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Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships
by John Price  Publisher Comments John price’s story is one of family and place, rich with wild creatures, with his Swedish ancestors, with neighbors, and with his prairie home. His work, deeply grounded in the grasslands of the Midwest, is, like that of Edward Abbey or Aldo...
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Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed
by Michelle Morgan Publisher Comments A comprehensive and meticulously researched treasure trove of information that brings to light the ordinary domestic details to the countless controversies of Marilyn Monroe's life. Dozens of people who knew or were related to Marilyn — from the...
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In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars with DVD
by Kevin Sites Publisher Comments Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first...
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Dark at the Roots: A Memoir
by Sarah Thyre Publisher Comments The story of one girl's heroic struggle to overcome the lower-middle class obstacles that stood between her and the world she knew she could call her oyster, Dark at the Roots limns the absurdities of growing up funny in the deep south. When Sarah...
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power (Eminent Lives)
by Ross King Publisher Comments The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli's handbook on power — how to get it and how to keep it — has been enormously influential in the centuries since it was written, garnering a heady mixture of admiration, fear, and contempt. Its author, born...
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The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963
by Gail Godwin Publisher Comments Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old when she wrote: “I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created.” It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of...
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Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age
by Donna M Lucey Publisher Comments John Armstrong Chanler-- known as Archie to his family-- was an heir to the Astor fortune, an eccentric, dashing, and handsome millionaire. Ame lie Rives, from a Southern family and the goddaughter of Robert E. Lee, was a daring author, a stunning...
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Fair Shares for All: A Memoir of Family and Food
by John Haney Publisher Comments In this beautifully written, vividly rendered memoir, John Haney, Gourmet magazine’s copy chief, describes his family’s day-to-day struggles, from the twilight of Queen Victoria’s reign to the dawn of the third millennium, in London...
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Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces...
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Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love
by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev Publisher Comments The failure of the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from one of two conflicting viewpoints: hers or his. Missing for more than four decades has been a third perspective on the events that brought their marriage to...
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Commie Girl in the O.C.
by Rebecca Schoenkopf Publisher Comments Acutely funny, scathing and outrageous dispatches from the heartland of consumerism. If you thought there was no liberal life left in Orange County, think again. From her operational-base-cum-family-home deep behind enemy lines, Rebecca Schoenkopf risks...
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Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography
by Charlotte Chandler Publisher Comments In this fascinating new biography of screen legend Joan Crawford, Charlotte Chandler draws on exclusive and remarkably candid interviews with Crawford herself and with others who knew her, including first husband Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Crawford's...
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Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
by Jen Lancaster Publisher Comments Personal Training, Session One: I'm standing at the front desk, waiting for the mythical "Barbie" to appear. While I was sucking down water and aspirin earlier today, trying to shed my hangover, I started thinking about how judgmental I can be. I mean...
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The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector
by Aidan Delgado Publisher Comments The Sutras of Abu Ghraib is the story of a soldier who refused to succumb to violence. In chronicling the struggles of military life and the dehumanizing effects of war, Aidan Delgado examines the attitudes that make prisoner abuse possible and explores...
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Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather
by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments His career has covered and in many ways mirrored the turbulence of the last four decades. Dan Rather was the first to report John F. Kennedy' s death in Dallas. He sparred with Richard Nixon during the Watergate era. And from 1981 to 2004, he was the...
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This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness
by Gilbert Tuhabonye Publisher Comments Gilbert Tuhabonye is a survivor. More than ten years ago, he lay buried under a pile of burning bodies. The centuries–old battle between Hutu and Tutsi tribes had come to Gilbert's school. Fueled by hatred, the Hutus forced more than a hundred...
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Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor
by Josh Wolk Synopsis Three months before getting married at age thirty-four, Josh Wolk decides to treat himself to a farewell to childhood extravaganza: one last summer working at the beloved Maine boys' camp where he spent most of the eighties. And there he finds out that...
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The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir
by Victoria Rowell Publisher Comments The story of a remarkable woman's rise out of the foster-care system to attain the American dream—and of the unlikely series of women who lifted her up in marvelous and distinctive ways Born as a ward of the state of Maine—the child of an...
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Ike: An American Hero
by Michael Korda Publisher Comments Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one of her best presidents—a remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and...
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Relative Stranger: Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness
by Mary Loudon Publisher Comments “Smart, affecting, and self-critically probing: a balm for anyone who has lost a loved one long before death.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Loudon’s book is a moving and loving testament to a messy, complicated life. A-&...
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