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My Life at Grey Gardens: Thirteen Months and Beyond
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My Life at Grey Gardens: Thirteen Months and Beyond
by L Wright

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Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, known as Big Edie and Little Edie, were the aunt and cousin of former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. They led an unconventional existence in Grey Gardens, a mansion in East Hampton. Their...
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Dreams from My Father
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Dreams from My Father
by Barack Obama

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a...
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich

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"It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las...
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Theodore Rex
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Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris

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The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by Barbara Kingsolver

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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one...
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Hiding in Hip Hop: on the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music To Hollywood
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Hiding in Hip Hop: on the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music To Hollywood
by Terrance Dean

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Everyone wants to know the truth about their favorite celebrities' heart's desire. Within the masculine culture of Hip Hop and Hollywood, there is a well-known gay subculture that industry insiders are keenly aware of but choose to hide. Terrance Dean...
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A Moveable Feast
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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway

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Dawn's Awakening
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Dawn's Awakening
by Lora Leigh

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New in the sexy paranormal series that put Lora Leigh on the bestseller lists. "Leigh draws readers into her stories and takes them on a sensual roller coaster."* An erotic thrill ride about genetically altered Breeds with feline DNA-and the humans who...
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
by Daniel, Ellsberg

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In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers—a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam—to the New York Times and Washington Post. The document set in motion a chain...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert

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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career...
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Masters of Doom
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Masters of Doom
by David Kushner

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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they...
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Trail of Crumbs
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Trail of Crumbs
by Sun

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Already hailed as 'brave, emotional, and gorgeously written' by Frances Mayes and 'like a piece of dark chocolate--bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon' by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the search...
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Measure of a Man, The: A Spiritual Autobiography
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Measure of a Man, The: A Spiritual Autobiography
by Sidney, Poitier

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"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out...
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Lopsided
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Lopsided
by Meredith Norton

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Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents and their five...
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Gods Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
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Gods Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
by George Weigel

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George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well...
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Childe Morgan
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Childe Morgan
by Katherine Kurtz

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New York Times bestselling author of In the King's Service Alaric Morgan has been pledged to the king's service. His Deryni blood makes him ideal to safeguard the Haldane kings and ensure that Prince Brion shall have the protection of his hereditary...
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The Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Journeys and Conversations
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The Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Journeys and Conversations
by Lama Dalai

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"The most intimate conversation yet with the world's most famous holy man. When Victor Chan first visited the Dalai Lama in the 1970s, he assumed that, since he is a member of the race responsible for destroying Tibet, the Dalai Lama would treat him with...
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
by James , R. Hansen

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On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few...
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Shut Up, I'm Talking: and Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government--a Memoir
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Shut Up, I'm Talking: and Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government--a Memoir
by Gregory Levey

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Shut Up, I'm Talking is a smart, hilarious insider take on Israeli politics that reads like the bastard child of Thomas Friedman and David Sedaris. Now a political writer for Salon, Gregory Levey stumbled into a job as speechwriter for the Israeli...
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Kiss of Fire
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Kiss of Fire
by Deborah Cooke

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For millennia, the shape-shifting dragon warriors known as the Pyr have commanded the four elements and guarded the earth's treasures. But now the final reckoning between the Pyr, who count humans among the earth's treasures, and the Slayers, who would...
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