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Of rainbows and clouds Of rainbows and clouds Yab Ugyen Dorji,Queen of Bhutan Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck Memoirs of Yab Ugyen Dorji on his ancestors and decendants, a merchant family from Bhutan. OL1044184W
Journey of a thousand miles Journey of a thousand miles Lang Lang,Lang Lang,David Ritz "Number One" was a phrase my father--and, for that matter, my mother--repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents' friends and by their friends' children. Whenever adults discu… OL12305745W
A mirror garden A mirror garden Zara Houshmand,Monir Farmanfarmaian,Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a g… OL12374325W
Inside the helmet Inside the helmet Michael Strahan,Jay Glazer,Michael Strahan Just in time for the 2007 season: One of the finest defensive players ever to wear an NFL uniform delivers the first truly authentic, hard-hitting, revelatory portrait of America's most popular sport… OL12409640W
LOSS OF THE WAGER: THE NARRATIVES OF JOHN BULKELEY AND THE HON. JOHN BRYON LOSS OF THE WAGER: THE NARRATIVES OF JOHN BULKELEY AND THE HON. JOHN BRYON John Byron,Bulkeley, John.,JOHN BULKELEY xxvi, 240 p. ; 22 cm OL13633342W
The bonnie prince The bonnie prince Martin Knight,Charlie Cooke,Charlie Cooke 331 p., [8] p. of plates : 24 cm OL13644800W
Confessions Confessions Augustine of Hippo Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religio… OL137872W
To Fly Again To Fly Again Gracia Burnham,Dean Merrill Former hostage and bestselling author Gracia Burnham reflects on the hard-earned wisdom she gained during her yearlong captivity in the Philippine jungle. Twenty-one theme-based chapters focus on the… OL15035975W
Why I jumped Why I jumped Tina Zahn,Wanda Dyson,Tina Zahn On July 19, 2004, an amazing video broke across news programs. After a high-speed chase to the top of the Tower Drive Bridge in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a young woman stopped, walked to the edge of the … OL15156290W
Jazz in the bittersweet blues of life Jazz in the bittersweet blues of life Carl Vigeland,Wynton Marsalis As Carl Vigeland went on tour with Wynton Marsalis and his septet, he witnessed "their relationships with their audiences, their art, and each other. At the same time, Marsalis takes us into the hear… OL15837380W
A golfer's life A golfer's life Arnold Palmer,James Dodson An autobiography in which golfing great Arnold Palmer tells the story of his life on and off the links. OL16039355W
Something About the Author Something About the Author Scot Peacock Volume 144. OL17814991W
R. E. Lee R. E. Lee Douglas Southall Freeman,Richard Harwell Douglas Freeman's biography, in its 4 volumes and 2421 pages, is not only comprehensive, but remains to this day the best life of Lee ever published, even if sometimes producing the impression the ma… OL1863304W
Into the Wild Into the Wild Jon Krakauer In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 i… OL1974546W
A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball Hall of Fame A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball Hall of Fame John C. Skipper In January 1936, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson became charter members in an exclusive club: the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. By 20… OL2639489W
The Second World War The Second World War Joanna Bourke "The Second World War surpassed all previous wars in the sheer cost of many millions of lives, the majority of them civilian. It left a world reeling from physical destruction on a scale never experi… OL2973018W
Purgation and purgatory Purgation and purgatory Serge Hughes,Catherine de Hueck Doherty,Benedict J. Groeschel,Catherine of Genoa, Saint "Saint Catherine of Genoa ...is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions a… OL3258819W
Charles the Bold Charles the Bold Werner Paravicini (foreword),Richard Vaughan,Vaughan, Richard Synopsis Charles the Bold (1467-1477) was the last of the great Dukes of Burgundy. This historical and biographical work assesses his personality and his role as a ruler, and discusses his relatio… OL3452262W
Middle ages Middle ages Judy Galens,Judson Knight Features nineteen full or excerpted documents written during the Middle Ages. Entries include excerpts from Augustine's Confessions and Dante's Inferno; Marco Polo's description of his travels in Chi… OL489091W
Manson in his own words Manson in his own words Charles Manson,Nuel Emmons "The myth of Charles Manson is not likely to survive the impact of his own words,” Nuel Emmons writes in the introduction to *Manson In His Own Words*, the shocking true confessions that lay bare the… OL5279907W
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