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Public Radio: Behind the Voices Public Radio: Behind the Voices
by Lisa A. Phillips
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Lisa Phillips loved public radio so much that after graduating from college, she took a job as News Director of KTPR in rural Fort Dodge, Iowa. Her day started at 4:30 a.m., in time to broadcast Bob Edwards's first "Good Morning" on Morning Edition. Over... (read more)
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Girl in Landscape Girl in Landscape
by Jonathan Lethem
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One the irrepressibly inventive Jonathan Lethem could weld science fiction and the Western into a mesmerizing novel of exploration and otherness, sexual awakening and loss. At the age of 13 Pella Marsh loses her mother and her home on the scorched husk... (read more)
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by Dale Peterson
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An in-depth biography of Jane Goodall describes how the seminal scientist and naturalist revolutionized the study of primates through her years of study of the chimpanzees of Gombe, helped establish radical new standards and a new intellectual style in... (read more)
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Voices From Chernobyl : Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (06 Edition) Voices From Chernobyl : Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (06 Edition)
by Svetlana Alexievich
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal... (read more)
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All Aunt Hagar's Children (Large Print) All Aunt Hagar's Children (Large Print)
by Edward P. Jones
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Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the... (read more)
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The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in the New Yorker The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in the New Yorker
by Matthew Diffee
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Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that... (read more)
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Centaur in the Garden (03 Edition) Centaur in the Garden (03 Edition)
by Moacyr Scliar
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A masterpiece of magical realism by one of Brazils most celebrated novelists. The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in the United... (read more)
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Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
by Jen Marlowe and Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro
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In February, 2003, the Sudanese Liberation Army in Darfur (the western region of Sudan) after years of oppression took up arms against the Sudanese government. The government and allied militias answered the rebellion with mass murder, rape and the... (read more)
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Edens Lost & Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great Cities Edens Lost & Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great Cities
by Harry Wiland
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Part celebration and part inspiration, Edens Lost & Found, the companion book to the PBS series, chronicles the forward-looking transformation of America's urban landscapes and communities.... (read more)
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