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You Can Run But You Can't Hide
by Duane Chapman  Publisher Comments Duane Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter, has had an amazing life. He had a troubled and trying upbringing, which led to an early life of crime, including numerous arrests for armed robbery and a murder conviction. While Dog claims to be innocent of the...
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Things to Bring, S#!t to Do: A Life in Lists
by Karen Rizzo Publisher Comments The emotional highs and lows, the romantic escapades and the financial setbacks, the moments of comedy, anxiety, and personal tragedy—they’re all brought vividly to life in Things to Bring, S#!t to Do, the first memoir told entirely in lists...
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Young Stalin
by Simon Se Montefiore Publisher Comments A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. What makes a Stalin? What...
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Forget Me Not: A Memoir
by Jennifer Lowe-anker Publisher Comments High in the Himalaya, a world-class adventurer dies, leaving a wife, three young sons and a best friend to cope with their grief... In 1999, well-known mountaineer, Alex Lowe, died in an avalanche on the remote Himalayan Mountain Shishapangma, leaving...
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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me
by Ralph Steadman Publisher Comments In the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for when he met Hunter S. Thompson at the Kentucky Derby. Their remarkable collaboration resulted in the now-legendary Gonzo Journalism, which...
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Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer
by Richard Shelton Publisher Comments Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds.Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the "Pied Piper of Tucson" in...
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A Blue Hand: The Beats in India
by Deborah Baker Publisher Comments A literary exploration of the Beats' encounter with India in the 1960s, a journey that inspired and influenced generations of Americans and Indians alike In 1961, Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, India. He brought with him his troubled...
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Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw Publisher Comments In this magnificent biography, celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life the fascinating rags- to-riches story of one of our most iconic business legendsaAndrew Carnegie, Americaas first modern titan. From his first job as a bobbin boy at age...
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Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, & Politics
by Eleanor Clift Publisher Comments What has become known as the Schiavo affair-the death of a brain-damaged woman in Florida in 2005, and the controversy that surrounded it-was a revelatory moment in American society. For the first time, the nation got a clear view of both the fanaticism...
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Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006
by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments The brilliant sequel to Gore Vida's acclaimed, bestselling memoir, Palimpsest. In Point to Point Navigation, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and...
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A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
by Sarah Helm Publisher Comments From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins...
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But Enough about Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous
by Jancee Dunn 
Publisher Comments The second I stepped through the doors of Rolling Stone as a real employee, I wanted to shake off my old personality like the rigid husk of a cicada. But how could I cultivate a new, hip persona when I lived with my parents in a New Jersey suburb and...
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
by Stanley Tookie Williams Publisher Comments A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips co-founder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and antigang activist When his L.A. neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips...
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
by Patricia Hampl Publisher Comments Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of this lounging woman...
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Richard and John: Kings at War
by Frank Mclynn Publisher Comments Legend and lore surround the history of kings Richard and John, from the ballads of Robin Hood and the novels of Sir Walter Scott to Hollywood movies and television. In the myth-making, King Richard, defender of Christendom in the Holy Land, was the...
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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
by William J. Mann Publisher Comments The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image. Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character...
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Vintage)
by Neal Gabler Publisher Comments The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first...
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Confessions (07 Edition)
by Kang Zhengguo Publisher Comments A revealing memoir of human resilience in the face of nightmarish power. With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square...
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The White Masai: My Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure
by Corinne Hofmann Publisher Comments The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she...
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American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
by Robert Coram Publisher Comments During the course of his military career, Bud Day won every available combat medal, escaped death on no less than seven occasions, and spent 67 months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, along with John McCain. Despite sustained torture, Day would not...
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