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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
451 p. ; 23 cm.
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Recounts the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney, tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
[xiv, 236 pages ; 24 cm]
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"Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amidst all this, he found time to write short stories, journalism and novels such...
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"In this groundbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Roger Stone and researcher and alternative historian Robert Morrow map the arc of Bill and Hillary?s crimes and cover-ups. They reveal details about their actions in Arkansas, during Bill Clinton?s time in the White House, about who really ordered the deadly attack on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, during Hillary?s tenure as secretary of state, about their time at the Clinton Foundation,...
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Rock Monster is an honest account of Kristin Casey's life-changing experience in a relationship with rock legend Joe Walsh. At once envious, glamorous, debauched and disturbing, it's her long and winding journey from life in the fast lane to sobriety and redemption. Set in the late-eighties and nineties, these are some of Walsh's darkest years, from spiraling addiction to a stunning comeback with the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour. Kristin Casey pulls...
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"When John Wilkes Booth died? shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln? all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg. Before he shot the president of...
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
Details the author's six-year relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy. Originally published in 1981, this expanded edition includes a new introduction and a new afterword by the author, never-before-seen photos, and a startling new chapter from the author's daughter, Molly, who has not previously shared her story.
"An expanded edition of the harrowing true-crime memoir that has inspired feature and documentary films on Ted Bundy. [This book] is...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
203 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The legendary crime writer unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought "Her."
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley travels back in time to the Tudor Court of England's Henry VIII to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of his six wives. Combining drama based on eyewitness accounts and historical sources with Lucy's own contemporary historical commentary, it is these women's stories that Lucy sets out to uncover, witness, and explore.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Description
A critical study of the life of Raymond Chandler focuses on his marriage to Cissy Pascal, the older, twice-divorced woman he wed in 1924, discussing her key role in helping transform Chandler from a shy oil company accountant into a literary master and creator of Philip Marlowe.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd. col., 4 3/4 in.
Description
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
12) Camille Claudel
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel.
13) Full disclosure
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, the full truth about her journey from a rough childhood in Louisiana onto the national stage, and everything about her interaction with Donald Trump that led to the nondisclosure agreement and the behind-the-scenes attempts to intimidate her.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
172 pages
Description
"In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over nearly a decade. Hemingway divulged the details of the affair that destroyed his first marriage: the truth of his romantic...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 726 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
A profile of the early-twentieth-century British king discusses how he disappointed his mother, Queen Victoria, with his notorious gambling, gluttony, and womanizing before his nine-year reign, during which he became an effective leader and diplomat.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxiii, 364 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
Presents a historical profile of Henry VIII's mistress and the sister of Anne Boleyn, examining her affair with Francis I of France, rise and fall in the Tudor court, and obscure later years after she married for love.
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