This biography takes us through the richly varied private life of icon Julia Child, from her exuberant youth through her years in the service of the OSS elite corps during World War II and her discovery of French cuisine.
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Author:FALK, QuentinSummary:Anthony Hopkins is currently enjoying the most successful stage of his long and varied acting career. The author has interviewed family, friends, colleagues and critics in putting together a picture of this remarkable actor's life...
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A young girl takes ecstasy pills at a party and dies as a result.
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Author:Morton, AndrewSummary:At first glance, Angelina Jolie might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, drug use, etc. Yet mysteries remain: What went on in her brief, impulsive marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob...
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Author:MCCOURT, FrankSummary:Memoirs of Irish-American Frank McCourt. Looks back with sadness and affection at his first eighteen years of growing up in New York and Ireland.
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Author:McCourt, FrankSummary:Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. McCourt recounts his miserable existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable...
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The story of the last survivor pulled from the 9/11 Ground Zero debris after 27 hours and her journey from desperation to a miraculous salvation.
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In 1988, Kimball's mother attempted suicide on Mother's Day, and this became one of many things Kimball's family never speaks about. As she searches for answers nearly thirty years later, Kimball embarks on a visual...
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A study of a man in glorious retreat from the absurdities of life, set against a background of social manners and international upheaval, from the colonial heyday of the Raj in the 1890s to the traumatic austerity and confusion of the...
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The author has written an absorbing account of his time as a political officer in South Arabia with Her Majesty's Overseas Service. He also tells of his family background and of his life in Western Australia after the British...
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A family escaping from religious persecution in Prussia to settle in South Australia in 1838 migrate to Western Australia in 1929. The Odyssey moves away from the family home to the Pilbara and the Kimberleys.
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Author:Pringle, Laurence P.Summary:A biography of William Clark's personal slave, who provided invaluable assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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The long-awaited biography of the defining illustrator of the twentieth century by a celebrated art critic.
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Historian Edmund S. Morgan delivers 17 stirring essays about heroic Americans. John Winthrop's unpopular stand saves Massachusetts Bay Colony. William Penn's principles forge a Philadelphia miracle. George Washington's strategy stuns...
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Author:Turner, SteveSummary:Telling stories specific to Columbia Plateau farmers and farmland, this journalist puts the lives and difficulties of individual farmers into national and global contexts. He interweaves family narratives, historical episodes and his...
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Author:Roberts, David, Honnold, AlexSummary:A thirty-year-old climbing phenomenon, Alex Honnold pushes the limits of free soloing beyond anything previously attempted. If he falls, he dies. Honnold recounts the seven most astonishing achievements thus far in his meteoric career...
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Author:Griffin, MarkSummary:Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Mark Griffin shows how beneath Rock Hudson's suave movie star persona, was a deeply insecure man continually threatened with public exposure of his closeted homosexuality and contraction of AIDS by...
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After waking from a coma, Beverly Thornton's once sweet disposition had been replaced by mood swings and fits of rage, a constant source of frustration for her family. Then one day, a surprise discovery finally helped the Thornton...
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Author:Abbott, JacobSummary:Alexander the Great is a towering figure in ancient history because of his legendary conquests throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. He was born in 356 BC to the noble family of Macedon. As such, he was afforded with great luxuries...
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These true stories of courage and endeavour are an example to us all. They also show how wise it is to be prepared.
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