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Kathryn Kelly: The Moll Behind Machine Gun Kelly
Barbara Casey - Strategic Media Books
Format: Print book
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Kathryn Kelly The Moll Behind Machine Gun Kelly is a biography of the woman who made a career of crime. With a lust for danger, she masterminded the crimes that took her and her husband, and others who included her own mother and stepfather, on a spree across Minnesota, Tennessee, Oklahoma,... |
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Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
Christian Goeschel - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded... |
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Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words
Maeve Binchy - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans.Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they... |
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Disaster Falls: A Family Story
Stephane Gerson - Crown
Format: Print book
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A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stphane huddled in a tent... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University "Extraordinary... |
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18 and Life on Skid Row
Sebastian Bach - HarperCollins Publishers 2015.
Format: Print book
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18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records... |
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,... |
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Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms
LISA BRAHIN WEINBLATT - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping saga of a Jewish family and community fighting for survival against the ravages of history.Set between events depicted in Fiddler on the Roof and Schindler's List, Lisa Brahin's Tears over Russia brings to life a piece of Jewish history that has never before been told.... |
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A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story
Tom Gjelten - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration.In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born... |
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