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Please please tell me now : the Duran Duran story / by Davis, Stephen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Lifelong fans and interested newcomers will love this stunning biography of Duran Duran by the bestselling author of Gold Dust Woman and Hammer of the Gods. In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their pretty boy looks made them the stars of fledgling MTV, but it was their brilliant musicianship that led to a string of number one hits. By the end of the decade, they had sold 60 million albums; today, they've sold over 100 million albums-and counting. Davis traces their roots to the austere 1970s British malaise that spawned both the Sex Pistols and Duran Duran-two seemingly opposite music extremes. Handsome, British, and young, it was Duran Duran that headlined Live Aid, not Bob Dylan or Led Zeppelin. The band moved in the most glamorous circles: Nick Rhodes became close with Andy Warhol, Simon LeBon with Princess Diana, and John Taylor dated quintessential British bad girl Amanda De Cadanet. With timeless hits like "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Girls on Film," "Rio," "Save a Prayer," and the bestselling James Bond theme in the series' history, "A View to Kill," Duran Duran has cemented its legacy in the pop pantheon-and with a new album and a worldwide tour on the way, they show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Featuring exclusive interviews with the band and never-before-published photos from personal archives, Please Please Tell Me Now offers a definitive account of one of the last untold sagas in rock and roll history-a treat for diehard fans, new admirers, and music lovers of any age"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Duran Duran (Musical group); Musical groups; Composers; Musicians;
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Home [sound recording (CD)] : a memoir of my early years / by Andrews, Julie;
Read by the author.
Subjects: Andrews, Julie; CD Talking books; Motion picture actors and actresses; Singers;
© p2008., Hyperion AudioBooks,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lucy Worsley's royal palace secrets [videorecording] / by Scoones, Eleanor,television director,television producer.; Worsley, Lucy,host.; BBC Studios,production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.;
Lucy Worsley, host.Lucy Worsley explores three extraordinary royal palaces: the Tower of London, Hampton Court and Kensington Palace. During lockdown they're closed to visitors, but Lucy has the keys. From William the Conqueror to Princess Diana, they tell the story of almost a thousand years of British monarchy.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England); Kensington Palace (London, England); Tower of London (London, England); Monarchy; Royal houses;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The restless kings : Henry II, his sons and the wars for the Plantagenet crown / by Barratt, Nick,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-298) and index.Presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry II, and his four sons -- a drama that tore apart the most powerful family in western Europe and shaped the future of two nations. Although the key events took place over 800 years ago, their significance still resonates today. Whether you're looking for the root causes of Brexit or tension in the Middle East, their origins can be found in the actions of the Angevin kings of England.
Subjects: Kings and rulers;
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The siege : a six-day hostage crisis and the daring special-forces operation that shocked the world / by Macintyre, Ben,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A brilliant, seat-of-your-pants hostage-taking and daring SAS rescue mission of the Iran Embassy in London in 1980, this is Ben Macintyre at the very height of his story-telling powers. On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There, they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and three British citizens. A tense six-day siege ensued-all on television, over a Bank Holiday weekend-in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a bloodless end to the standoff, while the SAS laid plans for a daring rescue mission: Operation Nimrod. This mission marked a fundamental turning point in global history, when Middle Eastern terrorism arrived in the West. Britain had experienced IRA terrorism before, but never an international terrorist incident on this scale. It was a precursor to the brutal Iran-Iraq War that would follow, in which millions perished. Yet there exists to this day no full account of the week-long siege and gripping rescue. Drawing on interviews with police, hostages, terrorists and key SAS figures, and cutting through the sensationalism and misinformation, bestselling historian Ben Macintyre (author of Sunday Times #1s Colditz, The Spy and the Traitor and SAS: Rogue Heroes) goes deep into the archives with exclusive access to tell the story of what really happened and give the first definitive account of a moment that forever changed the way the nation thought about the SAS-and itself."--
Subjects: Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service.; Iran. Safārat (Great Britain); Embassy takeovers; Special operations (Military science); Terrorism;
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The lady of the rivers / by Gregory, Philippa.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, 1416?-1472; Nobility;
© c2011., Simon & Schuster,
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The moth and the mountain : a true story of love, war and Everest / by Caesar, Ed,author.;
From New Yorker writer Ed Caesar, 'The Moth and the Mountain' is a sweeping true story about one man's attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure: flying his biplane five thousand miles across the world and attempting to become the first person to summit Mt. Everest.
Subjects: Biographies.; Wilson, Maurice, 1898-1934.; Mountaineers; Air pilots; Mountaineering;
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Charles III : the inside story / by Hardman, Robert,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."No British monarch has had a tougher act to follow. Now, after seventy years of waiting and preparation, King Charles III is not just the head of the most famous family in the world, he is the custodian of a thousand-year-old institution that must redefine its place in the digital age while others insist on rewriting the past. With unrivaled access to the king, the royal family, and the court, leading royal authority Robert Hardman brings us the inside story on the most pivotal and challenging year for the monarchy in living memory. From the death of Elizabeth II through to the ancient spectacle of the Coronation, from the rise of a new Prince and Princess of Wales to the latest 'truth bombs' from the Sussexes, this is the story of the making of a monarch"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Charles III, King of Great Britain, 1948-; Windsor, House of.; Kings and rulers; Monarchy; Monarchy;
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Daughter of empire : my life as a Mountbatten / by Hicks, Pamela,1929-;
Subjects: Hicks, Pamela, 1929-; Ladies-in-waiting; Upper class women; Upper class;
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A spy like me / by Sherwood, Kim,1989-author.; Fleming, Ian,1908-1964,creator.;
"An elite team of MI6 agents trained by James Bond must go undercover to unravel a band of violent terrorists in the second thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Novels.; Bond, James (Fictitious character); Great Britain. MI6; Human trafficking; Secret service; Smuggling; Spies; Terrorists;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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