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Mini Myths: Play Nice, Hercules!
Joan Holub · Harry N. Abrams; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book
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Hercules is not as interested in playing nice as he is in playing strong! But when one feat of strength destroys his little sisters 12-piece tower, he must use his powers for good to restore the tower and seek her forgiveness. She forgives him indeed, and then shows her own strength by gleefully... |
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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
Catherine Hewitt · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secretComtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by Édouard Manet and inspired Émile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future... |
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I'll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir
Pat O'Brien · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best seller!Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would... |
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American Titan: Searching for John Wayne
Marc Eliot · Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, "the Duke," John Wayne.As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc... |
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Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me
Ally Hilfiger · Center Street
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major... |
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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
Gregory Zuckerman · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep... |
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The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones
Rich Kienzle · Dey Street Books, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In the vein of the classic Johnny Cash: The Life, this groundbreaking work explores the wild life and extraordinary musical career of "the definitive country singer of the last half century" (New York Times) , who influenced, among others, Bob Dylan, Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris,... |
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The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Mike Colapietro Roger Sto… · Crown Forum
Format: Kindle Edition
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Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962... |
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird · Random House Inc
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover
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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded... |
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN · Ecco
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
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