Books from Crown
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Escape: A Memoir
By Carolyn Jessop, Laura PalmerWe'd picked the green tomatoes just before the frost and let them ripen in buckets. Every day we'd sort through them looking for some that were ripe enough ...
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French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France
By Rebecca S. RamseyIn a year or so, y'a.ll will move back home andTodd'll buy you some big house in Crawford Creek and you're ... But what is the deal with hotel rooms here?
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Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
By Neal Thompson... Franklin D., 18, 43,147,157 Roper, Jim, 289, 292, 293 Rose, Mauri, 184,204, 207 Rubirosa, Porfirio, 348 Rum, 55, 56 Russell, D.C. “Fat,” 200, 204, 205, 224, 277m Ruth, Babe, 7, 359 Salisbury, North Carolina, 107, 109 Samples, Eddie, ...
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Drama Is Her Middle Name: The Ritz Harper Chronicles Vol. 1
By Karen Hunter, Wendy WilliamsShock jock extraordinaire Wendy Williams lets loose with the first in a series of novels based on her alter ego, the divalicious radio DJ Ritz Harper. Ritz puts the s in shock and the g in gossip, and Drama is her middle name.
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Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?: The Ritz Harper Chronicles Book 2
By Karen Hunter, Wendy WilliamsDJ Ritz Harper used every trick in the book to become a media darling in Drama Is Her Middle Name, shock-jock Wendy Williams’s exposé of a life she knows better than anyone.
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Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
By Jason FagoneAn inside look at the "sport" of competitive eating and its contestants, with descriptions of the contest circuit, from small-town pie-eating competitions to such international spectaculars as the Nathan's hot-dog eating contest at Coney ...
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The Last Boleyn: A Novel
By Karen Harper"It is a wonderful rose, father," she said, but as she reached for its stem, she recoiled from the tiny stab of a thorn. She squeezed her finger and a crimson drop of blood formed. "You must learn to beware of the hidden thorns, ...
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump
By David A. KaplanCrucially, the independent scholarship of three established leftleaning law professors—Larry Tribe of Harvard, Akhil Amar of Yale and Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas—offered validity to gun rights activists.
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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
By Jennifer Fleischner... Elegant Extracts, or Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations. He memorized William Cullen Bryant's poem “Thanatopsis," about accepting death amid life, and turned down the page for William 161.
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The First Princess of Wales: A Novel
By Karen Harperwill be here in a moment, and 1 have no intention of following you to some tanner's booth.” “Not that. Soon you wi' all follow where we bid well enough. Your guards gone already where I want you to—the money changers' booth, ...
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Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race
By Edward S. Curtis, Florence Curtis Graybill, Victor BoesenPhotographs and text describe the life and culture of over eighty Indian tribes west of the Mississippi.
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Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber
By Willie Sutton, Edward LinnMy picture had been on the front page, along with the story of the robbery, and it was all over the Farm Colony that the Eddie Lynch who used to work there as a porter had really been Willie Sutton the bank robber.
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Sand Art: Materials, Techniques, Terrariums, Sandpainting, Sculpture, Projects
By Ellen Appel1 Sand Art : An Exciting New Craft Up until recently only children building sandcastles on the beach ever thought of sand as an art medium . But now a beautiful new use has been found for sand , and sand art has become today's most ...
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What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame
By Matthew Jacob, Mark JacobHere is food • As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase “we’re making spaghetti” to inform his wife if he’d be (illegally) dueling later that day. • As superstition: Baseball star Wade Boggs credited his on-field success to ...
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Theatre World 1973 74
By John Willis... Mary Shelley , Tom Sinclair , Joel Stedman , E. Allan Stevens , Jeffrey Tambor , Eric Tavaris , Kay Erin Thompson ... “ Thumbelina , ” “ A Christmas Carol , ” " Saint George and the Dragon , " " Gabriel Ghost " PREMIERES : “ Chips ...
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The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
By Neil Howe, William StraussFor “ mandatory retirement , " see William Graebner , A History of Retirement ( 1980 ) , chs . 9–10 . Louis Kuplan , in ibid . , 235. Ethel Andrus ( in 1965 ) , in " AARP's Catastrophe , " WSJ 10/2/89 . On 1961 White House Conference on ...
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The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 4th Edition
By Bill Kovach, Tom RosenstielMarch 9 , 2017 , https://localnewslab.org/2017/03/09/jersey-shore-hurricane -news - experiments -. 10 . 11 . 12 . CHAPTER 1 : WHAT IS JOURNALISM FOR ? 1 . Anna Semborska , interview by Dante Chinni , January 2000 . 2 .
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The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family
By William J. BennettBestselling author William Bennett addresses the central social issue of our time—the deline of the family—in a book as intellectually provocative and politically controversial as his landmark The Death of Outrage.
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The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2000
By Edward B. Fiske, Robert LogueOverlaps : TO E Howard , Hampton , University of Georgia , Clark ( AUC ) , Georgia Tech . Spelman College BEST BUY 350 Spelman Lane , Atlanta , GA 30314 As one of only two surviving black women's colleges in the United States , Spelman ...
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Illustrations of Frederic Remington
By Frederic RemingtonIllustrations of Frederic Remington