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jacket/cover - click for larger view The ice balloon : S.A. Andrée and the heroic age of arctic exploration
by Alec Wilkinson.
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2011; 239 p.; isbn:0307594807 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Inside the President's helicopter
Gene T. Boyer with Jackie Boor
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2011; 416 p.; isbn:9781934980903 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Sister queens : the noble, tragic lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
Julia Fox
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Historian Fox offers this first dual biography of the daughters of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabella whose entwined royal relationships helped define the 15th- and 16th-century European political landscape
2012; 454 p.; isbn:9780345516046 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Agatha Christie, an autobiography
Agatha Christie.
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Dame Agatha offers vivid descriptions of her childhood, family life, contemporaries, and travels abroad as well as discussing her own struggles as a writer and the general problems of creative writing.
1977; 542 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (); isbn:0062073591 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Elizabeth the Queen : inside the life of a modern monarch
Sally Bedell Smith.
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2011; 663 p.; isbn:1400067898 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Prince Philip : the turbulent early life of the man who married Queen Elizabeth II
Philip Eade.
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Chronicles the first thirty years of Prince Philip's life from his childhood in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth.
2011; 347 p.; isbn:0805095446 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view The lives of Margaret Fuller : a biography
John Matteson
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2012; 510 p.; isbn:9780393068054 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view As good as she imagined : the redeeming story of the angel of Tucson, Christina-Taylor Green
Roxanna Green with Jerry B. Jenkins.
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The mother of the nine-year-old girl who was one of the victims of the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords recounts her daughter's life from her birth on September 11, 2001 to her untimely death.
2011; 227 p.; isbn:1617950122 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view William Henry Harrison : the 9th president, 1841
Gail Collins.
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2012; 153 p.; isbn:0805091181 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view King Larry : the life and ruins of an American billionaire genius
James D. Scurlock.
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"The story of DHL co-founder and billionaire Larry Hillblom, who disappeared, leaving behind an international fiasco that's still unraveling today"-- Provided by publisher.
2012; 328 p.; isbn:1416589228 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view I got this : how I changed my ways and lost what weighed me down
Jennifer Hudson
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This book is a personal and inspirational memoir from the author, an Emmy and Oscar winner that is focused on her transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds. Soulful and sultry, she wowed the world with her powerful voice in American Idol's third season, and then took Hollywood by storm with a star turn in Dreamgirls ...
2012; 244 p.; isbn:9780525952770 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Jack Kennedy : elusive hero
Chris Matthews
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Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, a portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics
2011; ; isbn:9781442350458 More Information

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