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The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir
Roman Dial - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out." - Jon KrakauerIn the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park,... |
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Sinatra: The Chairman
James Kaplan - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's bestselling Frank: The Voice - which completes the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed the "Entertainer of the Century," deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick... |
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Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece
Andrew Levy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, which turns on its head everything we thought we knew about America's favorite icon of childhood.In Huck Finn's America, award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern... |
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Gang of Four's Entertainment!
Kevin J.H. Dettmar - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk’s smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk’s angry energy to funk’s propulsive beats—and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesnt, what may cause harm,... |
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
Stephen E. Ambrose - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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America's preeminent historian of World War II integrates his best-selling accounts of the war, including Eisenhower, D-Day, and Citizen Soldiers, into a continuous, one-volume chronicle that features the testimony of those who fought. 175,000 first printing. |
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Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary
Steve Friesen - Fulcrum Publishing
Format: Paperback
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William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was America’s first celebrity. He lived during a time of great geographic and technological expansion, a time when American mass media became dominant. Cody was there at every step, the right person at the right place at the right time. It was through... |
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