Biography: adventurers and explorers Books
Hachette Books Henry Clay
Book SynopsisIn a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open the doors of Congress during the nation''s formative years and prevented dissolution of the infant American republic.The only freshman congressman ever elected Speaker of the House, Henry Clay brought an arsenal of rhetorical weapons to subdue feuding members of the House of Representatives and established the Speaker as the most powerful elected official after the President. During fifty years in public service-as congressman, senator, secretary of state, and four-time presidential candidate-Clay constantly battled to save the Union, summoning uncanny negotiating skills to force bitter foes from North and South to compromise on slavery and forego secession. His famous Missouri Compromise and four other compromises thwarted civil war by a power and influence, Lincoln said, which belonged to no other statesman of his age and times.Explosive, revealing, and ric
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Hachette Books Genghis Khan
Book SynopsisCombining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and Genghis Khan's rise from boyhood outcast to world conqueror. McLynn provides the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have ever lived.Trade ReviewBooklist, July 2015 "This ambitious and massive effort offers some credible insights into the qualities of Genghis while providing an excellent chronicle of his military campaigns and conquests. Particularly interesting is McLynn's description of thirteenth-century Mongolia, with its incredibly complicated web of tribes, clans, and subclans...This is an informative and admirable effort that is ideal for general readers." Kirkus Reviews starred review, 5/15/15 "A sanguinary and thorough account of 'the greatest conqueror the world has ever known.' McLynn knows the terrain and the times so well that he writes about 12th- and 13th-century history and culture as if it were yesterday. Throughout this intricately detailed text, the author pauses continually to explain relevant devices, personalities, political situations, and geography--all of this gives readers a chance to truly understand...McLynn recognizes that the historical sources must be constantly questioned and analyzed, as victors tend to inflate their victories and losers, to minimize and blame...Thoroughly researched, grim, grisly, and sometimes even grudgingly admiring." Publishers Weekly, 5/18/15 "Sweepingly ambitious and persistently intriguing." The Spectator (UK), 6/27/15 "[Khan's] was an extraordinary, epic story and Frank McLynn does it full justice in a vivid, page-turning biography." Sunday Times (UK), 6/21/15 "A formidable study of the world's greatest conqueror. With this compelling history of a brilliant, complex leader and ruthless master of warfare, McLynn has done his man proud." Sunday Times (UK), "Must Reads," 6/28/15 "A formidable study of the ruthless Mongolian nomad who carved out an empire." The Times (UK), 6/27/15 "McLynn has carefully synthesized the work of hundreds of scholars to create a sensitive and immensely detailed portrait of an extraordinary leader." Shelf Awareness for Readers, 7/31/15 "A staggeringly ambitious biography of history's greatest conqueror...Genghis Khan is fascinating enough to appeal to any history fan." Maclean's, 7/24/15 "McLynn's bio of the legendary, brutal conqueror reveals the Mongol's mantras." My Big Honkin Blog, 7/29/15 "The hundred pages of endnotes clearly illustrates the efforts that McLynn put forth in penning Genghis Khan." Examiner.com, 8/3/15 "Brings us face to face with this complex man who shaped the course of history." InfoDad blog, 8/6/15 "Such a man requires the most substantial possible biography, and McLynn gives him one that resoundingly demonstrates how intricately fascinating history can be...Sumptuous, erudite and stylish, careful to rely on often-contradictory primary sources when any such exist from so remote an era, McLynn's Genghis Khan is a sweeping 650-page trek through times and peoples whose very names sound like the stuff of legend...A book that...makes history come alive." Literary Review, August 2015 "[An] impressive new biography...[A] deeply researched and finely honed portrait...A biography of extraordinary synthesis and historical vision." South China Morning Post, 9/19/15 "McLynn takes an epic story and distills it into a book that will fill readers with awe." Internet Review of Books, 8/18/15 "This complicated book is Frank McLynn's twenty-fourth history, and includes an extensive bibliography, and voluminous notes...If you sink your teeth into it, you won't be disappointed." Military Heritage, November 2015 "This new biography covers the life of this infamous and important man who would today be seen as a genocidal maniac. Time has softened the results of his actions, but the author brings the man vividly to life."
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Hachette Books Relentless
Book Synopsis'Laugh-out-loud funny, utterly charming, deeply compelling, and powerfully motivational', Luis A. Miranda Jr.’s personal and political memoir reveals a deep understanding of Latino culture and how to build community to change our world for the better (Ana Navarro). A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrant. In Relentless, he shares his experience, passion, and storytelling charm to tell the story of a fascinating life and career—from his early days as a radically minded Puerto Rican activist to his decades of political advice and problem-solving. Miranda recounts the thrill of the ascendency of Hamilton, created by his son Lin-Manuel, and he details the suffering after the devastation of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Amid the triumphs and challenges, Miranda examines what his experience reveals about our ever-changing politics, demographics, and society.
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Hachette Books The Recruiter
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Hachette Books The Unexpected President
Book SynopsisWhen President James Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Vice President Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective president, a courageous anti-corruption reformer, and an early civil rights advocate.Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority of his fellow citizens but by his own conscience. As President James A. Garfield struggled for his life, Arthur knew better than his detractors that he failed to meet the high standard a president must uphold. And yet, from the moment President Arthur took office, he proved to be not just honest but brave, going up against the very forces that had controlled him for decades. He surprised everyone -- and gained many enemies -- when he swept house and took on corruption, civil rights for blacks,
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Random House USA Inc Thinking in Pictures Expanded Edition My Life
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Crown The Gerbil Farmers Daughter
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Crown Fools Paradise Players Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
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Random House USA Inc The Black Count
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • ONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave—who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution—until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat.The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a w
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Crown Faith Under Fire An Army Chaplains Memoir
Book Synopsis“Running away from God doesn’t work. I had tried.” —Roger BenimoffAs he left for his second tour of duty as an Army chaplain in Iraq, Roger Benimoff noted in his journal: I am excited and I am scared. I am on fire for God...He is my hope, strength, and focus. But not long after returning to Iraq, the burdens of his job-the memorial services for soldiers killed in action, the therapy sessions after contact with the enemy, the perilous excursions “outside the wire” while under enemy fire-began to overwhelm him. Amid the dust, heat, and blood of Iraq, Benimoff felt the pillar of strength he’d always relied on to hold him up-his faith in God-begin to crumble. Unable to make sense of the senseless, Benimoff turned to his journal. What did it mean to believe in a God who would allow the utter horror and injustice of war? Did He want these brave young men and women to die? In his darkest moment, Benimoff wrote: Why am
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Crown The Discovery of Jeanne Baret A Story of Science the High Seas and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
Book SynopsisThe year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire. Jeanne Baret, Commerson’s young mistress and collaborator, was desperate not to be left behind. She disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. The journey made the twenty-six-year-old, known to her shipmates as “Jean” rather than “Jeanne,” the first woman to ever sail around the globe. Yet so little is known about this extraordinary woman, whose accomplishments were considered to be subversive, even impossible for someone of her sex and class. When the ships made landfall and the secret lovers disembar
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Crown Finding Everett Ruess
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—OutsideWandering alone with burros and pack horses through California and the Southwest for five years in the early 1930s, on voyages lasting as long as ten months, Ruess became friends with photographers Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange, swapped prints with Ansel Adams, took part in a Hopi ceremony, learned to speak Navajo, and was among the first outsiders to venture deeply into what was then (and to some extent still is) largely a little-known wilderness. When he vanished without a trace in November 1934, Ruess left behind thousands of pages of journ
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PRH Grupo Editorial ÂMuerta... ÂPero de la risa Dying But of Laughter
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£12.75
Alfred A. Knopf This Earthly Globe
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Random House USA Inc The Children of Sanchez Autobiography of a
Book SynopsisA pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty—a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published. It is the epic story of the Sánchez family, told entirely by its members—Jesus, the 50-year-old patriarch, and his four adult children—as their lives unfold in the Mexico City slum they call home. Weaving together their extraordinary personal narratives, Oscar Lewis creates a sympathetic but ultimately tragic portrait that is at once harrowing and humane, mystifying and moving. An invaluable document, full of verve and pathos, The Children of Sanchez reads like the best of fiction, with the added impact that it is all, undeniably, true.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Hard Way Around
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Random House USA Inc Testimony A Memoir
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller • On the 40th anniversary of The Band’s legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century.Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and Up on Cripple Creek, he and his partners in The Band fashioned a music that has endured for decades, influencing countless musicians. In this captivating memoir, written over five years of reflection, Robbie Robertson employs his unique storyteller’s voice to weave together the journey that led him to some of the most pivotal events in music history. He recounts the adventures of his half-Jewish, half-M
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Random House USA Inc Hallucinations
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Zondervan A Longing to Belong
Book SynopsisThrough Lee-Barnewall’s insights as both a New Testament scholar and an Asian American who has experienced what it means to be racially marginalized, her memoir, A Longing to Belong spurs readers to consider what it means to live as racially distinctive people in a fallen world that abounds in pain and is in desperate need of the gospel of grace.
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Zondervan Vicars Diary
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Zondervan The Scent of Water
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St Martin's Press Audrey Her Real Story
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Palgrave Macmillan Friedrich Hayek
Book SynopsisFriedrich August von Hayek, though largely unrecognized during his lifetime, is now regarded as a visionary. This biography of his life also discusses his works: "The Road to Serfdom", "The Constitution of Liberty" (1960), "Law, Legislation and Liberty" (1973-1979), and "The Fatal Conceit" (1988).Trade Review'Ebenstein has provided an educational look at the life and thought of a philosopher who bids fair to have as much intellectual relevance to this century as Marx had to the 20th.' - Washington Post '...Ebenstein take us on a lively intellectual journey...[an] astute biography...' - Wall Street Journal '...a gripping account...an illustrious exposition of the life of the last century's greatest political philosopher.' - Houston Chronicle '...an accessible and illuminating review of Hayek's life, philosophy, and accomplishments.' - Washington Times 'A splendid biography of the twentieth century's greatest philosopher of liberty. A well written, sympathetic, yet critical examination of his life and intellectual contributions.' - Milton Friedman, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Instititution, Stanford University, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Chicago, and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, 1976 'It is good to have this solid intellectual biography of Hayek available. It can supplement the several generalized evaluations of Hayek's ideas.' - James M. Buchanan, Advisory General Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at George Mason University and Virginia Tech, and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, 1986 '...Ebenstein skillfully crafts his history.' - Claremont Review of Books '...an illustrious exposition of the life of the last century's greatest political philosopher.' - Houston ChronicleTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: WAR 1899-1931 Family World War I University of Vienna New York Mises PART II: ENGLAND1931-193 LSE Robbins Keynes Monetary and Business Cycle Theory Capital International Gold Standard Socialist Calculation 'Economics and Knowledge' PART III: CAMBRIDGE 1940-1949 The Abuse and Decline of Reason Methodology and Epistemology The Road to Serfdom Celebrity Mont Pelerin Society Psychology Popper PART IV: AMERICA 1950-1962 Divorce and Remarriage University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought Mill The Constitution of Liberty Influence Friedman PART V: LAW, LEGISLATION AND LIBERTY 1962-1974 Freiburg Liberty and Law Marx, Evolution, and Utopia Government and Morals Historian of Ideas Salzburg PART VI: NOBEL PRIZE 1974-1992 Laureate Later Monetary Thinking and Seldon Thatcher Opa Bartley The Fatal Conceit Neustift am Wald 'Universal Order of Peace' Chronology of Hayek's Major Works
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Macmillan US Do What Thou Wilt
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St. Martins Press-3PL Meena Heroine of Afghanistan
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St Martin's Press Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise How the Founding Fathers Turned to a Great Economists Writings and Created the American Economy
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Ten Green Bottles
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St Martin's Press West of Kabul East of New York
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Picador USA White House Diary
Book SynopsisEach day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary. He provided assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. This book offers a contribution to the history of the American presidency.
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Griffin Publishing In Triumphs Wake
Book SynopsisA story of three royal mothers whose quest for power led to the downfall of their equally extraordinary daughters.Trade Review"An excellent, comprehensive study of six fascinating women and the troubled times that shaped their lives." - Publishers Weekly."
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Yes We Can A Biography of President Barack Obama
Book SynopsisTells the story of Barack Obama from his childhood, through his youth, his term as senator from Illinois, to his historic and momentum-building run to become President of the United States. This book includes over 30 excerpts from Obama's speeches. It helps you learn about the man who overcame every obstacle to become the president.
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ABC-CLIO Carl Sagan
Trade Review"Endorsement from Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's widow and long-time collaborator: Carl Sagan: A Biography comes closer to the Carl I knew than other previous attempts at biography. Authors Moser and Spangenburg capture the drama, passion and integrity of Carl's lifelong quest to know the cosmos. May this work kindle that fire in others.Table of ContentsIntroduction Timeline of Events in the Life of Carl Sagan From Brooklyn to the Stars: Science Fiction Meets Science How and Where Did Life Begin? Ascent of a Planetary Scientist Come In, Universe Exploring the Planets Making Cosmic Connections Cosmos: A Smash Hit for Science Political Advocacy, Harmony at Home Final Years A Bright and Shining Light Selected Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Tecumseh
Book SynopsisUseful for student research assignments, this title features important figures - contemporary and historical - drawn from a range of curriculum subject areas, including history, science, politics, literature, and the arts. It includes timeline highlighting significant biographical events and career contributions.Trade ReviewDesigned specifically for high school and public libraries, this comprehensive biography series provides an excellent resource for learning about important people in our world. Sturgis offers a well-written biography of Tecumseh, the intelligent and powerful (both physically and politically) Shawnee chief, born in 1768 in the Ohio Valley. * MultiCultural Review *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Timeline: Events in the Life of Tecumseh Chapter 1: Tecumsehs World Chapter 2: Coming of Age Chapter 3: From Follower to Leader Chapter 4: The Rise of the Prophet Chapter 5: Tecumsehs Message Chapter 6: The End of Prophetstown Chapter 7: The Storm of War Chapter 8: The Battle of the Thames Chapter 9: Tecumseh in Memory and Popular Culture Select Bibliography Index
£34.00
ABC-CLIO Harriet Tubman
Book SynopsisThis concise biography of Harriet Tubman, the African American abolitionist, explores her various roles as an Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War scout and nurse, and women's rights advocate.Trade Reviewa solid addition to any community library biography collection, enthusiastically recommended. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Introduction Timeline: Events in the Life of Harriet Tubman Chapter 1 Minty, 1820–1840 Chapter 2 Liberty or Death, 1841–1850 Chapter 3 Moses of Her People, 1851–1853 Chapter 4 God Sends Harriet to Thomas Garrett, 1854–1857 Chapter 5 Inspired by John Brown, 1858–1860 Chapter 6 General Tubman Goes to War, 1861–1865 Chapter 7 Auburn, 1866–1886 Chapter 8 Last Years, 1887–1913 Chapter 9 Legacy Selected Bibliography Index
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ABC-CLIO Saddam Hussein
Book SynopsisIn July 1979, Saddam Hussein became the President of Iraq. Since his capture, Saddam has been transferred to Iraqi legal custody and awaits his trial for atrocities committed during his regime.This biography details Saddam's difficult childhood in Tikrit and his politically influential teenage years in Baghdad with his uncle.Trade ReviewSaddam Hussein is a chilling look at the terror and brutality of this man's legacy. * VOYA *[T]races Saddam Hussein's life from his childhood in Tikrit until his capture by US troops in April of 2003. The author attempts to show how lessons learned from Saddam's difficult childhood would later be applied to his understanding of Ba'thism, pan-Arabism, and method of rule. * Middle East Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Iraq of Saddam Hussein's Childhood Saddam's Rise to Power Saddam Becomes "The Deputy" Saddam's Wars Saddam After the Gulf War The Specter of Saddam The Fall of Saddam Endnotes Bibliography
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ABC-CLIO Emiliano Zapata
Book SynopsisThis thorough narrative examines Emiliano Zapata's life, his role in Mexico's revolutionary movement, and his true motivations and beliefs.Emiliano Zapata is regarded as among the most important figures of the Mexican Revolution.Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Preface Timeline: Events in the Life of Emiliano Zapata Chapter 1 A Child of Anenecuilco, Morelos Chapter 2 Zapata's Early Political Education Chapter 3 Bringing the Revolution to Morelos Chapter 4 The Revolution Continues and the Plan de Ayala Chapter 5 In the Face of Brutality and Gentleness Chapter 6 The Rise and Fall of Huerta Chapter 7 The Revolution Enters a New Phase Chapter 8 Starting Over Again Chapter 9 The Battle for Morelos Chapter 10 Beyond the 1917 Constitution Chapter 11 The Final Betrayal Appendix Bibliography Index
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ABC-CLIO Pancho Villa
Book SynopsisProviding both an analysis of the Mexican Revolution and a compelling story of the notorious Pancho Villa, this book describes this historical period from the perspective of its most iconic figure.Doroteo Arango—much better known as "Pancho Villa"—was one of the revolutionary generals during Mexico's turbulent times in the early 1900s.Trade ReviewAttractively bound, illustrated with photographs, and reassuringly short, it lays out succinctly and in an engaging style the facts, adventures, and career of famed Mexican revolutionist Pancho Villa in chronological order. . . . A fairly extensive bibliography of print and electronic secondary sources support this effort. As is its intent, this book is appropriate for secondary school and public libraries. * ARBA *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Preface Timeline: Events in the Life of Pancho Villa Chapter 1 Under the Dictator's Boot (1876–1910) Chapter 2 Villa and the Apostle of Democracy (1910–1913) Chapter 3 At the Top of It All (1913–1914) Chapter 4 A Revolution Divided Against Itself (1914–1915) Chapter 5 Never Give Up (1915–1916) Chapter 6 A Not So Peaceful End (1916–1923) Bibliography Index
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Little, Brown & Company American Caesar
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Little, Brown & Company An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
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Little, Brown & Company For the Benefit of Those Who See
Book SynopsisThe celebrated author of Down the Nile travels to Tibet and India as part of her investigation into the world of the blind.
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Little, Brown & Company Lone Survivor
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Back Bay Books Jung
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Little, Brown & Company The Last Lion Box Set Winston Spencer Churchill
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Little Brown and Company Ask Not
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Little, Brown & Company George Washington The Forge of Experience 1732 1775 Volume I
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Little, Brown & Company George Washington Anguish and Farewell 17931799 Volume IV
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