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|  | The Queen by Tim Graham
Description not available.Celebrates the fifty-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II with a collection of photographs that document her life from her coronation in 1952 to her golden jubilee in 2002. AUTHOR: Tim Graham
PUBLISHER: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic
Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia. AUTHOR: Slavenka Drakulic
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Girls Of Summer by Jere Longman
This group portrait of the World Cup-winning U.S. women's soccer team chronicles its push to victory on the field, the individuals who formed the team, and the many challenges they faced--including gender-role prejudice and the lackluster support for women's soccer over three decades. AUTHOR: Jere Longman
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Finders Keepers by Mark Bowden
In 1981, an unemployed drug addict named Joey Coyle found over a million dollars in unmarked bills. Before he was arrested en route to Acapulco, he had given away much of the money to friends, and was lauded by the media as a saintly hero. In a series of newspaper articles, collected here, Mark Bowden took another view: that Coyle was a hopeless loser who would have come to a bad end, money or no money. AUTHOR: Mark Bowden
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ten Thousand Revolutions by Patrick Symmes
Description not available.A journalist describes his motorcycle odyssey through modernday South America as he searched for the people and places in Ernesto Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries, a 1952 of the future revolutionary's journey through Argentina, Peru, and Cuba. Original. 25,000 first printing. First serial, Talk. Tour. AUTHOR: Patrick Symmes
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
This is the first volume of Asprey`s two-volume life of Napoleon. He charts Napoleon`s ascent, from his life as a student in military school, to his role as brilliant military leader whose impressive victories in Italy and Egypt led to his being named First Consul after the coup in 1799. Napoleon consolidated his power and named himself Emperor in 1804. Asprey analyzes how Napoleon used a combination of military skill, political acumen, and arranged marriage to achieve his goal. AUTHOR: Robert Asprey
PUBLISHER: Basic Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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