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Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey
by Paul C. Pasles  Publisher Comments Few American lives have been as celebrated (or as closely scrutinized) as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever...
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The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The True Story of the First African American on the White House Secret Service Detail and His Quest for Justice After
by Abraham Bolden Publisher Comments From the first African American assigned to the presidential Secret Service detail comes a gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred and unthinkable corruption. Abraham Bolden was a young African...
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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and...
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Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder
by Herschel Walker Publisher Comments The NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner shares the inspiring story of his life and diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder. Herschel Walker is widely regarded as one of football's greatest running backs. He led the University of Georgia to victory...
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
by Jann Wenner Publisher Comments Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -...
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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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Stori Telling
by Tori Spelling and Hilary Liftin Publisher Comments She was television's most famous virgin — and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her...
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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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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
by John Richardson Publisher Comments The long-awaited third volume of John Richardson’s definitive biography of Pablo Picasso combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and stunning narrative that made the first two volumes an art-historical breakthrough as well as a...
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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Vintage)
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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Escape from Saddam: The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
by Lewis Alsamari Publisher Comments At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment. Somehow Lewis made it through and...
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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
by Daoud Hari Publisher Comments "I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me." The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David — has been one of...
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard Publisher Comments Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, intending to reveal a secret he'd kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920...
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Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
by Pattie Boyd Publisher Comments An iconic figure of the 1960s and '70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the...
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The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in...
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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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Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
by Stacy A Cordery Publisher Comments An intimate and revealing portrait of Americaas most memorable first daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth lived her entire life on the political stage and in the public eye, earning her the nickname athe other Washington monument.a In this new...
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
by Christopher Benfey Publisher Comments A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought. At the close of the Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and...
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The Dream: A Memoir
by Harry Bernstein Publisher Comments “Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked and to give us some hope for the future.” During the hard and bitter years of his youth in...
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Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and O
by Peggy Orenstein Publisher Comments “Dazzling…the platinum standard for memoirs regarding couples struggling to become parents.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer Peggy Orenstein’s widely hailed and bestselling memoir of her quest for parenthood begins when she tells...
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