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During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died in 1978 and her book never came out, but her recordings survived to provide the raw material for this extraordinary account of the life of America's First Lady of Jazz.

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Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print.

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The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam and claimed that human beings are parts of a single nature, that God is identical with nature. He made this thesis the basis for a crusade. Dr Gullan-Whur's biography shows how Spinoza's beliefs developed within the context of his own life.

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Barbara's father was a sadistic man at the best of times - his idea of fun was to kill the family dog by tying it to the back of his car and driving off.

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This book provides a vivid picture of how Communism functioned in Poland and an original analysis of Poland's international role in the Cold War era.

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Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack London--adventurer, social reformer, and the most popular American writer of his generation

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Recounting the story of America's antebellum woman's rights movement through the efforts of Lucy Stone (1818-1893), this important account differs dramatically from those that focus almost exclusively on Susan B.

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Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have certainly been many whose contributions as directors are quite significant. This guide to their careers and films profiles the most noteworthy. Chapters are divided into two segments: biographical and critical.

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Brings together more than 500 biographies of queens, empresses, prime ministers, presidents, regent rulers, de facto rulers, constitutional monarchs, and other women rulers since the beginning of recorded history.

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The only person ever to win a Division 1 national championship as a player (twice), as an assistant coach, and as a head coach.

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Gripping, sometimes hilarious, but always inspiring . . .

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Grant Stoddard left Britain for the States with the clothes on his back, a fascination with all things American, and a burning hope for something bigger. Then fate in the guise of an X-rated online contest intervened. Winning first prize - sexual intercourse with an infamous married sex columnist - changed everything.

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A follow-up to "Mean Street Kind Heart", this title presents the story of maverick priest, Father Chris Riley and his mission to help society's most disadvantaged and vulnerable children. It also describes Father Chris' challenges abroad.

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Collects biographies of outstanding Blacks from all over the world, from Marcus Garvey to Akhenaton.

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"Europe, South and Central America, the West Indies, and the United States, including Alessandro de' Medici, Alexandre Dumas, Dom Pedro II, Marcus Garvey, and many others"--Cover.

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Here, for the first time, is a riveting collection of Fowles's fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963, ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs and musings.

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A work on the Whitman disciples - the fascinating, eclectic group of nineteenth-century men and women who regarded Walt Whitman not simply as a poet but as a religious prophet. It presents a colorful portrait of an era of intense religious, political, and sexual passions, focusing on why Whitman's work continues to appeal to so many.

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The former mining town of Stanley lies only twenty minutes drive from the beautiful cathedral city of Durham. Yet the two are worlds apart. Marilyn Hardy recounts in touching detail the trials of growing up in this impoverished mining town and her life-long struggle to find happiness, from her troubled relationship with her undemonstrative mother.