Category: Biography

If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge's. Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field's in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century he brought his own American dream to London's Oxford Street where, in 1909, with a massive burst of publicity, Harry opened Selfridge's, England's first truly modern built-for-purpose department store. Designed to promote shopping as a sensual and pleasurable experience, six acres of ...
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In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

By: Woodruff, Lee,Woodruff, Bob

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Random House : March 2007

Seller ID: 166250

ISBN-13: 9781400066674

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

ABCs World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his wife share the never-before-told story about the attack in Iraq that left Bob seriously injured. This honest, frank account is a love story of two people and how they have recovered and renewed their lives.
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The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008

By: Woodward, Bob

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : May 2009

Seller ID: 205766

ISBN-13: 9781416558989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Bob Woodward once again pulls back the curtain on Washington to reveal the inner workings of a government at war in his fourth book on President George W. Bush. The War Within provides an exhaustive account of the struggles of General David Petraeus, who takes over in Iraq during one of the bleakest and most violent periods of the war. It reveals how breakthroughs in military operations and surveillance account for much of the progress as violence in Iraq plummeted in the middle of 2007. Woodward interviewed key players, obtained dozens of never-before-published documents, and had nearly three...
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Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi

By: Woodward, Bob

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : January 1984

Seller ID: 179734

ISBN-13: 9780671473204

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Aged but in good shape. Some shelf wear on the dust jacket.
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The Final Days

By: Woodward, Bob, Bernstein, Carl

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Avon Books : January 1977

Seller ID: 52534

ISBN-13: 9780380008445

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Final Days

By: Woodward, Bob,Bernstein, Carl

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : May 1976

Seller ID: 181088

ISBN-13: 9780671222987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dust jacket has minor shelf wear on edges.
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

By: Woodward, C. Vann

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Oxford University Press : March 1974

Seller ID: 203788

ISBN-13: 9780195018059

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Moments of Being

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Mariner Books : August 1985

Seller ID: 187960

ISBN-13: 9780156619189

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Cover not as depicted. Former library copy with identifying labels.
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

By: Wordsworth Trust

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Kansas, Wordsworth Trust : 2016

Seller ID: 187901

ISBN-13: 9781905256495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Name of previous bookseller written inside front cover with date of sale. In good condition.
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Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer

By: Wright, Peter

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Viking Adult : July 1987

Seller ID: 190093

ISBN-13: 9780670820559

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dust jacket has shelf wear.
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The Wyeths: The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945

By: Wyeth, N. C.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Gambit Inc Pubns : June 1970

Seller ID: 202678

ISBN-13: 9780876450468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Jacket has multiple tears and shelf wear due to age. Discoloration on spine.
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Yeager: An Autobiography

By: Yeager, Chuck, Janos, Leo

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Bantam : June 1985

Seller ID: 193286

ISBN-13: 9780553050936

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Tear in jacket on cover, shelf wear. Boards have some shelf wear
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

By: Yen Mah, Adeline

Price: $6.00

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc : February 1998

Seller ID: 180654

ISBN-13: 9780471247425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Riveting. A marvel of memory. Poignant proof of the human will to endure." --Amy Tan. "Brilliant, compelling, and unforgettable. A heart-rending modern day Cinderella story set against the turbulence of 20th century China. Autobiography at its best." --Nien Chang, author of Life and Death in Shanghai. "Charged with emotion...A vivid portrait of the human capacity for meanness, malice--and love." --Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans. "Fascinating and heart-rending stuff...a harrowing story of emotional cruelty." --The Times of London International bestseller. The emotionally wrenching yet ultima...
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Anna Freud: A Biography

By: Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Summit Books : October 1988

Seller ID: 126217

ISBN-13: 9780671616960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

By: Yousafzai, Malala

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : October 2013

Seller ID: 198770

ISBN-13: 9780316322409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous reco...
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