Pete Townshend

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

A Memoir

The legendary lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the Who, one of the most influential rock-and-roll bands of all time, pens his own story.

Who I Am

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Helen Mirren

Spine skewed and some stains on binding. Interior pages and dust jacket are fine. 

Massachusetts

My Life in Words and Pictures

Helen Mirren has been an internationally ac-claimed actress -- and the recipient of many awards, transferring between stage, cinema and television -- for over 40 years.Known in her youth for a forthright style, a liberated attitude and a bohemian outlook, she has never ceased to be out of the public eye, with legions of admiring fans all over the world. This illustrated memoir is an account of an extraordinary talent, and a life well lived.Helen's aristocratic Russian grandfather, Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, a military man, was sent to London by the Czar and found himself stranded and penniless by the Bolshevik revolution, cut off from the family estate near Smolensk. He brought with him a trunk of papers and photographs. This delightful memoir starts with the contents of the trunk, with evocative pictures of Helen's Russian antecedents. She has kept a rich seam of photo-graphs and memorabilia from her life, and her parents, family life, childhood, teenage and early years as an actress living in insalubrious flats are vividly documented.Helen's many distinguished roles in theatre, cinema and television and the illustrious men and women she has encountered are commemorated, as well as her forays into Hollywood and her sub-sequent life in the United States with her husband, film director Taylor Hackford. Golden Globe and Oscar ceremonies make their appearance, as do many stunning images of Helen by the world's leading photographers.In the Frame: My Life in Words and Picturesis a book to savour, created and written by one of the great personalities of our age.

In the Frame

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Walter Isaacson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn't become scientists, she decided she would.

Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book's author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.

The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.

Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm...Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?

After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an "enthralling detective story" (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

The Code Breaker

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Georgia

Biography

Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.

Steve Jobs

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Hardback, 1901 & 1902, McClure Co.

First published in 1902, the book tells the story of Harry Thorpe, an impoverished rich kid who becomes a lumberjack and rises to be the head of his own firm.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Hardback, 1901 & 1902, McClure Co.

The blazed trail

Sebastian Junger

During the long drawn out WHOLLY, conceiving climax is one reads with the most intense concern, anxiety and concentration, and if 1 knows anything at all about the sea, one feels the absolute enormous strength of the hurricane wins in the incredible towing mass of hundred foot waves

Connecticut

A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Presents a vivid account of a history-making storm that hit the New England coast in October 1991 and the lives it changed, weaving together the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and personal accounts. Tour.

The Perfect Storm

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Gregory Boyle

California

The Power of Boundless Compassion

Father Boyle started Homeboy Industries nearly 20 years ago, which has served members of more than half of the gangs in Los Angeles. This collection presents parables about kinship and the sacredness of life drawn from Boyle's years of working with gangs.

Tattoos on the Heart

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David F. Walker

Well loved. minor tears on edges of spine

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

A Graphic Novel History

WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD • A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights movement. This gripping illustrated history explores the impact and significance of the Panthers, from their social, educational, and healthcare programs that were designed to uplift the Black community to their battle against police brutality through citizen patrols and frequent clashes with the FBI, which targeted the Party from its outset. Using dramatic comic book-style retellings and illustrated profiles of key figures, The Black Panther Party captures the major events, people, and actions of the party, as well as their cultural and political influence and enduring legacy.

The Black Panther Party

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Corinne A. Grinapol

Who HQ

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Learn about one of the most influential leaders in the fight for gay rights.

Although he started out as a teacher without aspirations to be an activist or politician, Harvey Milk found himself captivated by the history-making movements of the 1960s. He would eventually make history of his own by becoming the first openly gay elected politician in California. While in office, Harvey Milk advocated for equal rights for the gay community.

Even though Harvey's life and career were cut short, he is still seen by many as one of the most significant and influential LGBTQ+ officials ever elected in the United States. His life and legacy continue to inspire and unite the community.

Who Was Harvey Milk?

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Matthew J. Bruccoli

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Second Revised Edition)

The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated; Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart from other biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald for its thoroughness and volume of information. It is regarded today as the basic work on Fitzgerald and the preeminent source for the study of the novelist. In this second revised edition, Matthew J. Bruccoli provides new evidence discovered since its original edition. This new edition of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur improves, augments, and updates the standard biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

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David Starkey

The book cover has minor damage the book itself is in great condition.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Struggle for the Throne

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth I was to be famed as England's most successful ruler. This brilliant new biography, by concentrating on the formative early years -- from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 -- shows how her experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous and seemingly impossible journey towards the throne, it is the story of the making of a queen. In growing up, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and every extreme of condition. She was three years old at the time of her mother's execution; when she was a young woman, her step-father cut her dress off of her with a knife. She had been Princess and inheritrix of England -- then bastardized and disinherited. At sixteen she was the head of a great princely household. Yet she was also an accused traitor on the verge of execution. Amid all this, she had mastered the most advanced classical curriculum of the day. But it was her lessons in the school of life that mattered more -- and that taught her her humanity. David Starkey re-creates a host of extravagant characters, madcap schemes and tragic plots, while using original documents to point up the importance ofthe rituals of power and life at court. He writes with exceptional clarity about religion and constitutional history. Elizabeth, whose own Protestant faith was personal and sophisticated, was extremely judicious in her handling of Reform, as in her choice of advisors and councilors. Here, too, is a fresh view of the famous rivalry between the daughters of Henry VIII: the pious Catholic Mary and her clever sister. While Elizabeth remained utterly devoted to her father, she was also determined not to lose her opportunity for power -- and not to make the same mistakes as Mary. The skill with which she achieved her goal proved to be a sign that England had reached a watershed moment in its history. Starkey's close attention to detail and vivid storytelling ability combine to produce a narrative of these extraordinary years that reads like a novel. Meticulously researched and enormously compelling, Elizabeth is a masterpiece of biography.

Elizabeth

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Rhode Island

A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Bleak Expectations -- The Rising Threat -- A Certain Eventuality -- Dread -- Blood and Dust -- The Americans -- Love Amid the Flames -- One Year to the Day -- Epilogue.

The Splendid and the Vile

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Michigan

An Intimate Biography of Brian Epstein

For the millions of Beatle fans, this is the story of the man behind the Fab Four. This dramatic, untold story focuses on the life of the man sometimes called The Fifth Beatle from his stunning success at packaging the group to his tortured life and premature death in 1967. 32 pages of photos.

The Man Who Made the Beatles

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An Insider’s Story of The Beatles 

The Love You Make

David Maraniss

Kentucky

The Life of Jim Thorpe

A riveting new biography of America's greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.

Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw's New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind.

But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he encountered duplicitous authorities who turned away from him when their reputations were at risk. At Carlisle, he dealt with the racist assimilationist philosophy "Kill the Indian, Save the Man." His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball. His later life was troubled by alcohol, broken marriages, and financial distress. He roamed from state to state and took bit parts in Hollywood, but even the film of his own life failed to improve his fortunes. But for all his travails, Thorpe did not succumb. The man survived, complications and all, and so did the myth.

Path Lit by Lightning is a great American story from a master biographer.

Path Lit by Lightning

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Niall Ferguson

The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

"...[an] excellent, just in time guide to the history of fincance and financial crisis."ùThe Washington Post --

High Financier

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Bernard Thorpe

Elliot Thorpe

A Personal Recollection of Dean Martin

"I sang some songs, acted here and there, but no way would I call myself exceptional. I just hope I did my best for my audiences." A somewhat self-deprecating comment from Dean Martin on his own career. It was this laid-back approach to his work, however, the belied a dedicated and professional entertainer. Bernard H Thorpe first got to know Dino in 1960 and what followed for the next thirty or so years was an unexpected working relationship between the two men. Bernard became instrumental in many of Dino's album releases in the UK and a staunch promoter of the man's career across the globe. And so Just Dino - A Personal Recollection of Dean Martin is exactly what it describes: a respectful and unique look back at the career of a true, world-class entertainer and the story of how an unassuming family man from the British media industry became a life-long advocate and friend.

Just Dino

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An American Saga

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys

Smoke free home. Vintage 1964. Very good vintage condition. It has a name written in #hardcover #nonfiction #biography #jfk #history #vintage #camelot #kennedy

John F. Kennedy, President

Smoke free home. This has never been read. has a few minor marks. #paperback #Music #TheBeatles #JohnPaulGeorgeRingo    #rockhistory #thefabfour #beatleshistory #biography #nonfiction 

* Now for the first time in paperback, the much-acclaimed chronicle of every working day of the Beatles career * Acknowledged as the most authoritative document about the group ever written * Written by the world's leading authority on the Beatles * Includes the legendary BBC sessions that topped the CD charts in 1994.

The Complete Beatles Chronicle

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His Life and Universe

A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into his contributions to science, in an account that describes the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.

Einstein

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Pete Rose

Rick Hill

New Jersey

PETE ROSE HOLDS MORE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORDS THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER IN HISTORY. He stands alone as baseball's hit king having shattered the previously "unbreakable" record held by Ty Cobb. He is a blue-collar hero with the kind of old-fashioned work ethic that turned great talent into legendary accomplishments. Pete Rose is also a lifelong gambler and a sufferer of oppositional defiant disorder. For the past 13 years, he has been banned from baseball and barred from his rightful place in the Hall of Fame-- accused of violating MLB's one taboo. Rule 21 states that no one associated with baseball shall ever gamble on the game. The punishment is no less than a permanent barring from baseball and exclusion from the Hall of Fame. Pete Rose has lived in the shadow of his exile. He has denied betting on the game that he loves. He has been shunned by MLB, investigated by the IRS, and served time for tax charges in the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. But he's coming back. Pete Rose has never been forgotten by the fans who loved him throughout his 24-year career. The men he played with have stood by him. In this, his first book since his very public fall from grace, Pete Rose speaks with great candor about all the outstanding questions that have kept him firmly in the public eye. He discloses what life was like behind bars, discusses the turbulent years of his exile, and gives a vivid picture of his early life and baseball career. He also confronts his demons, tackling the ugly truths about his gambling and his behavior. MY PRISON WITHOUT BARS is Pete Rose's full accounting of his life. No one thinks he's perfect. He has made mistakes-- big ones. And he is finally ready to admit them.

My Prison Without Bars

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Niki Kapsambelis

A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease

"The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of [Alzheimer's] that there is: early onset Alzheimer's, an inherited genetic mutation that causes the disease in 100 percent of cases, and has a 50 percent chance of being passed onto the next generation. Of the six DeMoe children whose father had it, five have inherited the gene; the sixth, Karla, has inherited responsibility for all of them. But rather than give up in the face of such news, the DeMoes have agreed to spend their precious, abbreviated years as part of a worldwide study that could utterly change the landscape of Alzheimer's research and offers the brightest hope for future treatments--and possibly a cure"--

The Inheritance

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Illinois

The Life of Sarah Vaughan

"Sarah Vaughan, brought vividly to life in this definitive biography, possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy, Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughan's vital musical legacy and offers a detailed portrait of the woman as well as the singer. Revealed here for the first time is "jazz's only diva" as her closest friends and musical associates knew her." "Born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 27, 1924, Sarah Vaughan played the organ at the Mount Zion Baptist Church and had been a member of the choir in her youth. By her early twenties she was singing with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Billy Eckstine, and helping them invent bebop. For forty-five years she reigned supreme in both pop and jazz, with several million-selling hits ("Broken Hearted Melody", "Make Yourself Comfortable", "Misty", and others) in the 1950s and 1960s. During the next two decades, she reached vast new audiences as a concert artist. Life offstage was never smooth or dull for Sarah Vaughan. Her voluptuous voice was matched in private by her exuberant appetites for excess: three failed marriages; financial difficulties through many changes of management; and late-night jam sessions, liquor, and cocaine, that inspired and depleted her in equal measure. But in Sassy, Leslie Gourse shows us as well the feisty and unpretentious Sarah Vaughan who worked hard all her life to support her parents and her adopted daughter and who in later years came to savor the hardwon independence and the worldwide acclaim she achieved as the greatest jazz singer of her generation." "Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan includes a discographical survey."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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