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Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities
by Elizabeth Edwards
Published 2009 by Broadway Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780767931366
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The bestselling author of "Saving Graces" shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.
She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life.... More...
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My Remarkable Journey
by Larry King
Published 2009 by Weinstein Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781602860865
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The avuncular man in suspenders shares his riveting story, from his humble roots in Depression-era Brooklyn to the heights of celebrity as host of CNN's "Larry King Live." Delightful anecdotes highlight King's observations on some of the world's most important figures.... More...
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Puttin' on the Ritz: Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache
by Peter J Levinson
Published 2009 by St. Martin's Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312353667
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Levinson presents a surprising portrait of Fred Astaire and how he became America's most elegant song-and-dance man. b&w photo insert.
Fred Astaire defined elegance on the dance floor. With white tie, tails and a succession of elegant partners - Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland and others - he created an indelible image of the Anglo bon vivant.... More...
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She Always Knew How: Mae West, a Personal Biography
by Charlotte Chandler
Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416579090
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The acclaimed biographer of Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, and Joan Crawford once again draws on personal interviews to examine of of Hollywood's most colorful--and frequently off-color--icons. b&w photographs.
In "She Always Knew How," her wonderful new biography of legendary actress Mae West, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of interviews she conducted with the star just months before her death in 1980.... More...
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Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
by Jonathan Bate
Published 2009 by Random House
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781400062065
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"Soul of the Age" is the most artful, intriguing, and satisfying study of the mind of William Shakespeare we now possess . . . A major achievement from a master of Shakespeare studies--David Armitage, professor of history, Harvard University.
"One man in his time plays many parts,
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The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant
by Robert Sullivan
Published 2009 by Collins
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061710315
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Sullivan goes beyond the myth to present the Henry David Thoreau that many don't know: the activist, organizer, and gregarious adventurer. The author shows not a lonely eccentric but a man whose seminal work was intended to revive a stagnant America.... More...
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Fergie: My Life from the Cubs to Cooperstown
by Ferguson Jenkins
Published 2009 by Triumph Books (IL)
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781600781711
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Ferguson Jenkins won 284 games in his Hall of Fame pitching career with the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, and Boston Red Sox, and he is the first Canadian to attain such prominence in the American national pastime. Jenkins' life story, from Chatham, Ontario, to Cooperstown, is compelling, and Fergie tells it himself in his own unique and inimitable style.... More...
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George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire
by Peter Golenbock
Published 2009 by John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780470392195
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This definitive biography of former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner takes an in-depth look at the life of this notorious man and his role in building the greatest sports franchise in America. A complicated man who played fast and loose with the rules, he managed to take the New York Yankees from mediocrity to becoming the most popular and successful sports franchise in America.... More...
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The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound
by Ron Darling
Published 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780307269843
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Darling--member of the 1986 World Series-winning Mets team and one of today's most articulate and insightful broadcasters--provides a deeper appreciation of what happens on the baseball diamond.
Ron Darling has been beloved by Mets fans since he helped his team win the 1986 World Series.... More...
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The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-And-Roller, and Prodigal Son
by Myles Connor
Published 2009 by Harper
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061672286
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From New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the Smithsonian Institution in D.C., to Boston's Museum of Fine Art, to dozens of regional museums throughout the United States, no museum was off-limits to leg-endary art thief Myles Connor. He has used every technique in the book, from breaking and entering, to cat burglary, to false identities and elaborate con jobs.... More...
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A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
by Tori Murden McClure
Published 2009 by Collins
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061718861
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From the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic and to ski over land to the South Pole, comes a true memoir of an explorer who maps her own world with rare emotional honesty.
"In the end," writes Tori McClure, "I know I rowed across the Atlantic to find my heart, but in the beginning, I wasn't aware that it was missing.... More...
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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
by Michael J Collins
Published 2009 by St. Martin's Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312532932
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Collins turns back the clock, taking readers from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school, expertly infusing his journey to become a doctor with humanity, compassion, and humor.
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company.... More...
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Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream
by Kiyo Sato
Published 2009 by Soho Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781569475690
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"Vividly honest, deeply moving."--Bill Hosokawa, Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American "It is a magnificent memoir, fully worthy of being compared to Farewell to Manzanar. I cannot praise its pointillist realism, its Zen-like austerity, highly enough.... More...
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My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
by Adina Hoffman
Published 2009 by Yale University Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780300141504
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Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, " "this book" "tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948.... More...
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The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled
by Vincent Bzdek
Published 2009 by Palgrave MacMillan
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780230613676
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Bzdek examines John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy's legacy on the American political landscape.
John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy's individual stories can be seen as essentially one, each successive brother striving to fulfill the interrupted promise of the brother before.... More...
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by T J Stiles
Published 2009 by Knopf Publishing Group
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780375415425
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From the award-winning author of "Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War" comes the first full, authoritative look at the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt--the complex and combative man whose genius and force of will gave birth to modern capitalism.
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.... More...
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Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage
by Edith Belle Gelles
Published 2009 by William Morrow & Company
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061353871
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Gelles offers an intimate look at the Revolutionary era's most influential marriage and America's first power couple, Abigail and John Adams. 12 b&w photos.
The story of Abigail and John Adams is as much a romance as it is a lively chapter in the early history of this country.... More...
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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
by Matthew Algeo
Published 2009 by Chicago Review Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781556527777
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From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.
On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road.... More...
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The Nixons: A Family Portrait
by Edward C Nixon
Published 2009 by Book Publishers Network
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781935359050
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An intimate look into the family of one of this country's most influential, innovative, and controversial American Presidents. The life of Richard Milhous Nixon will forever be a focal point of 20th century American history. But until now, little has been written about the people who helped shape the ideals of this American icon.... More...
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