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The Classmates
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Fifty years ago, in the fall of 1957, two thirteen-year-old boys were enrolled at an elite, boys-only New England boarding school. One of them, descended from wealth and em... [Read more]
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The Memoirs of Casanova: Volume 5 - In London and Moscow (South of France, To London, The English, Flight from London to Berlin, and Russia and Polland)
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""The Memoirs of Casanova: Volume 5 - In London and Moscow (South of France, To London, The English, Flight from London to Berlin, and Russia and Polland)"&q... [Read more]
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Waiting
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A veteran waitress dishes up a spicy and robust account of life as it really exists behind kitchen doors. Part memoir, part social commentary, part guide to how to behave w... [Read more]
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Heart of Oak
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World War II helped to define Tristan Jones as an adventurous Welsh youth. After losing his parents, he spent much of his life working on sailing barges and so he is no str... [Read more]
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The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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""The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller"" by Calvin Thomas is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all. Download ""The Life ... [Read more]
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Meet the Beatles
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Based on extensive research and more than a hundred new interviews, Meet the Beatles offers a compelling fresh interpretation of their story, beginning with their childhood... [Read more]
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On Rue Tatin
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Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with little more than a student loan and the contents of a suitcase to sustain her. But what began then as an apprenticeship ... [Read more]
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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2)
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ABOLITIONIST. EDUCATIONAL REFORMER. LABOR ACTIVIST. TEMPERANCE WORKER. SUFFRAGIST. WOMAN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER. Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams Massachus... [Read more]
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Voyage Through Time
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From a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time his ... [Read more]
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An Hour Before Daylight
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In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the ... [Read more]
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The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
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A look behind the public image of New York Citys most colorful mayor who with his passion, humor, flair, and honesty, has given the city its most caring government in its h... [Read more]
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Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age
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A spirited biography of the financier and bon vivant whose lavish lifestyle embodied the Gilded Age. One of the most colorful figures of the most glamorous era in U.S. hist... [Read more]
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A Passion to Win
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A titan of modern media, Viacom Chair-man Sumner Redstone reveals how he battled his way to become the head of one of the world's great media empires, and the richest man i... [Read more]
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My Schools and Schoolmasters
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My Schools and Schoolmasters is Hugh Miller's account of his extraordinary life - from the hardships of is early life in Cromarty, in North Eastern Scotland, where he origi... [Read more]
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The Confession of St. Patrick
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Read the last confession of one of the most famous saints. Did you know that he spent six years of slavery in Ireland until he escaped and undertook religious training abroad? [Read more]
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Staying Tuned
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""In May 1999 Kevin Klose, president of National Public Radio, invited me to a meeting of the NPR board and surprised me with a bronze plaque, emblazoned 'Lifetim... [Read more]
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the ""contest ... [Read more]
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Life Al Dente
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With the irreverence, gutsy spirit, and warmhearted hilarity that made Pagan Babies a classic, here is the Italian-American experience served up by the author who has been ... [Read more]
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Disney and his Worlds
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A perceptive examination of the whole Disney phenomenon both in business terms and as a cultural construct. A valuable overview of the literature on the Disney Organization... [Read more]
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Albrecht Durer
$80.00
Albrecht Durer is still acknowledged to be one of the world's most renowned artists. This book is a resource of significant value - a comprehensive guide to research on his... [Read more]
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Elliott Carter
$70.00
A comprehensive guide to research on the American composer Elliott Carter. Contains a chronology, complete list of works, detailed books, articles, interviews, video record... [Read more]
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Into Thin Air
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When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering eff... [Read more]
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The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club
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Ive changed a bit since high school. Back then I said no to using and selling drugs. I washed on a normal basis and still had good credit. Introducing Laurie Notaro, the le... [Read more]
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Five-Finger Discount
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On a summer night when she was five years old, Helene Stapinski watched out her kitchen window as her Grandpa Beansie was carted off to jail for the last time. Beansie (so ... [Read more]
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First Son
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In one of the most unprecedented developments in the history of national politics, George W. Bush abruptly emerged to lead all presidential aspirants in the national polls ... [Read more]
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The Adventurist
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The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going. Enter the world of Robe... [Read more]
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Ordinary Girl
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Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summers delightfully candid memoir about her journey from singing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen... [Read more]
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Army of She
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Wearing thick glasses, speaking in her thick Icelandic accent, and, well, seeming a touch thick, Bjork stormed the public consciousness in 2000 as an unlikely heroine in th... [Read more]
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You Got Nothing Coming
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A memoir of astonishing powerthe true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive. It... [Read more]
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I Love You, Ronnie
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No matter what else was going on in his life or where he wastravelling to make movies for G.E., in the California governor's office, at the White House, or on Air Force One... [Read more]
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Passing for Thin
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An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of Passing for Thin , Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up ... [Read more]
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The Prince of Providence
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COP: Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse. BUDDY CIANCI: Now I know why they made you a detective. Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and... [Read more]
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Founding Brothers
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In this landmark work of history, the National Book Awardwinning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individualsHamilton, Bur... [Read more]
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Goat
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Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, nineteen-year-old Brad Land must also contend with unsympathetic local... [Read more]
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Biographical Stories
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A collection of biographical sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne include the following: Benjamin West., Sir Isaac Newton., Samuel Johnson., Oliver Cromwell., Benjamin Franklin.... [Read more]
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Lucky Man
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This memoir discusses Michael J. Fox's life--growing up in Canada and then becoming a national television star in the U.S. at the age of 19. Fox reveals the excess and temp... [Read more]
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Right Turns
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Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way... [Read more]
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Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
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The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional lifean astonishing and c... [Read more]
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Soul Surfer
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The amazing story of the thirteen-year-old surfer girl who lost her arm in a shark attack but never lost her faith -- and of her triumphant return to competitive surfing. T... [Read more]
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Sharing Good Times
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In this wonderfully evocative volume, following the outstanding success of The Hornet's Nest, Christmas in Plains, and his classic, An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter wr... [Read more]
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Beating the Odds
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Four years after her horrific horse racing fall, this is Bev Buckingham's remarkable story of recovery from both a broken back and a broken heart. An uplifting story of cou... [Read more]
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Jack
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Jack Nicholson is one of the longest-lasting and most recognized sex symbols of our time. This sizzling biography goes deep in-depth, relating exclusive interviews with pas... [Read more]
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Leaving the Saints
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Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one womans spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As Mormon royalty within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day S... [Read more]
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Here I Stand
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The legendary Episcopal Bishop tells of his lifelong struggle to champion an authentic christianity based on love, not hatred. [Read more]
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Lincoln at Home
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As Lincoln led the nation into the Civil War, managing the Union was effort, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, winning reelection in 1864, and planning the Reconstruct... [Read more]
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Graceful Exits
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The personal narratives of nine 20th-century writers speak eloquently about the process of departure from the Catholic church and its institutions. Debra Campbell explores ... [Read more]
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Tender Bar
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JR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before JR spoke his first words. As a boy, JR would press his ea... [Read more]
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Ernst von Dohnanyi
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Ernst von Dohnanyi was written from a first-hand perspective by Dohnanyi's widow. Dohnanyi (1877-1960) was one of the most highly respected musicians of his time. The young... [Read more]
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Aaliyah
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Aaliyah Dana Haughton was that music business rarity: a teen idol who transformed herself into a critically acclaimed hip-hop soul artist, a singer who successfully made th... [Read more]
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The Prince Of Tennessee
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In The Prince of Tennessee, David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to... [Read more]
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To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World
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In this marvelously researched and moving biography closely grounded in Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's work, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist who acco... [Read more]
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Naipaul's Strangers
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Winner of the Nobel Prize, Naipaul has traveled throughout the world, looking at its varied cultures and seeking out others' stories, recording and transforming them. His e... [Read more]
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Candy and Me
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As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple pac... [Read more]
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The Confessions of Saint Augustine
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The CONFESSIONS is a history of Saint Augustine's fierce struggle to overcome his evil ways, his attempts to find faith, and his ultimate conversion to Christianity. The CO... [Read more]
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Sky of Stone
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Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York T... [Read more]
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So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star
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A hilarious inside look at the real business of popular music by the drummer of Semisonic that does for rock and roll what Jim Bouton's Ball Four did for baseball. After ye... [Read more]
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Kick Me
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Written in side-splitting and often cringe-inducing detail, Paul Feig takes you in a time machine to a world of bombardment by dodge balls, ill-fated prom dates, hellish sc... [Read more]
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A Girl Named Zippy
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When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around th... [Read more]
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It Must Have Been Moonglow
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In December 1998, after fifty-six years of marriage, Phyllis Greene went from being part of the lifelong unit of "Phyllis and Bob" to being just plain Phyllis. To... [Read more]
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
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The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rocks legendary and most popular band, from its members hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to... [Read more]
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been desc... [Read more]
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
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efore The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in He... [Read more]
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Norman Rockwell
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Norman Rockwells tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and ... [Read more]
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Yes, Admiral
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Yes, Admiral is the second instalment of memoirs from Michael Sheard, author of Yes, Mr Bronson. In this book, Michael Sheard, famed for his roles in many popular televisio... [Read more]
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Native State
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A captivating, deeply affecting memoir chronicling a journey from a Hollywood childhood as the son of a fading show business figure to a bohemian life in Europe and back to... [Read more]
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Curious Minds
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A fascinating collection of essays from twenty-seven of the worlds most interesting scientists about the moments and events in their childhoods that set them on the paths t... [Read more]
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Zig
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"Zig Ziglar epitomizes determination, perseverance, excellence, and a loving Christian spirit more than anyone I know! The world would be a better place if more of us ... [Read more]
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus
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TERESA OF AVILA (1515-1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Spanish nun and one of the great mystics and religious women of the Roman Catholic Church. She was the... [Read more]
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Bill Clinton
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Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, is the quintessential baby boomer: on the one hand blessed with a near-genius IQ, on the other, beset by characte... [Read more]
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Don't Look Back: The David Bussau Story
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David Bussau has lived and worked among the world's poor, had his life threatened by corrupt profiteers and born witness to natural and man-made disasters. For the first ti... [Read more]
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Lighting Up
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In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Hear t, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hilarious, illuminating new me... [Read more]
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Bob Rose
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Bob Rose was a hard footballer, a great man, a battler who knew extraordinary personal hardship, but above all he was a man of inspiring courage and dignity. This is the st... [Read more]
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Candid Science II
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This invaluable book contains 36 interviews, including 26 with Nobel laureates. It presents a cross-section of biomedical science, a field that has been dominant in science... [Read more]
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Selected Letters
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For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Oslo's fi... [Read more]
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The Sound of Two Hands Clapping
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A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic e... [Read more]
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The Heart of Business
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In The Heart of Business Liz Mohn describes her experiences as a woman and an entrepreneur at Bertelsmann, Europes largest media corporation, in a powerful call to action f... [Read more]
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Bat Boy
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Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion f... [Read more]
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General George Washington
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Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and father of his country. Less often discussed is Washingtons military career, includ... [Read more]
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The Story of My Life
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""I was late to school, and that's all I could think about. I started across the field. And then suddenly a fire flashed in my face and the earth seemed to move b... [Read more]
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Justin
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""My name is Justin. I guess I should go ahead and tell you I sing."" -- Justin Timberlake at age eleven The meteoric rise of Justin Timberlake from one... [Read more]
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Snowbird
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Andrew Richard Barnes was the man who flew the very first shipment of cocaine for the Medellin Cartel into the United States, and continued the dangerous trade for almost a... [Read more]
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Benjamin Banneker
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Biographer Charles Cerami mines the available data, eschews the apocryphal, and renders his subject human. Captured completely is the flowering genius of a largely home-sch... [Read more]
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Seasons of Her Life
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When Madeleine Korbel Albright was sworn in as secretary of state in January 1997, she made headlines around the world. She was the first woman to rise to the top tier of A... [Read more]
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The Burn Journals
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BRENT RUNYON WAS 14 years old when he set himself on fire. This is a true story. In The Burn Journals , Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery o... [Read more]
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Mafia Cop
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He was one of the most decorated cops in the history of NYPD. From his ""wiseguy"" relatives, he learned the meaning of honor and loyalty . From his fel... [Read more]
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The First Lady of Hollywood
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Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday ... [Read more]
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Bad Boy
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This is a tale of friendship, greed, and betrayal in the music industry -- and a definitive history of America's biggest rap mogul. No one knows more about creating hits th... [Read more]
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Christmas in Plains
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In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood -- the simplicity of family and community gift-giving, his father's eggn... [Read more]
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Finding My Balance
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Actress Mariel Hemingway uses the lessons and practices of yoga as a starting point for her own personal reflections and a larger-than-life family story. The result is a se... [Read more]
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The Perfect Wife
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Laura Bush is arguably the most popular figure in the Bush White House. Even the President's detractors would not hesitate to describe the First Lady as utterly sincere and... [Read more]
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Elizabeth Robins
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Elizabeth Robins considers this extraordinary actress within the context of her times, relating her own work to wider social and political issues, giving an account of the ... [Read more]
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Duke Ellington and His World
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Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. [Read more]
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Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Lieberman
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This book recounts the life and career of Raquel Liberman, a Polish Jewish prostitute and victim of the white slave trade, which took women from Eastern Europe to Argentina... [Read more]
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Yes, Mr Bronson
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A fascinating tour through the world of film and television, guided by Michael Sheard, an actor of enormous experience. Best known as the infamous Mr Bronson of Grange Hill... [Read more]
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The Education of Henry Adams
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'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.' His political ideals shaped by two p... [Read more]
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books
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Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon o... [Read more]
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Howling at the Moon
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he music industrys most outspoken, outrageous, and phenomenally successful executive delivers a rollicking memoir of pop musics heyday. During the 1970s and '80s the music ... [Read more]
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Brinkley's Beat
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From one of Americas most revered journalistsa richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nations capital and of the eve... [Read more]
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
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Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to ... [Read more]
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The Kennedys at War
$27.50
A dramatic, fascinatingand revisionistnarrative detailing how Americas first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and ... [Read more]
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