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Georgia Bragg
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"Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes, epic failures even lead to super successes . . . sometimes they become deep dark secrets. But remember?to fail is human, to laugh about our shortcomings divine. From Montezuma II?s mistaking a conqueror for a god to Isaac Newton turning from science to alchemy to J. Bruce Ismay?s jumping the lifeboat line on the Titanic, How They Choked knocks fourteen famous achievers off their pedestals to reveal the human side...
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"A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and more! From the award-winning team that brought you How They Croaked and How They Choked. Outlaw, assassin, art thief, and spy, these fourteen troublemakers and crooks--including Blackbeard the pirate, Typhoid Mary, and gangster Al Capone--have given the good guys a run for their money throughout the ages. Some were crooked, some were deadly, and some...
4) Moondance
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Melissa Hewitt enjoys escaping to the Canadian Rockies, where the stresses of the week melt away— but real life is never far away, filled with terrifying dreams of being pursued by a panther, and a handsome, but unfriendly boss who exudes both danger and allure. There is something about Leander Garrett, however, that draws Melissa, making him almost impossible to ignore; that, and the fact that once they had been friends.As winter turns into
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