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The Great Artists: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Thomas Stevens · Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pages: 96 Format: Hardcover
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the foremost Impressionist artists, known for his en plein air scenes of middle-class leisure. But Renoir's primary interest lay indoors, in depictions of sensuous female nudes and intimate domestic scenes, painted in a warm, bright palette. This book... |
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An Army Doctor's American Revolution Journal, 1775–1783
James Thacher · Dover Publications
Pages: 336 Format: Paperback
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At the age of 21, James Thacher (1754-1844) joined the newly formed American army as a surgeon's mate, eventually advancing to the role of surgeon for the Massachusetts 16th Regiment. In 1823, he published his Journal, reporting both wartime events he witnessed and those he heard... |
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Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar
Steve Murphy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the hunt... |
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The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History
Jacob Kornhauser · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 216 Format: Hardcover
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The Cup of Coffee Club shares the stories of eleven men who played in just a single major league baseball game and how they responded to the heartache of never making it back. Featuring exclusive interviews with each of the players, their insight provides a unique look into the struggles... |
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
Ben Hubbard · Crown
Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The gripping chronicle of the rise of Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler "A rare and penetrating look behind the curtain of the world's most important family and its dangerous new leader." - Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower MBS is the untold story... |
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Piero Manzoni: An Artist's Life
Flaminio Gualdoni · Gagosian / Rizzoli
Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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Piero Manzoni was one of the most radically inventive artists of the twentieth century whose work continues to challenge the definitions of artistic sovereignty and virtuosity to this day. Immediately upon his death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Piero Manzoni's reputation as a provocateur... |
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius
Bob Batchelor · Diversion Books
Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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On the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system, became one of the world's richest criminal masterminds, and helped inspire The Great Gatsby. Love, murder, political intrigue, mountains of cash, and rivers of bourbon... |
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Face It: A Memoir
Debbie Harry · Dey Street Books
Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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Filled with never-before-seen photos and art throughout, the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie, Debbie HarryBRAVE, BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNK Musician, actor, activist, and the iconic face of New York City cool, Debbie Harry is the frontwoman of Blondie,... |
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Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
Stephanie Gorton · Ecco
Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm - as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in AmericaThe president of the United States made headlines around the world when... |
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