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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado Publisher Comments In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones 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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave by Stefan Gates Publisher Comments An irreverent journey through the culinary world of the exotic, the bizarre, and the truly extraordinary, "Gastronaut" is equal parts cookbook and quest book. This hilarious journey through some of the strangest food experiences, past and present, is... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch Publisher Comments Julia Child became a household name when she entered the lives of millions of Americans through our hearts and kitchens. Yet few know the richly varied private life that lies behind this icon, whose statuesque height and warmly enthused warble have... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin' by Paula Deen Publisher Comments Do you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The LadyandSons to taste for yourself the down-home delicacies that made her... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Beat of a Different Drum by Jagdish Mehra Publisher Comments Few would argue that Richard Feynman was one of the greatest American-born theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, and fewer still would dispute that he was the most iconoclastic. In the words of the eminent mathematician Mark Kac, geniuses are... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights by Hadley Arkes Publisher Comments In this book, Hadley Arkes seeks to restore, for a new generation, the jurisprudence of the late Justice of the Supreme Court George Sutherland--a jurisprudence anchored in the understanding of natural rights. The doctrine of natural rights has become... (read more) List Price $45.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick Publisher Comments From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict by Frank Hilton Publisher Comments A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict.... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Nobody Knew by Win Straube Book News Annotation Now the founder of an international educational foundation, a gold-medal winning Senior Olympian and a master of the art of Tai Chi, Straube's life could have been ended suddenly in his youth in the fire-bombing of Dresden during World War II. Drawing... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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While the Gods Were Silent: Growing Up Under Fascists and Communists by Julius Scherzer Publisher Comments This book is an autobiographical and historical narrative that starts in the 1930s and ends in 1963, the year of the author's arrival in the U.S. The narrative combines autobiography, history, and psychology to tell the story of the author's childhood... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $27.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Coming Home to Myself by Wynonna Judd Publisher Comments From the heart of one of the most beloved performers in music comes a candid memoir that chronicles professional triumph, private heartbreak, and personal victory--a coming-of-age account of a very private search for harmony and a very public rise to... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family by Steven Roberts Publisher Comments Bayonne prepared me well for a larger life and a larger world. I knew who I was and where I was from. I was connected by innumerable little cords to people and places that gave me strength and identity. On The Block I was safe, secure, loved. I even had... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Harriet Beecher Stowe the Story of Her Life by Charles Edwar Stowe Publisher Comments 1911. With portraits and other illustrations. The story of Stowe's life written by her son and grandson. From the Preface: This life of Harriet Beecher Stowe is not a biography in the ordinary sense. It is rather the story of a real character; telling... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician by Neal I Koblitz Synopsis These autobiographical memoirs of Neal Koblitz, coinventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, cover many topics besides his own personal career in mathematics and cryptography - travels to the Soviet Union, Latin... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Hardcover
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Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner by M J Andersen Publisher Comments In a moving and bittersweet story, M.J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Lessons of Terror a History of Warfare by Caleb Carr Publisher Comments In The Lessons of Terror, novelist and military historian Caleb Carr examines terrorism throughout history and the roots of our present crisis and reaches a provocative set of conclusions: the practice of targeting enemy civilians is as old as warfare... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Now I Can Sit with the Old Men - Journeys on the Road to Wisdom by Margaret L Bishop Synopsis If you set foot in one hundred lands, you can sit with the old men, say the people of West Africa, where age is equated with wisdom. The acknowledgement that travel imparts wisdom lies at the heart of this engaging, poignant, non-fiction book of global... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sinner, Sailor by T R Rhoads Publisher Comments Sinner, Sailor is the autobiographical telling of the author's navy career from 1945 until 1972, from World War II through Viet Nam. He joined the navy at seventeen seeking adventure and romance; he found both and much more. He went to Korea as a navy... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The J.F.K. Jr. scrapbook by Stephen Spignesi Publisher Comments Admirers will discover the many sides of this elusive man in both his public and private incarnations. Color photographs throughout.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.83 Used - Trade Paper
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