LIFE 100 People Who Changed the World

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Religious and political leaders, artists, scientists, and adventurers are all represented in these pages - cultural icons of the greatest fame and obscurities that will surprise the reader. Albert Einstein is here, of course, and so is Madame Curie. Crucial issues of race are examined in the lives of not only Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama, but of Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali. Certainly Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were t... More >>

LIFE 100 People Who Changed the World

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

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Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters — and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day — has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire thinker. A powerful influence on the great writers of the ... More >>

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

The Bite of the Mango

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The astounding story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative. As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During ... More >>

The Bite of the Mango

The Invention of Solitude

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"One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own role as father.Amazon.com Review
Beginning with the deconstructed detective nov... More >>

The Invention of Solitude

Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men

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Blevins portrays the incredible lives of such men as Jed Smith, Jim Bridger, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Bill Williams, while he looks for the greater story, the story of their experiences, rather than the political realities of their era.... More >>

Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

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In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle journeys back to the age of King Arthur and his Round Table to chronicle the powerful, enthralling story that has delighted generations of readers fascinated by chivalry, magic, and the unforgettable drama of medieval times. **MASS MARKET PAPER**... More >>

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

The Return of Martin Guerre

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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean villa... More >>

The Return of Martin Guerre

Real Soldiers of Fortune

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Davis, known for his fiction and plays, also wrote about real people in Real Soldiers of Fortune, originally published in 1910. The Real Soldiers of Fortune are: Major-General Henry Ronald Douglas MacIver – from none of the eighteen countries he has served has he a pension, birth, or billet and at sixty he finds himself at home in every land, but with a home in none, Baron James Harden-Hickey – the man who made himself king, the man who was born after his tim... More >>

Real Soldiers of Fortune

The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero

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Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his s... More >>

The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero

Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East

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By assembling the biographies of 24 ordinary Middle Eastern men and women - peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites - this book provides a series of vantage points from which to consider how Middle Eastern history might seem from the "bottom up".... More >>

Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East

Drawing the Head and Figure

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• Publisher: Perigee Trade (January 15, 1983
• Language: English, ISBN-10: 0399507914, ISBN-13: 978-0399507915
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches, g Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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A how-to handbook that makes drawing easy. It offers simplified techniques and many hints and helps, as well as step-by-step procedures.... More >>

Drawing the Head and Figure

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2

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Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lyc... More >>

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2

Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now

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If you think John Lennon was the smart, arty Beatle while Paul was an empty head twittering prettily, this book will hip you to the facts. While John sat in the suburbs getting stoned to numb the pain of his imminent divorce, bachelor Paul was feeding his head by immersion in the London avant-garde. He pioneered the Beatles' experimental stuff, though his witty song-by-song account proves that it really was a 50-50 partnership--and some of the best innovations, ... More >>

Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with the curved surface of vaults, which dominated the chapel's c... More >>

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, Third Edition

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Translated from the critical edition by John Clarke, OCD, 3rd ed. (1997). Includes general and biblical index, with 8 pages of photos.

Two and a half years before her death in 1897 at the age of 24, as Thérèse Martin began writing down her childhood memories at the request of her blood sisters in the Lisieux Carmel, few could have guessed the eventual outcome. Yet this Story of my soul, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became ... More >>

Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, Third Edition

The Diana Chronicles

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"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."

–Academy Award® Winning Actress Helen Mirren

Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery.... More >>

The Diana Chronicles

Great Escape, The

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In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed author Kati Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. These nine men, each celebrated for individual achievements, were actually part of a unique group who grew up in a time and place that will never come again. It is Marton's extr... More >>

Great Escape, The

All too Human

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All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of 1992, & for the next five years he was rarely more than a step away from the president & his other advisers at every important moment of the first term. What Liar's Poker did to Wall Street, this book will do to politics... More >>

All too Human

The President's House: A First Daughter Shares the History and Secrets of the World's Most Famous Home

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As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting, but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized. In The President's House, Margaret Truman takes us behind the scenes as she reveals what it feels like to live in the White Hous... More >>

The President's House: A First Daughter Shares the History and Secrets of the World's Most Famous Home

The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi

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The Lone Samurai is a landmark biography of Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary Japanese figure known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of The Book of Five Rings. With a compassionate yet critical eye, William Scott Wilson delves into the workings of Musashi's mind as the iconoclastic samurai wrestled with philosophical and spiritual ideas that are as relevant today as they were in his times. Musashi found peace and spiritual rewar... More >>

The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49

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In 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length, and quality, have created a record of WWII. This is a moving testimony, that, covering sex, death, and fear of invasion, provides a new, unglamorized female perspective on the war years.... More >>

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49

The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

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“Important and fascinating.” —The New York Times In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, b... More >>

The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

We Took to the Woods

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In her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Rangeley area. Rich made time after morning chores to write about their lives. We Took to the Woods is an adventure story, written with humor, but it also portrays a cherished dream awakened into full life. First published 1942.... More >>

We Took to the Woods

The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes

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Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, headstrong woman who was proud of her successes, unabashed by h... More >>

The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

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In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the ... More >>

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis

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A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass's Narrative is the powerful story of an enslaved youth coming into social and moral consciousness by disobeying his white slavemasters and secretly teaching himself to read. Achieving literacy emboldens Douglass to resist, escape, and ultimately achieve his freedom. After escaping slavery, Douglass became a leader in the anti-slavery and women’s rights movements, a bestselling author, and U.S. dipl... More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis

Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II

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Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.

Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to France, leaving Michael in the care of his mother and ... More >>

Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II

Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau

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     In May 1941, Fr. Jean Bernard was arrested for denouncing the Nazis and imprisoned in Dachau's "Priest Block," a barracks that housed more than 3,000 clergy (the vast majority Roman Catholic priests).
     Priestblock 25487 tells the gripping true story of one remarkable priest's survival amid the inhuman brutality and torture of a Nazi concentration camp.
     In 2004, this important book was made into the award-winning film The Ninth Day.... More >>

Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau

Khrushchev

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Two prominent Soviet dissidents portray Khrushchev in power as a shrewd, complex, decisive, and impetuous innovator, impatient to remedy defects in the Soviet system but carried away by initial successes.... More >>

Khrushchev

My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy

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The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling p... More >>

My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy

To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

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In To America, Stephen Ambrose, one of America's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as and explains what an historian's job is all about. When Stephen Ambrose became intersted in American history at age 18, there was much that America had done that made him proud, but there were some things he condemned as well, for instance slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, racist Southern politicians, the Robber Barons of the transcontinental railro... More >>

To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker

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Born in 1850, Quanah Parker belonged to the last generation of Comanches to follow the traditional nomadic life of their ancestors. After the Civil War, the trickle of white settlers encroaching on tribal land in northern Texas suddenly turned into a tidal wave. Within a few short years, the great buffalo herds, a source of food and clothing for the Indians from time immemorial, had been hunted to the verge of extinction in an orgy of greed and destruction. The Indi... More >>

The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

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Get ready for a rousing rebel yell as bestselling author H.W. Crocker, III (Robert E. Lee on Leadership) charges through bunkers and battlefields in The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to the Civil War. Crocker busts myths and shatters stereotypes as he profiles eminent--and colorful--military generals while taking readers through chapters such as "The Civil War in Sixteen Battles You Should Know" and culminating in the most politically incorrect chapter of all, "Wh... More >>

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

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Mike Royko's scathing expose of Chicago's iron-fisted mayor Richard Daley was a national bestseller in its original hardcover and Signet editions. Now published in trade paperback, Boss continues to stand as a classic in American investigative reporting.... More >>

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII

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The youngest child of the legendary monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536) was born to marry for dynastic gain. Endowed with English royal blood on her mother's side, she was betrothed in infancy to Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England, an alliance that greatly benefited both sides. Yet Arthur died weeks after their marriage in 1501, and Catherine found herself remarried to his younger brother, soon to become... More >>

Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII

The Wives of Henry VIII

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The six-week New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII--from an acclaimed biographer. "Admirably succeed(s) in bringing to life the six women who married England's ruler. . . ."--New York Times Book Review. 16 color plates. 32 pages of illustrations.Amazon.com Review
When we think of the wives of Henry VIII, we tend to think of women who literally lost their heads. But Antonia Fraser opens the door to the political and c... More >>

The Wives of Henry VIII

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

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Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story—the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories—of the world's largest and least likely democracy. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. But ... More >>

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Behind Palace Doors: My Service As the Queen Mother's Equerry

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The Queen Mother did not give one media interview in her 101 years. This is a brief glimpse into that wonderful world by a man who spent two years constantly at her side from 1994 to 1996 and then as a close friend until her death in 2002. In this sharp, funny, and evocative memoir, Major Colin Burgess draws on his years as her right-hand man to recount numerous stories of an extraordinarily long and eventful life. From dancing with Fred Astaire to living through th... More >>

Behind Palace Doors: My Service As the Queen Mother's Equerry

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

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The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition. It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade. "Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews a... More >>

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

The Last American Man

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In The Last American Man, acclaimed journalist and fiction writer Elizabeth Gilbert offers a fresh cultural examination of contemporary American male identity and the uniquely American desire to return to the wilderness.

Gilbert explores what pushed men to settle the frontier West in the nineteenth century and delves into the history of American utopian communities. But her primary focus is on the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway, who left his com... More >>

The Last American Man

Mellon: An American Life

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A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.

Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America’s course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretar... More >>

Mellon: An American Life

Hattie Plain

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When Hattie Plain visits a New York daily newspaper to interview for Advice Columnist, she faces three problems: she's 92 years old, has no newspaper experience, and they don't know she's coming.Amazon.com Review
LOVED, Loved, loved it!! My favorite excerpt hands down. The character of Hattie is awesome and will be a huge hit with readers of all ages. It kind of reminded me of THE HELP, and we all know how mega successful that book was. I cannot wait to re... More >>

Hattie Plain

Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

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In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorbike. The journey lasted six months and took them thousands of miles, all the way from Argentina to Venezuela. En route, there was disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy, fights, parties and a lot of serious drinking. They met an extraordinary range of people: native indians and copper miners, lepers, police, wanderers and tourists. They became stow... More >>

Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

Patton: A Genius for War

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Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure." "This massive work is biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the ... More >>

Patton: A Genius for War

Been There, Done That: An Autobiography

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When Eddie Fisher was four years old, he opened his mouth and a beautiful sound came out. That sound changed his life forever. Eddie sang at local fairs, talent contests, and bar mitzvahs, until at age 14, he got a job singing on Philadelphia radio shows for $25 a week. A few years later, a stint at the Copacabana launched him into Dreamland. Suddenly, the Jewish kid from Philly and his golden sound were sending millions of fans screaming to their feet. More than ... More >>

Been There, Done That: An Autobiography

The Story of Cole Younger, Survivor of the Jesse James Gang

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Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, his Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published By Cole Younger

Thomas Coleman Younger (January 15, 1844 – March 21, 1916) was a famous Confederate guerrilla and an outlaw after the American Civil War. With his brothers Jim, John and Bob Younger, he joined with Jesse and Frank James to lead the James-Younger gang of Missouri bandits.
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The Story of Cole Younger, Survivor of the Jesse James Gang

Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution

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The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution.

Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies struggled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was a successful playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. And the flamb... More >>

Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin in October 1970, a generation's dreams crashed and burned with her. Alice Echols pushes past the legary Joplin-the red-hot mama of her own invention-as well as the familiar portrait of the screwed... More >>

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

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In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751–1831) went on to become America’s first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America’s national and international durability.Decorated by George Washington for his ... More >>

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924

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A "documentary comic book" from 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in America.... More >>

The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924