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The Sebastian Vettel Quiz Book
Cowlin, ChrisAndrews UK 2014 1. utgåvaAre you a fan of German motor racing ace Sebastian Vettel? Have you followed his progress on the grand prix circuit, clocking up successive wins to become three times world champio...
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Arik : The Life of Ariel Sharon
Landau, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2014From the former editor in chief of Haaretz, the first in-depth comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most important Israeli political and military leader of the last forty y...
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99 : Gretzky: His Game, His Story
Strachan, AlMcClelland & Stewart 2013Whether wearing his Edmonton oil-drop, the black and silver colours of L.A., or the famous Rangers sweater from New York, all hockey fans agree that Wayne Gretzky was the best hock...
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Nicholson : A Biography
Eliot, MarcCrown 2013The definitive biography of a man with one of the most iconic and fascinating careers—and lives—in Hollywood. For six decades, Jack Nicholson has been part of film history. With t...
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Tune In : The Beatles—All These Years
Lewisohn, MarkCrown 2013Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unpreceden...
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Provence, 1970 : M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
Barr, LukeClarkson Potter/Ten Speed 2013Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Ri...
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Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio
Young, JamesBloomsbury Publishing 2013_______________ 'A coolly literary masterpiece' - Greil Marcus, Esquire 'Sad, funny, brilliant' - The Daily Telegraph'In classic fish-out-of-water fashion Young writes with wry amu...
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Music at the Limits
Said, EdwardBloomsbury Publishing 2013_______________ 'Edward Said had a lifelong passion for music, and possessed the rare ability to write about it for the general reader with a lucid and penetrating intelligence' -...
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A Memory of Light
Jordan, Robert; Sanderson, BrandonTor Publishing Group 2013The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! With Robert Jordan's untimely passing in 2007, Brandon Sanderson, the New York Time...
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Against the Odds : The Adventures of a Man in His Sixties Competing in Six of the World's Toughest Triathlons across Six Continents
Pendergrass, John L.Hatherleigh Press 2013A true account of John Pendergrass’ impossible goal of completing six IRONMAN Triathlons on six continents, all while in his sixties, Against the Odds will shatter your preconcepti...
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Between Man and Beast : An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm
Reel, MonteKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, D...
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Born This Way : Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Vitagliano, PaulQuirk Books 2012Sure to become a modern LGBTQ+ pride classic, this “amazing” celebration of the pains and joys of growing up gay features personal stories from around the world (The Huffington Pos...
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The Godfather's Daughter
Gigante, Rita; Stoynoff, NatashaHay House 2012Rita Gigante grew up in a world swirling with secrets, lies, and multiple sins.Her father, notorious Mafia boss Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, was the leader of the Genovese crime cla...
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I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had : My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Danza, TonyCrown 2012I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High...
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Bellow : A Biography
Atlas, JamesRandom House Publishing Group 2012With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent...
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Not Taco Bell Material
Carolla, AdamCrown 2012In his second book, Adam Carolla—author of New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks and chart-topping podcaster—reveals all the stories behind how he came to be...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Capote, TrumanKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom...
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Outlaw Marriages : The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Streitmatter, RodgerBeacon Press 2012Celebrate LGBTQIA+ history with the untold stories of 15 prominent same-sex couples who defied cultural norms and made significant contributions to the arts, social change, and mor...
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The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
Gogol, NikolaiDover Publications 2012Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details—as Gogol put it—"to extract the extraordinary from the o...
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The Musician's Guide to the Road : A Survival Handbook & All-Access Backstage Pass to Touring
Voelz, SusanClarkson Potter/Ten Speed 2012 1. utgåvaAn all-access pass to what goes on backstage, onstage, and on the way to the stage. What's a tour bus like? What are the band members saying to each other on stage? Exactly how muc...