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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies

Kathleen Cremonesi knew early on she wanted to be different. Determined to avoid following in her mother's footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former administrative assistant with wanderlust took a job as a dancer in an Italian circus and, working her way up, became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl. Kathleen bonds with the exotic animals that could strike and kill...

2) Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies: the patriots

Author

Fisher, David

Series

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders
The American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against each other, as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. These were the times that tried men's souls: no one was on stable

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3) Bossypants

Author

Fey, Tina

Language

English

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Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" (Sunday Telegraph).
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had...

4) Killing the legends: the lethal danger of celebrity

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Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin...

5) Growing up Getty: the story of America's most unconventional dynasty

Author

Reginato, James

Publisher

Gallery Books

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

Description

"Oil magnate J. Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, is the patriarch of an extraordinary cast of sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. While some have been brought low by mental illness, drug addiction, and one of the most sensational kidnapping cases of the 20th century, many of Getty's heirs have achieved great success. In addition to Mark Getty, a cofounder of Getty Images, and Anne G. Earhart, an award-winning environmentalist,...

6) Chasing history: a kid in the newsroom

Author

Bernstein, Carl

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies

"In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation's capital-a winning tale ofscrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam"--

7) The closer

Author

Rivera, Mariano

Pub. Date

2014

Language

English

8) Shakespeare: the world as stage

Author

Bryson, Bill

Series

Eminent lives

Publisher

Atlas Books/HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c2007

Language

English

9) Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies: the real West

Author

Fisher, David

Series

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

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"The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary television series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know : How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and...

10) George Lucas: a life

Author

Jones, Brian Jay

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

11) Talk of champions: stories of the people who made me : a memoir

Author

Smith, Kenny

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

Description

"A riveting memoir from Kenny Smith ("Kenny the Jet")-superstar basketball commentator, host of top-rated Inside the NBA, and two-time NBA champion. Smith reveals his thoughtful views on race, the NBA, his upbringing, and an abundance of poignant, colorful inside stories about the star players, coaches, and mentors who taught and inspired him along the way. In his playing career, Kenny Smith was a star at the University of North Carolina before beginning...

12) Cousy: his life, career, and the birth of big-time basketball

Author

Reynolds, Bill

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

[2005]

Language

English

13) It's good to be the Gronk

Author

Gronkowski, Rob

Publisher

Gallery Books, Jeter Publishing

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

14) The Mosquito Bowl: a game of life and death in World War II

Author

Bissinger, Buzz

Publisher

HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

Description

"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion...

15) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author

Vance, J. D

Language

English

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Description

Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...

16) The confidence men: how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history

Author

Fox, Margalit

Language

English

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"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate saeances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...

17) The threat: how the FBI protects America in the age of terror and Trump

Author

McCabe, Andrew

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook

Description

The former deputy director of the FBI recounts his career; discusses how law enforcement battles terror threats, Russian crime, and attacks by the White House itself on the U.S. Constitution; and offers details of the events leading up to his firing by Donald Trump.

18) Killing Lincoln: the shocking assassination that changed America forever

Author

Series

Bill O'Reilly's Killing

Language

English

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A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly
The iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a

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19) Killing Kennedy: the end of Camelot

Author

Series

Bill O'Reilly's Killing

Pub. Date

2012

Language

English

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A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln.
The basis for the 2013 television movie of the same name starring Rob Lowe as JFK.

More than a million people have enjoyed Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the can't-stop-listening work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination

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20) Killing Patton: the strange death of World War II's most audacious general

Author

Series

Bill O'Reilly's Killing

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

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