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Alfred Hitchcock: The Icon Years
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Alfred Hitchcock was an icon in the movie business. Few will not recognize his silhouette. Alfred Hitchcock The Icon Years by John William Law is a look at Hitchcock as a film maker. I can name several of Hitchcock's movies... |
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Defending a King: His Life & Legacy
 | "Defending a King: His Life & Legacy" will leave the reader in a different place at its ending. Even readers who are indifferent to Michael Jackson will be true fans at the end of this book. Author Karen Moriarty takes the reader step by step... |
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Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker
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Diary Of A Beverly Hills Matchmaker by Marla Martenso is a hilarious memoir of her job and marriage, a behind-the-scenes look at real life situations in the world of matchmaking. Even though the author portrays life in a humorous... |
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Eliot Ness and the Untouchables: The Historical Reality and the Film and Television Depictions
 | "Eliot Ness and The Untouchables", Second Edition by Kenneth Tucker, is a story depicting not only the life of Elliot Ness but that of AL Capone as well as Frank Nitti. The first half of the book deals with Elliot’s life from his young age... |
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First Love, Last Dance
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Narrator Nancy tells of her pretty Southern mother's life and loves. Mother Elise receives a telephone call each year on her birthday from her first love, Peter, and her husband, Rich, just smiles and doesn't disapprove. Elise's... |
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Invisible Tears: The Abuse The Rebellion The Survival
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Wow. That's the one word I can think of right now, right this minute, to describe this book. It's not a light book at all. It's not a beautiful book. It's heart wrenching. It WILL bring tears to your eyes.... |
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Lizzi & Fredl: A Perilous Journey of Love and Faith
 | The setting is 1938, Austria. Fear swelled throughout Europe as the darkness of Nazism spread. Fredl and Lizzi were a successful young Catholic couple. He was a jeweler and she was a dressmaker. They did not welcome Hitler’s rule and knew they must... |
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My Annie: The True to Life Story of a Liberated Woman Written by her Husband
 | Long before there was women's liberation, there was Annie Whitaker Richie, and what a dynamo of a woman she was! Born in 1926 with learning disabilities in an old Pennsylvania family, Annie is forced to go through school in the same grade as her slightly... |
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Reversible Skirt
 | The mother of three small girls committed suicide leaving their father to raise them. More than anything he wanted to keep them together. In haste he remarries and tells his children his new wife is their mother. For a while the girls live with their... |
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The Frankfurt Files: Tales of an American in Germany
 | In The Frankfort Files: Tales of an American in Germany, David Conte provides the reader with a series of memoirs about his move to Germany in the Spring of 2006. Following his girlfriend, a German native, the author tells of his initial impressions of the... |
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