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Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts from the Animals of Africa
Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts from the Animals of Africa
by Melissa J. Haynes
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Playing with a lions testicles: An African saying that means to take foolhardy chances. Melissa, an exhausted executive from the city seeks meaning and purpose from her work volunteers for a Big Five conservation project in South Africa. Her boss, an... (read more)

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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag: A Memoir of a Life Through Events--The Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't
I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag: A Memoir of a Life Through Events--The Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't
by Jennifer Gilbert
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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag is a warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York Citys most successful and respected special events coordinators. With her top-level events company, Save the Date... (read more)

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Asylum: Hollywood Tales from My Great Depression: Brain Dis-Ease, Recovery, and Being My Mother's Son
Asylum: Hollywood Tales from My Great Depression: Brain Dis-Ease, Recovery, and Being My Mother's Son
by Joe Pantoliano
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Most people know Joe Pantoliano from his memorable roles in The Sopranos, The Goonies, The Matrix, The Fugitive, and Risky Business, but the Emmy-winning artist has another important role—as an outspoken advocate for smashing the stigma of mental... (read more)

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Milestones of Art: Keith Haring: Next Stop: Art: Graphic Novel
Milestones of Art: Keith Haring: Next Stop: Art: Graphic Novel
by Willi Bl
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At the end of the 1970 years Keith Haring decorates the walls of the subway tunnels in New York with simple, two-dimensional characters. His tag is The Radiant Child. In contrast to the graffiti scene, which consists of little more than repetitions of... (read more)

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Liberace Extravaganza!
Liberace Extravaganza!
by Connie Furr Soloman
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Known for his spectacular performances, the magnificent Wladziu Valentino Liberace was a world-renowned star in the entertainment industry for more than four decades, and his dazzling, often outrageous costumes are what made him most memorable. In... (read more)

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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
by Megan Marshall
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From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New Englands intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed womens sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American... (read more)

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Jane Austen: An Obstinate Heart
Jane Austen: An Obstinate Heart
by Valerie Grosvenor Myer
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Jane Austen’s world-famous novels give readers a small glimpse into the author’s real life, which was filled with as many ups and downs as those of Emma Woodhouse or Elizabeth Bennet. She too had to navigate her way through a stratified... (read more)

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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by Wendy Moore
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Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage... (read more)

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The Laws of the Ring
The Laws of the Ring
by Urijah Faber
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As one of the most exciting, charismatic fighters in MMA, Urijah "The California Kid" Faber is well known for his inventive style and cutting-edge approach to fitness. Outside the ring, his passion has motivated him to open his own fitness center,... (read more)

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Boy 30529: A Memoir
Boy 30529: A Memoir
by Felix Weinberg
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“Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not... (read more)

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Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams
Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams
by Tina Cassidy
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Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Americas favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes for Jackie: it was the year she... (read more)

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Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)
Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)
by Jeff (edt) Burger
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Offering fans an extensive look at the artists own words throughout the past four decades, Springsteen on Springsteen brings together Q&A-formatted articles, speeches, and features that incorporate significant interview material. No one is... (read more)

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The Vast Unknown Signed Edition
The Vast Unknown Signed Edition
by Broughton Coburn
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By the author of the New York Times bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, this chronicle of the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963 — published to coincide with the climb's 50th anniversary — combines riveting... (read more)

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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes
by Steven M. Nadler
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"The famous painting of Descartes by Frans Hals that hangs in the Louvre is, in fact, not by Frans Hals. And a similar things-are-not-what-they-seem quality applies to this clever little book. For behind the telling of the story of a clutch of paintings... (read more)

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Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life #14: Jane's Window: Stories Beyond the Texas Roadside Markers
Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life #14: Jane's Window: Stories Beyond the Texas Roadside Markers
by Jane Dunn Sibley
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On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley’s Pezuna del Caballo (Horse’s Hoof) Ranch in West Texas’ Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later... (read more)

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Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole
Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole
by Kirk S. Lippold
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On October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop.  At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was rocked by an enormous explosion. The ship’s... (read more)

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Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
by Sara Benincasa
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In Boston, a college student fears leaving her own room, even to use the toilet. In Pennsylvania, a meek personal assistant finally confronts a perpetually enraged gay spiritual guru. In Texas, a rookie high school teacher deals with her male student's... (read more)

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Nailed!: The Improbable Rise and Spectacular Fall of Lenny Dykstra
Nailed!: The Improbable Rise and Spectacular Fall of Lenny Dykstra
by Christopher Frankie
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Nailed! is a dramatic biography of Lenny Dykstra—the heroic center fielder for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies in the 80s and 90s whose gritty play earned him the nickname “Nails.” Dykstras unlikely post-baseball rise in the... (read more)

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Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America S First Women Lawyers
Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America S First Women Lawyers
by Jill Norgren
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"I read these stories of the first generation of women lawyers with awe and gratitude. We are all in their debt—and in Jill Norgren's, too, for recovering this forgotten history." —Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist in... (read more)

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Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
by Edward Reicher
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“Stirring” —Jewish Daily Forward “Its the rough texture of Reichers tale—like grainy celluloid from a bygone era—that gives such a powerful, deeply disturbing immediacy to the ghetto inhabitants he remembers. Reicher tells... (read more)

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