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The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs

Pat Garofalo - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"An alarming, fact-driven jeremiad urging change and action." -KirkusThe first comprehensive look at how politicians let the entertainment industry bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy and hurt economic investment, starting and ending with Trump. From stadiums and movie...
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Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond

Florence Henderson - Center Street; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

For millions of people around the world Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later...
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First 50 Songs by the Beatles You Should Play on Ukulele: Must-Have, Accessible Collection of Favorites to Strum and Sing

The Beatles - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback

(Ukulele) . The First 50 Songs by the Beatles You Should Play on Ukulele is a simply arranged, must-know collection of the Fab Four's greatest hits. Each arrangement includes melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A uke tuning. Songs include: Across the Universe * Blackbird...
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The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings)

Gary Russell - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Alan Lee, the beloved illustrator of many of Houghton Mifflins Tolkien editions, and a talented team of other artists, including the renowned Tolkien illustrator John Howe, have spent more than three years creating the sets, props, creatures, and locations that truly bring Tolkiens Middle-earth...
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend

Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orleans sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tins journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. Orlean, a staff writer at The New Yorker who has been hailed as a national treasure by The Washington Post, spent...
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Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk

Robyn Okrant - Center Street; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

What happens when a thirty-five-year-old average American woman spends one year following every piece of Oprah Winfrey's advice on how to "live your best life"? Robyn Okrant devoted 2008 to adhering to all of Oprah's suggestions and guidance delivered via her television...
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Real life Downton Abbey : how life was really lived in stately homes a century ago.

Jacky Hyams - John Blake Pub.
Format:  eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats

Fans of Julian Fellowes' hit showcan stepback100 years to the world of the pampered, privileged upper classes and take a look at exactly what goes on behind the magisterial doors of their favorite stately homeUsing the characters and setting of the popular television show as a point...
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You'll Grow Out of It

Jessi Klein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,...
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Everyday Sexism

Laura Bates - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

Special Hardcover Library EditionGood Housekeeping has this to say about Everyday Sexism, "a new generation of women is shouting back against everyday sexism, and their leader, Laura Bates, is determined to change the world."In 2012 after having been...
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