Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai was born in Kassa, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900, and died in San Diego, California, in 1989. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly antifascist, he survived World [... more]
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Sephardic Songs: From the Rose to the Jasmine
 Artist: Françoise Atlan Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0723722372827 Format: Import Original Release Date: 1995-09-01 Release Date: 1995-09-01 UPC: 723722372827 Tracks: Durme Querido Hijico Mi Padre Era de Francia Pastora You Ami Avrich Me Galanica Nana [... more]
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Benjamin Franklin
This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin's most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a ... [... more]
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Jack Maple
Jack Maple began his career as a New York City Transit Patrolman and rose to become Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD. Since leaving the department, he has served as a consultant to police departments worldwide. He lives in New York City. Chris ... [... more]
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Marthe Cohn
Marthe Cohn lives in Palo Verdes, California. In 2005, she was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur. Marthe Cohn was a beautiful young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to ... [... more]
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Paul Wagner
First mentioned by name in AD 297, the Picts inhabited Northern Britain from the end of the 3rd century AD to the 9th. They rose to power in the devastation following Emperor Septimus Severus's repression of the Caledonians in AD 208, and ... [... more]
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Amy Dubois Barnett
AMY DuBOIS BARNETT is an award-winning journalist, fiction writer and television commentator. When she rose to the top of Teen People's masthead, Amy became the first African-American woman in the country to head a major mainstream magazine. ... [... more]
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Rolling Stone Book Of The Beats
different and good: tho i do agree that there is such a frightenly abundant amount of beat gen books that it is hard to get excited about each new one that comes out, i found this one to be quite interesting (and i am person, who, no matter how many [... more]
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The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe
The Best of its Kind: Riche's treatment of the Carolingian dynasty and era is masterful, and towers above other such treatments. Beginning with the late Merovingian kings and the slow rise of the Carolingians, and ending with the establishment of the new [... more]
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The Soldier And The Rose
A vivid trip down memory lane.: The book begins in Long Island, 2007, with Rose and Charlie. They have been married sixty years. They sit at a table, with a box of memorabilia opened in front of them, reminiscing with their daughter, Susan, and Paul, [... more]
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Eugenie: The Empress and Her Empire
Vive Eugenie!: What a wonderful read this book is! The story of the beautiful spanish aristocrat who rose to become (literally) the most powerful woman in the world, "Eugenie: The Empress and her Empire" is truly fascinating. I enjoyed every [... more]
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Dylan Thomas
A work of substance & solid scholarship: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. This was the first poem by Dylan Thomas I read while in college, and its words [... more]
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