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Brazil : a biography

Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

981 SCH

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SD_ILS:425153

Sam Steele : a biography

Macleod, R. C., 1940- author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

923.471 STE

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SD_ILS:474334

Unpresidented : a biography of Donald Trump

Brockenbrough, Martha, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

973.933 BRO

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SD_ILS:489618

Philip K. Dick : a comics biography

Queyssi, Laurent, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

928.21 DIC

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SD_ILS:486999

Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography

Warner, Andrea, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

927.8242 SAI

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SD_ILS:475323

Ibn Khaldun : an intellectual biography

Irwin, Robert, 1946- author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

907.202 IRW

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SD_ILS:467625

All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson

Griffin, Mark, 1968- author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

927.9143 HUD

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SD_ILS:475709

Biography of silence : an essay on meditation

Ors, Pablo J. d', 1963- author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

158.128 ORS

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SD_ILS:484948

The shadow emperor : a biography of Napoléon III

Strauss-Schom, Alan author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

923.144 NAP

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SD_ILS:461711

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Lawrence and the Arabs : an intimate biography

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

923.541 LAW

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SD_ILS:469451

11.

Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon

Crespino, Joseph, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

928.154 LEE

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SD_ILS:477052

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All that heaven allows [large print] : a biography of Rock Hudson

Griffin, Mark, 1968- author.

Publication Date

2018

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Call Number

927.9143 HUD

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SD_ILS:476982

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Hunt, Linda, 1945- narrator.

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