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A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Not since Lytton Strachey has the irony, contradictions and influence of this Queen been treated with such flourish or biographical insight.

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Queen Victoria: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works explores the queen as well as the people, events, and ideas that shaped the life of the second-longest-reigning monarch in British history. It features a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and over 100 cross referenced dictionary entries.

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Showing how history imprints itself on private lives, this memoir presents the author's sensuous, harrowing, and altogether remarkable life. It moves from Berlin during the Great War to the artists' set on the Cote d'Azur, through lovers, mentors, seducers and friends, and from genteel yet shabby poverty to relative comfort in London's Chelsea.

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This volume presents a biographical and critical overview of Crother's life and career, along with synopses of her plays, descriptions of the critics' responses to each play and substantial primary and secondary bibliographies.

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Prosecuted for obscenity in her novel "Monsieur Venus", Marguerite Eymery burst onto the French literary scene in 1884. This story of a transvestite and her male lover was the first in a series of works dealing with gender inversion and sexual desire. This book looks at her life and work.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is regarded as one of the greatest 20th-century composers and pianists. This biography covers the span of Rachmaninoff's life, taking in his career as composer, pianist and conductor, and offering analyses of his scores and a detailed treatment of his 1919-1942 recordings.

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A self help book for foster and adopt parents that goes through the emotions

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In this new paperback edition, noted cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall discovers firsthand proof of miraculous intervention, including restoring the dead to life.

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Introduced to the West by Paul Brunton, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) is widely hailed as the greatest Indian saint and sage in modern times, whose teachings continue to influence thousands around the world today.

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"The strength of this book ...encompasses a broad view of history from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical background of the nonelite in labor but with insights into black, immigrant, and grassroots working-class history as well."--Choice Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand tec

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A biography of Grigory Rasputin, the Russian holy man who hastened the collapse of an empire. The book recounts Rasputin's journey from his peasant origins in Siberia to his powerful position at the right hand of Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra.

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Black Sabbath are one of the most outrageous yet longest-lived bands in the history of rock 'n' roll. This book paints a picture of their colourful early history - interwoven with the most crucial news stories of the time: from Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and the space programme.

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A complete and thorough memoir from famed newsman Dan Rather, who looks back over his storied and sometimes controversial career and reveals his personal thoughts and reflections.

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After much hard graft and some close encounters of the violent gangster kind, AWT's flamboyant style as a restaurateur soon bought him to the attention of cookery's cognoscenti and today Antony is to the culinary establishment what a bull is to a china shop.

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A classic wartime trilogy originally published in the 1960s, this book is the author's account of his service on HMAS Perth, his account of life as a POW in Burma and coal mining in Nagasaki before the atom bomb freed them.

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Before Ray Martin had even got to high school, he had lived in 13 different places. Ray's world was as far away from Hollywood and movie stars and the bright lights as is possible to imagine. This is his warts-and-all autobiography. His exceptional career, his happy marriage to Dianne, and his lasting love affair with the people of Australia.

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Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the `mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler-writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentlman, drunk-was full of contradictions as his origins.

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Brings a collection of ten short biographies, activities, and Web resource listings that explore the role books and reading played in the lives of ten historical figures.

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Never before seen documents, many of them in Ronald Reagan's own handwriting, prove definitively that Reagan himself was the intellectual architect of the prosperity of the 1980s and of the strategy that won the Cold War.