Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque - Ted Schwarz

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A midwest preacher's daughter with a sophisticated academic pedigree, Viva could have pursued any career, but chose to become a stripper. This pers...

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Takes us into the heart of the biggest company on earth, ever, to show how the 'Wal-Mart effect' shapes lives everywhere, whether for cleaners in A...

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This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the...

Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were looked down on by literary critics and yet when he died he was one of the best selling novelists of his d...

It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. Amid the color and chaos is a boy sporting drainpipe jeans, a devoted fan of The Wh...

The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.

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Just remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth watering. And since rem...

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