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Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected autho...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¢ The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken...

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Now in paperback, the book that marked the first appearance in the United States of Robertson Davies's mischievous alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks.

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories. Edgar Allan Poe's Ms. Found in a Bottle...

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When Little Richard burst onto the scene in the early 1950s, he sounded like nothing on earth. Drenched in sweat, screaming, hollering and pumping ...

Delving into the heart and soul of more than 225 cities around the globe, World's Best Cities is a glossy, glorious tribute to cosmopolitan life. I...

Recounts the lives of more than a dozen women through the ages who assumed the role of warrior queen, from Boudica in 60 AD to Golda Meir, Indira G...

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A fun and fascinating tour of the by-ways of British legal history. Did you know that the law requiring a London taxi driver to carry a bale of hay...

Jennifer Isaacs has been a close observer of the artistic renaissance across Aboriginal Australia since it began in the early 1970s. In Spirit Coun...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merc...

Asia McKinna comes of age in a rural Texas town during World War I. She struggles to understand the frailty of her grandmother, the strain of the w...

Book by MacKenzie, Lewis, MacKenzie, Major General Louis . . Lewis MacKenzie was named chief of staff of the United Nations peacekeeping force in f...

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi deat...

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treas...

Charles II is restored to the English throne, and his court is lively and even scandalous. The country is eager for succession to be clear and cert...

Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Album, 2000. In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His ...

Life in Tudor England sparkles with colourful illustrations and a lively text. Discover what life was really like during more than 100 years of Tud...

Based on his own writings as well as interviews conducted with the orphans he raised and teachers he trained, this biography captures the remarkabl...

For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a belov...