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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.  ... (read more)

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FDR
FDR
by Jean Edward Smith
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One of todays premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source... (read more)

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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
by Ross King
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From the bestselling author of "Brunelleschi's Dome" comes this examination of the first impressionist painters. Unabridged. 13 CDs.... (read more)

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Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the worlds attention with Infidel, the critically acclaimed, eye-opening memoir of her Muslim childhood in Africa and Saudi Arabia and her eventual escape to the Netherlands to avoid a forced marriage. After a Dutch film director... (read more)

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A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the O.S.S.
A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the O.S.S.
by Jennet Conant
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New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant presents this stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the O.S.S. in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were caught up in the... (read more)

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Known and Unknown: A Memoir
Known and Unknown: A Memoir
by Donald Rumsfeld
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Abridged, 10 CDs, 12 hours Read by the author Like former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld himself, Known and Unknown pulls no punches.... (read more)

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What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
by Noam Chomsky
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In this all new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the... (read more)

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The Post-American World
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria
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A Prophetic Assessment of America's Changing Place in an Increasingly Global Age For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else -- the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil,... (read more)

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White House Diary
White House Diary
by Jimmy Carter
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The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter—filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world Each day during his presidency,... (read more)

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The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
by A J Jacobs
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For his first hit title, Jacobs read the Encyclopedia Britannica. For his second, he followed every single rule in the Bible. Now comes a collection of his most outrageous and thought-provoking experiments yet. In The Guinea Pig Diaries, Jacobs goes... (read more)

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The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
by Michael Capuzzo
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Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world’s finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders.   Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and... (read more)

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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Full Spectrum Dominance [The American Empire Project]
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Full Spectrum Dominance [The American Empire Project]
by Noam Chomsky
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The worlds foremost intellectual activist narrates his irrefutable analysis of Americas pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the... (read more)

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My Life: Audio
My Life: Audio
by Bill Clinton
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President Bill Clintons My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It shows us the progress... (read more)

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
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From one of the most beloved authors of our  time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges... (read more)

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, Madness, and the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, Madness, and the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americas rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairs brilliant director of works and the... (read more)

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Conversations with Myself
Conversations with Myself
by Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers... (read more)

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Fire CD
Fire CD
by Sebastian Junger
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For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the... (read more)

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Don't Know Much about Geography
Don't Know Much about Geography
by Kenneth C Davis
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Davis answers everything many of us ever wanted to know about geography in this straightforward package.... (read more)

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Yes We Can Speeches of Barack Obama
Yes We Can Speeches of Barack Obama
by Barack Obama
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Rubicon Abridged
Rubicon Abridged
by Tom Holland
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