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American Rebel
Written by Marc Eliot

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Three Rivers Press | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-307-33689-7 (0-307-33689-1)

September 7, 2010 | $18.00

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American Rebel
Written by Marc Eliot

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307336897
Our Price: $18.00
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As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film's greatest living legends, represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema.

In American...

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Bob Dylan In America
Written by Sean Wilentz

Hardcover | 400 pages | Doubleday | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-385-52988-4 (0-385-52988-0)

September 7, 2010 | $33.00

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Bob Dylan In America
Written by Sean Wilentz

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385529884
Our Price: $33.00
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One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.

Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later...


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Fred Dibnah - Made in Britain
Written by David Hall

Hardcover | 352 pages | Bantam Press | Biography & Autobiography; History - Great Britain
978-0-593-06469-6 (0-593-06469-0)

September 7, 2010 | $48.50






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The Goalie
Written by Andy Goram

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Mainstream Publishing | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation - Football
978-1-84596-600-3 (1-84596-600-7)

September 7, 2010 | $21.95






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The Hilliker Curse
Written by James Ellroy

Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-59350-4 (0-307-59350-9)

September 7, 2010 | $27.95

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The Hilliker Curse
Written by James Ellroy

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307593504
Our Price: $27.95
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The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir—as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels—about his obsessive search for “atonement in women.”

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old...


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Homer's Odyssey
Written by Gwen Cooper

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Bantam | Nature - Cats; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-34398-5 (0-385-34398-1)

September 7, 2010 | $17.00

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Homer's Odyssey
Written by Gwen Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385343985
Our Price: $17.00
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ONCE IN NINE LIVES, SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENS.
 
The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen’s veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. It was love at first...


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Just Watch Me
Written by John English

Trade Paperback | 832 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Political; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-676-97524-6 (0-676-97524-0)

September 7, 2010 | $24.95

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Just Watch Me
Written by John English

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676975246
Our Price: $24.95
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This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.

His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories...

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The Last Resort
Written by Douglas Rogers

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Three Rivers Press | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-40798-6 (0-307-40798-5)

September 7, 2010 | $16.00

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The Last Resort
Written by Douglas Rogers

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307407986
Our Price: $16.00
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Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit.

Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through...

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Mary Tudor
Written by Anna Whitelock

Hardcover | 432 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
978-1-4000-6609-4 (1-4000-6609-3)

September 7, 2010 | $33.00

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Mary Tudor
Written by Anna Whitelock

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400066094
Our Price: $33.00
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She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britain’s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution earned her the nickname “Bloody Mary.” Now, in this impassioned and absorbing debut, historian Anna Whitelock offers a modern perspective on Mary...

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No Impact Man
Written by Colin Beavan

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Humor
978-0-7710-1076-7 (0-7710-1076-1)

September 7, 2010 | $19.99

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No Impact Man
Written by Colin Beavan

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771010767
Our Price: $19.99
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The riotous story of a guilty liberal who snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, turns off his power, and becomes a bicycle nut in an effort to make zero environmental impact

Manhattanite Colin Beavan spent a year trying to live without a net environmental impact, and he dragged his baby daughter...

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Ossie's Dream
Written by Ossie Ardiles

Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-0-552-15918-0 (0-552-15918-2)

September 7, 2010 | $21.95






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Parallel Play
Written by Tim Page

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Anchor | Psychology - Psychopathology - Autism; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-7679-2969-1 (0-7679-2969-1)

September 7, 2010 | $17.00

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Parallel Play
Written by Tim Page

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780767929691
Our Price: $17.00
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An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn’t know he had Asperger’s syndrome until he became a man.

In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called “lucid and...

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Pierre Berton
Written by Brian Mckillop

Trade Paperback | 808 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-7710-5756-4 (0-7710-5756-3)

September 7, 2010 | $23.99

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Pierre Berton
Written by Brian Mckillop

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771057564
Our Price: $23.99
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The first ever biography of one of Canada’s best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author.

From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920—2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most famous Canadian media figure of his...

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Savage!
Written by Robbie Savage

Hardcover | 272 pages | Mainstream Publishing | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation - Football
978-1-84596-623-2 (1-84596-623-6)

September 7, 2010 | $45.95






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Shades of Greene
Written by Jeremy Lewis

Hardcover | 320 pages | Jonathan Cape | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-224-07921-1 (0-224-07921-2)

September 7, 2010 | $65.00






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