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  No Regrets - A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

  Joe Layden, Ace Frehley, John...

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  THE MUSIC, THE MAKEUP, THE MADNESS, AND MORE. . . . In December of 1972, a pair of musicians placed an advertisement in the Village Voice: “GUITARIST WANTED WITH FLASH AND ABILITY.” Ace Frehley figured he had both, so he answered the ad. The rest is rock ’n’ roll history.He was just a boy from the Bronx with stars in his eyes. But when he picked up his guitar and painted stars on his face, Ace Frehley transformed into “The Spaceman”—and helped turn KISS into one of the top-selling bands in the world. Now, for the first time, the beloved rock icon reveals his side of the story with no-holds-barred honesty . . . and no regrets.For KISS fans, Ace offers a rare behind-the-makeup look at the band’s legendary origins, including the lightning-bolt logo he designed and the outfits his mother sewed. He talks about the unspoken division within the band—he and Peter Criss versus Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons—because the other two didn’t “party every day.” Ace also reveals the inside story behind his turbulent breakup with KISS, their triumphant reunion a decade later, and his smash solo career. Along the way, he shares wild stories about dancing at Studio 54 with “The Bionic Woman,” working as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix, and bar-flying all night with John Belushi. In the end, he comes to terms with his highly publicized descent into alcohol, drugs, and self-destruction—ultimately managing to conquer his demons and come out on top. This is Ace Frehley.No makeup.No apologies.No regrets.

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  Angel in a Thorn Bush

  Rob Fynn

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  This is a story of a Marungu, as the white tribe is termed by the Shona, who’s ancestry go back in Africa six generations, brought up in Rhodesia, then left in 1964 at 18 yrs old to join the Queen’s Royal Navy. He was asked to leave when UDI was declared, Ian Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, when all Rhodesians in the British armed forces were now regarded as potential rebels by Harold Wilson’s government of the day. After pursuing his engineering degree at Bristol University, he finally returned driving across the African continent in a Land Rover, which led him into starting up a safari operation on Fothergill Island on Lake Kariba, bringing up his family through those turbulent years of the ‘70’s. His name is Rob Fynn 

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  The Romance of Missionary...

  John C. Lambert

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  Product text: The Romance of Missionary Heroism unites travelogues, ethnographies and biographies in the form of accounts of the experiences of Christian missionaries worldwide. Contents: In the Steppes and Deserts of Mongolia In the Country of the Telugus A Japanese Romance A Heroine of Tibet The Saviour of Liao-Yang The Hero of Uganda The Lion-Hearted Bishop Pioneers in Nyasaland Vortrekkers in Barotseland A Pioneer in Garenganze A Tramp through the Great Pygmy Forest Among the Indians and Eskimo of Hudson Bay The "Praying Master" of the Redskins In the Land of the Dakotas In the Forests of Guiana The Sailor Missionary of Tierra Del Fuego The Schooner of Keppel Island The Martyr-Bishop of Melanesia One of the Unreturning Brave Father Damien of Molokai Among the Cannibal Islands The Apostle of the New Hebrides Kapiolani and the Goddess of the Volcano.

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  William the Conqueror (Special...

  Jacob Abbott

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  Smith Show Media presents William the Conqueror written by Jacob Abbott. Learn the way he lived and stories from his life.

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  The Clockwork Universe - Isaac...

  Edward Dolnick

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  New York Times–bestselling Author: An “entertainingly written” account of the scientific revolution that emerged amid the horrors of seventeenth-century London (Kirkus Reviews). 
   
  In the late seventeenth century, chaos and disease reigned. Streets overflowed with filth and the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Sickness was divine punishment, astronomy and astrology were indistinguishable, and the world’s most brilliant, ambitious, and curious scientists were tormented by contradiction. They believed in angels, devils, and alchemy, yet also believed that the universe followed precise mathematical laws that were as intricate and perfectly regulated as the mechanisms of a great clock. 
   
  The Clockwork Universe captures these thinkers as they wrestled with nature’s most sweeping mysteries. Award-winning writer Edward Dolnick illuminates the fascinating personalities of Newton, Leibniz, Kepler, and others, and vividly animates their momentous struggle during an era when little was known and everything was new—battles of will, faith, and intellect that would change the course of history itself. 
   
  “Dolnick’s book is lively and the characters are vivid.” —The New York Times Book Review 
   
  “A free-for-all of ideas in a character-rich, historical narrative.” —The Wall Street Journal 
   
  “Dolnick writes clearly and unpretentiously about science, and writes equally well about the tumultuous historical context for these men’s groundbreaking discoveries: the English Civil War, the Thirty Years’ War, and in 1665 and 1666 respectively, the Black Plague and the Great Fire of London. Dolnick also offers penetrating portraits of the geniuses of the day, many of them idiosyncratic in the extreme, who offer fertile ground for entertaining writing.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Cola di Rienzo: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  In the wake of the Roman Empire’s collapse, Italy found itself fractured, and nearly 1,000 years after Rome lost its grip in the late 5th century, there were several sovereign regional powers on the peninsula, such as Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States, and Naples. Centuries of conflict ensued, precipitating great anxiety among Western thinkers, and Italians responded to the fragmentation of the area in many ways.  
  	While local leaders often maintained rivalries or alliances in an attempt to increase their power, some always held on to the idea of reestablishing the Roman Empire, a concept that had compelled rulers as far back as Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great to attempt to conquer the entire peninsula. Among the Italians of the Middle Ages, the most famous – and controversial – man who sought to unify Italy was, somewhat fittingly, a Roman. 
  	Cola di Rienzo was a man whose life and actions have reverberated down the centuries, as his charismatic, yet unsuccessful dictatorship has spawned legends and comparisons with movements of later ages. His attempt to bring the greatness of Roman antiquity into the reality of the 14th century, the city’s lowest point, is inspiring on its face. In 1938, Iris Origo saw how Cola was being used by her present era and noted that "within the last century Emperor, Communist and Fascist in turn have paid tribute to Cola di Rienzo as a kindred spirit or precursor. But historical parallels are deceptive. To measure a man of one century against a man of another is to see neither of them in the light of his own time…"

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