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Living History

By: Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 2003

Seller ID: 8053

ISBN: 0743222245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The author chronicles her eight years as First Lady of the United States, looking back on her husband's two administrations, the challenges she faced during the period, the impeachment crisis, and her own political work.
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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

By: Colt, George Howe

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Scribner: June 2004

Seller ID: 9910

ISBN: 074324964X

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Very Good

National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt returned for one last stay with his wife and children. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt's final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers.

Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stand...
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My Left Foot.

By: Connaughton, Shane

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber: January 1989

Seller ID: 9890

ISBN: 0749301015

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $3.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: November 2002

Seller ID: 1342

ISBN: 0399149325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The number-one "New York Times"-bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling, the courage of her characters, and the state-of-the-art forensic methods they employ.
In this headline-making new work of nonfiction, Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise on one of the most chilling cases of serial murder in the history of crime-the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London. With the masterful intuition into the criminal mind that has informed her novels, Cornwell digs deeper into the ...
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The Middle Place

By: Corrigan, Kelly

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Hachette Books: January 2009

Seller ID: 3146

ISBN: 1401340938

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Very Good

For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place--"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap"--comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents' care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast--and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, to...
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Homicide Special: On the Streets with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit

By: Corwin, Miles

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: January 2004

Seller ID: 13437

ISBN: 0805067981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide
detectives in the country
Los Angeles is a town of dreamers--and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest-profile cases. Now acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses his unprecedented access to this legendary unit to narrate six of its cases--and capture its newest generation at work.
When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of ...
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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life

By: Cramer, Richard Ben

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 2000

Seller ID: 1301

ISBN: 0684853914

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A groundbreaking, breathtaking biography of one of the Century's great icons, the late Joe Dimaggio, from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning author of the bestseller WHAT IT TAKES. Few celebrities have captivated the sport's world for as long, or with such depth, as Joe DiMaggio. Here, for the first time, is the definitive story of his life, as told by the award-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer. In Cramer's hands, DiMaggio's complicated life, from the first game with the Yankees in the 1930's, his marriage to Marilyn Monroe and his rise to hero status, becomes a story of the media, the ...
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The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

By: Crispin, Jessa

Price: $2.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: September 2015

Seller ID: 6982

ISBN: 022627845X

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Very Good

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender.

The Dead Ladies Project is an account of that journey--but it's also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of key locations in its literary map, of places that have drawn writers who needed to break free ...
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Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?

By: Crystal, Billy

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: September 2013

Seller ID: 13394

ISBN: 0805098208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career

Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. In humorous chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers who are arriving at this...
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700 Sundays

By: Crystal, Billy

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: October 2005

Seller ID: 13422

ISBN: 0446578673

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

In '700 Sundays', a memoir based on his one-man Broadway play of the same name, Billy Crystal tells his own story, dissecting an often complex relationship with his father and how that relationship resonated in other aspects of his life.
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

By: Cumming, Laura

Price: $5.25

Publisher: Scribner: August 2019

Seller ID: 15967

ISBN: 1501198718

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village--and how that event reverberated her own family and her art for decades.

In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming's mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she turned up again in a nearby village several days later, she...
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A Rip in Heaven

By: Cummins, Jeanine

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Berkley: June 2004

Seller ID: 9900

ISBN: 0451210530

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Very Good

It was a headline story in the New York Times and USA Today. It was covered by Court TV and profiled on the Ricki Lake Show. Now, here is the intimate memoir of a shocking crime and its aftermath...one family's immediate and unforgettable story of what victims can suffer long after they should be safe.
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The Sea Hunters II

By: Cussler, Clive,Dirgo, Craig

Price: $2.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: January 2004

Seller ID: 1250

ISBN: 0425193721

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The second thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other marvels that changed history.

For decades, Clive Cussler's real-life NUMA(R), the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles--both human and natural--but the results, and the stories behind them, have been dramatic.

In this follow-up to their bestselling first account, The Sea Hunters, C...
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Going Solo

By: Dahl, Roald

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: April 1988

Seller ID: 8124

ISBN: 0140103066

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Presents an account of the author Roald Dahl's experiences in Africa such as crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery from his horrific injuries in Alexandria, and many other deeds.
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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

By: Dallek, Robert

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: May 2003

Seller ID: 1309

ISBN: 0316172383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An Unfinished Life is the first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades.
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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

By: Dallek, Robert

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: May 2003

Seller ID: 1410

ISBN: 0316172383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An Unfinished Life is the first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades.
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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

By: Dallek, Robert

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: May 2003

Seller ID: 8052

ISBN: 0316172383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An Unfinished Life is the first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades.
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For Your Eye Alone

By: Davies, Robertson

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Viking: January 2001

Seller ID: 8651

ISBN: 0670892912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Robertson Davies, one of North America's most beloved and critically acclaimed novelists, added an impeccable sense of style to all his diverse writings. Now, in this exciting publishing event, there is further cause for celebration with the publication of his selected letters. This volume for the first time gathers together previously unpublished letters that Davies wrote while at the height of his illustrious career.

In these lively and provocative letters readers will find affectionate letters to his daughter, witty barbs to hostile critics, as well as amusing and profound observations on...
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Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir

By: Davis, John H.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Wiley: July 1996

Seller ID: 14089

ISBN: 0471129453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now in paper Born just weeks before his famous first cousin, John Davis grew up alongside Jackie. He draws on his personal recollections to explore the origins of Jackie's elusive legend. Focusing on her early years, from childhood to her marriage to John F.
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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives

By: Davis, Natalie Zemon

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Belknap Press: October 1995

Seller ID: 10290

ISBN: 067495520X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the 17th century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. Rather, they were living on the margins in 17th-century Europe, North America and South America. Yet these women - one Jewish, one Catholic, one Protestant - left behind memoirs and writings that make for a spellbinding tale an...
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