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5@55: The 5 Essential Legal Documents You Need by Age 55

Judith D. Grimaldi · Quill Driver Books
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

Many people discover too late that they need some essential legal documents to deal with common health and end of life issues. Failing to prepare these documents ahead of time can create major legal headaches that often require expensive trips to court to resolve. Written by expert attorneys,...
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Chuck Noll : a winning way

Jim O'Brien · James P. O'Brien Publishing
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback

608 pages : some color ; 23 cm.
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Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!

Karen Gravano · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal. Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared...
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Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob,

Peter Bart · Weinstein Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Peter Bart then a young family man and rising reporter for the New York Times decided to upend his life and enter into the dizzying world of motion pictures Infamous Players is the story of Barts whirlwind journey at Paramount his role in its triumph and failures and how a new kind...
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Don't You Ever: My Mother and Her Secret Son

MARY CARTER BISHOP · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From a prizewinning journalist, Mary Carter Bishop, a moving and beautifully rendered memoir about the half-brother she didn't know existed that hauntingly explores family, class, secrets, and fate.

Applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery....

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The Search for John Lennon: The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star

Lesley-Ann Jones · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Pulling back the many hidden layers of John Lennon's life, Lesley-Ann Jones closely tracks the events and personality traits that led to the rock star living in self-imposed exile in New York - where he was shot dead outside his apartment on that fateful autumn day forty years ago.Late...
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Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams

Alvin Yudkoff · Watson-Guptill Publications
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Now in paperback! The only complete biography available on this Oscar-winning dancer, choreographer, actor, and director. Filled with firsthand interviews and new research, this fascinating book offers an honest examination of a legendary star and very complex man.
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Hello American Lady Creature

Lisa L. Kirchner · Greenpoint Press; 1st edition
Format: Print book

Lisa Kirchner hoped moving to Qatar would change everything. Until it did.  Unlike the most women's travel memoirs, this is the story of the person left behind. "What better place to redefine your womanhood than in the Middle East?" Ophira Eisenberg (NPR's Ask...
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Our Father Who Aren't In Heaven: A True Story of a Career Criminal

Deborah Frye · lulu.com; y First edition edition
Format: Book

My sister and I uncovered a fascinating story about our father and his life of crime. Thirteen years after his death, we were contacted by an adoptee, age thirty, searching for her birth parents. The limited information she provided matched our dad. We were puzzled because at the time of her conception,...
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Half a Life

Darin Strauss · McSweeney's; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Half my life ago, I killed a girl."So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling...
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