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Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
by Michael Sokolove
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Friday Night Lights meets Glee—the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.   Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and... (read more)

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The Life & Poetry of Ted Kooser
The Life & Poetry of Ted Kooser
by Mary K. Stillwell
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Like a flash of lightning it came to him—the unathletic high school student Ted Kooser saw a future as a famous poet that promised everything: glory, immortality, a bohemian lifestyle (no more doing dishes, no more cleaning his room), and... (read more)

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Diary of a Combatant: The Diary of the Revolution That Made Che Guevara a Legend
Diary of a Combatant: The Diary of the Revolution That Made Che Guevara a Legend
by Ernesto Che Guevara
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The publication of this title by Ocean Sur in Spanish in July 2011 provoked considerable international attention (including CNN). This never-before-published diary (comprising a dozen small notebooks) Ernesto Che Guevara kept during the guerrilla war in... (read more)

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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
by Carla Kaplan
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New York City in the Jazz Age was host to a pulsating artistic and social revolution. Uptown, an unprecedented explosion in black music, literature, dance, and art sparked the Harlem Renaissance. While the history of this African-American awakening has... (read more)

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Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke
Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke
by Rob Sheffield
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Once upon a time I was falling apart. Now I'm always falling in love. Pick up the microphone. When Rob Sheffield moved to New York City in the summer of 2001, he was a young widower trying to start a new life in a new town. Behind, in the past... (read more)

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Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
by Chris Matthews
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andlt;I andgt;TIP AND THE GIPPERandlt;/Iandgt; is a magnificent personal history of a time when two great political opponents served together for the benefit of the country. Chris Matthews was an eyewitness to this story as a top aide to Speaker of the... (read more)

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Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, & Discovery
Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, & Discovery
by Rachel Adams
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Rachel Adamss life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second... (read more)

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Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations
Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations
by Joanne Lipman
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"Part biography of a beloved teacher and father, part memoir, the book's central character, music teacher Jerry 'Mr. K' Kupchynsky, looms larger than life on the page — just as he did for journalist Lipman, one of Mr. K's violists, and Melanie, his... (read more)

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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
by Stanley Crouch
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No musician has lived a more transformational, or more tragic, life than Charlie Parker, one of the most talented and influential figures of the twentieth century. From the start of his career in the late 1930s, Parker was a new kind of American artist... (read more)

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Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
by John W. Young
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“Young was the best engineer and best test pilot of all the astronauts of the early space age. Without question, he was the most important astronaut of the space shuttle era. He was the best ever chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston. Nobody... (read more)

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Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
by Ann Mah
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The memoir of a young diplomats wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris—one dish at a time When journalist Ann Mahs diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she... (read more)

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Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?: Teaching Lessons from the Bronx
Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?: Teaching Lessons from the Bronx
by Ilana Garon
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According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the “hero teacher”—the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to... (read more)

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Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood
Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood
by Dori Katz
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Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she might... (read more)

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Richard Wagner: A Life in Music
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music
by Martin Geck
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Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history,... (read more)

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No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
by Molly Knight Raskin
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No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. Its the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a... (read more)

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Outlaw Tales of California: True Stories of the Golden State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
Outlaw Tales of California: True Stories of the Golden State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
by Chris Enss
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Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of California 2, with compelling legends of the Golden State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot... (read more)

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The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery
The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery
by Agatha Christie
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In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a ten-month voyage around the world. Her husband, Archibald Christie, had been invited to join a trade mission to promote the British Empire Exhibition, and Christie was determined to go with him. It was a life... (read more)

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Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado Senator and Suffragist (Timberline Books)
Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado Senator and Suffragist (Timberline Books)
by Pat Pascoe
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Calling herself "the housewife of the senate," Helen Ring Robinson was Colorado's first female state senator and only the second in the United States. Serving from 1913 to 1917, she worked for social and economic justice as a champion of... (read more)

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An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
by Richard Dawkins
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With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, impolite" debate (San Francisco Chronicle). his first memoir offers a more personal view. His... (read more)

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Kennedy: The Classic Biography: Deluxe Modern Classic
Kennedy: The Classic Biography: Deluxe Modern Classic
by Ted Sorensen
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The classic, intimate, and magisterial biography of JFK In January 1953, freshman senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts hired a twenty-four-year-old from Nebraska as his Number Two legislative assistant—on a trial basis. Despite the... (read more)

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