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A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

By: Ward, Geoffrey C.

Price: $7.33

Publisher: Vintage: 2013-04-23

Seller ID: AOB907

ISBN: 0345804694

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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A Journey Amongst the Good and the Great

By: Kerr, Andy

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Naval Inst Pr: 1987-05-01

Seller ID: SKU0002245

ISBN: 0870213334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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A Life In School

By: Tompkins, .

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Perseus Books: 1996-12-20

Seller ID: SKU0002374

ISBN: 0201327996

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.Here one of our leading literary scholars looks back on her own life in the classroom, and discovers how much of what she learned there needs to be unlearned. Jane Tompkins? memoir shows how her education shaped her in the mold of a high achiever who could read five languages but had little knowledge of herself. As she slowly awakens to the needs of her body, heart, and spirit, she discards the conventions of classroom teaching and learns what her students? lives are like. A painful and exhilarating story of spiritual awakening...
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A Life on the Road

By: Kuralt, Charles

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Ivy Books: 1991-11-01

Seller ID: SKU0002810

ISBN: 0804108692

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.For more than 30 years Charles Kuralt, the host of CBS News'Sunday Morning,has traveled the world's byways. In this warm, deeply affecting memoir, Kuralt retraces the steps of a journey that began when he was a young CBS news reporter frantically trying to cover international events, a journey that took him to South America, Vietnam, and the Okefenokee Swamp. From an Arizona cowboy who confessed to wearing pantyhose under his chaps and a Moscow dentist who tearfully thanked former American POW's for saving his life in a German ...
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A Man Called Peter

By: Catherine Marshall

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Commission Press: 1951

Seller ID: SKU0002023

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Has some wear but is in Acceptable condition and is a very readable copy. Name of previous owner on top and side of book.
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors)

By: Seaver, James

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: 1990-05-01

Seller ID: SKU0002679

ISBN: 0815624913

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family was killed, but Mary was traded to two Seneca sisters who adopted her to replace a slain brother. She lived to survive two Indian husbands, the births of eight children, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the canal era ...
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A Special Kind of Hero: The Star of Life Goes on Tells His Remarkable Story

By: Burke, Chris

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Doubleday: 1991-09-01

Seller ID: SKU0003113

ISBN: 0385416458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.This biography of Chris Burke, the star of the television series Life Goes On, weaves the latest information on Down's syndrome into the story of Burke's childhood struggles in a society closed to the mentally challenged. Awards: SLJ Best Book.
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A Time to Reflect

By: Jim O'Looney

Price: $3.84

Publisher: James C. O'Looney: 2005-01-01

Seller ID: AOB305

ISBN: 0615129420

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy

By: Klein, Edward

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Pocket: 1997-02-01

Seller ID: SKU0002820

ISBN: 0671501917

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy."Of all the great love stories that have had an impact on our times - Eleanor and Franklin, Winston and Clementine, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - none has remained as shrouded in secrecy and misunderstanding as that of John and Jacqueline Kennedy." "Here, for the first time, their story is told the way it was always meant to be told - with such depth and amazing detail that it sheds a whole new light on the relationship at the heart of Camelot." "For many years, Edward Klein, the former editor in chief o...
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America's Good News Almanac: Inspirational True Stories to Warm the Heart

By: Bill Bailey

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Pocket Books: 1996-08-01

Seller ID: SKU0002661

ISBN: 0671535382

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.Journalist Bill Bailey, known as America's Good News Newsman, is widely celebrated for his efforts to give positive stories greater prominence in the news, and America's Good News Almanac is his crowning achievement. Here he offers his singularly optimistic slant in a collection of inspiring, uplifting true stories you won't hear or read about anywhere else.
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Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

By: Ansel Adams; Mary Street Alinder [Compiler]

Price: $6.02

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 1985-10-30

Seller ID: SKU0001734

ISBN: 0821215965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York

By: Gopnik, Adam

Price: $4.86

Publisher: Vintage: 2018-07-31

Seller ID: AOB257

ISBN: 1400075742

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Barbara Bush: A Memoir

By: Bush, Barbara

Price: $3.82

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks: 1995-11-15

Seller ID: SKU0002821

ISBN: 0312956649

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.Barbara Bush is certainly among the most popular First Ladies ever to live in the White House. Politics aside, people worldwide have come to admire her wit, her candor and compassion, as well as her unswerving devotion to her husband and children. In her memoir, Mrs. Bush for the first time gives readers a very private look at a life lived in the public eye for more than twenty-five years. She begins with a compelling portrait of her early years, including: growing up in Rye, New York, and meeting George Bush; life as a young b...
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Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity-My Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos

By: Omar, Manal

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Sourcebooks: 2010-08-01

Seller ID: SKU0002223

ISBN: 1402237219

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Baruch, the public years

By: Baruch, Bernard M

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Pocket Books: 1962-01-01

Seller ID: AOB408

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Has some wear but is in Acceptable condition and is a very readable copy.
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Bertie, May and Mrs Fish : A Wartime Country Memoir

By: Bingley, Xandra

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd: 2005-07-31

Seller ID: SKU0003096

ISBN: 0007149506

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy. Small tear on dust jacket.A lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child. 'Bertie, May and Mrs Fish' is Xandra Bingley's account of her childhood on a Cotswold farm, set against the backdrop of World War II and its aftermath. Bingley's mother is left to farm the land, isolated in the landscape, whilst her husband is away at war. With its eccentric cast of characters, this book captures both the essence of a country childhood and the remarkabl...
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Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia

By: Troy, Sandy

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1995-07-30

Seller ID: SKU0002290

ISBN: 1560250909

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy. Wear on corners and edges.
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Christophe, King of Haiti

By: Cole, Hubert

Price: $7.67

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1970-02-23

Seller ID: SKU0002678

ISBN: 0670002801

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Has some wear but is in Acceptable condition and is a very readable copy.
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Coretta Scott King (Black Americans of Achievement)

By: Rhodes, Lisa; King, Coretta Scott [Introduction]

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub: 1998-01-01

Seller ID: AOB728

ISBN: 0791046915

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Couplehood

By: Reiser, Paul

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Bantam: 1995-10-01

Seller ID: SKU0001795

ISBN: 0553573136

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Deconstructing Sammy: Music, Money, Madness, and the Mob

By: Birkbeck, Matt

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Amistad: 2008-09-16

Seller ID: SKU0002588

ISBN: 0061450669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.Sammy Davis Jr. lived a storied life. Adored by millions over a six-decade-long career, he was considered an entertainment icon and a national treasure. But depite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million, Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy, His estate was declared insolvent, and there was no possibility of ever using Sammy's name or likeness again. It was as if Sammy had never existed. Years later his wife Altovise was living in poverty when she turned to a former federal prosecutor, Albert "Sonny" Murray, to make one...
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Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West

By: Denton, Sally

Price: $3.82

Publisher: Knopf: 2005-04-26

Seller ID: SKU0002728

ISBN: 140004135X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.The richly told story of a nineteenth-century woman?the author?s great-great-grandmother?whose religious faith was betrayed and regained on a journey across the American West. In the 1850s, Jean Rio was a recently widowed English mother of seven. Rich, well educated, musically gifted, deeply spiritual, and increasingly dismayed by the social injustices she saw around her, she was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. On her fifty-six-day Atlantic crossing, she began keeping a diary, and...
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Falling Into Place: A Memoir of Overcoming

By: Kauffman, Hattie

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Baker Books: 2013-09-15

Seller ID: SKU0001109

ISBN: 0801015383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Fidel Castro

By: Quirk, Robert E.

Price: $5.47

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: 1993-09-01

Seller ID: SKU0002626

ISBN: 0393034852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy."For a boy growing up in the Oriente countryside dangers lurked everywhere. Parents and nursemaids cautioned children to beware of "lost souls" wandering the earth, seeking to catch mortals and compel them to take their places. Fidel Castro always slept fitfully. To fall asleep was to be alone, defenseless, off-guard. Years later, as a rebel commander in the Sierra Maestra, he kept himself awake at night, reading, walking about, talking the hours away with his tired comrades. And as Cuba's Maximum Leader he insisted...
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Florence Foster Jenkins: The Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer

By: Bullock, Darryl W.

Price: $5.19

Publisher: Abrams Press: 2017-11-21

Seller ID: AOB569

ISBN: 1468315552

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Fragments of a Woman's Life: A Memoir

By: Manigault, Sandra

Price: $4.71

Publisher: Godosan Pubns Inc: 2000-04-01

Seller ID: SKU0001740

ISBN: 0965854116

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Fragrance in the Desert

By: Fowler, Debbie

Price: $3.82

Publisher: The Troy Book Makers: 2014-01-01

Seller ID: SKU0001451

ISBN: 1614682267

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Very Good

Very good condition. Clean, crisp pages with a tight binding.
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Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees...and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have

By: Geist, Bill; Geist, Willie

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: 2014-05-20

Seller ID: SKU0002222

ISBN: 1455547220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Grandmother, Sir

By: Dabulas, Marion

Price: $10.34

Publisher: Xlibris Corp: 2001-08-01

Seller ID: AOB360

ISBN: 1401019579

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes

By: Novick, Sheldon M.

Price: $4.93

Publisher: Little Brown & Co: 1989-07-01

Seller ID: SKU0002108

ISBN: 0316613258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy. Price snipped from inside front cover.
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I Think I'm Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families

By: Carroll O'Connor

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster: 1998-03-01

Seller ID: SKU0002323

ISBN: 0671017586

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Has some wear but is in Acceptable condition and is a very readable copy.It is the genius of actor Carroll O'Connor that millions of fans will forever confuse him with his most unforgettable creation, Archie Bunker. But O'Connor has lived the kind of rich, momentous life that Archie would never have imagined. Now, O'Connor speaks eloquently and intimately about his great triumphs and terrible tragedies -- and a career that has been immortalized in television history. Growing up in Depression-era New York, Carroll O'Connor made his way armed with quick wit, mischievous bent of mind, and engagin...
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I Wouldn't Change a Thing

By: Gina M. Peca

Price: $4.00

Publisher: StaffPicksPress: 2013-01-01

Seller ID: SKU0000962

ISBN: 1935680056

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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In the Gray Area: A Marine Advisor Team at War

By: Folsom USMC, Lt. Col. Seth W.B.

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2010-09-15

Seller ID: AOB774

ISBN: 1591142814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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It's Always Something

By: Radner, Gilda

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1989-06-01

Seller ID: SKU0002109

ISBN: 0671638688

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy. Price snipped from inside front cover.
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Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index

By: Griffin, Kathy

Price: $4.37

Publisher: Flatiron Books: 2016-11-22

Seller ID: SKU0002196

ISBN: 1250115639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Has some wear but is in Good condition and is a very readable copy.
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Kissinger

By: Isaacson, Walter

Price: $4.92

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1993-10-01

Seller ID: SKU0002601

ISBN: 0671872362

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Has some wear but is in Acceptable condition and is a very readable copy. Has crease on front cover. Wear on corners and edges. Wear on binding.By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign polic...
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