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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Jessica Pan
Language: English
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published on: May 28, 2019
Pages: 272
A Savage Life
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Michael Savage
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published on: Jun 25, 2019
Pages: 288
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Scott Weiland
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published on: May 17, 2011
Pages: 288
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Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food IN 1945, FORTUNE MAGAZINE named Betty Crocker the second most popular American woman, right behind Eleanor Roosevelt, and dubbed Betty America's First Lady of Food. Not bad for a gal who never actually existed."Born" in 1921 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to proud corporate parents, Betty Crocker has grown, over eight decades, into one of the most successful branding campaigns the world has ever known. Now, at long last, she has her own biography. Finding Betty Crocker draws on six years of research...
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Susan Marks
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published on: May 11, 2010
Pages: 288
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Michael Groover
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published on: Nov 3, 2009
Pages: 240
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Paris Hilton
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published on: Dec 1, 2009
Pages: 192
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Kris Jenner
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published on: Nov 1, 2011
Pages: 320
The Naked Truth: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewife of New Jersey--In Her Own Words
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Danielle Staub
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published on: May 25, 2010
Pages: 224
Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Amarillo Slim Preston and Greg Dinkin
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published on: Jul 2, 2013
Pages: 288
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Kirstie Alley
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published on: Nov 6, 2012
Pages: 320
My Days
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: R. K. Narayan
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published on: Jul 30, 2013
Pages: 100
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Authors: Amanda Vaill
Language: English
Publisher: HMH
Published on: May 2, 2013
Pages: 468
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Richard Schickel
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published on: Aug 2, 2011
Pages: 576
Why I Won't Be Going To Lunch Anymore: 21 Stories of the Santa Fe Painter's Life
Why I Won't Be Going To Lunch Anymore: 21 Stories of the Santa Fe Painter's Life Outsiders seldom understand the curious amalgam of artists, galleries, misfits and hangers-on known as the Santa Fe Art Scene. In this collection of stories, we witness a group of Santa Fe painters confronting their art and life in creative ways, solving the ages-old problems of painting the perfect canvas, making that obstinate muse smile. Julia Brownell is a patrician beauty whose exhibition of gold-leafed paintings sells out on its opening night and creates an envious discord among her peers....
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Douglas Atwill
Language: English
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published on: Jul 25, 2011
Pages: 244
The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impre
The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impre In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City's first opera house and be the first pro...
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Authors: Rodney Bolt
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published on: Dec 11, 2008
Pages: 448
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted A new biography of Sylvia Plath, a literary icon who continues to haunt, fascinate, and enthrall even now, fifty years after her death On February 25 , 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounternow one of the most famous in all of literary historywas recorded by Plath in her journal, where she described Hughes as a big, dark, hunky boy. Sylvia viewed Ted as something of a colossus, and to this day his enormous shadow has ob...
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Andrew Wilson
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published on: Feb 5, 2013
Pages: 384
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, and an advocate for unheard voices. But like thousands of other upper-class British women, Woolf relied on live-in domestic servants for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of Woolf's own was kept clean by a series of cooks and maids throughout her life. In the much-praised Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light probes the unspoken inequality of Bloomsbury homes with insight and grace,...
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Alison Light
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published on: Jun 15, 2010
Pages: 400
The Private Lives of the Impressionists
The Private Lives of the Impressionists Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art loversbut how well does the world know the Impressionists as people?Sue Roe's colorful, lively, poignant, and superbly researched biography, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the rural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside ...
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Sue Roe
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published on: Oct 6, 2009
Pages: 368
If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You In the New York Times bestseller If You Have to Cry, Go Outside, media maven Kelly Cutrone spills her secrets for success without selling out. She combines personal and professional stories from her high-profile gigs as Whitney Port and Lauren Conrads boss on The Hills, star of Bravo's Kell on Earth, judge on Americas Next Top Model, and CEO/founder of the fashion PR firm Peoples Revolution to offer young professional women no-nonsense, brutally honest career adviceand other things their mot...
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Kelly Cutrone and Meredith Bryan
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published on: Feb 2, 2010
Pages: 208
Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen, Alek Wek's life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When she's not the featured model in print campaigns for hip companies, or gracing the cover of Elle, she is working the runways of Paris, New York, and Milan to model for the world's leading designers, including Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. But nothing in her early years prepared her for the life of a model.Born in Wau, in the so...
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Category: Biography & Autobiography / General
Authors: Alek Wek
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published on: Oct 13, 2009
Pages: 232