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Golda
by Elinor Burkett  Publisher Comments The first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history, Golda Meir was a member of the tiny coterie of founders of the State of Israel, the architect of its socialist infrastructure, and its most...
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Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
by Lynn Sherr Publisher Comments Peter Jennings was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. But who was Peter Jennings really? In this...
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Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
by Elizabeth D Samet Publisher Comments Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army “from the stories of their fathers and from the movies.” For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, while her students grew up on Braveheart and...
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Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt
by Aida Donald Publisher Comments New York State Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, New York City Police Commissioner, Governor of New York, Vice President and, at forty-two, the youngest President ever-in his own words, Theodore Roosevelt “rose like a rocket.” He...
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Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books
by Ted Bishop Publisher Comments "Part travelogue, part ode to his bike and part literary criticism...a memoir infused with joie de vivre."—Publishers Weekly In this "joyful book" (Booklist), archive diver and Ducati enthusiast Ted Bishop takes readers on an epic trip from Edmonton...
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Authentic Adam Smith (06 Edition)
by Buchan Publisher Comments Celebrated author James Buchan breathes new life into Adam Smith's legacy and the beginnings of modern economics. The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and...
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Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Eduardo Machado Publisher Comments <B>Tender at the Bone meets Waiting for Snow in Havana in the Cuban kitchen: An acclaimed playwright turns his talents to memoir, recounting his life as an exile, in which recipes represent not only the lost comfort of home but the best chance to...
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Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life
by Michael Krasny Publisher Comments KQED Radio’s Michael Krasny is one of the country’s leading interviewers of literary luminaries, a maestro for educated listeners who prefer their discourse high and civil. He is a writer’s interviewer. But it didn’t start out...
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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Carl Bernstein Publisher Comments Drawing from hundreds of interviews with colleagues, friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Carl Bernstein offers a complex and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversial figures of our...
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Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell (Vintage)
by Karen Deyoung Publisher Comments The first full biography of Colin Powell, from his Bronx childhood to his military career to his controversial tenure as secretary of state, with a new afterword detailing his life after the Bush White House. Over the course of a lifetime of service to...
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A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein
by Lisa Rogak Publisher Comments A Boy Named Shel, Lisa Rogak tells the full story of a life as antic and adventurous as any of his creations. A man with an incurable case of wanderlust, Shel kept homes on both coasts and many places in between — and enjoyed regular stays in the...
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Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical Stories
by Will Eisner Publisher Comments An intimate self-portrait of the American icon Will Eisner, and a chronicle of the career that launched a new art form. In what will be the closest thing Eisner fans will see to an autobiography, the great master and pioneer of American graphic arts...
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Between Panic and Desire (American Lives)
by Dinty W Moore Publisher Comments “Insouciant” and “irreverent” are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore’s books—and, invariably, “hilarious.” Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds...
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In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
by Lee Woodruff Publisher Comments In January 2006, Lee and Bob Woodruff seemed to have it all–a happy marriage, four beautiful children, and marvelous careers. Bob had just been named co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight, but then, while he was embedded with the military in...
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The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney (Simpson Book in the Humanities)
by Michael Barrier Publisher Comments Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture...
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Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience
by Justin Wintle Publisher Comments "The trouble is that I know too much."—Aung San Suu Kyi Burma is a country where, as one senior UN official puts it, "just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death." Aung San Suu Kyi is considered to be Burma's best hope for freedom, and...
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Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
by Christine Montross Publisher Comments A hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open. Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class...
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Courage Beyond Words
by Christopher Robbins Publisher Comments “As much a thriller as a biography andnot to be missed.” Emma Thompson, Academy Award winner Courage Beyond Words tells the remarkable story ofhow the most celebrated language teacher in historydeveloped his craft during the trials and...
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Rebel Chief: The Motley Life of Colonel William Holland Thomas, C.S.A.
by Paul A Thomsen Publisher Comments After the phenomenal success of his first novel Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier described his next novel as being based on the life of a white man who was made an Indian chief, served in the government in Washington D.C., fought on the side of the South...
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Comfort: A Journey through Grief
by Ann Hood Publisher Comments A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again. In 2002, Ann Hood's five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep throat. Stunned and devastated, the family...
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