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American Icons

Frank Sinatra

by Stonesong Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

The American Icons series celebrates the people, places, and objects that have informed American popular culture over the last 75 years. Illustrated throughout and replete with anecdotes, fun facts, and informative sidebars. American Icons: Frank Sinatra celebrates the legendary crooner who...
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Blonde Rattlesnake

Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles

by Julia Bricklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019

Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree. She and her husband of less than one week, White, an ex-con, robbed at least twenty people in and around downtown L.A. at gunpoint over an eight-week period. But the worst...
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All Told

My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs

by Leroy Neiman
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world’s most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012. He broke the barrier between fine art and popular art while creating indelible images that helped define the twentieth century. But it is the life he lived and the people he knew that make...
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Diary of a Company Man

Losing a Job, Finding a Life

by James S. Kunen
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012

The funny, insightful, and inspiring story of a 1960s campus radical turned corporate PR man who finds himself, along with his fellow baby boomers, in a place called “Too Young to Retire and Too Old to Hire”   James S. Kunen—author of The Strawberry Statement, an account of the...
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Livwise

Easy Recipes for a Healthy, Happy Life

by Olivia Newton-John
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012

Healthy, imaginative, delicious, and well-balanced recipes from the kitchens of Grammy-Award-winning artist, Olivia Newton-John.  
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How I Slept My Way to the Middle

Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs

by Kevin Pollak
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

How I Slept My Way to the Middle winningly combines never-before-heard stories featuring A-list entertainers with fan favorites and Kevin’s own thoughts about how he made it. He turned down his first invitation to do stand-up on The Tonight Show because he knew that he’d make a bigger impact if...
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Shirley Temple

American Princess

by Anne Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

At the age of five, Shirley Temple became the world’s most famous and acclaimed child—the most talented, beautiful child performer ever to capture the public’s imagination. By the time she was ten, she had either met or had received words of admiration from almost everyone of distinction. Nine-tenths...
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All in All

An Actor's Life On and Off the Stage

by Stacy Keach
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Stacy Keach is known for movie roles like Fat City and American History X and the television series Titus, and of course Mike Hammer, but he's also revered in the industry as a serious actor who's passionate about his craft. In his long, impressive career, he has been hailed as America's finest classical...
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Father Lincoln

The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Boys--Robert, Eddy, Willie, and Tad

by Alan Manning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

President Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him. But that was not how his sons knew him. Presidential historian Alan Manning invites readers to see not the thoughtful, burdened president delivering the Gettysburg...
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Son of Virginia

A Life in America's Political Arena

by L. Douglas Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

In 1981, the Commonwealth of Virginia, which had been dominated for decades by “the Organization,” a political machine led by former Governor and U.S. Senator Harry Byrd Sr., took its first baby steps to becoming the vibrant state it is today. That year, Charles Robb rejected the machine and began...
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Radical

My Journey out of Islamist Extremism

by Maajid Nawaz
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Islamist group. He quickly rose through the ranks...
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Resident On Call

A Doctor's Reflections on His First Years at Mass General

by Scott Rivkees
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, moving—and at times raucously humorous—one of the nation's leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A graduate of a state university medical school,...
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Kennedy Wives

Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family

by Amber Hunt, David Batcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014

 The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to them comes most strongly through the wives, whose pain, heartbreak, and grief seemed immensely public and lonely and personal at the same time....
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Marie Antoinette's Head

The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution

by Will Bashor
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013

Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen’s reign, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most...
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