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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Alison Weir

Published: 2001-04-03

Paperback: 441 pages

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Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (Library of American Biography Series) (3rd Edition)

by J. William T. Youngs

Published: 2005-07-21

Paperback: 320 pages

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This biography offers a clear, concise and moving portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her wisdom, kindness, trials and tribulations serve as wonderful examples of the power of human dignity, and of the ability of extraordinary people to captivate America.   The titles in the Library of Amer...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justice (Childhood of Famous Americans)

by Ann Weil

Published: 1989-11-30

Paperback: 192 pages

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The childhood of the woman who became wife of a president and a great humanitarian.

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Eleanor Roosevelt's Life of Soul Searching and Self-Discovery

by Ann Atkins

Published: 2011-10-01

Paperback: 169 pages

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Transforming the power in Eleanor's story to your story starts now. Whatever the scale of your rendezvous with destiny, the fact remains it is up to you to live it. Eleanor's story is a do-it-yourself guide that shows us how to accomplish many things. From a childhood plagued with drunks and drama queens,...

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

by Tom Wolfe

Published: 1999

Paperback: 432 pages

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Wolfe takes a walk on the wild side with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and writes about the 60s hippie culture.

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The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.)

by Sarah Hall

Published: 2005-10-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy -- a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort -- Cy reinvents himself in the incandescent honky-tonk o...

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Elegance

by Kathleen Tessaro

Published: 2004-03-31

Paperback: 336 pages

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Louise Canova should be happy and in love. But her actor husband seems to be growing distant and she doesn't know why. Is it her fault? The uncertainty and insecurity she thought she'd left behind in adolescence now come back to haunt her.But when she discovers a faded volume titled Elegan...

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Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

Published: 2009-05-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Rene is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. She maintains a carefully constructed persona as someone uncultivated but reliable, in keeping with what she feels a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Rene: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable...

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

Published: 2008-09-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierg...

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The Elegant Gathering of White Snows

by Kris Radish

Published: 2003-06-10

Paperback: 321 pages

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Eight Women on a Journey That Will Change Their Lives as Lovers, Wives, Mothers, Daughters, FriendsJust after midnight in a small town in Wisconsin, eight women begin walking together down a rural highway. Career women, housewives, mothers, divorcées, and one ex–prom queen, they are clo...