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Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

by Anthony Summers

Published: 1985-09-01

Hardcover: 415 pages

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New York Times Bestseller: The definitive biography based on over six hundred interviews with people who knew Marilyn Monroe both professionally and intimately.   Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked ...

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Discoveries: Marilyn: The Last Goddess (Discoveries (Harry Abrams))

by Jerome Charyn

Published: 2008-11-01

Paperback: 144 pages

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Even 45 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe fascinates young and older audiences. As Lee Strasberg wrote in his eulogy, ?She had a luminous quality?a combination of wistfulness, radiance, yearning?that set her apart and yet made everyone wish to be part of it, to share in the childish na...

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Queenie

by Michael Korda

Published: 1987-05

Paperback: 773 pages

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Her beauty became a legend . . . like her life. For Queenie's perfect face brought her everything she most desired. Escape from the slums, her mark on the glamorous world of London's nightlife, a dazzling rise as one of the most celebrated stars of Hollywood's golden era. But power, wealth, and fame...

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The Boys in the Mailroom

by Iris Rainer

Published: 1980

Hardcover: 376 pages

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The Boys have been in the mailroom for lots of years so it's a little worn.

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Cherry Ames Boxed Set (Books 1-4) Student Nurse, Senior Nurse, Army Nurse & Chief Nurse

by Helen Wells

Published: 2005-11-29

Hardcover: 0 pages

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The first boxed set, Cherry Ames Boxed Set 1-4, introduces our beloved heroine in her four earliest adventures: Student Nurse, Senior Nurse, Army Nurse, and Chief Nurse! With a heart of pure gold and a true yearning to make a difference in the world, eighteen-year-old Cherry Ames leaves he...

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Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies (Painted Turtle)

Published: 2017-05-18

Hardcover: 348 pages

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In the summer of 1967, Detroit experienced one of the worst racially charged civil disturbances in United States history. Years of frustration generated by entrenched and institutionalized racism boiled over late on a hot July night. In an event that has been called a "riot," "rebellion," ...

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Saving Emily

by Lynne Scott

Published: 2012-08-23

Paperback: 194 pages

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Saving Emily Janice Bracken loves her career as a bodyguard providing Secret Service-level protection to corporate executives traveling abroad. After a grueling round of travel, she?s looking forward to a few days off and relaxing with her oldest friends in Tucson. Her vacation goals are simple: a...

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Magpie Speaks: A Navajo Nation Mystery (Volume 5)

by R. Allen Chappell

Published: 2016-02-11

Paperback: 218 pages

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Dreams tell old man Paul T'Sosi he's dying. So why is Navajo trickster, Magpie, trying to tell him a far more terrifying secret? Hungry for revenge, Ma'iitsoh Dine', the Navajo Wolf, is out for blood. Summoning his darkest powers, the Witch of Ganado circles tribal investigator Charlie Yaz...

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Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country (Bryson)

by Bill Bryson

Published: 2001-05-05

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of...

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Home Fire: A Novel

by Kamila Shamsie

Published: 2017-08-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York TimesWINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love ...