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Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, and Vanessa Redgrave
Chosen as one of the "Top Memoirs of the year" by The New York Times
The Golden Age of Hollywood, a young British actor, a love affair, and a tragedy, Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool is Peter Turner's touching memoir of the last days of Hollywood icon Gloria Grahame, the Oscar-winner best known for her portrayal of irresistible femme fatales in...
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Fisher Klingenstein Ventures, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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In February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary by filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.
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Groundwaters Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"In May 1933 there was a famous trial that took place in Eugene, Oregon. It was the murder trial of Llewellyn Banks who happened to have been the leader of the Jackson County Rebellion. He was a wealthy orchardist and newspaper publisher from Medford. At the climax of the rebellion, he murdered the well-liked Medford officer, George Prescott. Eminent attorneys represented both the prosecution and defense. This book includes sections of the actual...
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2003
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English
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"Acclaimed medievalist and former member of Monty Python, Terry Jones investigates the facts and circumstances surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer. At the time, Chaucer was celebrated as his country's finest living poet and scholar, and yet nothing is known of his death. His name simply disappears from the record. How could this be? What if he was murdered? Who Murdered Chaucer delivers all the evidence while painting an intimate portrait of...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...
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Pan
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Military History.
Nazi Germany.
The classic account of Hitler's fall from power, first pubilshed in 1947, reissued with a striking new cover. In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. His brilliant piece of detective work not only proved finally that Hitler had killed himself...
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2009
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English
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In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world - your...
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