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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Bargain @ $0.99-$1.99 for assorted history & memoirs from various HarperCollins and Random House imprints in Canada & the US (non-couponable; should be the same price in all the usual stores, some will probably expire today or Monday, when HC seem to rotate their offerings):
@ 99 cents: - Flight By Elephant: The Untold Story of World War II’s Most Daring Jungle Rescue by British journalist Andrew Martin (Wikipedia), which has Burmese elephants in it.
- The Bomb: A New History by Stephen M. Younger, PhD (profile at the Wilson Center), a history of the making of nuclear policy and discussion of current issues, by a former weapons designer at Los Alamos, home of the Manhattan Project.
- On Cats by the late 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient Doris Lessing (Wikipedia), a literary memoir which is actually omnibus edition containing three collections of stories and essays, written between 1967 and 2000, about Exactly What It Says In The Title
- Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters by Ben Green, a history of the basketball team
- Boys Will Be Boys The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman, a history of the football team
- The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath by Philip Carlo, a true crime biography of the titular Mafia hitman (Wikipedia)
- Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice by actress Maureen McCormick (Wikipedia), about the effect of her famous role on the classic TV show The Brady Bunch on her life and after
- It's Not About the Pom-Poms: How a 40-Year-Old Mom Became the NFL's Oldest Cheerleader--and Found Hope, Joy, (the subtitle cuts off there and I'm not typing the rest of it out) by Laura Vikmanis (Wikipedia) with Amy Sohn, one of those heartwarming memoirs by someone who managed to achieve a lifelong dream, and wrote a book about it which is apparently slated to be turned into an inspiring film
@ $1.99
- Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott (Wikipedia), an occasional contributor to Smithsonian Magazine's history blog, her biographical history of Exactly Whom It Says In The Title
- Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile by Julia Fox, a dual historical biography of two of Ferdinand & Isabella's daughters, who were interesting, strong-willed and well-educated women, who had happy-then-unhappy marriages which turned out to be unhappy in very, very different ways that changed the futures of their countries.
- The Exotic Meat Cookbook: From Antelope to Zebra by Jeannette Edgar & Rachel Godwin. In case you ever wanted to know how to cook crocodile or kudu or whatever was out of the ordinary but occasionally obtainable (without going to the lengths of To Serve Man, that is).
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Some--well, almost all of them, although I had run across some of them already--great finds. Thanks.