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1001 Nights in Iraq
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Shant Kenderian
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Shant Kendarians visit to Baghdad in 1980 at age seventeen was supposed to be a short one, just enough tie to make peace with his estranged father before he returned to his home in the United States...
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A Beautiful Mind
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Sylvia Nasar
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How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages? the visitor from Harvard asked...
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A Feast of Words
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Cynthia Griffen Wolff
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The mystery of how a wealthy New York socialite became a major American novelist is brilliantly explored in this fascinating critical biography, considered by many to be the most perceptive introduction to Edith Wharton’s life and work.
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A Grief Observed
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C.S. Lewis
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Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life...
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
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Dito Montiel
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At this year's Sundance Film Festival, the film received two awards - one for the dramatic director award for first-timer, Montiel, and a special dramatic jury prize for best ensemble performance.
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A License to Steal
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Walter T. Shaw
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Walter L. Shaw was a visionary high-tech inventor who was repeatedly cheated out of the rewards of his efforts. To even the score, his son became a prolific jewel thief, while Shaw Sr. put his brilliance to work for the mob.
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A Man of Faith
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David Aikman
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David Aikman, acclaimed journalist, author, and former senior correspondent for Time magazine, has written this dramatic and gripping account of Bush’s journey to faith.
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A Night to Remember
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Walter Lord
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The “unsinkable” Titanic was four city blocks long, with the latest safety devices—but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 on board.
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A Passion for Life
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Donald Spoto
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Elizabeth Taylor was catapulted into child stardom and molded by MGM into the great violet-eyed beauty of the 1950s.
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A Personal Odyssey
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Thomas Sowell
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Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist.
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A Writer's People
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V.S. Naipaul
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In his first book of nonfiction since 2003, the Nobel Laureate gives us an eloquent, intimate exploration into ways of looking and feeling and how they alter the configuration of the writers world.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Allen C. Guelzo
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In this unique biography, Lincoln emerges as a creative yet profoundly paradoxical man, possessing deep moral and religious character yet not adhering to any conventional form of religion.
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus, Volume 1
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all...
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus, Volume 2
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all...
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After the Fire
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Robin Gaby Fisher
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Two college students survived a fire that raged through their dormitory. This is the extraordinary story of their fight to recover, of their supportive families, and of the women who would come to love them.
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Against All Hope
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Armando Valladares
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This is a history of the Cuban Revolution viewed from its dungeons. Armando Valladares describes his twenty-two years in Castro’s prison.
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
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P.J. O'Rourke
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P.J. O'Rourke traces his development from hippie protester to conservative grouch to jaded humorist...
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Agent 146
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Erich Gimpel
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Here is the spellbinding autobiography of Erich Gimpel, one of the only Nazi spies to reach American soil. Assigned by the Führer himself, his mission was to sabotage America’s atomic program.
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Albert Einstein
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Banesh Hoffmann
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This intimate portrait of Albert Einstein reveals the "backward" child, the academic outcast...
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Alexander the Great and His Time
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Agnes Savill
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“To be mystical and intensely practical, to dream greatly and to do greatly...” says Agnes Savill, “it is this combination which gives Alexander his place apart in history.”
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All But My Life
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Gerda Weissmann Klein
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A classic of Holocaust literature, Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a slave laborer of the Nazis and her miraculous liberation.
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All in the Family, Doctor Included
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Vladimir A. Tsesis, M.D.
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Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the dramatic predicaments facing modern society.
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All the Way
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Michael Freedland
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Michael Freedland’s biography gives a full portrait of the unorthodox singer’s life, starting with his tough beginnings in the Italian quarter of Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Amelia Earhart: Young Air Pioneer
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Jane Moore Howe
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Listen to this children's series about the childhood adventures of American heroes and heroines.
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American Caesar
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William Manchester
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Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur...
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