Books from Stein and Day
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A Different Drummer
By Clive EgletonMajor Anthony Holland, responsible for MIDAS, a top-secret computer of the Joint Intelligence Bureau, discovers that an enemy of Britain has infiltrated the system, resulting in danger to both his own life and his country
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Nat King Cole: A Personal and Professional Biography
By Kathleen Benson, James HaskinsInformation from the great singer's family, friends, and fellow musicians round out a biography of a man whose influence as a vocalist and a jazz pianist is still felt
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Lena: A Biography of Lena Horne
By Kathleen Benson, James HaskinsA biography of Lena Horne, she emerges a stalwart forever standing her ground. Thorough. Authorative.. Ebony"
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The Thirties
By Alan JenkinsCombines social history and nostalgia in a review of the personalities, events, and fads of the 1930s, from Depression and debutante balls to Busby Berkeley musicals and buzzbombs
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The Flight of the Snow Geese
By Des Bartlett, Jen BartlettRecounts the authors' life with and observations of the great North American flock of lesser snow geese, the flock's autumn migration from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, and...
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Backstage Passes: Rock 'n' Roll Life in the Sixties
By Al Kooper, Ben EdmondsBackstage Passes: Rock 'n' Roll Life in the Sixties
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The Assassins
By Elia KazanMaster Sergeant Cesario Flores is a troubled man. A career non-com, he feels safe in his well-ordered life. So when his precious daughter Juana joins the tuned-in, dropped-out generation, Flores...
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Tormented Warrior: Ludendorff and the Supreme Command
By Roger ParkinsonTormented Warrior: Ludendorff and the Supreme Command
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Richard Wagner
By Hans GálCombines biographical and critical studies of Wagner and his music, examining his personal merits and defects and assessing his artistry and achievement
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Survive the Coming Nuclear War: How to Do it
By Robert L. Cruit, Ronald L. CruitSurvive the Coming Nuclear War: How to Do it
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Wild Card: A Novel
By Raymond Hawkey, Grooverider, Roger BinghamWild Card: A Novel
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Jerome Kern
By Michael FreedlandCaptures Kern's many-faceted personality--influential songwriter, collector of rare books, stamps, and coins, and brilliant conversationalist--and recreates the sparkling musical era in which he lived
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The Obituary Book
By Alden WhitmanThe Obituary Book
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It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand
By Jerome TuccilleThis edition of "It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand" contains much of the text that appeared in the original edition-revised and edited to conform to modern style-plus new chapters dealing...
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The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Science and Occult Beliefs
By John Thomas SladekThe New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Science and Occult Beliefs
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The House of Special Purpose: An Intimate Portrait of the Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family : Compiled from...
By John Courtenay Trewin, Charles Sydney GibbesReconstructs the final days and hours of the Romanovs, as recorded by the Englishman who was their tutor
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Irving Berlin
By Michael FreedlandHe created over three thousand songs, yet never learned to play the piano properly. A composer who calls himself a songwriter, whose songs are to him no more than "tunes,"...
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The Wreck of the Amoco Cadiz
By David Fairhall, Philip JordanThe Wreck of the Amoco Cadiz
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The Swimmer
By Eleanor PerryThe Swimmer
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Marconi
By W. P. JollyMarconi