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Hardcover:
9780374253301 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 25, 2016, cover price $30.00
Product Description: The book you are about to read is a surprisingly poignant and truthful account of what it is like to live with an alcoholic. The author achieves far more however than merely reflect on the difficulties experienced in a relationship bent on destruction through alchohol dependency...read more
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9781501006081 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 2, 2014, cover price $6.11 | About this edition: The book you are about to read is a surprisingly poignant and truthful account of what it is like to live with an alcoholic.
Product Description: For five weeksâfrom April 14 to May 21, 1927âthe world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping...read more
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9780374106751 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 8, 2012, cover price $30.00
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9781250033307 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, April 30, 2013), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: For five weeksâfrom April 14 to May 21, 1927âthe world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.
Product Description: "A FASTPITCH SOFTBALL BOOK FOR GIRLS or THE GIRL IN YOU" --- Toni EvansThe crack of the bat creates drama on the diamond and in a girls fastpitch softball league, the drama can bleed off the field and into the lives of the players, coaches, parents, and fans...read more
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9781481240611 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 13, 2012, cover price $14.88 | About this edition: "A FASTPITCH SOFTBALL BOOK FOR GIRLS or THE GIRL IN YOU" --- Toni EvansThe crack of the bat creates drama on the diamond and in a girls fastpitch softball league, the drama can bleed off the field and into the lives of the players, coaches, parents, and fans.
Product Description: "If you love playing baseball, herein lies a beautiful story." --- Jeff HowellThe crack of the bat or the pop of the mitt over the "hey batter batter" rhyme of the infield... my oh my!What does this baseball team know about the game that so many others seem to miss? What is their secret and how do they do it?The coach believes this group of 10 - 13 year old boys has a chance to win a lot of baseball games...read more
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9781481223065 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 11, 2012, cover price $14.88 | About this edition: "If you love playing baseball, herein lies a beautiful story.
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9781451609233 | Original edition (Atria Books, May 30, 2015), cover price $25.99
Traces the story of an 1866 American clipper ship that accidentally caught on fire and sank, stranding its crews on three small life boats for more than six weekswith limited resources and under the burning sunbefore they resorted to cannibalism and eventually reached Hawaii. 25,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780743230377 | Free Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Traces the story of an 1866 American clipper ship that accidentally caught on fire and sank, stranding its crew on three small life boats for more than six weeks with limited resources, before they resorted to cannibalism and eventually reached Hawaii.
Product Description: Decreasing your debt and increasing your income is easier than you think! You really don't need a background or any knowledge of finance or money management to use the suggestions given in "How to Decrease Debt and Increase Income During Hard Times...read more
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9781451218992 | Publishamerica Inc, May 27, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Decreasing your debt and increasing your income is easier than you think!
Product Description: Glasgow is known as the murder capital of Britain and no one understands why better than Joe Jackson. For more than 30 years, Jackson worked the crime beat, first as a uniformed cop then as a seasoned murder squad detective. In this hard-hitting memoir of his most memorable cases, he reveals the reality behind chasing killers and other crooks...read more
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9781845964061 | Mainstream, October 2, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Glasgow is known as the murder capital of Britain and no one understands why better than Joe Jackson.
Product Description: The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history In this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe Jackson brings to life the story of fortune hunter Henry Wickham and his collaboration with the empire that fueled, then abandoned him...read more
Hardcover:
9780670018536 | Viking Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the dramatic efforts of Henry Wickham to obtain and smuggle an invaluable cache of rubber tree seeds out of the Brazilian rainforest and into Victorian England, where they gave way to the early twentieth century's rubber boom.
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9780143114611, titled "The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 24, 2009), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history In this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe Jackson brings to life the story of fortune hunter Henry Wickham and his collaboration with the empire that fueled, then abandoned him.
Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the 'riddle of air' in spite of such historical challenges as the American Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780670034345 | Viking Pr, October 6, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the 'riddle of air.
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9780143038832 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 27, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the 'riddle of air' in spite of such historical challenges as the American Revolution and the storming of the Bastille.
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9780805983296 | 1 edition (Red Lead Pr, October 31, 2006), cover price $11.00
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9780786712847 | Basic Books, February 9, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A novel of social realism set in the American South reconstructs the early 1960s--the Bay of Pigs, the Freedom Rides, cockfighting, and snakehandling--as a family leaves the played out coal mines of Appalachia in search of a better life.
A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s. Reprint.
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9780786708970 | Basic Books, August 12, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: An account of a twenty-four year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself.
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9780786710607 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, September 17, 2002), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s.
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9780802775993 | Walker & Co, September 1, 2000, cover price $12.95
Product Description: Offers the reader a haunting insight into justice, the death penalty and the resilience of the human spirit. Sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, Dennis Stockton was involved in one of the most audacious escapes in prison history...read more
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9781841950549 | Canongate Books Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Offers the reader a haunting insight into justice, the death penalty and the resilience of the human spirit.
Traces the development of disco, rock, soul, funk, punk, new wave, and other music of the late 1970s, and profiles the leading musicians, including Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, and Elvis Costello.
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9780312198213 | Griffin, July 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of disco, rock, soul, funk, punk, new wave, and other music of the late 1970s, and profiles the leading musicians, including Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, and Elvis Costello.
The diary of inmate Dennis Stockton forms the backdrop to the story of a mass escape from Mecklenburg's Death Row in an account of the prisoners' plot to esape, the corruption of the jailers, and the life and times of a prisoner, condemned to death, who found new hope in his writings. 25,000 first printing.
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9780812932065 | Times Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Recounts a mass escape from Mecklenburg's Death Row
The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the succession of bands leading up to his solo career. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Hardcover:
9781891620508 | Public Affairs, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the succession of bands leading up to his solo career
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9780306810015 | Da Capo Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the succession of bands leading up to his solo career.
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9781862300835 | Transworld Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.70
The popular American folk singer looks back on her career and discusses the songs and performers who influenced her
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9780609803073 | Three Rivers Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The popular American folk singer looks back on her career and discusses the songs and performers who influenced her
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