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Trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis greatly influenced the course of jazz from the late 1940s until his death in 1991. He used his thoughtful, economical trumpet style to forge a stunning variety of new sounds. This frank, mesmerizing biography takes the reader inside the dazzling world of Miles Davis: his relationships with other jazz masters, his impact on jazz styles and innovations, and his recurrent health and drug problems. AUTHOR: George R. Crisp
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Greek Fire by Aristotle Onassis, Nicholas Gage
In this scandalous account, the author, who claims to have met Aristotle Onassis twice, asserts that he knows previously unpublished secrets about the millionaire's affair with opera star Maria Callas. He chronicles their relationship, beginning in 1959 when they were introduced by gossip columnist Elsa Maxwell, and recreates life aboard Onassis's yacht Christina, offering fans a voyeuristic view of the couple's sex life and emotional turmoil. AUTHOR: Aristotle Onassis, Nicholas Gage
PUBLISHER: Warner Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | I Could Tell You Stories by Patricia Hampl
The author of two memoirs, A ROMANTIC EDUCATION and VIRGIN TIME, considers the genre of memoir writing in this essay collection. AUTHOR: Patricia Hampl
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Louis XV's Army by Eugene Leliepvre
Looks at the uniforms and equipment of the French Infantry, whose men fought not only in the European campaigns of the Seven Years War but also in the French and Indian Wars in North America and the American War of Independence. AUTHOR: Eugene Leliepvre
PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Subversive Southerner by Angela Davis
Description not available.The first biography of the legendary southern civil rights crusader introduces readers to the contributions of this extraordinary woman, and the witch hunt that targeted her in the 1950s. AUTHOR: Angela Davis
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Companero by Jorge Castaneda
Description not available.An intriguing biography of revolutionary Che Guevara draws on interviews with family and colleagues to trace Guevara's life from his childhood in Argentina, through his career as a revolutionary, to his death in the Bolivian jungles. Original. 10,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Jorge Castaneda
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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