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9781499251968 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 30, 2014, cover price $14.95

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A revealing portrait of the controversial filmmaker examines Riefenstahl's remarkable contributions to the cinematic art, her relationship with Adolf Hitler, the two monumental films she created for him--Triumph of the Will and Olympia--and her refusal to be held accountable for her role in the Holocaust and the atrocities of the Nazi regime.

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9780374184933 | Faber & Faber, January 23, 2007, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A revealing portrait of the controversial filmmaker examines Riefenstahl's remarkable contributions to the cinematic art, her relationship with Adolf Hitler, the two monumental films she created for him--Triumph of the Will and Olympia--and her refusal to be held accountable for her role in the Holocaust and the atrocities of the Nazi regime.

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9780865479760 | Italian edition edition (Faber & Faber, January 22, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A revealing portrait of the controversial filmmaker examines Riefenstahl's remarkable contributions to the cinematic art, her relationship with Adolf Hitler, the two monumental films she created for him--Triumph of the Will and Olympia--and her refusal to be held accountable for her role in the Holocaust and the atrocities of the Nazi regime.

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A seductress disguised in a nun's habit kidnaps a priest and confesses to murdering her eccentric lovers when they no longer satisfied her, in a controversial, erotic novel that encompasses feminism, Catholicism, and sexual politics. National ad/promo.

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9780060186531 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A seductress disguised in a nun's habit kidnaps a priest and confesses to murdering her eccentric lovers when they no longer satisfied her, in a controversial, erotic novel that encompasses feminism, Catholicism, and sexual politics.

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Six biographical portraits of German leaders who came to power after World War II are written by a personal associate of each Chancellor and reveal commanding figures who rebuilt a nation hated by the world community and devastated by war. IP.
By Hans Klein (editor) and Edna McCown (trans)

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9781883695057 | Edition Q, February 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Six biographical portraits of German leaders who came to power after World War II are written by a personal associate of each Chancellor and reveal commanding figures who rebuilt a nation hated by the world community and devastated by war.

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Trained as a lawyer, but not allowed to practice in Switzerland because she is a woman, Emily Kempin decides to move her family to America

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9780880641517 | Fromm Intl, January 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Trained as a lawyer, but not allowed to practice in Switzerland because she is a woman, Emily Kempin decides to move her family to America

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By Edna McCown (trans)

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9780880641531 | Reprint edition (Fromm Intl, September 1, 1993), cover price $8.95

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The intersection of two lives--that of chain-smoking, successful Dr. Horst Gotze, and Gottfried Sonder, a simple man nearing retirement who develops lung cancer--occasions murder and an extraordinary investigation. A first novel.
By Edna McCown (trans) and Felix Mettler

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9780880641340 | Reprint edition (Fromm Intl, April 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Commissioner Haberli uses his intuition to solve the murder of a victim whose body is first discovered in the trunk of a doctor's car, but then mysteriously vanishes

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The death of their son and their daily visits to his grave become the focus for their own relationship for Lucienne and her husband, the Colonel

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9780880641258 | Fromm Intl, May 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The death of their son and their daily visits to his grave become the focus for their own relationship for Lucienne and her husband, the Colonel

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A fictionalized recreation of the tragedy of Aurora Rodriguez who--having raised her daughter to carry on her own socialist ideals and seeing her torn between politics and passion--ended the young woman's life
By Erich Hackl and Edna McCown (trans)

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9780679724353 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1990), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A fictionalized recreation of the tragedy of Aurora Rodriguez who--having raised her daughter to carry on her own socialist ideals and seeing her torn between politics and passion--ended the young woman's life

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