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Unveiled: How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love, and Obedience in the Middle East
by Deborah Kanafani  Publisher Comments In the early 1980s, Deborah Jacobs was an ordinary Lebanese American college student from Long Island, New York. By the end of the decade, she would bear witness to the making of international history. Her story begins in graduate school: through a...
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The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival
by Stanley N Alpert Publisher Comments On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan. This is the story of what happened next. . . . Alpert was taken by a carful of gun-toting thugs looking to use...
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Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles
by Kathleen Turner Publisher Comments From her film debut as the sultry schemer in Body Heat to her award-winning role as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, actress Kathleen Turner's unique blend of beauty, intelligence, and raw sexuality has driven her personal and professional life....
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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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Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat 
Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart — her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph. From the age of four, Edwidge...
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Daughter of the Ganges: The Story of One Girl's Adoption and Her Return Journey to India
by Asha Miro Publisher Comments Growing up in an Indian orphanage, Asha Miró; dreamed that someday she would be adopted. At the age of six, her wish finally came true, but only at the misfortune of another. A Catalan family was in the process of adopting twins when one of the...
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The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir
by Honor Moore Publisher Comments "An unsparing portrait of a glamorous but elusive father and his daughter's search for the truth about his secret life."—Sylvia Nasar Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him—with his wife Jenny and a family that grew to nine...
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
by Hilary Spurling Publisher Comments If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone, wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and...
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Slash
by Slash Publisher Comments From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that...
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Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bront
by Maureen Adams Publisher Comments “Move over Marley. Make room for Carlo (Emily Dickinson's giant Newfoundland). Or Flush (Elizabeth Barrett Browning's golden cocker spaniel). Or, maybe, Keeper (Emily Bronte's intimidating mastiff mix). In self-contained chapters of "Shaggy...
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Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York (Vintage)
by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city’s history. In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a...
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Boone: A Biography
by Robert Morgan Publisher Comments The story of Daniel Boone is the story of Americaandmdash;its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that...
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The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War
by Frances Richey Publisher Comments A heartwrenching and powerful memoir in verse from a mother grappling with the reality of her son at war in Iraq Frances Richeyas son, Ben, whom she raised by herself, graduated from the West Point Military Academy in 1998. He became a Green Beret, and...
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Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother's Memoir
by Janet Mason Ellerby Book News Annotation It was the 1960s, and what she had done was unthinkable. She was taken to a home for unwed mothers, where she spent time with other miscreants wondering if they could become virgins again. She only had a few moments with her daughter, and was even a...
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Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
by Robert Kurson
Powells.com Staff Pick Crashing Through is the remarkable story of Mike May, one of only a handful of people to gain sight after being blinded in an accident at age three. Robert Kurson (of Shadow Divers fame) does a wonderful job depicting both May's extraordinary life up...
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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
by Paula Kamen Publisher Comments A friend and confidante reveals the private Iris Chang — the woman behind the international celebrity and bold personality — and attempts to understand Chang's terrible psychological decline. Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age...
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The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid
by Ellen Currey Wilson Publisher Comments Like most parents, Ellen Currey-Wilson and her husband aspire to do a better job of child-rearing than their own parents. Currey-Wilson spent far too much of her childhood watching The Beverly Hillbilliesand Hawaii Five-O; maintained intimate long-term...
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Mellon: An American Life (Vintage)
by David Cannadine Publisher Comments A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each...
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Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage
by Dina Matos McGreevey Publisher Comments In August 2004, New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey resigned, shocking the nation with the news that he was a ???gay American.??? Dina Matos McGreevey stood silently beside him, the picture of the faithful wife standing by her man. She has endured much...
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Hyper-Chondriac: One Man's Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down
by Brian Frazer Publisher Comments Does your blood pressure surge if the car in front of you turns without signaling? Do your neck veins pulsate when a cashier takes too long to ring you up? Does relaxing seem like it'll have to wait until you're dead? Then your name could very well be...
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