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The First Emperor of China

Jonathan Clements

The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century… Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while st...

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Published: May 2015

Living History

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2014

The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disci...

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Published: Jan 2009

A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants

Jaed Coffin

Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England's privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram--thus fulfill...

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Published: Jan 2008

Rooster: The Life and Time of the Rea...

Brett Cogburn

Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was born in 1866 in Fancy Hill, Arkansas, the descendant of pioneers and moonshiners. Six foot three, dark eyed, and a dead shot with a rifle, he was as hard as the rocky mountain ground his family...

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Published: Sep 2012

Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy...

Aaron Cohen

Beverly Hills native Aaron Cohen was eighteen years old when he left behind his privileged American life with the single-minded ambition of joining Israel's top anti-terrorist commando unit. After fifteen months of grueling training, ...

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Published: Jun 2008

To the Last Man: The Incredible True ...

Alexander Cohen

In the Forgotten War, there are many who served whose names and memories will never be forgotten. US Army Sergeant William T. Miles is one of them. From the hunting trips of his youth in the Pocono Mountains, where he learned many of ...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life...

Rich Cohen

Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-PicayuneThe fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist ...

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Published: Jun 2013

Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illn...

Richard M. Cohen

Richard Cohen, a veteran writer, producer and distinguished journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for over 25 years. Recently diagnosed again with colon cancer, Cohen describes his lifelong struggle with multiple sclerosis, hi...

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Published: Feb 2005

Strong at the Broken Places: Voices o...

Richard M. Cohen

Strong at the Broken Places is the remarkable story of five ordinary people trapped in the complex world of serious chronic illness. In this intimate portrait, acclaimed journalist Richard M. Cohen probes lives of sickness as these ...

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Published: Feb 2009

The Kennedys: An American Drama

Peter Collier

The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David H...

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Published: Jan 2002

Van Morrison : Inarticulate Speech of...

John Collins

n an age when image and self-promotion increasingly dominate the rock industry, Van Morrison remains a proud, belligerent outsider. An intensely private man and a revelatory performer, he has communicated more deeply within the limits...

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Published: Aug 1997

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Musi...

Judy Collins

A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the '60s, when hits like "Both Sides Now" catapulted her to international fame.br brSweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply ...

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Published: Sep 2012

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capo...

Max Allan Collins

A legendary novelist and acclaimed rising historian combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition agent who helped bring him down.In 1929...

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Published: Aug 2018

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capo...

Max Allan Collins

A legendary novelist and acclaimed rising historian combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition agent who helped bring him down.In 1929...

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Published: Aug 2018

C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introductio...

James Como

Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C. S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Alrea...

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Published: Mar 2019

An Angel from Hell: Real Life on the ...

Ryan A. Conklin

Ryan A. Conklin enlisted in the U.S. Army at age seventeen, following 9/11, and joined Angel Company. As a turret gunner with the famed 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" and a member of the famed "Rakkasans" regime...

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Published: Apr 2010

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Fai...

Garrard Conley

"The power of Conley's story resides not only in the vividly depicted grotesqueries of the therapy system, but in his lyrical writing about sexuality and love." —Los Angeles Times"This brave and bracing memoir is an u...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Foremost Good Fortune

Susan Conley

Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences th...

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Published: Mar 2012

Francisco Goya: Life and Times

Evan S. Connell

From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Son of the Morning Star and Deus Lo Volt! , a biography that breaks the mold--recounting with stunning immediacy the dark genius behind the renowned Spanish painter. Goya's prot...

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Published: Mar 2005

Enemies of Promise

Cyril Connolly

"Whom the gods wish to destroy," writes Cyril Connolly, "they first call promising." First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an "inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that ...

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Published: May 2008

A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences...

Joseph Conrad

As Conrad writes in his introduction to these reminiscences, "[T]hese memories put down without any regard for established conventions have not been thrown off without system and purpose. They have their hope and their aim. The h...

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Published: Dec 2005

Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jai...

David Coogan

Detailing the formative and transformative memories of ten men, Writing Our Way Out is the creative culmination of a writing class that began in the Richmond City Jail in Virginia, and grew into a journey to re-entry. Compiled in a na...

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Published: Oct 2015

Safe Passage

Ida Cook

Gala opera evenings. Sudden wealth and fame. Dangerous undercover missions into the heart of Nazi Germany. Standing up to the perils of the Blitz. No one would have predicted such glamorous and daring lives for Ida and Louise Cook—t...

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Published: Nov 2008

The Legends and Traditions of a North...

James Fenimore Cooper

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham...

John Cooper

A captivating exploits of Sir Francis Walsingham—the first great English spymaster and the man who saved Elizabeth I's regime.Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England ...

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Published: Mar 2014

American Patriot: The Life and Wars o...

Robert Coram

During the course of his military career, through World War II, Korean, and then Vietnam, Bud Day received every available combat medal, escaped death on no fewer than seven occasions, and spent sixty-seven months as a POW in the infa...

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Published: Jun 2008

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed t...

Robert Coram

A great American hero-a 20th-century warrior and military strategist who lived outside the spotlight but whose work has been enormously influential-is brought brilliantly to life in this acclaimed biography. John Boyd was the finest f...

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Published: May 2004

Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S...

Robert Coram

Victor "Brute" Krulak is arguably the most important officer in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. In China, he went on daring spy missions. In World War II, he was instrumental in developing amphibious vehicles, and mast...

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Published: Nov 2011

Gully Dirt: On Exposing the Klan, Rai...

Robert Coram

No part of America scars its children as does the south.In this incandescent memoir, Robert Coram tells how a rough-edged boy escaped from a nowhere little town in rural southwest Georgia and became an accomplished writer.With a flawl...

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Published: Jan 2017
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