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A Dirty Year: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York
Bill Greer - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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As 1872 opened, the New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals that the editors so frequently decried: financier Jim Fisk was gunned down in a love triangle; suffragist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull was running for president; anti-vice activist... |
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Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography
Robert Sellers - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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Peter O'Toole was supremely talented, a unique leading man and one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. Described by his friend Richard Burton as "the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war," O'Toole was also unpredictable, with a dangerous edge... |
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
MAXWELL KING - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted... |
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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Clare Mulley - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Untold Story of Britain’s First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived... |
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The Breaker
Nick Petrie - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A wanted man, Peter Ash has found a simple low-profile life in Milwaukee, working on his PTSD with his girlfriend, June, and renovating old buildings with his friend Lewis. But when June's reporting on a mysterious high-tech robbery turns threatening, she needs Peter to protect her while... |
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