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2023.
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English
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"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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An "unputdownable" biography of the future king of England with "intriguing new details" about Kate and Diana by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Daily Beast).
His face is recognized the world over, his story is well known. But what is Prince William really like?
As Diana's eldest son, he was her confidant. While the tabloids eagerly lapped up the lurid details of his parents' divorce, William lived
...3) Call me Ted
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English
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A memoir of the great American maverick of our time reveals his lonely childhood, the devastating loss of his father, intimate details of his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his unparalleled success as a businessman and philanthropist.
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
502 p.
Language
English
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The definitive biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar.
George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1956
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
409 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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This is more than a biography of the great humorist from Niles, Michigan. In a penetrating full-length portrait, Donald Elder has explored Ring Lardner's whole world-the vibrant and inventive times in which he lived, the unforgettable people who surrounded him, and the impudent words that came from his typewriter. At the height of Lardner's fame in the middle twenties he was known simultaneously as a baseball reporter unlike any the world had ever...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"11 December 1936. The King of England, Edward VIII, has given up his crown, foregoing his duty for the love of Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee. Their courtship has been dogged by controversy and scandal, but with Edward's abdication, they can live happily ever after. But do they? Beginning this astonishing dual biography at the moment that most biographers turn away, bestselling historian Andrew Lownie reveals the dramatic lives of the Windsors...
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Publisher
J. B. Lippincott Company
Pub. Date
c1972
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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The Late John Marquand is an engrossing and well-studied literary biography of one of twentieth century America's finest writers of fiction, by the bestselling protégé who took up his mantle.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1961
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, first published in 1961, is biography of the first-lady, from her early childhood to her meeting and marriage with John F. Kennedy. The book ends with the family's move into the White House (and before the President's tragic assassination in November 1963). Author Mary Rensselaer Thayer worked closely with Mrs. Kennedy to produce the book, and it is reported that Jacqueline prepared much of the initial draft. Included are...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xv, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many of the stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Unfortunately, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles they portrayed. However, James Stewart was known as the underdog fighter in many of his films and in real life. He was highly decorated for his bravery during his...
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BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
192 p.
Language
English
Description
Marshal of Sundown, first published in 1937, is a classic tale of the Old West by Jackson Gregory (1882-1943), author of more than 40 western and detective novels. From the dust-jacket: The least likely candidate for marshal of Sundown was Jim Torrance ... a man wanted throughout the Southwest for every crime from bank robbing to murder. And Sundown already had a marshal ... tough Rufe Biggs, owned body and soul by the man responsible for all the...
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Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill Co
Pub. Date
c1956
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
399 p. : maps ; 23cm.
Language
English
Description
In the years just preceding the War of 1812 one man, an Indian, dominated the American frontier-Tecumseh. He emerges here as a vivid, splendid character, a man of unusual talents and noble aims, whereas in much previous history and biography he has been depicted as a baffling, sinister, often bloody figure-a man of inscrutable motives whose scheming for a time actually threatened to delay the settlement of the Northwest. Tecumseh's great oratorical...