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  Escape from Stalag Luft III -...

  Simon Pearson, Bram Vanderstok

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  A memoir of the most decorated pilot in Dutch history and one of the World War II POWs who fled Nazi Germany what is known as “The Great Escape.”   On the night of 24 March 1944, Bram Vanderstok was the eighteenth of 76 men who crawled out of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. The 1963 film The Great Escape was largely based on this autobiography but—with Vanderstok's agreement—filmmakers chose to turn his story into an Australian character named Sedgwick, played by James Coburn.   His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and then describes various escape attempts which culminated with the famous March breakout. After escaping, Vanderstok roamed Europe for weeks before making it back to England. Two months after escaping, he returned to the British no. 91 Squadron. In the following months he flew almost every day to France, escorting bombers and knocking down V1 rockets.   In August 1944, he finally returned to his home. He learned that his two brothers had been killed in concentration camps after being arrested for resistance work. His father had been tortured and blinded by the Gestapo during interrogation. He had never betrayed his son.  “His escapes, his operations as a Spitfire pilot, his experiences as a prisoner of war, and his incredible escape crossing the Pyrenees—all are described in a breathtaking manner which made me read his book through in one sitting.” —Prof. Dr. L de Jong, founder/director of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation  “Such a modest man, such a dramatic story—you’ll be pulled into this absorbing account.” —Jonathan Vance, author of The True Story of the Great Escape

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  Kim Kardashian: Book Of Quotes...

  Quotes Station

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  KIM KARDASHIAN: BOOK OF QUOTES 
    
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  ABOUT KIM KARDASHIAN 
  Kimberly Noel Kardashian West (born October 21, 1980) is an American media personality, socialite, model, businesswoman, producer, and actress. Kardashian first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton but received wider notice after a 2002 sex tape, Kim Kardashian, Superstar, with her then-boyfriend Ray J was released in 2007. Later that year, she and her family began to appear in the E! reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021). Its success soon led to the creation of the spin-off series Kourtney and Kim Take New York (2011–2012) and Kourtney and Kim Take Miami (2009–2013). 
    
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  QUOTES SAMPLES 
    
  “It doesn`t matter if you have a valentine or not - just love yourself and be your own.” 
    
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  “I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.” 
    
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  “Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.” 
    
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  “Get to know me and see who I am.” 
    
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  “I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.” 
    
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  My career is based on openness and honesty.” 
    
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  “I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.”

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  Marlene Dietrich - Life and Legend

  Steven Bach

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  From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Marlene Dietrich was an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe.  In a grand and sweeping biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on this singular star, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth. Based on six years of meticulous research and hundreds of interviews—             including conversations with Dietrich—             this is the life story of one of the 20th century's greatest movie actresses and performers.

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  Memoirs of a Veteran FBI Agent -...

  Jim Sacia

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  Jim Sacia’s book, “Not in My Wildest Dreams: Memoirs of a Veteran FBI Agent,” is a nostalgic reflection on the author’s 28-year career in the Federal Bureau of Investigations.  
  This unique audio book includes a 30-minute bonus interview with the author where he discusses why he wrote his memoirs, what were some of his favorite stories, what was it like emotionally re-connecting with the stories during the recording of the audio book, and more. 
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Jim Sacia grew up one of ten children on a thirty cow dairy farm north of LaCrosse, Wisconsin.  Jim joined the Army following graduation from Melrose High School in 1962.  After a three-year stint, with the Vietnam War heating up, he attended college at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls, where he also served as a police officer. He planned to return to active duty as a commissioned officer upon obtaining his degree.  He graduated from US Army Ranger School and obtained a commission while serving in the Wisconsin Army National Guard.  Fate intervened when he learned that the FBI needed agents.  With degree in hand, the FBI, not the Army, became his next step.  Jim and his wife of forty-eight years, Jenny, have three grown sons and reside on their farm in Pecatonica, Illinois.

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  Undfriending My Ex - and Other...

  Kim Stolz

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  An incisive, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir about life online and about how our obsessive connectivity is making us more disconnected—from former reality show contestant, MTV VJ, restauranteur, and go-to voice for millenials.Social media and technology have fundamentally altered the way we do business, couple and break up, develop friendships, and construct our identities and our notions of aspiration and fame. We make decisions about where we’ll go based on whether it’s Instagrammable. We don’t have friends, we have followers. For an entire generation, an experience not captured on social media might as well not have happened at all.As someone whose identity has been forged by reality TV (as a contestant on and social media and mobile technology, Kim Stolz is deeply obsessed with the subject. She has a hard time putting her phone down. And yet she remembers what life was like before technology-induced ADD, before life had become a string of late-night texts, Snapchats, endless selfies, that sinking feeling you get when you realize you’ve hit reply all by mistake. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was once a time before we wasted a full hour emptily clicking through a semi-stranger’s vacation pictures on Facebook, a time before every ex, every meaningless fling was a mere click away.Unfriending My Ex (And Other Things I’ll Never Do chronicles a life filtered through our obsessive relationship with technology. The book is as eye-opening as it is entertaining as it proceeds through the various ways in which social media and mobile technology have generated empathy deficits and left us all with the attention spans of fruit flies…and the sad fact that in spite all of this, we find it impossible to switch our devices off.Smart, hilarious, and completely relatable, Unfriending My Ex (And Other Things I’ll Never Do) captures our crazy moment, shining a bright light on the trials and tribulations of life online.

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  Mindfreak - Secret Revelations

  Criss Angel, Laura Morton

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  A Los Angeles Times bestseller, Mindfreak: Secret Revelations is the spellbinding memoir of stage and television’s master magician—Criss Angel. 
   
  The star of Mindfreak—the most astonishing and provocative mystifier of the twenty-first century—Criss Angel shares his philosophy of life and magic, goes behind the scenes of his groundbreaking A&E TV series, and reveals the secrets to forty mind-blowing illusions that you can master! 
   
  “An amazing illusionist. The best I’ve ever seen.” —Howard Stern 
   
  “I don’t think there is anyone in magic right now who has captured the public interest more than Criss Angel.” —Penn Jillette 
   
  “Criss Angel is the biggest thing in magic, period.” —Larry King 
   
  “Criss Angel—part Cirque de Soleil freak, part magician, part street performance artist, part musician, part dancer—has taken magic and illusion from the realm of cheesola to the realm of art.” —New York Post

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