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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

Glitter and Glue: A Memoir

Kelly Corrigan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.From the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond—sometimes nourishing, som...

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Published: Feb 2015

Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Ha...

Kelly Corrigan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place“Kelly Corrigan takes on all t...

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Published: Apr 2019

Confessions of an Anesthesiologist: A...

William Milnes Cottrell MD

Anesthesiologist are service oriented professionals who make crucial decisions and perform critical, sometimes lifesaving procedures behind the scenes. The absence of drama usually implies a job well done. But after thirty e...

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Published: Jul 2016

South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, H...

Lynne Cox

Today the North and South Poles are home to research stations and film crews, but just a century ago they were forbidding lands seldom seen by human eyes. Those who journeyed there were the last true explorers, and one of the most suc...

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Published: Nov 2012

Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Batt...

Daniel Coyle

Lance Armstrong's War is the extraordinary story of greatness pushed to its limits; a vivid, behind-the-scenes portrait of perhaps the most accomplished athlete of our time as he vies for a historic sixth straight victory in the tough...

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Published: Apr 2010

Bad Kid

David Crabb

Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant sto...

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Published: May 2015

Reporter's Life

Walter Cronkite

IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR.'--The Wall Street Journal'Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year.'--Ann Lander...

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Published: Oct 1997

The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story

David Crow

A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival"Cinematically gripping."—Kirkus ReviewsGrowing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings ...

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Published: Oct 2019

Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, W...

Billy Crystal

Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable careerBilly Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, h...

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Published: Oct 2014

Yes You Can Make Money as an Arti$t

Mr Warren Cullar

Warren Cullar couldn't spell, write or type and struggled through school. He was declared incapable of achieving success by those who “knew”. Discover the two gifts his father gave him that changed his life. One of the gifts broug...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Other Vietnam War: A Helicopter P...

Marc Cullison

Each of us who served in Vietnam was the guy next door, the average Joe, not a hero. The boy who might date your daughter or sister. The young man who might mow your yard. In Vietnam, we weren't out to be heroes. We just did our jobs....

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Published: May 2015

Mao's Last Dancer

Li Cunxin

From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer ...

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Published: Mar 2005

Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Vi...

Cecil B. Currey

Tells the full story of the man who fought three of the world's great powers—and won. Cecil B. Currey makes clear one primary reason why America lost the Vietnam War: Vo Nguyen Giap. He has written the definitive biography of one of...

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Published: Apr 2005

Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jers...

Kathy Curto

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Essays. Italian Studies. "NOT FOR NOTHING transported me. Curto's gritty specificity with coming-of-age memories is humourous, gripping, and thought-provoking. NOT FOR NOTHING takes on the beauty, pai...

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Published: Dec 2018

Such Mad Fun: Ambition and Glamour in...

Robin R. Cutler

AVAILABLE IN ALL FORMATS SEPT 8, 2016 What determines who a woman will become? Jane Hall was an orphan at fifteen and a "literary prodigy" according to the press. How did this spirited young girl from an Arizona mining town become a D...

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Published: Jul 2016

Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraord...

Michael D'Antonio

A scholarly analysis of the life and achievements of the head of the chocolate factory empire describes his fatherless uringing by a strict Mennonite mother, his failures with two early candy companies, and his construction of the uto...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Lie: A Tale of Two Marriages

William Dameron

A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out.Do you know me?, the email began, sparking tremors of fear that turned into a full quake of panic when William Dameron discovered that his selfie had be...

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Published: Jul 2019

Brother, I'm Dying

Edwidge Danticat

From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and s...

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Published: Sep 2008

Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfind...

Lynn Darling

Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love: Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of ...

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Published: Jan 2015

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renou...

Nonie Darwish

A political and personal odyssey from hatred to love When Nonie Darwish was a girl of eight, her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel. A high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza, he was c...

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Published: Nov 2007

X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography...

Ray Davies

This subversively brilliant rock memoir, ingeniously styled as a biography, is the work of a nameless, faceless writer hired by an Orwellian entity called 'the Corporation' to capture the essence of Ray Davies, lead singer and song...

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Published: Oct 2007

Stonewall Jackson (Great Generals)

Donald A. Davis

Deemed 'irreplaceable' by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Stonewall's leadershi...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Long Loneliness

Dorothy Day

A compelling autobiographical testament to the spiritual pilgrimage of a woman who, in her own words, dedicated herself 'to bring[ing] about the kind of society where it is easier to be good.

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Published: Jan 1997

The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio De Chirico

No Italian painter of this century has aroused so much comment, from eulogy to outright condemnation, as Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). One of the initiators of surrealism, he is a key figure in modern art; his influence on later pai...

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Published: Apr 1994
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