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2) 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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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
625 pages ; cm
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General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
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Samuel Carver novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
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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.
7) El manto
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
184 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Marcela Serrano aborda el duelo de la muerte de su hermana escribiendo un relato estremecedor y agudo. Todo lo que le ocurre durante el año que siguió a esta experiencia es registrado por la autora en este diario donde, en simultáneo, intercala las lecturas sobre la muerte que fueron acompañándola en el arduo proceso. Inscrito en el mismo universo poético y familiar que ha definido toda su obra, Marcela Serrano escribe en El manto una conmovedora...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
418 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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After Jonathon Payne and David Jones are pulled into a mystery surrounding documents found in a World War II bunker, they quickly find themselves in a struggle to uncover the truth about the mythical treasure of King Ludwig II.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
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...
10) 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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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.
12) Soaked in bleach
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It reveals the events behind Kurt Cobain's death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator that was hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband only days before his deceased body was found at their Seattle home. Cobain's death was ruled a suicide by the police (a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound), but doubts have circulated for twenty years as to the legitimacy of this ruling, especially due to the...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
vi, 277 pages ; 25 cm
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"A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death. Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially fragile and almost--ultimately--unable to live,"--NoveList.
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"On June 18, 2010, police discover a body buried in the wine cellar of a Victorian mansion in Old Louisville. James Carroll, shot and stabbed the year before, has lain for 7 months in a plastic storage bin--his temporary coffin. Homeowner Jeffrey Mundt and his boyfriend, Joseph Banis, point the finger at each other in what locals dub The Pink Triangle Murder. On the surface, this killing appears to be a crime of passion, a sordid love tryst gone wrong...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
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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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
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
Pub. Date
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
Pub. Date
1964
Physical Desc
911 p. : port.
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