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Pure Goldwater
by John Dean  Publisher Comments Barry Goldwater was a defining figure in American public life, a firebrand politician associated with an optimistic brand of conservatism. In an era in which American conservatism has lost his way, his legacy is more important than ever. For over 50...
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
by David Michaelis Publisher Comments Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of the brilliant, unseen...
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Clapton
by Eric Clapton Publisher Comments “I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.” With striking intimacy and candor...
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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
by Judith Jones 
Powells.com Staff Pick Judith Jones has lived an amazing life, and she shares it with the reader in a straightforward and almost matter-of-fact way. Jones has been in all of our kitchens, whether it was through her own recipes or the many cookbooks she has edited and helped...
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Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World
by Martin Fletcher Publisher Comments Martin Fletcher doesn’t claim to be a hero. Yet he didn’t flinch, either. During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to top network correspondent, facing down his...
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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
by Bich Minh Nguyen Publisher Comments As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion...
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
by Rob Sheffield
Powells.com Staff Pick In this incredible work on music and soul mates, Sheffield shares his story of two loves with great humor and pathos. Love Is a Mix Tape is a moving tribute to a lost friend and the power of song. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
by David Rieff Publisher Comments Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life,...
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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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Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
by Aram Roston Publisher Comments Ahmad Chalabi literally changed the world. If anyone were to get the most credit for pushing the United States to war in Iraq, Chalabi, a wealthy exile who spent most of his life out of Iraq, would certainly be a leading contender. A convicted felon and...
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Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration
by Marcia Ann Gillespie Publisher Comments Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate, phenomenal...
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Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights o
by Suzanne Levine Publisher Comments "I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude,...
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Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
by Donald Spoto Publisher Comments Her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace. Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey Hepburn captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as one of the most recognizable and beloved in recent...
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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts Publisher Comments This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's...
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Let Every Nation Know: John F. Kennedy in His Own Words
by Robert Dallek Synopsis Let Every Nation Know is the first book of its kind-a historical biography in Kennedy's own words. Combining a remarkable audio CD of Kennedy's most famous speeches, debates and press conferences with the insights of two of America's preeminent...
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My Lobotomy (07 Edition)
by Howard Dully Publisher Comments At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the...
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The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
by Anita Thompson Publisher Comments The writer Tom Wolfe once described Hunter S. Thompson as the finest comic writer of the 20th century. Thompson was this and more, an apt observer of the American scene for almost four decades, the founding father of ?Gonzo journalism, ? and an...
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Sick Girl
by Amy Silverstein Publisher Comments “[With] humor and radiant courage . . . Silverstein delivers a searing insight into the battle to stay alive.”—Ted Koppel “Spectacular.”—Mehmet Oz, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon and coauthor of You: The Owner’s...
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Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
by John Francis Publisher Comments When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand--he stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after...
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Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets...
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