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James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, archaeologist Howard Carter's files dealing with the discovery of a long-lost crypt, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result is an exhilarating true crime tale of intrigue, passion, and betrayal that casts fresh light on the oldest mystery of all.
3) The iceberg
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Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm.
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In 2008, Tom Lubbach, the chief art critic for The Independent was diagnosed with a brain tumor. "The Iceberg" is his wife, Marion Coutts, fierce, exquisite account of the two years leading up to his death. In spare, breathtaking prose, Coutts conveys the intolerable and, alongside their two year old son Ev whose language is developing as Tom's is disappearing. Marion and Tom lovingly weather the storm together. In short bursts of exquisitely textured...
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Pub. Date
2021
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xiv, 594 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimilies, portraits, photographs ; 23 cm
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"In a breakthrough book that is sure to be relevant for years to come, bestselling author (The Reporter Who Knew Too Much) and distinguished historian Mark Shaw investigates the connection between the mysterious deaths of motion picture screen siren Marilyn Monroe, President John F. Kennedy, and What's My Line? TV star and crack investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. A former noted criminal defense attorney and network legal analyst, Shaw provides...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In this startling and intimate memoir of life before death and love after grief, the internationally best-selling author tells the story of his wife's battle with Lou Gehrig's disease and her death, while celebrating her life, in all its color, humor, andbrightness.
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Dutton
Pub. Date
2012
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xiii, 316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
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For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. Writing under a pseudonym to protect his anonymity, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six provides a behind-the-scenes, first-person account of all his dangerous assignments around the globe, including the training, planning and execution of his most important...
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Pub. Date
2022
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"It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder--James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former SMERSH agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den--but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives? In a mission where treachery...
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Random House Audio ; Audio Editions
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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-- The Lost City of ZThe Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization-which he dubbed "Z"-existed. Then he and his expedition vanished.Fawcett's fate-and the tantalizing clues he left behind about "Z"-became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness....
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history....
12) The lost king
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the archaeological find of a century, the remains of Richard III--presumed scattered over 500 years ago--were discovered under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012. The search was spearheaded by amateur historian Philippa Langley, whose passion and unrelenting research were met with skepticism by the academic establishment....The Lost King is the inspiring true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and took on Britain's most eminent historians,...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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381 p. (large print), [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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xv, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In 1944, the war had reached its climax in continental Europe. News of secret diaries kept by Italy's former Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women--a Fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite--risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allied forces, who would use the papers as key evidence against the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. Just...
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