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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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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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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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