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Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
by Joe Nick Patoski  Publisher Comments From his first performance at age four, Willie Nelson was driven to make music and live life on his own terms. But though he is a songwriter of exceptional depth - Crazy was one of his early classics - Willie only found success after abandoning Nashville...
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The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself
by Joan Anderson Publisher Comments The Second Journey picks up a decade after A Year by the Sea???what happens after Joan returns home to her busy life. It chronicles a moment of crisis in Joan??'s life as she tries to determine how she can be all things to all people and be good to...
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
by Daniel Tammet Publisher Comments Born on a Blue Day is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today -- guided by the owner himself. Daniel Tammet is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life...
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Audition: A Memoir
by Barbara Walters Publisher Comments Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package." And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that...
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Leonard Woolf: A Biography
by Victoria Glendinning Publisher Comments This meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of Leonard Woolf, the “dark star” of Bloomsbury, is the first to capture his troubled relationship with his wife, his own intellect, and the tumultuous world of artists and...
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The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
by Robert Leleux Publisher Comments In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of...
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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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Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on...
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Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
by Sari Nusseibeh Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side...
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Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Jeff Gerth Synopsis HER WAY has already sent shockwaves through the election season, influencing the decisions of voters, providing pundits with tons of ammunition, and forcing Hillary Clinton's camp to answer some difficult question. The first truly balancaed investigation...
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
by Meg Greene Synopsis This biography relates the fascinating story of Jane Goodall, a naive young woman who started her work without even a college degree and eventually developed into a dedicated scientist and a world-famous conservationist and humanitarian....
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Socialism Is Great!: A Worker's Memoir of the New China
by Lijia Zhang Publisher Comments A spirited memoir by a former Chinese factory worker who grew up in Nanjing, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest, and ended up an international journalist. Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North...
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall's accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting...
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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home
by Kim SunĂ©e Publisher Comments 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...
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The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
by Lily Koppel Publisher Comments Rescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman. For more than half a century, the red leather diary lay silent, languishing inside a steamer...
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The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us
by Martha Stout Publisher Comments Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband? Your sadistic high school gym teacher? Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings? The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own? In the pages of The Sociopath...
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A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
by V. S. Naipaul Publisher Comments Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of “fitting one civilisation to another.” Here, in his first book of...
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Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
by Todd Depastino Publisher Comments The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. "The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black...
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I'm Looking through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir
by Jennifer Finney Boylan Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of She's Not There comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir — I'm Looking Through You is about growing up in a haunted house...and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in our hearts. For Jennifer Boylan...
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If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
by Janine Latus Publisher Comments In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, it read, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal...
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