" (Oprah.com) and "valuable piece of social history" (Chicago Jewish Star) - the astonishing memoir of a "vivid, tenacious, and absolutely unforgettable" (Bookreporter.com) woman whose courage and resourcefulness kept her and her beloved...
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ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman

Laurie Pepper · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Art Pepper told his sexy, sordid, and exciting true adventure stories to his lover, Laurie, who put them in a book. She quizzed him (and those who knew him) unrelentingly over seven years, editing and structuring a narrative to which she dedicated all her energy. Straight Life by Art and Laurie...
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Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery

Rebecca N. Mitchell · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive...
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