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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin

By David Ritz

The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed track author David Ritz.

Aretha Franklin begun lifestyles because the golden daughter of a revolutionary and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised with no her mom, she used to be a gospel prodigy who gave delivery to 2 sons in her teenagers and left them and her local Detroit for brand spanking new York, the place she struggled to discover her actual voice. It was once now not until eventually 1967, while a white Jewish manufacturer insisted she go back to her gospel-soul roots, that reputation and fortune eventually got here through "Respect" and a rapidfire string of hits. She has advanced ever because, amidst own tragedy, shock Grammy performances, and profession reinventions.

Again and back, Aretha stubbornly reveals the way to conquer issues, while they proceed to construct. Her carry at the crown is tenacious, and in recognize, David Ritz supplies us the definitive lifetime of one of many maximum skills in all American tradition.

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The Promise: A Tragic Accident, a Paralyzed Bride, and the Power of Love, Loyalty, and Friendship

By Rachelle Friedman

A New York Times Bestseller!

Just weeks sooner than her marriage ceremony, 4 of Rachelle Friedman's associates threw her a bachelorette celebration. on the finish of an ideal night of dancing and occasion, they made up our minds to take a moonlight swim. one among her neighbors playfully driven her into the water . . . toes too faraway from the deep finish. That chilling second replaced their lives without end. Rachelle broke her neck and was once paralyzed from the chest down. She could by no means stroll again.

The Promise is a strong memoir of resilience, love, and loyalty. at the evening of the coincidence, the 5 ladies made an unstated contract to by no means demonstrate the identify of the buddy who had driven Rachelle into the pool—and their bond has remained unbroken. As Rachelle undergoes a actual conflict for her lifestyles, her good friend struggles emotionally to avoid one second in time from defining her eternally. it is the tale of precise integrity; it is also approximately discovering the fabulous power within each one people we by no means knew we had.

Also a love tale, The Promise chronicles Rachelle and Chris's dating, their fight along with her paralysis and rehab, the actual demanding situations of intimacy, and eventually, their fairy-tale wedding.

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Sons of Guns: Straight-Shootin' Stories from the Star of the Hit Discovery Series

By Will Hayden

Sons of Guns is the authentic tie-in to Discovery's hit express starring Will Hayden, founder and proprietor of crimson Jacket Firearms, the Louisiana-based family members enterprise which has been referred to as the nation's most original customized guns shop. 

With attribute down-home wit and knowledge, Hayden tells the tales in the back of the superior episodes of the express. He talks approximately his all-time favourite guns, what it takes to change a standard, run-of-the-mill rifle right into a world-class murals, weapons in the United States (their building, their background, and utilizing them responsibly), and the pains and tribulations of making a winning family-owned firearms business.

If there is something parents from Louisiana can do, says Hayden, it really is inform a hell of a narrative.  Sons of Guns is the subsequent neatest thing to sitting round the campfire with Hayden and his workforce, hearing him recount his favorites.

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Complete Works of L. Frank Baum "American Author of Children's Books"! 45 Complete Works (American Fairy Tales, Aunt Jane's Nieces Series, Wizard of Oz Series, Mother Goose in Prose) (Annotated)

*This ebook is annotated (it features a specific biography of the author).

*An lively desk of Contents has been extra through the writer for a greater purchaser adventure.

*This publication has been checked and corrected for spelling blunders.

This e-book comprises forty five of L. Frank Baum's entire Works.

A absolutely Interactive desk of Contents Has Been extra for simple Navigation.

Table of Contents

L. Frank Baum Biography

Childhood and Early Life

Career

Later existence and Work

Death

Works Included:

A abducted Santa Claus

American Fairy Tales

Aunt Jane's Nieces

AUNT JANE'S NIECES ABROAD

AUNT JANE'S NIECES AT WORK

AUNT JANE'S NIECES IN SOCIETY

Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John

Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation

Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

Aunt Jane's Nieces within the purple Cross

Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville

AUNT JANE'S NIECES at the RANCH

Mary Louise

MARY LOUISE within the COUNTRY

MARY LOUISE SOLVES A MYSTERY

Mary Louise and the freedom Girls

The impressive Wizard of Oz

The superb Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ

The street to Oz

The Emerald urban of Oz

The Patchwork lady of Oz

TIK-TOK OF OZ

THE SCARECROW of OZ

RINKITINK IN OZ

The misplaced Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

GLINDA OF OZ

THE ROYAL ebook OF OZ

The Queer viewers From Oz

Little Wizard tales of Oz

Dot and Tot of Merryland

The lifestyles and Adventures of Santa Claus

Mother Goose in Prose

Policeman Bluejay

Queen Zixi of Ix

SKY ISLAND

The Enchanted Island of Yew

The grasp Key: an electric Fairy Tale

THE SEA FAIRIES

Surprising Adventures of the paranormal Monarch of Mo and His People

The Woggle-Bug Book

Twinkle and Chubbins

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

By Ray Monk

"Great philosophical biographies may be counted on one hand. Monk's lifetime of Wittgenstein is one of these one."—The Christian technology Monitor.

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A Writer's Diary

By Virginia Woolf

An valuable advisor to the artwork and brain of Virginia Woolf, drawn through her husband from the non-public checklist she stored over a interval of twenty-seven years. incorporated are entries that confer with her personal writing, others which are truly writing workouts; money owed of individuals and scenes appropriate to the uncooked fabric of her paintings; and reviews on books she used to be analyzing. Edited and with a Preface by means of Leonard Woolf; Indices.

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Jimmie Foxx: The Pride of Sudlersville

By Mark R. Millikin

Whereas significant league baseball won reputation in huge American towns initially of the 20th century, it was once nonetheless really unseen by way of small city population who may well basically examine it within the newspaper or capture an exhibition video game as significant league groups traveled during the usa. What was once renowned used to be 'town baseball,' fierce competitions among neighborhood groups to most sensible the opposite in all points of baseball, relatively strength hitting. It used to be from this setting that Jimmie Foxx, certainly one of significant league baseball's so much gifted gamers, begun his trip towards the majors. Jimmie Foxx: The satisfaction of Sudlersville, is the tale of 1 of baseball's such a lot ferocious hitters. starting to be up in small city Maryland, Jimmie appeared destined to play major-league baseball. by means of age sixteen he used to be already taking part in professionally and wowing fanatics together with his skill to spoil homers. in the course of his major-league occupation he seemed in 3 instantly international sequence, performed for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston crimson Sox, and spent the 1932 baseball season heavily pursuing Babe Ruth's single-season domestic run list. The comparability to Babe Ruth has no longer been misplaced on many baseball students, yet is going rather unknown via most of the people and lots of baseball enthusiasts. the main inclusive biography of Jimmie Foxx thus far, Millikin's e-book offers an entire photograph of his topic.

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How Not to Be a Professional Footballer

By Paul Merson

An anecdote-driven narrative of the vintage footballer's ‘DOs and DO NOTs’ from the ever-popular Arsenal legend and soccer pundit Paul Merson, aka ‘The Merse’.

When it involves suggestion at the pitfalls of existence as a qualified footballer, Paul Merson can pretty well write the handbook. in reality, that is precisely what he is performed during this hilarious new publication which manages to be concurrently poignant and gloriously funny.

Merson was once a prodigiously gifted footballer within the 80s and 90s, gracing the higher echelons of the sport - and the tabloid entrance pages - along with his breathtakingly abilities and larger-than-life off-field persona.

His much-publicised battles with playing, drug and alcohol dependancy are at the back of him now, and soccer lovers remain attracted to his sharp footballing mind and playful antics on SkySports cult effects exhibit football Saturday.

The ebook delights and entertains with a treasure chest of extraordinary anecdotes from a guy who hasn't ever misplaced his love of soccer and his inimitable joie de vivre via a 25-year organization with the attractive Game.

The DO NOTs include:
DO no longer undertake 'Champagne' Charlie Nicholas as your mentor
DO no longer percentage a home with Gazza
DO no longer frequently position £30,000 bets on the bookie's
DO now not get so inebriated that you just cannot bear in mind the ninety mins of soccer you simply performed in
DO now not deal with Walsall (at any cost)

How to not be a certified Footballer is a highly exciting, relocating and laugh-out-loud humorous story.

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Hilbert

By Constance Reid

"It offers a delicate portrait of an exceptional person. It describes safely and intelligibly on a nontechnical point the area of mathematical principles during which Hilbert created his masterpieces. And it illuminates the historical past of German social background opposed to which the drama of Hilberts existence used to be performed. past this, it's a poem in compliment of mathematics." -SCIENCE

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Steve Jobs: Revolutionary

By Steven Levy, Chris Anderson

It’s demanding to visualize a greater topic than the existence and instances of Steve Jobs—charismatic and hard, mysterious and encouraging, with a biography that will were plucked from Greek fantasy. within the wake of his loss of life stressed out offers Steve Jobs: innovative, an e-book that includes our greatest tales approximately him. The anthology starts off with a remembrance via stressed senior author Steven Levy, who interviewed Jobs repeatedly over the past 20 years. We proceed with six different tales that song Jobs on his uncanny upward thrust, his dramatic fall, and his staggering, not likely go back to Apple.

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