Surf, Sweat and Tears : The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst 9781682192337, 9781682192313

Interpreting the Death of Edward VI: The Life and Mysterious Demise of the Last Tudor King 9781399092081, 1399092081

King Edward VI tends to be glossed over in the historical narrative of the Tudor dynasty. His achievements during his br

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The Pop Musical: Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias 9780231549295

Alberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywo

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The Man Behind the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Life and Letters of Edward FitzGerald 9781350988903, 9781786730145

Its lines and verses have become part of the western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has

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The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford 9781503624153

Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poiso

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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears 0062859013, 9780062859013

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academ

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Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis [Illustrated] 9780618969029, 9780544102767, 2012022390, 9780547840604

A New York Times Notable Book A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction New York Times bestselling an

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The Life and Death of William Montfort [Reprint 2013 ed.] 9780674733466, 9780674730038

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An Irish Rebel in New Spain: The Tumultuous Life and Tragic Death of William Lamport 9780271092003

An Irish Rebel in New Spain recounts the story of the so-called Irish Zorro, who, in 1659, was burned at the stake for c

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Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife 9780520949928

Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romant

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The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance 0547195575, 9780547195575

In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling a

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