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The day before Christmas, Nick isn’t too thrilled about being dragged along for last-minute shopping with his dad. He’s too excited about what he’ll get for Christmas this year. While Nick waits for his father, he overhears a store Santa, who tells the legend of Saint Nicholas..
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At one gilded moment in history, his fame was so great that he was known the world over by his nickname alone: Rubi. Pop songs were written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave their husbands for him. He had an eye for feminine beauty, particularly when it came with great wealth: Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Eva Perón, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. But he was a man's man as well, polo player and race-car driver, chumming around with the likes of Joe Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Oleg Cassini, Aly Khan, and King Farouk. He was also a jewel thief, and an intimate of one of the world's most bloodthirsty dictators. And when he died at the age of fifty-six—wrapping his sports car around a tree in the Bois de Boulogne—a glamorous era of white dinner jackets at El Morocco and celebrity for its own sake died along with him.

He was one of a kind, the last of his breed. And in The Last Playboy, author Shawn Levy brings the giddy, hedonistic, and utterly remarkable story of Porfirio Rubirosa to glorious Technicolor life.

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Tony Award-winning comedian, director, actor, and bestselling author Billy Crystal is, above all things, a devoted grandfather. Drawn from his own experience, "Grandpa's Little One" tells the story of the first year in his grandbaby's life. It's a year filled with tender memories of every first-time event: first smile, first swim, first giggle and laugh, first piece of cake. Seen from a grandfather's point of view, each reverberates with love, tenderness, and a sense of humor. Grandparents everywhere will recognize themselves in the words and pictures of this book..
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Was he a spy, assassin, or just a gigolo? Porfirio Rubirosa mingled with kings, dined with princes and socialized with presidents, dictators, mobsters and movie stars. In the wake of his frenzied activities he left screaming headlines, hundreds of one-night stands, multiple divorces from the world’s richest women, and countless FBI documents. Now, for the first time, the true story of the world’s most famous playboy and a man of international intrigue is told in Chasing Rubi, a brisk tale of intrigue, danger and romance..
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Clara’s grandfather gives her a snowglobe She loves it because she loves him. She loves him almost more than anything else on earth. When he dies she is devastated and lost. It is a long process, but Clara finds her way back and learns about life, death, and the life hereafter .
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"Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States." - Porfirio Diaz.

• A new Profile in Power Series biography of the controversial Mexican dictator
• Provides an important synthesis of current thinking on Diaz and his reign.
• Examines Diaz from the perspectives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This is a new biography of the controversial Mexican dictator who was toppled by the 1910 Revolution. The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernizing force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed. Paul Garner looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the Diaz regime from two very different perspectives: that of the nineteenth century, and of the twentieth century.

Paul Garner is at the University of Wales - Swansea..
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