Category: Biography

Beloved American hero and astronaut Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered--both in outer space and on earth--through his event-filled life, in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man in space to first men on the moon. Now he pauses to reflect and share what he has learned, from the vantage point not only of outer...
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Return to Earth

By: Aldrin, Edwin E,Warga, Wayne

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House : January 1973

Seller ID: 160767

ISBN-13: 9780394488325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

By: Alford, Mimi

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House : February 2012

Seller ID: 98330

ISBN-13: 9781400069101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

My Affair with President John F Kennedy and Its Aftermath.
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Alicia: My Story

By: Alicia Appleman-Jurman

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Bantam : December 1989

Seller ID: 51225

ISBN-13: 9780553282184

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

WINNER OF THE 1989 CHRISTOPHER AWARD - Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank's diary--a story that the young must hear and their elders must remember. Take Alicia's hand--and follow. "This memoir is heartbreaking. I hope it will be read by Jews and non-Jews alike."--Elie Wiesel, author of Night Her name is Alicia. She was thirteen when she began saving the lives of people she did not know--while fleeing the Nazis through war-ravaged Poland. Her family cruelly wrenched from her, Alicia rescued other Jews from the Gestapo, led the...
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Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter

By: Allen, Jennifer

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House : September 2000

Seller ID: 139616

ISBN-13: 9780812992328

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

George Allen was a top-ranked NFL coach throughout the sixties and seventies, coaching in turn the Chicago Bears, the Los Angeles Rams, and the Washington Redskins. Raised in a home dominated by her three football-obsessed older brothers and her father's relentless schedule, Jennifer Allen came of age in a cauldron of testosterone and win-at-all-costs mentality. Buffeted by the coach's tumultuous firings and hirings, the Allen family was periodically propelled to new teams in new cities. And while her French-Tunisian mother attempted to teach Jennifer proper feminine etiquette, the author drea...
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Getting Even

By: Allen, Woody

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Vintage : August 1978

Seller ID: 179952

ISBN-13: 9780394726403

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Slight shelve wear on the cover. Shelf and spine wear -- reader's copy.
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The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Harper : April 2008

Seller ID: 158731

ISBN-13: 9780061551833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Stated first edition and by number code
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The Real Benjamin Franklin (American Classic Series)

By: Allison, Andrew M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: National Center for Constitutional Studies : August 1982

Seller ID: 179332

ISBN-13: 9780880800013

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : November 2002

Seller ID: 179924

ISBN-13: 9780743202756

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

Shelf wear on front dust jacket. Sticker residue on dust jacket near author's name.
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Barbra: The Way She Is

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $6.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co. : March 2006

Seller ID: 196276

ISBN-13: 9780060562564

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Funny, I don't feel like a legend." -- Barbra StreisandShe is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra Joan Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossomed into a modern-day Nefertiti, the political dilettante driving to the barricades in her Rolls-Royce, the Oscar-winning actress and bona fide movie mogul, the greatest female singer who ever lived, a skinflint, a philanthropist, a connoisseur and a barbarian, the woman whose physical characteristics are instantly identifiable around the plane...
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Jackie After Jack: Portrait of the Lady

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Warner Books : March 1999

Seller ID: 132147

ISBN-13: 9780446607438

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Traces Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' rise to cultural icon after her husband's assassination, explaining how she gracefully dealt with remarriage, money, romance, children, and illness.
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Sweet Caroline: Last Child of Camelot

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $8.01

Publisher: William Morrow : October 2003

Seller ID: 201660

ISBN-13: 9780066213699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

She is the heiress to a legacy of power, wealth, unfulfilled promise, and unspeakable tragedy. Her father was gunned down before a stunned world forty years ago, forever changing the course of history. Her mother became the most celebrated American woman of the twentieth century -- an icon of style, glamour, and personal courage. Her brother was the most promising Kennedy of his generation -- a global heartthrob who was killed when his plane crashed within sight of his mother's estate on Martha's Vineyard. Through it all, the sole surviving member of Camelot's First Family, Caroline Kennedy, h...
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The Day John Died

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Avon : June 2001

Seller ID: 52624

ISBN-13: 9780380819584

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Shelf and spine wear -- reader's copy.
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Citizen Jane: The Turbulent Life of Jane Fonda

By: Andersen, Christopher P.

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co : April 1990

Seller ID: 171133

ISBN-13: 9780805009590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Acceptable

Pages yellowing due to age, previous owner's name and number written inside front cover, minor wear on jacket
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George and Laura : Portrait of an American Marriage

By: Andersen, Christopher P.

Price: $3.25

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canad : November 2003

Seller ID: 52508

ISBN-13: 9780061032240

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This intimate look into the White House and the marriage of the President and First Lady by the #1 New York Times bestselling author is now available in paperback with a new Epilogue and 32 pp. of black-and-white photos.
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