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Country Music: An Illustrated History
Dayton Duncan - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019This gorgeously illustrated and hugely... |
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Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Charles Krauthammer - Crown Publishing Group
Format: eBook
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From America's preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer's essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges conventional... |
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
New York Times - Clarkson Potter; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives. Now the editors have curated... |
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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved
Catharine Arnold - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Victorian England: We know what that was supposed to mean -- all priggish prudery and "we-are-not-amused" harrumphing. Except now we know it wasnt all that . . . [Catharine Arnolds] new biography focuses -- deliciously -- on the women who shared the scandalously plentiful... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar - New American Library
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary... |
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The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
Alex Beam - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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Clash of the Titans! The deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird - Random House
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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