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The Grimaldis of Monaco

Centuries of Scandal, Years of Grace

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

The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world’s oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Prince Albert II, the Grimaldis—“an ambitious, hot-blooded, unscrupulous race, swift to revenge and furious in...
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Red Rose Crew

A True Story Of Women, Winning, And The Water

by Daniel Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005

In 1975, a group of amazing women rowed their way to international success and glory, battling sexual prejudice, bureaucracy, and male domination in one of the most grueling and competitive sports around. Among the members of the first international women’s crew team--and one of the first women’s...
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The Fight of Their Lives

How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption

by John Rosengren
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pastime reflected the tensions in society and nearly sullied two men forever. Juan Marichal, a Dominican anxious about his family’s safety during the civil...
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Elston

The Story of the First African-American Yankee

by Arlene Howard, Ralph Wimbish, Mike Vaccaro
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018

Beginning with his early years as a St. Louis teenager, Elston tells of Elston Howard’s love of baseball and his encounters with racism. His three decades with the New York Yankees include numerous anecdotes about fellow Yankee legends such as Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra. Written...
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Strong Boy

The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Hero

by Christopher Klein
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

“I can lick any son-of-a-bitch in the world.” So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who  was the gold standard of American sport for more than a decade, and the first athlete to earn more than a million dollars. He had a big ego,...
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Hack's 191

Hack Wilson and His Incredible 1930 Season

by Bill Chastain
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012

Hack Wilson’s record 191 RBIs in 1930 may well stand the test of time, and so may the record of his hard-drinking lifestyle. In Hack’s 191, Bill Chastain recreates the most productive offensive season in baseball history while giving readers unique insight into the life of one of baseball’s...
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Cohn-Head

A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys' Club

by Linda Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008

In Cohn-Head, one of America’s most successful female anchors lays bare her hard-fought rise to the top of the sportscasting boys’ club and her life inside the ESPN empire, talks candidly about sports personalities she has met, and reveals her personal top ten lists plus much, much more.  After...
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The Next Millionaire Next Door

Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth

by Thomas J Stanley, PhD, Sarah Stanley Fallaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

Over the past 40 years, Tom Stanley and his daughter Sarah Stanley Fallaw have been involved in research examining how self-made, economically successful Americans became that way. Despite the publication of The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind, and others, myths about wealth in American...
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Hard Luck

The Triumph and Tragedy of "Irish" Jerry Quarry

by Steve Springer, Blake Chavez
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

The story of boxing legend Jerry Quarry has it all: rags to riches, thrilling fights against the giants of the Golden Age of Heavyweights (Ali—twice, Frazier—twice, Patterson, Norton), a racially and politically electric sports era, the thrills and excesses of fame, celebrities, love, hate, joy,...
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475 Tax Deductions for Businesses and Self-Employed Individuals

An A-to-Z Guide to Hundreds of Tax Write-Offs

by Bernard B. Kamoroff, C.P.A.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

Are you paying more taxes than you have to? The IRS is certainly not going to tell you about a deduction you failed to take, and your accountant is not likely to take the time to ask you about every deduction you’re entitled to. As former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson admitted, “If you don’t...
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by Joseph Heywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

Autumn 1960. Nikita Khrushchev is politically adept, visionary, and locked in a fight with the Politburo and a battle with Mao and the Chinese. His country and his political future are in trouble because he has opened doors to the West and espoused the doctrine of peaceful coexistence. Meanwhile,...
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Red Jacket

A Lute Bapcat Mystery

by Joseph Heywood
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

Woods Cop mystery author Joseph Heywood takes readers to an era when people had to be as hard as the lives they lived. Meet Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who in 1913, with the enthusiastic recommendation by Theodore Roosevelt, himself, becomes one of...
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Modern Art Invasion

Picasso, Duchamp, and the 1913 Armory Show That Scandalized America

by Elizabeth Lunday
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013

The story of the most important art show in U.S. history. Held at Manhattan’s 69th Regiment Armory in 1913, the show brought modernism to America in an unprecedented display of 1300 works by artists including Picasso, Matisse, and Duchamp, A quarter of a million Americans visited the show; most...
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Doctor Who

A History

by Alan Kistler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Premiering the day after the JFK assassination, Doctor Who humbly launched one of the entertainment world’s first super-brands. We begin with a look at TV programming of the day and the original pitch documents before delving into the Daleks, which almost didn’t make the cut but inspired many...
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