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Mark Rothko: A Biography by James E. B. Breslin Publisher Comments A book of heroic dimensions, this is the first full-length biography of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century—a man as fascinating, difficult, and compelling as the paintings he produced. Drawing on exclusive access to Mark... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Dinner: A Love Story: It All Begins at the Family Table by Jenny Rosenstrach Publisher Comments Jenny Rosenstrach, and her husband, Andy, regularly, some might say pathologically, cook dinner for their family every night. Even when they work long days. Even when their kids' schedules pull them in eighteen different directions. They are not... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen Publisher Comments A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and Low When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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I, Claud: Memoirs of a Subversive by Claud Cockburn Publisher Comments The memoirs of British radical journalist Claud Cockburn are sardonic, hilarious, and filled with rich historical detail. They tell the story of an Oxford-educated Communist who rubbed elbows with everyone from Al Capone to Charles de Gaulle. From Times... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro by Leonard Slatkin Publisher Comments Conducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living. This most mysterious of jobs is brought to life for the music lover as well as for the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir by Noelle Hancock Publisher Comments After losing her high-octane job as an entertainment blogger, Noelle Hancock was lost. About to turn twenty-nine, she'd spent her career writing about celebrities' lives and had forgotten how to live her own. Unemployed and full of self-doubt, she had no... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Publisher Comments In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1952-2012 by Annie Bullen Publisher Comments A gorgeously photographed celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's 60 magnificent years as British Sovereign With the exception of Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years, Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch in... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa by Stephen Kemper Publisher Comments In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His five-and-a-half... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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Pavel's Letters by Monika Maron Publisher Comments Pavel was Monika Maron's grandfather. But she only remembers him in black and white, as he left his children behind in Berlin when he was deported to his native Poland, and afterwards perished in a concentration camp. As a grown-up with a son of her own,... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $13.00 New - Trade Paper
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer by David Roberts Publisher Comments Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the... (read more) Available June 26, 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH by Shawn Green Publisher Comments Shawn Greens career statistics can be found on the backs of baseball cards in shoeboxes across America: 328 home runs, 1,071 RBIs, .282 career batting average, All-Star, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger . . . but numbers tell only part of the story. In the... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Full Body Burden Signed Edition by Kristen Iversen Publisher Comments Full Body Burden is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." It's the... (read more) Available June 29, 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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A Field Guide to Now: Notes on Mindfulness and Life in the Present Tense by Christina Rosalie Publisher Comments What if you could look for the present moment in a field guide, the way you might look up the name of a tree you seeoutside your window? For as long as you can remember, the tree has just been a tree, but when you look it up, it becomes something... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $18.95 New - Hardcover
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Rickover: The Struggle for Excellence by Francis Duncan Publisher Comments As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have been written about various aspects of his career, this is the first biography to have access to private... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $45.95 New - Trade Paper
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Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption by Shon Hopwood Publisher Comments Law Man is an improbablee-but-true memoir of redemption -- the story of a young bank robber who became the greatest jailhouse lawyer in American history, and who changed not just his own life, but the lives of everyone around him. Shon Hopwood was... (read more) Available August 7, 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner by Lily Raff McCaulou Publisher Comments When Lily Raff McCaulou traded in an indie film production career in New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, she never imagined that she'd find herself picking up a gun and learning to hunt. She'd been raised as a gun-fearing environmentalist and... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Political Portraits: Fidel Castro Reflects on Famous Figures in History by Fidel Castro and Eliades Acosta-Matos Publisher Comments A prominent figure himself on the world stage for fifty years, Fidel Castro offers some fascinating and perceptive comments on historical figures and some of his contemporaries, including: Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara, Jos Mart, Simn Bolvar, John F... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes Synopsis #3 on Amazon.coms 10 Best Books of 2011 The New Yorker Favorite Books from 2011 Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2011 Barnes and Noble Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 St. Louis Post Dispatch Favorite Books of 2011 A Shelf Awareness Reviewers Top Pick of... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage by Ruth A. Hawkins Publisher Comments It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley among a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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