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Running for the Hills: A Memoir
by Horatio Clare  Publisher Comments Before Horatio Clare was born, his parents fell in love with a place -- a remote sheep farm in Wales, physically and in every other way far from the lives they were forging as young professionals in London. The farm was high up a mountain, nearly...
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Opportunity Time
by Linwood Holton Publisher Comments When newly elected Virginia governor Linwood Holton escorted his children into an integrated Richmond public school in 1970, he delivered the coup-de-grace to the Byrd machine, a network of conservative Democrats who had flouted Brown v. Board of...
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When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity
by Karen Mcnally Publisher Comments This first in-depth study of Frank Sinatra’s film career explores his iconic status in relation to his many performances in postwar Hollywood cinema. When Frankie Went to Hollywood considers how Sinatra’s musical acts, television appearances,...
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Baby Love : Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence (07 Edition)
by Rebecca Walker Publisher Comments From the international bestselling author of Black, White, and Jewish comes a wonderfully insightful (Associated Press) book that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade. Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was...
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Con Sueos Se Escribe La Vida: Autobiografa de Un Revolucionario Salvadoreo
by Salvador "leonel" Snchez Cern Publisher Comments "With dreams life is written"is the inspirational story of a compassionate Salvadoran revolutionary. From an early involvement in social struggles, "Leonel"became an FMLN guerrilla commander in the civil war in the 1980s. He played a key role in the...
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Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit
by Kerry Max Cook Publisher Comments Kerry Cook is an innocent man who wrongly served two decades in Texas's notorious death house for the brutal 1977 rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards. His struggle for freedom is said to be one of the worst cases of police and prosecutorial...
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Joshua and Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust
by Michael Benanav Publisher Comments The holocuast through the eyes of the authors grandparents, with a blurb by nobel peace prize winner Elie Wiesel. "Movingly written, Michael Benanav's search for his grandparents' tragic memories and experiences brings the reader closer to an...
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The Guru of Joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the Art of Living
by Frantois Gautier Publisher Comments This is the authorized biography of one of the most magnetic men in the world. He is a man whose presence and grace have touched and transformed millions of followers all over the world—from Bangalore to Bosnia, Surinam to South Africa, Tamil Nadu...
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Kiwi Keith: A Biography of Keith Holyoake
by Barry Gustafson Publisher Comments The definitive life story of New Zealand Prime Minister “Kiwi” Keith Holyoake is revealed in this deftly composed exploration of how one man was able to weather complex changes in society to stay in power for more than 11 years. Through his...
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Angel in Black: Memories of Dale Earnhardt Sr.
by Thomas G Gillispie Synopsis Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr. is filled with personal memories of the man known as the Intimidator in NASCAR circles. These stories all come from the people who knew him best. Earnhardt was far more complex than those who did not know...
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Dice-K: The First Season of the Red Sox $100 Million Man
by Ian Browne Publisher Comments On August 17 the Red Sox were 1.5 games behind the Yankees. Two weeks later they were 8 games behind. By September the Sox were 6.5 games out of the wild card playoff spot, and for Red Sox fans, the season was over. The powerbrokers in the Red Sox...
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Contemporary Authors #263: Contemporary Authors: Vol. 263
by Not Available (na) Synopsis Find biographical information on more than 130,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and...
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Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess
by Lea Jacobson Publisher Comments During daylight hours, the city of Tokyo is the very image of robotic conformity. At night, however, it transforms into a “floating world” of escapism, as “all-work” salarymen seek a place to play. Though fascinated by...
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Linus Pauling, Scientist and Peacemaker
by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager Publisher Comments One of the most brilliant scientists and most controversial individuals of the twentieth century, Linus Pauling was the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. This unique volume, first published to mark the centenary of Paulings birth, gathers...
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The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives
by Sharona Ben-tov Muir Publisher Comments Sharona Ben-Tov Muir discovered after the death of her father, inventor and New Age guru Itzhak Bentov, that he had created Israel’s first rocket. A secret group of scientists working in a rooftop shed, the “Science Corps,” of which he...
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Father and Son: Finding Freedom
by Matthew Wangerin Synopsis Award-winning novelist Walter Wangerin Jr. and his adopted son, Matthew, share their deeply personal story. Each in his own words, father and son narrate the history of their relationship and how they found new meaning-and new identities-through times of...
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From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
by Lorna Goodison Publisher Comments "Throughout her life my mother [Doris] lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up." In the tradition of Michael Ondaatje's...
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Cooked: My Journey from the Streets to the Stove
by Jeff Henderson Publisher Comments By twenty-one, Jeff Henderson was making up to $35,000 a week cooking and selling crack cocaine. By twenty-four, he had been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison on federal drug trafficking charges. It was an all-too-familiar story for a...
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Elie Wiesel: A Religious Biography
by Frederick L. Downing Publisher Comments Elie Wiesel: A Religious Biography argues that Wiesel's religious faith is the driving force behind Wiesel's status as a moral authority????????????????????????that he is essentially a generative religious personality, a poet-prophet??????????????????????...
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Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky
by Michael (edt) Almereyda Publisher Comments From the time his first, futurist poems were published in 1912 until his suicide at the age of thirty-six, Vladimir Mayakovsky made theatrical appearances in his written work and perfected an iconoclastic voice James Schuyler called “the intimate...
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