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"An unflinching book, meant to disturb and to spur the country into action."-Nicholas Lemann

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This book offers a revealing look at Rosa Parks, whose role as an activist and struggle with racism began long before her historic 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus ride.

Rosa Parks: A Biography captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it.

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Rosa Parks's crucial decision proved more than one to remain seated. This book uses historical analysis and Parks's own words to paint a complete picture of her life as a courageous and defiant civil rights activist.

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This book uses historical analysis and Parks's own words to paint a complete picture of her life as a courageous and defiant civil rights activist.

Rosa Parks: A Life in American History explores the life of this important civil rights activist in the context of the cultural and social history of her time.

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An inspirational story of the Nobel Prize winner who broke the gender barrier in science.

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Her first novel, the shocking Dusty Answer, became wildly successful launching her career as a novelist and, just as her novels depicted the tempestuous lives of her heroines, Rosamond's personal life would be full of heartbreaking affairs and lost loves.

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Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten achievements of this seldom-studied labor union activist and socialist sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas; a dynamic speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a commune.

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This work charts the life of a man who stilled the world with his performance in "Citizen Kane" in 1941. Orson Welles seemed to possess inhuman energy and a phenomenal voice but in the final rootless years when he yielded to obesity, this cinematic genius became a tragic figure.

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"Here, at last back in print, is the classic dual biography of Ross Lockridge and Thomas Heggen, two authors who achieved sudden fame and fortune and then self-destructed. Ross Lockridge, the author of"

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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, to his inventive works such as Exit Ghost and Nemesis, Roth has produced literature of the past hundred years. This title tells his story.

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A colourful biography that brings to life the seedy underworld denizens of jazz-age New York City and its unrivalled kingpin, the model for Damon Runyon's Nathan Detroit Proves Arnold Rothstein- perhaps the most influential of American criminals- was the mastermind behind the 1919 Black Sox scandal, despite his small role in EIGHT MEN OUT

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Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry. Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life, including her turbulent marriage to the poet Ted Hughes.

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Candid, emotional, optimistic, and inspiring, this autobiography of the man all fans of the game know simply as Roy Race aka 'Roy of the Rovers' lays bare for the first time the truth behind soccer's ultimate fairy-tale story.

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A funny, raucous and delightfully dirty history of 1000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Brtish royals.

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An acclaimed biography of one of the greatest, grittiest reporters of our time

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The inspiring journey of Dean Karnazes, an internationally recognised endurance athlete who has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits.

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This is the inspiring story of Rob Matthews, whose lack of sight must not be confused with a lack of vision. Matthews inherited a congenital condition which left him blind by the age of 20 . Instead of feeling sorry for himself, he turned to running.

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Lopez Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a barefoot lost boy of the Sudanese Civil War to a Nike sponsored athlete on the US Olympic Team. Every reader will find in his story the human spark to pursue dreams that might seem unthinkable, even from circumstances that might appear hopeless.

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In 1928 two extraordinary Englishmen competed in an unprecedented event - a transcontinental road race across America that required them to run an average of 40 miles for 80 consecutive days.

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Tent revivals, gypsy caravans, moonshiners, and snake handlers---all weave their way through Drema Hall Berkheimers spitfire of a memoir. Running On Red Dog Road tells the unforgettable story of life, faith, and coming of age in WWII-era Appalachia.

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This first full-length treatment of Russell Kirk's life and accomplishments blends new biographical insights and critical perspectives about the author of the ground-breakingThe Conservative Mind.