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 Hurry Down Sunshine is a mesmerizing account of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of 15, Michael Greenberg's daughter, Sally, was struck mad. Unsentimental and deeply humane, this work chronicles Sally's journey into and out of psychiatric wards and its effect on those closest to her. Booklist calls it "a startling piece of writing, by turns sobering and surreal."
Einstein in His Own Words
by Anne Rooney
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Einstein In His Own Words collects wisdom and insight straight from the mind of the most famous genius of the 20th century. Read Einstein's thoughts and writings on a variety of subjects, including relativity, black holes, atomic energy, time travel, and...
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A Cook's Tour
by Anthony Bourdain
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Bourdain crisscrosses the world, sampling local delicacies from the sublime to the bizarre. Throughout his travels, Bourdain discovers again and again the importance of community, kinship, and the power of food to bring people together....
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Laughing in the Dark: A Comedian's Journey Through Depression
by Chonda Pierce
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With gut-wrenching honesty, Women of Faith comedian Pierce shares her journey through the depths of depression and back into the light, and all the while, she keeps readers laughing through their tears....
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Scientists
Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
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By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang...(read more)
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North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter
by Sakie Yokota
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On November 15, 1977, 13 year-old Megumi Yokota disappeared without a trace while on her way home from school. Twenty years later a newspaper revealed she was abducted by North Korean operatives and was still in North Korea. Megumi and at least 13 others...
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Driving Mr. Albert: a Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain
by Michael Paterniti
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Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. (read more)
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Powells.com Staff Pick
Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use
to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
is a
powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there...
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The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
by Laurie Notaro
Powells.com Staff Pick
If you gave David Sedaris a sex change and about nine shots of tequila,
you'd have Laurie Notaro.
Not that she's a drinker, but she is the kind of fearless that most
people need alcoholic fortification to be. Far from triggering a
chortle, or even a...
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged...
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The Wordy Shipmates
by Sarah Vowell
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At once a meditation on the motives of the pilgrims and a history of religion in America, The Wordy Shipmates will be a welcome addition to your history shelves. Sarah Vowell brings her usual wry humor and sharp insight to a piece of American history...
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