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All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by Dave Isay Publisher Comments A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Mitchell Fink Publisher Comments On the morning of September 11, 2001, shock waves rippled through the country as the United States came under terrorist attack. In New York, Washington, D.C., and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, four planes piloted by members of the Al Qaeda terrorist... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Why Terrorism Works Understanding The by Alan M Dershowitz Publisher Comments The greatest danger facing the world today, says Alan M. Dershowitz, comes from religiously inspired, state sponsored terrorist groups that seek to develop weapons of mass destruction for use against civilian targets. In his newest book, Dershowitz... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell Publisher Comments An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army—and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a blog about the war... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams Publisher Comments "A woman soldier has to toughen herself up" writes Kayla Williams in this fiercely honest account of what it's like to be part of the female 15% of today's Army. "Not just for the enemy, for battle, for death. I mean to toughen herself to spend months... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Between the Covers: The Book Babes' Guide to a Woman's Reading Pleasures by Ellen Heltzel and Margo Hammond Publisher Comments With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile's Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity — about themselves, friends and family, the larger world... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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September 11: A Testimony by Reuters News Service Synopsis Gathers some of the most dramatic and memorable images of the events of September 11, 2001, and the days following, including rescue efforts and reactions around the world.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Longitudes and Attitudes: America in the Age of Terrorism by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11th--before, during and after. As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq by John F. Crawford Staff Pick John Crawford, like many others, joined the National Guard for college money, not to fight a war. Just short of graduating, he found himself called to active duty to serve in Baghdad during the Iraq invasion. A view of the war not portrayed on national... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Covering Catastrophe by Allison Gilbert Synopsis Covering Catastrophe tells what it was like for TV and radio journalists to report the most terrifying story of their lives-and our time.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center by Dennis Smith Review "The first-person narratives in this account of the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center constitute a tremendously powerful chronicle of September 11th. The language of the firefighters and police officers is blunt and vivid, the details are sharply... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag by Sarah Palin Publisher Comments Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers an intimate and personal look at the woman behind the public servant. In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Going Rogue—the bestselling nonfiction book of 2009—Palin gave readers a... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by Bing West Publisher Comments “There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.” ——General Dwight D. Eisenhower For months author F. J. “Bing” West lived among the Marines who besieged the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, and interviewed... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq by Larry Jay Diamond Publisher Comments America's leading expert on democracy delivers the first insider's account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq-a sobering and critical assessment of America's effort to implant democracy In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a call... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad by John R Schmidt Publisher Comments "This is a book filled with useful information, objectively presented, and offered at precisely the right time."---Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, 1997--2001 How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims become a haven... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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War Reporting for Cowards by Chris Ayres Publisher Comments With the gonzo style of Hunter S. Thompson and the biting wit of P. J. O'Rourke, an unlikely reporter recounts how he got the opportunity of a lifetime and ends up between Iraq and a hard place. Chris Ayres is a small-town boy, a hypochondriac,... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $1.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror by Dina Temple Raston Publisher Comments They called themselves the Arabian Knights. They were six Yemeni-American friends, a gang of high-school soccer stars, a band of brothers on the grim side streets of Lackawanna's First Ward, just a stone's throw from Buffalo. Later, people would argue... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of September 11, 2001 by Photographers of the New York City Police Department by Christopher Sweet Publisher Comments On the morning of September 11th, a new kind of horror shook the world. Terrorists crashed two passenger airliners into the World Trade Center in the worst attack on U.S. soil in the nation's history. But at the same time a new generation of heroes rose... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson Publisher Comments For every great historical event, there is seemingly always one reporter whose eyewitness accounts are infused with such power and literary impact that they become joined with the subject in our minds. Widely considered the on-the-ground authority by... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington by George Galloway Publisher Comments A lively, rousing account from the Briton who took DC by storm. "As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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