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The Prince of Providence: The Rise and Fall of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor

by Mike Stanton

Published: 2004-07-13

Paperback: 496 pages

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COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.”BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.”Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In Th...

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The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds

by Mike Stanton

Published: 2003-08-05

Hardcover: 464 pages

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COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.”BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.”Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In Th...

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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

by Rory Stewart

Published: 2007-04-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven month...

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Prince of Tides

by Pat Conroy

Published: 2006-07-03

Paperback: 672 pages

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Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm��of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding��with drama. Spanning forty years, this is��the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted ad��troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and��violent past of the extraordinary family to whi...

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The Prince of Tides

by Pat Conroy

Published: 2010-07-28

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 The bestselling Pat Conroy novel--now available as an ebookThe stirring saga of a man's journey to free his sister--and himself--from a tragic family historyTom Wingo has lost his job, and is on the verge of losing his marriage, when he learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has attempte...

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The Prince of Tides: A Novel

by Pat Conroy

Published: 2002-10

Paperback: 704 pages

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PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the ...

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Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II

by Philip Eade

Published: 2011-11-08

Kindle Edition: 377 pages

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"Rich in drama and tragedy" (The Guardian), here is a mesmerizing account of the extraordinary formative years of the man married to the most famous woman in the worldBefore he met the young girl who became Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip had a tumultuous upbringing in Greece, France, Na...

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The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli

Published: 2010-09-01

Paperback: 196 pages

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When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The...

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The Princes in the Tower

by Alison Weir

Published: 1995-07-10

Paperback: 287 pages

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Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill ?the Princes in the Tower,? as is commonly ...

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The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga

by Edward Rutherfurd

Published: 2004-03-02

Kindle Edition: 800 pages

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From the internationally bestselling author of London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Princes of Ireland brilliantly interweaves engrossing ficti...