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... Arms for living

By: Gene Tunney

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Wilfred Funk, inc: January 1941

Seller ID: 62114

ISBN: B0007E8WCM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

no d/j...light wear to edges...light curl to several pages..
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1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir

By: Anne Roiphe

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Touchstone: May 2000

Seller ID: 236877

ISBN: 0684857324

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From National Book Award nominee Anne Roiphe comes this moving memoir of growing up in a wealthy Jewish home with a family who had money, status, culture -- everything but happiness. While the nation was at war abroad, Roiphe, who was coming of age in 1940s New York City, saw her parents at war in their living room. Roiphe's evocative writing puts readers right in Apartment 8C, where a constant tension plays out between a disappointed and ineffectual mother, a philandering father who uses his wife's money to entertain other women, and a difficult brother. Behind the leisure culture of wea...
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

By: Sylvia Nasar

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: December 2001

Seller ID: 152867

ISBN: 0743224574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who -- thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades o...
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A Civil Tongue

By: Edwin Newman

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill: October 1976

Seller ID: 31126

ISBN: 0672522675

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950

By: Arthur Meier Schlesinger

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: November 2000

Seller ID: 194764

ISBN: 0395707528

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

As a preeminent historian of our time, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., continues in his many books and articles to show Americans who we are as a nation, to explain our past, and to illuminate possibilities for the future. But here, in the first volume of his long-awaited memoirs, he turns his acute historian's eye on his own past. In the elegant and witty language of one of our most readable writers, Schlesinger artfully reconstructs a twentieth-century life. Schlesinger's personal story is ultimately the captivating history of America coming into its own as a world power. It includes a fondl...
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A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs & Diaries, 1934-1954

By: Sulzberger, C. L.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Macmillan Company: December 1968

Seller ID: 172958

ISBN: 1122091850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Ishmael Beah

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books: February 2007

Seller ID: 110435

ISBN: 0374105235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

""My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a war.""You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?""Yes, all the time.""Cool."I smile a little."You should tell us about it sometime.""Yes, sometime."""This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. ...
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A Marriage Made in Heaven... or Too Tired for an Affair

By: Erma Bombeck

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Harpercollins: September 1993

Seller ID: 49070

ISBN: 0060183225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography 25th Anniversary Edition (presentations copy)

By: Clifford Whittingham (C.W.) Beers

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Doubleday Doran: January 1935

Seller ID: 54303

ISBN: B000JJND0Q

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

no d/j...cover shows moderate wear (embossing on title fading)...to edges and corners..
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After the Fall: How I Picked Myself Up, Dusted Myself Off, and Started All Over Again

By: Suzanne Somers

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Crown: May 1998

Seller ID: 73498

ISBN: 0609603124

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With her usual candor, Suzanne Somers takes us inside the rehearsal hall of Three's Company and gives listeners a never-before-heard version of the jealousy, back-stubbing, and greed that accompany a hit TV show, and the part Somers played in her professional demise. As the lovable Chrissy Snow, Somers became the toast of Hollywood, with all its glittery perks. Yet all was not perfect, she confesses. Her relationship with her husband, the love of a lifetime, was being sorely tested as they blended their families together and were forced to deal with their children's anger and resentment.Whe...
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Albert Schweitzer : an introduction / by Jacques Feschotte ; with two unpublished addresses by Albert Schweitzer

By: Jacques Feschotte

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London : Adam and Charles Black: January 1955

Seller ID: 201379

ISBN: B002MZ2IZ6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag

By: Alexander Dolgun

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House: January 1975

Seller ID: 201177

ISBN: 0394494970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

By: Edvard Radzinsky

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Free Press: October 2005

Seller ID: 95672

ISBN: 074327332X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual exploits of a royal Don Juan, yet fell profoundly in love. He ruled during the "Russian Renaissance" of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev -- yet his Russia became the birthplace of modern terrorism. His story could be that of one of Russia's greatest novels, yet it is true. It is also crucially important today.It is a tale that runs on parallel...
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Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror

By: Henri Troyat

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Fromm International: March 1986

Seller ID: 96074

ISBN: 0880640596

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Alice Keppel & Agnes Keyser: Edward VII's Last Loves

By: Raymond Lamont-Brown

Price: $2.00

Publisher: The History Press: May 2005

Seller ID: 95969

ISBN: 075094174X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A detailed look at the two women in the life of Edward VII during his last years. Alice Keppel, youngest daughter of a Scottish retired admiral and MP emerged from obscurity in 1898 to become the publicly acknowledged mistress of the portly, fun-loving Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. Agnes Keyser, daughter of a prominent member of the Stock exchange, defied social expectations by not marrying, instead becoming involved in hospital charity work. Her twelve-year relationship with the king was much less in the public eye, but was just as important.
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Alistair Cooke: A Biography

By: Nick Clarke

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Arcade Publishing: November 2000

Seller ID: 105915

ISBN: 1559705485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

One of the preeminent journalists of the twentieth century, Alistair Cooke has enjoyed a truly extraordinary career in print, radio, and television. Born into a working-class family and christened Alfred, Cooke swiftly broke free of his modest origins and became the foremost commentator on American life and politics, first for the British press and eventually for the entire world. "Alistair Cooke: A Biography" is both a fascinating record of one man's determination to reinvent himself and a lively and informative journey through the highways and byways of the twentieth century.
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And Say Hi to Joyce: America's First Gay Column Comes Out

By: Joyce Murdoch, Debbie Price

Price: $2.00

Publisher: N/A: May 1995

Seller ID: 34380

ISBN: 0385473656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

By: Barton Gellman

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: September 2008

Seller ID: 47704

ISBN: 1594201862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman's newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power. Dick Cheney changed history, defining his times and shaping a White House as no vice president has before? yet concealing most of his work from public view. Pulitzer Prize-winning "Washington Post" reporter Barton Gellman parts the curtains of secrecy to show how Cheney operated, why, and what he wrought. "Angler," Gellman's e...
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Are You Somebody? : The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

By: O'FAOLAIN, NUALA

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co: January 1999

Seller ID: 206735

ISBN: 0805056645

Condition: Used - Good

Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of "Are You Somebody?" Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how her story has changed their lives. There are thousands who have yet to discover this extraordinary memoir of an Irish woman who has stepped away from the traditional roles to define herself and find contentment. They will make this paperback a long-selling classic.
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Are You Somebody? : The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

By: O'FAOLAIN, NUALA

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co: January 1999

Seller ID: 269793

ISBN: 0805056645

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Audition: A Memoir

By: Barbara Walters

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Knopf: May 2008

Seller ID: 176796

ISBN: 030726646X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package.""And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that "whole package," in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures, and celebrities of all kinds, Barbara Walters has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life. ...
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Ava: a life story

By: Charles Higham

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Delacorte Press: December 1973

Seller ID: 111695

ISBN: 0440013941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile

By: Nuha Al-Radi

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Vintage: May 2003

Seller ID: 107104

ISBN: 1400075254

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Battle Ready (Study in Command)

By: Clancy, Tom

Price: $3.00

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

Seller ID: 271482

ISBN: 0399151761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In his first three Commanders books, Tom Clancy teamed with Generals Fred Franks, Jr., Chuck Horner, and Carl Stiner to provide masterful blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain, old-fashioned storytelling. "Battle Ready" is all of that-and it is also something more. Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat" during his nearly forty years of service. As a soldier, his credentials were impeccable, whether leading troops in Vietnam, commanding hair-raising rescue operations in Somalia, or-as Commander in Ch...
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Beauty Beyond the Ashes: Choosing Hope After Crisis

By: Cheryl Mcginness

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Howard Books: May 2004

Seller ID: 172026

ISBN: 1582293899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Cheryl McGuinness kissed her husband goodbye . . . and never saw him again. Tom McGuinness was the copilot of American Airlines Flight 11, the first to crash into the World Trade Center. On that day Cheryl's world fell apart. But looking back on her life, she could see that God had prepared her step-by-step to face her loss and put things back together. The faith she shared with Tom gave her a solid foundation, not only for rebuilding her life but also for effective ministry to the many others reeling from tragedy who reached out to her for hope and comfor...
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Beryl Markham : Never Turn Back

By: CATHERINE GOURLEY

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser: March 1997

Seller ID: 48562

ISBN: 1573240737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

slight knick to spine
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Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me

By: Ally Hilfiger

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Center Street: May 2016

Seller ID: 175383

ISBN: 145556706X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

By: Geoffrey Wolff

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Vintage: December 1976

Seller ID: 134142

ISBN: 0394724720

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

By: David Brock

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: February 2003

Seller ID: 82195

ISBN: 1400047285

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. David Brock pilloried Anita Hill in a bestseller. His reporting in "The American Spectator" as part of the infamous "Arkansas Project" triggered the course of events that led to the historic impeachment trial of President Clinton. Brock was at the center of the right-wing dirty tricks operation of the Gingrich era-and a true believer-until he ...
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Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow

By: Detmar Blow, Tom Sykes

Price: $2.00

Publisher: It Books: October 2010

Seller ID: 115741

ISBN: 0062020870

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The news of Isabella Blow's suicide in 2007 shocked the international fashion world for whom she was a legendary figure. As a true patron of couture, she is credited with having discovered and fostered the careers of famed designers Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy, among others, and was recognized the world over as their great muse, friend and confidant. While she also discovered exquisite models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl, it was images of Issie in these designers' creations that became instantly iconic.The pages of this book prove Isabella's aristocratic ancestry to be as color...
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo

By: Woods, Vanessa

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Gotham: May 2010

Seller ID: 271239

ISBN: 1592405460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A young woman follows her fiance to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes-who teach her a new truth about love and belonging. In 2005, Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country reeling from a brutal decade-long war that had claimed the lives of millions. Settling in at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo's capital, Vanessa and her fiance entered the world of a rare ape with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA. She soon discovered that many of the inhabitants of...
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Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder

By: Herschel Walker

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Touchstone: April 2008

Seller ID: 201193

ISBN: 1416537481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner shares the inspiring story of his life and diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder.Herschel Walker is widely regarded as one of football's greatest running backs. He led the University of Georgia to victory in the Sugar Bowl on the way to an NCAA Championship and he capped a sensational college career by earning the 1982 Heisman Trophy. Herschel spent twelve years in the NFL, where he rushed for more than eight thousand yards and scored sixty-one rushing touchdowns.But despite the acclaim he won as a football legend, track star, Olympic comp...
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Brilliant Idiot: An Autobiography of a Dyslexic

By: N/A

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Good Books: January 1994

Seller ID: 244235

ISBN: 1561481084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Loss Forgiveness and Restoration.The Face of Christ illustration and the accompanying story that has changed lives all around the globe.First it is a truelife story of an advertising executive an artist and a pastor Joe Castillo and the way God changed him. It also tells of the many lives touched by this simple illustration.Done before a live audience the very first time it had a powerful impact on those who watched. This motivated the artist to reproduce it in pen ink prints. As an artist Joes struggle to make a living was suddenly compounded by having his wife diagnosed with cancer. They had...
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Call Me Ted

By: Ted Turner, Bill Burke

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: November 2008

Seller ID: 177615

ISBN: 0446581895

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise " These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that has made Ted into one of the most amazing personalities of our time. Along the way - among his numerous accomplishments -- Ted became one of the richest men in the world, the largest land owner in the United States, revolutionized the television business with the creation of TBS and CNN, became a champion sailor and winner of the America's Cup, and took home a World Series champi...
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Change Lobsters - and Dance: An Autobiography

By: Lilli Palmer

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: December 1974

Seller ID: 106112

ISBN: 0025946102

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Change of Heart : A Memoir

By: CLAIRE SYLVIA, WILLIAM NOVAK

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Little Brown & Co: May 1997

Seller ID: 24803

ISBN: 0316821497

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor -- a teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident -- and learns that it is indeed possible for two souls to merge in one body. "This is a story that must be told and heard...a fascinating example of how cellular memory can outlive physical death." -- Deepak Chopra, M.D.
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Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography

By: Brian Finney

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: May 1979

Seller ID: 95771

ISBN: 0195201345

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Citizen Perot : His Life and Times

By: Gerald Posner

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Random House: August 1996

Seller ID: 48673

ISBN: 0679447318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Cleopatra: A Life

By: Stacy Schiff

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: November 2010

Seller ID: 62914

ISBN: 0316001929

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispense...
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Cold Cream

By: Ferdinand Mount

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC: March 2009

Seller ID: 95955

ISBN: 0747596476

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good