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  Backstairs Billy - The Life of...

  Tom Quinn

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  "William Tallon was a creature of extremes: though intensely loyal, he was also a dangerous risk-taker; though charming, he could also be vicious; though considerate and amusing, he could be ruthless and predatory. For much of his life he was driven by two demons: a powerful sex drive and an intense, almost pathological love for the Queen Mother…"
  
  
  From humble beginnings as a shopkeeper's son in Coventry to 'Page of the Backstairs' at Clarence House, William Tallon, or 'Backstairs Billy' as he came to be known, entered royal service at the age of fifteen. Over the next fifty years, he became one of the most notorious and flamboyant characters ever to have graced the royal household - the one servant the Queen Mother just could not do without. While others came and went, he remained by her side, becoming one of her most trusted friends and confidants.
  
  
  The fascinating life story of the man who spent more than half a century working for one of the world's most elusive institutions, Backstairs Billy provides a rare glimpse of what the royals really get up to behind closed doors…

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  The Souls of Black Folk

  W. E. B. Du Bois

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  The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature.
  The book contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in American society. Outside of its notable relevance in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works in the field of sociology.
  In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois used the term "double consciousness", perhaps taken from Ralph Waldo Emerson ("The Transcendentalist" and "Fate"), applying it to the idea that black people must have two fields of vision at all times. They must be conscious of how they view themselves, as well as being conscious of how the world views them.

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  Lives of the Most Excellent...

  Giorgio Vasari

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  The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art" and "the first important book on art history". The title is often abridged to just the Vite or the Lives.
  Contents:
  Cimabue
  Arnolfo di Lapo
  Nicola Pisano
  Giovanni Pisano
  Andrea Tafi
  Gaddo Gaddi
  Margaritone
  Giotto
  Agostino and Agnolo
  Stefano and Ugolino
  Pietro Lorenzetti
  Andrea Pisano
  Buonamico Buffalmacco
  Ambrogio Lorenzetti
  Pietro Cavallini
  Simone Martini
  Taddeo Gaddi
  Andrea Orcagna
  Tommaso Fiorentino
  Giovanni da Ponte
  Agnolo Gaddi
  Berna Sanese 
  Duccio
  Antonio Viniziano
  Jacopo di Casentino
  Spinello Aretino
  Gherardo Starnina
  Lippo
  Lorenzo Monaco
  Taddeo Bartoli
  Lorenzo di Bicci
  Jacopo della Quercia
  Niccolo Aretino 
  Dello
  Nanni di Banco
  Luca della Robbia
  Paolo Uccello
  Lorenzo Ghiberti
  Masolino da Panicale
  Parri Spinelli
  Masaccio
  Filippo Brunelleschi
  Donatello
  Michelozzo Michelozzi
  Antonio Filarete
  Giuliano da Maiano
  Piero della Francesca
  Fra Angelico 
  Leon Battista Alberti
  Lazaro Vasari
  Antonello da Messina
  Alesso Baldovinetti
  Vellano da Padova
  Fra Filippo Lippi
  Gentile da Fabriano
  Vittore Pisanello
  Pesello and Francesco Pesellino
  Benozzo Gozzoli
  Francesco di Giorgio
  Galasso Ferrarese 
  Desiderio da Settignano
  Mino da Fiesole
  Lorenzo Costa 
  Ercole Ferrarese
  Cosimo Rosselli
  Il Cecca 
  Sandro Botticelli
  Benedetto da Maiano
  Andrea Mantegna
  Filippino Lippi
  Giorgio Vasari
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  The Games Do Count - America's...

  Brian Kilmeade

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  What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice, and Jon Bon Jovi have in common? They have all reached the top of their respective professions, and they all credit sports for teaching them the lessons that were fundamental to their success. In his years spent interviewing and profiling celebrities, politicians, and top businesspeople, popular sportscaster and Fox & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade has discovered that nearly everyone shares a love of sports and has a story about how a game, a coach, or a single moment of competition changed his or her life.These vignettes have entertained, surprised, and inspired readers nationwide with their insight into America's most respected and well-known personalities. Kilmeade presents more than seventy stories straight from the men and women themselves and those who were closest to them. From competition to camaraderie, individual achievement to teamwork, failure to success, the world of sports encompasses it all and enriches our lives. The Games Do Count reveals this simple and compelling truth: America's best and brightest haven't just worked hard -- they've played hard -- and the results have been staggering!

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  The Scarlet Plague

  Jack London

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  Known mainly for his tales of adventure, this work of science fiction by Jack London is set in a post-apocalyptic future. It's 2072, sixty years after the scarlet plague has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons. Through his narrative, we learn how the plague spread throughout the world and of the struggles of the handful of survivors it left in its wake. The Scarlet Plague was originally published in London Magazine in 1912

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  Snow-Storm in August - The...

  Jefferson Morley

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  Editor and investigative reporter Jefferson Morley has been widely published in national periodicals and is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction work Our Man in Mexico. An eye-opening look at Washington's first race riot, Snow-Storm in August also offers revealing profiles of Arthur Bowen, the slave blamed for the riot, and ''Star Spangled Banner'' lyricistFrancis Scott Key, a defender of slavery who sought capital punishment for Bowen.

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