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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

by Sally Bedell Smith

Published: 2017-04-04

Hardcover: 624 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen—perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new...

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Fear the Light

by William Massa

Published: 2014-08-01

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WHO MURDERED DRACULA? Over the centuries, many had tried to kill the Count. All had failed. Until now... Eight vampires — all the spawn of Dracula — gather at their master's estate to solve the mystery of his murder. But as a new day dawns, a voice cries out and ...

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Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

by Helene Cooper

Published: 2017-03-07

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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she dem...

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The Redemption of Galen Pike

by Carys Davies

Published: 2017-04-11

Paperback: 176 pages

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"Like Chekhov's great stories, Davies' . . . reward re-reading not by resolving the core mystery, but by revealing layers of meaning and complexity. " —Ladette Randolph, PloughsharesFrom remote Australian settlements to the snows of Siberia, from Colorado to Cumbria, restless teenagers,...

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Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

by Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy

Published: 2014-10-21

Paperback: 400 pages

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART | Previously published as Then They Came for MeWhen Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little di...

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True Grit: A Novel

by Charles Portis

Published: 2010-11-05

Paperback: 240 pages

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True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, ...

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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing

by Lori Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

Published: 2000-06-06

Paperback: 204 pages

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The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico—and to bring the valu...

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Jumping Over Shadows: A Memoir

by Annette Gendler

Published: 2017-04-04

Paperback: 232 pages

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History was repeating itself when Annette Gendler fell in love with a Jewish man in Germany in 1985. Her Great-Aunt Resi had been married to a Jew in Czechoslovakia before World War II?a marriage that, while happy, created tremendous difficulties for the extended family once the Nazis took...

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Emmanuelle

by Emmanuelle Arsan

Published: 2009-01-19

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This classic book of erotica is, alongside Story of O, the most famous French underground novel of the late twentieth century and a work of seductive literary merit.It begins with nineteen-year-old Emmanuelle’s flight from London to join her husband in Bangkok. On the airplane, she is se...

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Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic

by Lorna Byrne

Published: 2011-11-01

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In this uplifting autobiography, a modern-day Irish mystic shares her vivid encounters and conversations with the angels and spirits she has known her entire life.For anyone who has ever wondered about the mysteries that lie beyond everyday experience, or doubted the reality of the afterli...