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A Writer's Life
by Gay Talese  Publisher Comments The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life —the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling...
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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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Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
by Laura Flynn Publisher Comments Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura’s father of trying to win...
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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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The Good Fight
by Harry Reid Publisher Comments One of the remarkable books of this seasona a tough, plainspoken, deeply passionate narrative by one of our most important national figures. We all know them: politiciansa books that read as if theyave been cobbled together from old speeches. The Good...
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A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe
by Lauren Weedman 
Powells.com Staff Pick The funniest book I've read in years, Lauren Weedman's A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body made my face hurt with laughter. I compulsively read it out loud to whomever happened to be around, and recommended it to everyone I met. A Woman Trapped in a Woman...
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Manic: A Memoir
by Terri Cheney Publisher Comments "I didn't tell anyone that I was going to Santa Fe to kill myself." On the outside, Terri Cheney was a highly successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawless façade lay a dangerous secret—for the...
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Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
by Judith P Zinsser Synopsis The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mind Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie...
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Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i
by Susanna Moore Publisher Comments New from the author of In the Cut, the luminous self-portrait of a childhood and adolescence in Hawai’i. Susanna Moore can’t remember the first time she saw the ocean—it has been there for as long as she can remember. Moore was...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe (07 Edition)
by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific...
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Dawn, Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy
by Yasmina Reza Publisher Comments An enormous success in France and a media sensation around the world, Yasmina Reza’s Dawn, Dusk or Night will startle English-language readers with its utterly unorthodox (and candid and witty) portrait of a man in his quest for ultimate power....
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
by Scott Douglas Publisher Comments For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional “shush,” vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney’s contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our...
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Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
by Alan Pell Crawford Publisher Comments Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, with good reason: His life was a great American drama–one of the greatest–played out in compelling acts. He was the architect of our democracy, a visionary chief executive who expanded this nation&...
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Edith Wharton (Vintage)
by Hermione Lee Publisher Comments From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters. Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with...
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
by Thuy Tram Dang Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked...
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Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis
by Ed Sikov Publisher Comments The legendary Hollywood star blazes a fiery trail in this enthralling portrait of a brilliant actress and the movies her talent elevated to greatness. She was magnificent and exasperating in equal measure. Jack Warner called her "an explosive little...
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Her Last Death: A Memoir
by Susanna Sonnenberg Publisher Comments Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any...
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Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (Chemo Not Included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
by Robert Schimmel Publisher Comments In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He’d won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin’s...
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Alternadad: The True Story of One Family's Struggle to Raise a Cool Kid in America
by Neal Pollack Publisher Comments With the publication of Alternadad, Neal Pollack became the spokesperson for a new generation of parents. Pollack, a self-styled party guy known mostly for outrageous literary antics, recounts how he and his wife became responsible parents without...
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Mississippi Sissy
by Kevin Sessums Publisher Comments Mississippi Sissy is destined to become an American classic In a book that echoes the time-honored fiction of Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor and memoirs by Mary Karr and Augusten Burroughs, Kevin Sessums brings the American South and the...
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