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The story of Tony Oliva, one of Minnesotas most popular baseball players, is told for the first time in this full-scale biography. Through the voices of Oliva, his family, and his teammates, Thom Henninger charts the highs and lows of Olivas remarkable career along with his struggles to build a family and recover the large and close-knit community he had left behind in Cuba.

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Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran's mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange. Unbeknownst to anyone, another daughter was on the way, but before anybody responded, an hour had passed. Because of the delay, Fran was born with cerebral palsy.

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Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran's mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange. Unbeknownst to anyone, another daughter was on the way, but before anybody responded, an hour had passed. Because of the delay, Fran was born with cerebral palsy.

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Una's mother, HildaPediani, had been one of his agents and one of many lovers. He married her sothat Una would be legitimate, but took no part in the child's upbringing. It wasa rare sympathetic act by a man who was capable of great bravery, but littlecompassion.

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Celebrating the life and career of a Duke...

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In telling her story of working the land, Atina Diffley reminds us that we live in relationshipswith the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges from weather to corporate politics, this is a firsthand history of getting in at the ground level of organic farming.

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In Turning the Black Sox White, Tim Hornbaker reviews Comiskeys entire career and restores his reputation to its former state, with clear eye, fair mind, and thorough study. John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden

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It's a kind of detective story, following the tracks of two men who did all they could to cover their tracks, and to conceal 'the self': Frank the father used secrecy and sleight-of-hand as strategies for self-protection; Frank the son masked a thoroughly reclusive personality with flamboyant self-parody.

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Thais is almost two. Like most well-loved children, she is happy. She laughs as she runs on the beach. But her footprints in the sand, with toes turned out, tell a different story. "Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand" relates the overwhelming tragedy experienced by a family as a result of a genetic disorder.

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Sandra Leigh, the oldest of three, was only seven when she protected her mother against her father's fury, helping her escape the house in the midst of winter, and then retrieving her through an open window. They had just moved to the isolated mountains of West Virginia to begin their new life.

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At his 10,000-acre estate in Surrey heemployed seventy-seven personal staff, moved a hill that blocked his view andbuilt an underwater glass smoking room. On his vast steam yacht he entertainedthe Prince of Wales and the Kaiser.

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Before Shamrock became known professionally as "The Legend"Nwinning almost every mixed martial arts title in existenceNhe endured a childhood marred with abuse, neglect, and molestation that led to an equally troubled young adulthood. This riveting book tells his whole story.

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Full of enticing anecdotes culled from a fifty-year career, this is an engrossing book that provides an insider's view of the changing world of publishing. Jeremy Robson has published an extraordinary range of household names; writers, poets, actors, singers, sports people, cartoonists, newspaper columnists and politicians. .

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An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth.