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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish

Linda Przybyszewski - Perseus Books Group
Format: Hardcover

As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need...
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure

Carl Hoffman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization - or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times...
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100 Acoustic Lessons - Guitar Lesson Goldmine Series

Michael Mueller - Hal Leonard Corporation; Pap/Com edition
Format: Paperback

Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series] Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics each lesson in this Acoustic volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely...
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Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues

James Fearnley - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and accordion player James Fearnley, drawn from his personal experiences and the series...
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Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir

Toni Braxton - It Books
Format: Hardcover

In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TVs reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes about her personal life decisions and their impact on her health, family and career.While Braxton appears to be living a gilded lifeselling 60 million...
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Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere

Michael Kimmelman - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The chief art critic for The New York Times tours the world's museums with such preeminent painters, photographers, and sculptors as Roy Lichtenstein, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Elizabeth Murray, who speak informally about their favorite works of art. 15,000 first printing.
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Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford’s Theatre

Thomas A. Bogar - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover

April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford’s Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience...
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American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell

Deborah Solomon - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Rockwell Land, writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman...
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Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast

JEFF FAGER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A history of 60 Minutes - the iconic American TV news broadcast - going behind the scenes of the most famous breakthrough stories of its remarkable fifty-year run to reveal the secrets of the program's success.Fifty Years of 60 Minutes tells the inside story of the legendary...
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Art in Minutes

Susie Hodge - Quercus
Format: Paperback

This concise yet comprehensive guide to the history of art is the perfect handbook for all would-be art buffs. Art historian Susie Hodge takes you on a whistle-stop international tour of all the major philosophies, movements, phases, developments, artists, and themes, from prehistoric art to Hyperrealism....
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