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American victory : wrestling, dreams, and a journey toward home
Henry Cejudo with Bill Plaschke.
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229 p., [8] p. of plates: col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Henry Cejudo's remarkable journey follows an unlikely hero from the mean streets of South Central L.A. to the glory of the Beijing Olympics. Henry's grit, passion, and resolve on display in China was a culmination of a life spent fighting--both on and off the mat.
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Baby, let's play house : Elvis Presley and the women who loved him
Alanna Nash.
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xvii, 684 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports ; 24 cm.
Nearly thirty-three years after his death, Elvis Presley's extraordinary physical appeal, timeless music, and sexual charisma continue to captivate, titillate, and excite. Though hundreds of books have been written about the King, no book has solely explored his relationships with women and how they influenced his music and life-until now. Based largely on exclusive interviews with the many women who knew him in various roles-lover, sweetheart, friend, costar, and family member-Baby, Let's Play House explores Presley's love affairs with, among others, Ann-Margret, Linda Thompson, Sheila Ryan Caan, June Juanico, Joyce Bova, Barbara Leigh, Cybill Shepherd, and Priscilla Beaulieu, as well as his friendships with actresses Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Mary Ann Mobley, Yvonne Craig, and Celeste Yarnall. The book also spotlights important early girlfriends and the women who dared to turn him down, including Cher, Petula Clark, and Karen Carpenter, as well as two women-Kay Wheeler and Tura Satana-who taught him dance moves he used onstage. Baby, Let's Play House, named after the 1955 song that was his first to hit the national charts and his mother's favorite Elvis recording, presents Elvis in a new light-as a charming but wounded Lothario who bedded scores of women but seemed unable to maintain a lasting romantic relationship. While fully exploring the most famous romantic idol of the twentieth century, award-winning veteran music journalist Alanna Nash pulls back the covers on what Elvis really wanted in a woman-and was tragically never able to find.
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Birthright : the true story that inspired Kidnapped
A. Roger Ekirch.
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xxiii, 258 p. : ill., maps, ports., genealogical tables ; 22 cm.
Richly evoking the volatile world of Georgian Ireland, this recounts the saga of James Annesley, the presumptive heir of five aristocratic titles and scion of the mighty house of Annesley. Kidnapped at twelve years of age by his uncle, James was shipped from Dublin to America in 1728 as an indentured servant. He finally managed to escape after thirteen years, returning to Ireland to bring his nemesis, the Earl of Anglesea, to justice in one of the epic trials of the century.
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Cartwheels in a sari : a memoir of growing up cult
Jayanti Tamm.
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288 p. ; 22 cm.
In this colorful, eye-opening memoir, Tamm shares the trauma and triumphs of growing up in a cult. The author offers a look inside the cult's lifestyle, her own rebellions, and her hard-won decision to finally leave.
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An education
Lynn Barber.
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182 p. ; 8 p. of plates ; 20 cm.
'A cautionary tale, a tragedy of innocence lost' Sunday Telegraph1960: A stranger in a sports car offered sixteen-year-oldLynn Barber a lift. It changed her life.The stranger charmed his way not only into Lynn's life, but also that of her parents. He took her virginity, whisked her off to Paris, introduced her to his charming friends, and even offered to make her his wife. But he was neither who nor what he said he was. And only when Lynn's parents were on the point of accepting him into their family, did she realise the mistake she'd made in accepting that lift.Lynn Barber shows how this strange affair coloured the rest of her life - what she wanted from men and her instinctive distrust of others.'Bracingly sharp. A chilling glimpse into the guileless limbo between girlhood and adulthood' Sunday Times'Thrillingly readable, you'll want to finish it in one sitting' Tatler'Moving, funny, frank' Evening Standard'Magnificent, searing, honest' Mail on Sunday'Absolutely marvellous, shocking, pacy, witty' Spectator
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Elvis : my best man
George Klein with Chuck Crisafulli.
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x, 306 p., [plates] ; cm.
In "Elvis: My Best Man," a heartfelt, entertaining, and long-awaited contribution to our understanding of Elvis Presley and the early days of rock 'n' roll, George Klein writes with great affection for the friend he knew--about who the King of Rock 'n' Roll really was and how he acted when the stage lights were off.
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Happy : a memoir
by Alex Lemon.
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292 p. ; 21 cm.
His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid who everyone called Happy, often without even knowing his real name. In the spring of 1997, he had his first stroke. For two years Lemon coped with his deteriorating health by sinking deeper into alcohol and drug abuse. His charming and carefree exterior masked his self-destructive and sometimes cruel behavior as he endured two more brain bleeds and a crippling depression. After undergoing brain surgery, he is nursed back to health by his free-spirited artist mother, who once again teaches him to stand on his own. Alive with unexpected humor and sensuality, Happy is a hypnotic self-portrait of a young man confronting the wreckage of his own body; it is also the deeply moving story of a mother's redemptive and healing powers. Alex Lemon's Technicolor sentences pop and sing as he writes about survival -- of the body and of the human spirit.
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Healing hearts : a memoir of a female heart surgeon
Kathy Magliato.
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261 p. ; 22 cm.
An inspiring, surprising, and deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes life of a female heart surgeon.
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Homeland : an extraordinary story of hope and survival
George Hussein Obama with Damien Lewis.
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xxi, 294 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Yet something in his manner told me that he was curious-curious about what I had lived through and seen and survived, and about what I had learned from it all.... I wondered if it was simply an accident of our births that had bequeathed this gulf between us.... He seemed to want to hear all about how I was managing in my life, and I got the strong impression that he cared....Most of all I'd have liked to have asked him more about his memories and impressions of our father. They shared the same name-Barack Hussein Obama-and that had to signify some kind of unique bond. Were our father alive today, what would he have thought of Barack, I wondered, and what would he have thought of me? -from Homeland Book jacket.
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I am Ozzy
Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres.
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391 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
"They've said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: 'He bit the head off a bat.' Yes. 'He bit the head off a dove.' Yes. But then you hear things like, 'Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn't perform until he'd killed fifteen puppies . . .' Now me, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I've got eighteen of the f**king things at home. I've killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night. It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I've been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour. People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn't have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time. A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. I've always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time."
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Just kids
Patti Smith.
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xii, 278 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
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Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic
Michael Scammell.
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xxi, 689 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., geneal. table ; 25 cm.
From award-winning author Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. bw photo insert.
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