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Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc, 2002. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 88x12x140. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. slight edge wear; -- Describes the great events, major actors, and social effects of the American Revolution -- Reveals previously unknown details about a joint Indian and British attack on American positions outside Montreal, Ethan Allen's imprisonment, and the treatment of smallpox A rare participant's account of seafaring during the Revolutionary War. Christopher Prince recounts his adventures on board both British and American ships as a naval enlisted man, as an officer of privateers, and as a master of merchantmen. Prince also describes his religious conversion and its transforming effect on his postwar life as a merchant sea captain. Editor Crawford provides introductions, commentary, notes, appendixes, and a glossary.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001-01-01. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x0. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. edge wear; The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother’s childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, made boats out of car hoods and knew how to pack a wound with brown sugar to stop the blood. He could not read, but he asked his wife, Ava, to read him the paper every day so he would not be ignorant. He was a man who took giant steps in rundown boots, a true hero whom history would otherwise have beem overlooked.

Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, 1999. Hardcover. Good/Good. 80x11x128. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. ex-library with usual markings; edge wear to boards and jacket, damage to pastedowns. THE AVOCADO DRIVE ZOO is a warm and personal, yet humorous, recounting of how the members of the Hamner family have lived with and loved the animals in their lives. By the time they moved to Hollywood and settled into a lovely residence on Avocado Drive, their home was virtually a zoo.

London: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. 11x8x0. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. edge wear, some light cover scuffing. A biography of the British comedian and film star looks at his early influences, his various TV shows and movie parts, and his personal life

New York: Harper, 2004-10-11. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. ex-library with usual markings; light edge wear to jacket and boards, some damage to pastedowns. Who is Bill Clinton? A man whose presidency was disgraced by impeachment -- yet who remains one of the most popular presidents of our time. A man whose autobiography, My Life , was panned by critics as a self-indulgent daily diary -- but rode the bestseller lists for months. A man whose policies changed America at the close of the twentieth century -- yet whose weakness left us vulnerable to terror at the dawn of the twenty-first. No one better understands the inner Bill Clinton, that creature of endless and vexing contradiction, than Dick Morris. From the Arkansas governor's races through the planning of the triumphant 1996 reelection, Morris was Clinton's most valued political adviser. Now, in the wake of Clinton's million-selling memoir My Life , Morris and his wife,… Leer más

London: Transworld Pub, 2003. Trade Paperback. Good. 7x4x0. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine creasing, edge wear; n this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Carolyn Slaughter recalls her childhood in Africa and how the land itself released her from a rage that threatened to destroy her.For Carolyn Slaughter, who grew up in Botswana in the 1950s, it was the Kalahari Desert that made life bearable. Her father was a cruel and violent district commissioner during the last days of British colonial rule, and their family’s stiff English facade masked an unspeakable household secret. But out in the bush, the intensity of the air and the beauty of the landscape touched her with a kind of feverish grace. She would disappear for hours to watch the flat brown river with its water lilies and crocodiles; the thorn trees and the flocks of flamingos; the local women with their babies strapped to their backs. Filled with the majesty and splendor of the ever-changing desert,… Leer más

Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear; Memorial Edition. Selections from the books, articles, poems, and letters of a much-loved writer and lay theologian.

New York: Paperjacks, 1987. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine crease, light edge wear; Betty White has written a winner of a book as she shares her personal life from her early days in "Life with Elizabeth" through her unforgettable portrayal of Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" to her current success as Rose on "Golden Girls".

Melcher Media, 2011-10-25. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 120x16x148. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear; Beyond Tallulah, the illustrated biography of Sam Wyly, the most versatile big-company entrepreneur in American history, tells one of the most compelling untold business stories of our time. Wyly built 10 companies in nine different industries with 500 million- or billion-dollar valuations.

New York: Broadway, 2001-05-15. Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear, corner crease in front cover; It's not the way most actors get their first break, but for an unconventional guy like Henry Alford, it made sense to beg dozens of Times Square deli owners to hang his unknown head shot on their walls of fame. Big Kiss chronicles the irritation and exhilaration of trying to make it in the entertainment world as Alford enrolls in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England (where he fails to convince the Queen to attend his final performance); auditions for the role of Wilbur the Pig in Charlotte's Web; botches an Amish hoedown dance number in tryouts for a biblical epic; and fails to make the cut in a nude Measure for Measure in the East Village. But there is triumph -- a fortuitous move to Los Angeles (his boyfriend was offered a job there), a gig cohosting VH-1's "Rock of Ages", and the role of Screaming Victim #211 in… Leer más

New York: William Morrow, 1999-08-02. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear to jacket and boards; With never-before revealed information and behind-the-scenes access, the bestselling author of "The Day Diana Died" takes readers on a fascinating journey inside the marriage of the First Couple. 16-page photo insert.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2024. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. Advance Uncorrected Proofs to the first edition in trade paperback format. "A blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist

Wild Heaven Press, 2007-04-17. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 246 pages; corners lightly bumped, some light edge wear, bit of wrinkling to top edge of jacket; Signed by the author on the title page; promotional material laid in. On March 24, 2001, American writer Kari Grady Grossman entered a crowded orphanage outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and met her 8-month-old son. One of the first questions Kari asked was "How did he get here?" The complex and at times heart-wrenching answer is told in this magnificent book encompasses Kari's personal journey to adoption, Cambodia's gruesome history of war and genocide, and the stories of two Cambodians -- one who escaped the Khmer Rouge s bloody reign and one who did not. The interweaving stories grab your heartstrings and do not let go. From the moment Kari realizes that she will never be an "earth momma" practicing prenatal yoga to years later as Kari wends her way on… Leer más

New York: Summit Books, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x0. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear to jacket and boards; Provides complete coverage of the wedding, with details on the early lives of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, their romance, and a behind-the-scences look at the preparations, the wedding itself, and the celebrations afterwards

New York: Dutton Adult, 1991-10-15. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 303 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards; This book examines Yeltsin's past, measuring his own autobiographical recollections against the record. It illuminates his rise as a political maverick who provokes contradictory feelings among Russians and foreigners alike. It also describes why the ongoing conflict between Gorbachev and Yeltsin goes to the heart of the issues that will shape the future of the Soviet Union and the balance of world power. While Gorbachev clings to the remnants of an imperial state, Yeltsin, contends Morrison, is working toward a radically restructured grouping of sovereign republics.

Norman, OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 2010-10-01. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Signed. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 184 pages; Signed and inscribed to previous owner by the author on the title page; "Bound Like Grass "is author Ruth McLaughlin's account of her own -- and her family's -- struggle to survive on their isolated wheat and cattle farm. With acute observation, she explores her roots as a descendant of Swedish American grandparents who settled in Montana at the turn of the twentieth century with high ambitions, and of parents who barely managed to eke out a living on their own neighboring farm.

New York: The Century Co, 1908. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hambidge, Jay. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. heavy soiling to boards and spine cloth, some soiling to page ends; Wonderfully illustrated biography of Abraham Lincoln. 307 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1988-08-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x0. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear to jacket and boards; some light soiling to page ends; The highest paid rookie in NFL history--when Brian Bosworth signed a deal with the Seattle Seahawks for the unprecedented sum of $11 million--is brash, outspoken, and uninhibited. He wears gold earrings, has a multi-colored mohawk, and plays football like a monster. He's also smart, savvy, and irresistibly likeable in this, his story. 25 photos.

New York: Miramax, 2005-06-15. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 9x6x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear to jacket and boards; Wintle was a successful, gay, urbane professional whose life, at 40, was very comfortable. After a desperate call from his sister, his street-wise 13-year-old niece Tiffany--a writhing ball of adolescent anger--comes to live with him. If he felt he needed a shot in the arm, what he got proved more like electroshock therapy.

Chicago, IL: Rand McNally Company, 1971. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. edge wear to boards, soiling to board cloth. Chicago Bear running back Brian Piccolo died of cancer at age 26, leaving behind a young wife, three daughters, a host of friends - and a legend.