Category: *Hardback - NonFiction

Alexandra Aldrich, a direct descendant of the famous Astor dynasty, grew up in the servants' quarters of Rokeby, the forty-three-room Hudson Valley mansion built by her ancestors. Her childhood was one of bohemian neglect and real privation. But it was fairly stable until the summer of her tenth year, when her father took up with an alluring interloper, Giselle.Alexandra idolized her father, Rokeby's charismatic lord of misrule, who had attended elite private schools as a child but inherited only landed property, not money. To him, she says, "poverty was amusing, a delightful challenge."...
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#GIRLBOSS

By: Amoruso, Sophia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Portfolio: May 2014

Seller ID: 131599

ISBN: 039916927X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The founder of Nasty Gal offers a sassy and irreverent manifesto for ambitious young women At seventeen, Sophia Amoruso decided to forgo continuing education to pursue a life of hitchhiking, dumpster diving, and petty thievery. Now, at twenty-nine, she is the Founder, CEO, and Creative Director of Nasty Gal, a $100+ million e-tailer that draws A-list publicity and rabid fans for its leading-edge fashion and provocative online persona. Her story is extraordinary--and only part of the appeal of "#GIRLBOSS." This aspirational book doesn't patronize young women the way many business expe...
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STEPS IN TIME By FRED ASTAIRE 1959 First Edition

By: ASTAIRE, FRED

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: January 1959

Seller ID: 131450

ISBN: B002YJP74E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Royal Secrets: The View from Downstairs

By: Barry, Stephen P.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House Inc: March 1985

Seller ID: 130562

ISBN: 039454403X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village

By: Bartels, Peggielene, Herman, Eleanor

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday: February 2012

Seller ID: 134188

ISBN: 0385534329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. "King Peggy" has the sweetness and quirkiness of "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series and the hopeful sense of possibility of "Half the Sky." "King Peggy" chronicles the astonishing journey of an American secretary who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 souls on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running...
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No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

By: Bensen, Clara

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Running Press Adult: January 2016

Seller ID: 131600

ISBN: 0762457244

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Beatles: Life In Pictures

By: Books, Parragon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Parragon Books: July 2012

Seller ID: 134731

ISBN: 1445452448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Richard Burton: A Life

By: Bragg, Melvyn

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little Brown & Co: February 1989

Seller ID: 130084

ISBN: 0316105953

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

First Women

By: Brower, Kate Andersen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper: April 2016

Seller ID: 127695

ISBN: 0062439650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Royal Duty

By: Burrell, Paul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Putnam: October 2003

Seller ID: 130561

ISBN: 0399151729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Now comes the long awaited book, A ROYAL DUTY by Paul Burrell, the man in whom she confided on matters big and small. Paul, one of the Queen's personal footmen, met Diana during one of her first visits to Balmoral Castle. And while it may have been fate that brought them together, they shared a strong bond that endured to the end of her life. Burrell became Diana's confidant and his unique perspective casts new light on the Princess of Wales and the events that would shape her life and the lives of those around her. At the time of her death there was much speculation about Diana's future pl...
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Johnny Carson

By: Bushkin, Henry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: October 2013

Seller ID: 127692

ISBN: 0544217624

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted "The Tonight Show" and permeated the American consciousness. In the '70s and '80s he was the country's highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic. He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometimes cruel) off-camera as he was charming and hilarious onstage. During the apex of his reign, Carson's longtime lawyer and best friend was Henry Bushkin, who now shows us Johnny Carson with a brea...
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A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties

By: Carson MD, Ben,Carson, Candy

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sentinel: October 2015

Seller ID: 129478

ISBN: 1591848040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf

By: Cerf, Bennett

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: August 1977

Seller ID: 131448

ISBN: 0394478770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"I've got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House." So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House's first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and '30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing's golden age. Cerf was a...
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

By: Cheever, Susan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: December 2006

Seller ID: 127166

ISBN: 0743264614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as "The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden," and "Little Women." Rendering in full color the tumultuous, often scandalous lives of these volatile and vulnerable geniuses, Cheever's dynamic narrative reminds us that, while these literary heroes now seem secure of their spots in the ca...
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Man O' War

By: Cooper, Page and Treat Roger L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Julian Messner: January 1952

Seller ID: 123969

ISBN: B001XON14O

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Former library book. In fair condition - binding is good and pages are unmarked and unstained. Some stains on inside covers from tape used to keep cover attached.
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The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

By: Couric, Katie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: April 2011

Seller ID: 131752

ISBN: 0812992776

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

What was the tipping point for Malcolm Gladwell? What unscripted event made Meryl Streep who she is? How did Mario Batali cook up his recipe for success? In this inspiration-packed book, Katie Couric reports from the front lines of the worlds of politics, entertainment, sports, philanthropy, the arts, and business--distilling the ingenious, hard-won insights of leaders and visionaries, who tell us all how to take chances, follow our passions, cope with criticism, and, perhaps most important, commit to something greater than ourselves. Among the many voices to be heard here are financial gu...
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Around America: A Tour of Our Magnificent Coastline

By: Cronkite, Walter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: August 2001

Seller ID: 131928

ISBN: 0393040836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Here we Travel with Walter Cronkite, one of our most trusted and erudite guides, around the coastline of America, to which so much of our history belongs. Along the way, we encounter the places and people, past and present, that have shaped or are shaping our country.At nearly the easternmost tip of Maine we are told of the first British war ship captured during the Revolution, by the good folks of Machias, who used pitchforks because they had no muskets. We learn that the islands off the coast of Texas are among the nation's great sanctuaries for migrating birds. And we're introduced to Fo...
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Summer of Deliverance : A Memoir of Father and Son

By: Dickey, Christopher

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: August 1998

Seller ID: 131974

ISBN: 0684842025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

One of the literary geniuses of his generation, James Dickey produced his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and -- with the publication of his first novel, Deliverance -- a popular literary star. Now Christopher Dickey re-creates his father's world of Southern intellectuals and backwoods rednecks, his brief, heady celebrity, his quick and second marriage, and his reckless decline into alcoholism.From descriptions of Christopher's unconventional childhood, to moving memories of the crisi...
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The Real Peter Pan: J. M. Barrie and the Boy Who Inspired Him

By: Dudgeon, Piers

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: July 2016

Seller ID: 134190

ISBN: 1250087791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

McEnroe: Taming the Talent

By: Evans, Richard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Stephen Greene Pr: September 1990

Seller ID: 127969

ISBN: 0828907919

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Exploration Fawcett: Journey to the Lost City of Z

By: Fawcett, Percy

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Overlook TP: May 2010

Seller ID: 129409

ISBN: 1590204301

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Time of Storm: The Harrowing True Story of a Jewish Christian Woman in Wartime Hungary

By: Fischer, Marianne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Christian Herald Books: January 1981

Seller ID: 129484

ISBN: 0915684829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

By: Friedman, Thomas L.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: January 2005

Seller ID: 127787

ISBN: 0374292884

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe,...
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John Glenn: A Memoir

By: Glenn, John, Taylor, Nick

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bantam: November 1999

Seller ID: 131004

ISBN: 0553110748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Passionate Pilgrim: The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

By: Hanson Lawrence & Elizabeth

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: 1955

Seller ID: 115345

ISBN: 281ALK1003358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A World Turned Over : A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever

By: Hemingway, Lorian

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: July 2002

Seller ID: 133276

ISBN: 0684856344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

""In the dream I see the yellowing Mississippi sky...I feel the edges of the wind, quick and rough a and nearer than l ever believed it could be, cutting an undertow in the now unbreathable air, It is close now, stealing by degrees across the pasture that spreads like a dark, lake behind the store, its black belly bulging straight out as it begins to feed on scrub pine, then on the girded steel of the supermarket, on /be cars once parked in even rows, on living tissue pliant as clay. if there is time, then there is nothing to do but run.""At 4:33 P.M. on March 3, 1966, an F-5 tornado, the d...
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