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Summary: "The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 COOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 COOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ASTOR COOBrown, Tina
Summary: The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.085 BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.085 BROSeely, Kim Brown
Summary: "A narrative memoir about the particular midlife crisis that comes when children leave home. Author Kim Brown Seely and her husband (Seattle residents who did time in NYC) decide somewhat spontaneously to acquire a 54-foot sailboat, learn how to sail, then set off to find a spirit bear (the rare white Kermode bear) in the forest that on the BC mainland north of the tip of Vancouver Island. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2019