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  Masters and Commanders - How...

  Andrew Roberts

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  This joint WWII biography of Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall, and Brooke “is a triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis” (The New York Review of Books). 
   
  Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall. 
   
  Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong-minded, and each was certain that only he knew best how to win the war. Andrew Roberts, “Britain's finest contemporary military historian” (The Economist), traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives of these key leaders as they worked tirelessly in the monumental struggle to destroy Nazism.

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  Life with the Lennons -...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  The enigmatic founder and leader of the Beatles, John Lennon was not only a groundbreaking musician and composer for the ages but also a keen philosopher, seeker of truth, and politically savvy advocate of nonviolence, tolerance, and unrestricted personal freedom. The enlightened big brother to now several generations, Lennon consistently gave everything he had, and then some, to his liberated, infectious music and wide-ranging, common-sense political ideals. In this expansive, comprehensive collection, the very best of John Lennon’s thought-provoking words, the myth, legend, and rumor surrounding this great man is stripped away, and the real John as artist and thoughtful global citizen emerges. Carefully edited to relieve the listener of the tedious twee of the almost always ill-informed and sensationalist-seeking interviewer, Lennon is free to speak his mind on an incredible array of subjects; including his work with the Beatles, his days as a freaky peace politician, his relationships with the other members of the group, the painful trails of his parentless childhood, the creation of his artistic work, and other equally engrossing entertaining Lennonspeak. Here is the perfect collection of the great John Lennon for every dedicated Beatles fan, music historian, the media, as well as all school, library, institutional, and university collections. Series producer Avalon Giuliano in New York. Produced by Alex Franchi in Milan. Edited and mixed by Macc Kay in Bangkok. ICON intern Eden Giuliano. Music by AudioNautix.

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  Amazing Architects and Artists:...

  F. H. Cornish, Fiona MacKenzie

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  The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. 
  Contents: 
  Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa 
  Christopher Wren who rebuilt London 
  Antoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona 
  Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painter 
  Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artist 
  BRITISH ENGLISH 
  Word count: 10,172 
  Headword count: 941 
  PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials. 
  This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series. 
  Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2-B1. 
  About the Amazing People series: 
  A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen. 
  Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure. 
  After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research. 
  Created in association with The Amazing People Club. 
  About Collins ELT Readers: 
  Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels: 
  Level 1 – elementary (A2) 
  Level 2 – pre-intermediate (A2–B1) 
  Level 3 – intermediate (B1) 
  Level 4 – upper intermediate (B2) 
  Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience.

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  Summary of Jaycee Dugard’s A...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Jaycee Dugard’s A Stolen Life is a memoir by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11 and held captive in a hidden backyard compound in Antioch, California, for 18 years. 
  On June 10, 1991, in a small community near Lake Tahoe, a strange car approaches Jaycee as she is walking to the school bus. A man reaches out of the window, zaps Jaycee with a stun gun, and forces her into the back seat.

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  Darker than Night - The True...

  Tom Henderson

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  A chilling account of the murders of two hunters in rural Michigan—a mystery that haunted a community and baffled the police for two decades. 
   
  In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies from Detroit embark on a hunting trip to the Michigan wilderness, unaware they will soon become the hunted. 
   
  The eerie silence surrounding their sudden disappearance is broken after nearly two decades when a relentless investigator inspires a terrified witness to break her silence. The witness narrates a haunting scene that had unfolded years back, pointing fingers at the prime suspects—the Duvall brothers. 
   
  With no bodies unearthed, the justice system is riveted by the startling revelations during an electrifying trial in 2003. The brothers, Raymond and Donald Duvall, had bragged about the murders, evocatively explaining how they dismembered their victims and fed them to pigs. Despite the shocking confession, the case holds its ground purely on a single witness’s account, taking the courtroom through a labyrinth of dark secrets and sinister acts. 
   
  This gripping thriller presents a vivid tale of crime that reveals the devastating power of evil.

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  Edith Wharton's Lenox

  Cornelia Brooke Gilder

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  An insider’s history of how famed novelist Wharton stirred up scandal in the western Massachusetts town. 
   
  In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author with The House of Mirth in 1905. As a hostess, designer, gardener and writer, Wharton set high standards that delighted many, including Ambassador Joseph Choate and sculptor Daniel Chester French. But her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figures like Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Georgiana Welles Sargent. Author Cornelia Brooke Gilder gives an insider’s glimpse of the community’s reaction to this disruptive star during her tumultuous Lenox decade.

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