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1) Spare
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full...
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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.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
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275 p. ; 22 cm
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In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, son of then-governor of New York State Nelson A. Rockefeller, mysteriously disappeared off the remote coast of southern New Guinea. Amid the glare of international public interest, the governor, along with his daughter Mary, Michael's twin, set off on a futile search, only to return empty handed and empty hearted. What followed were Mary's twenty-seven-year repression of her grief and an unconscious denial of her twin's...
5) The iceberg
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Black Cat
Pub. Date
2016.
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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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Investigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within the context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes, and analyzing the subjugation ofNorth Plains Native Americans.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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245 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits, photographs, facsimilies ; 25 cm
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Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky's disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship on Martha's Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester, NY. She was at the height of her life-in a relationship with a man she hoped to marry and close to her students and her family. And then, one morning, she was gone. Around Rochester-a region which has spawned such serial killers as...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Retracing Rockefeller's steps, award-winning journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.
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Cotton Malone novels volume 3
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c2007
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A miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great--in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years--is the coveted prize for a cunning despot unless Cotton Malone, former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer, can beat her to it.
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Senate document volume 88th Congress, no. 59
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1964
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911 p. : port.
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Just before sunset on September 20, 1955, James Byron Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder collided with Donald Gene Turnupseed's Ford Tudor on California Highway 46. At age twenty-four, America's newest screen idol was dead. But what really happened? Drawing on original documents, including the coroner's inquest and other previously unpublished material, author Warren Newton Beath provides a painstakingly accurate reconstruction of Dean's final hours and tragic...
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This is the author's account of her hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved after spending four years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. She spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit. Separated from her family, she was demonized by the international press and treated harshly by the Italian justice system, including disdainful police. She endured humiliation,...
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Bounty novels (Paul Colt) volume 1
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Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014]
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359 pages ; 23 cm
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Presents a fictionalized account of the controversy over Sheriff Pat Garrett's claim that he killed Billy the Kid, a report called into question by John Poe and the emergence of a gunfighter weeks after the Kid's alleged death.
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Thomas Treviot novels volume 2
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Based on the true story of the unsolved disappearance of Hans Holbein--famed portrait-painter of Henry VIII--this atmospheric historical novel evokes an underworld of Tudor politics and intrigue.
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2001
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xiv, 110 p. ; 21 cm.
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"[This] play document[s] the aftermath of the savage killing of Matthew Shepard, including the perspectives of both friends and strangers ... This ... theatrical composition, structured not in scenes, but in 'moments,' addresses the various issues relating to the tragedy of Shepard, a young gay man whose murder has since become a symbol for America's struggle against intolerance. [The author's] approach is actor-based, as opposed to text-based; a...
19) Savage harvest
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
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8 CDs (555 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Carl Hoffman recounts his remarkable journey to explore the mystery surrounding the decades-old disappearance of Michael C. Rockefeller in New Guinea. An epic story of adventure, danger, native tribes, and taboo rituals including cannibalism and head hunting.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
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49 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"When a Black teenager named Trayvon Martin was senselessly killed in 2012, the African American community called for his murderer to be held accountable. But like many other racially sparked incidents in the past, his killer walked free. People looked for justice and healing in the moment. They turned to social media and a simple yet powerful hashtag emerged, #BlackLivesMatter. The message grew into an international movement and has now become the...
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