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|  | Rat Pack Confidential by Shawn Levy
An account of the careers and private lives of five of the most famous friends in show business history: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. The Rat Pack , or The Clan as they called themselves, appeared in four films together in the 1960s, including Ocean`s Eleven (1960) and Four for Texas (1963). AUTHOR: Shawn Levy
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne M. Lindbergh
The adventurous life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh encompasses family life and aviation with husband Charles, as well as her own distinguished literary career. These detailed records of this extraordinary woman`s triumphs and tragedies have already sold 400,000 copies in previous editions and are now available to inspire a new generation of readers. 24 pages of photographs. AUTHOR: Anne M. Lindbergh
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | McColl by Ross Yockey
In 1959 Hugh McColl`s daddy told him, Son, you don`t have the brains to be a farmer. You`d better be a banker. Forty years later, McColl is the biggest banker in the United States and, many say, the smartest. Though he didn`t know it back in `59, McColl was joining a bank -- in sleepy Charlotte, North Carolina -- whose culture would suit his aggressive, competitive nature like a honeycomb suits a bee. From day one, McColl was immersed in a world of winners and losers, hunters and prey, a world where there were by God deals to be made. Tracing the rise of the man and his bank (from NCNB to Nationsbank to Bank of America), McColl is the story of those winners and losers -- of those deals. But throw out all your stereotypes of bankers and their pin-striped stories; in the masterful telling of Ross Yockey, the book reads like the Great American War Novel. McColl`s audacious incursions into Florida, Texas, Georgia, Virginia, and finally California -- outflanking federal regulations against interstate banking -- have the drama and intrigue of brilliant military campaigns. McColl is the little backwater general from the land of grits and cornbread who plays David to the Money Center Goliaths of New York City. Ultimately Hugh McColl -- in charge of the first and only bank that stretches from coast to coast -- emerges as the man who, more than any other in the twentieth century, has changed the financial structure of the United States. If you thought reading a book about banks and bankers would be like reading the Nasdaq listings, think again. AUTHOR: Ross Yockey
PUBLISHER: Longstreet Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Billy the Kid by Nelson Runger, Robert Marshall Utley
Examines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier. AUTHOR: Nelson Runger, Robert Marshall Utley
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about it. ANGELA'S ASHES traces the tortuous path of his life from his days in abysmal poverty in Limerick, Ireland, to his arrival in New York as a teenager, eager to start a new life. AUTHOR: Frank McCourt
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Zorah Neale Hurston's 1942 autobiography is a lively account of her rich and extraordinary life, from her impoverished childhood in rural Flora to her position as one of the major figures in the Harlem Renaissance. AUTHOR: Zora Neale Hurston
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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