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A Brother's Journey
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Richard B. Pelzer
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The Pelzer family's secret life of fear and abuse was first revealed in Dave Pelzer's inspiring New York Times best seller, A Child Called It....
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A Long Way From Home
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Tom Brokaw
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Tom Brokaw, a trusted member of our elite journalistic core, writes a beautiful memoir of his quintessentially American experience....
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A Man of Contradictions
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Richard Ollard
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A.L. Rowse, who died in 1997, was the author of a vast number of books, all of them readable and most of them fiercely arrayed against what he considered to be declining moral standards....
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America's First Dynasty
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Richard Brookhiser
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In America's First Dynasty, Richard Brookhiser tells the story of America's longest and still-greatest dynasty, the Adamses....
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American Notes
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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens made the first of 3 trips to the United States in 1842, when he was 30 and already...
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Andy Warhol
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Wayne Koestenbaum
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In his bravura account of Warhol's life and work, scholar and culture critic Wayne Koestenbaum gets past the contradictions and reveals the man behind the blond wig and dark glasses....
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Between Good and Evil
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Roger L. Depue
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In this first-person account of becoming the FBI's top serial-killer hunter and a member of a religious order in an attempt to discern the true nature of good and evil....
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Blood Done Sign My Name
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Timothy B. Tyson
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The battle for civil rights was not won in the '60s, certainly not in many parts of the country....
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Buddha
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Karen Armstrong
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This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man....
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Cary Grant
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Marc Eliot
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When Cary Grant passed away at age 82, fans from every generation mourned....
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Charles Dickens
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Jane Smiley
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Of Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley says that his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels....
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Cork Boat
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John Pollack
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In the late 1990s, John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.
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Dante
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R.W.B. Lewis
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In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development (emotional, artistic, philosophical) of this supreme poet-historian....
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Elizabeth and Mary
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Jane Dunn
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In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between regal cousins....
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Elvis Presley
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Bobbie Ann Mason
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PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Bobbie Ann Mason turns her acumen on one of 20th-century America's most mysterious icons, The King himself....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Ada Louise Huxtable
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for The New York Times comes an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of the world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright....
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Franklin and Winston
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Jon Meacham
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation."
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Garlic and Sapphires
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Ruth Reichl
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Garlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously....
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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Tom Wicker
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In this revealing biography of the elder George Bush, Tom Wicker draws a sympathetic and insightful portrait of the man at the helm of one of the most powerful families today.
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Grace and Power
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Sally Bedell Smith
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In Grace and Power, New York Times best-selling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight....
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Herman Melville
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature....
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Hollywood Animal
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Joe Eszterhas
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This is a book that will shock you and make you laugh, anger you and move you to tears....
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Howard Hughes
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Peter Brown
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Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the 20th century....
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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
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Susan Jane Gilman
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Based on the belief that there's more to women's lives than just getting a date, Gilman's stories tell of struggling to get a life and a clue....
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James Joyce
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Edna O'Brien
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One of Ireland's best current novelists provides a thumbnail sketch of Ireland's greatest writer....
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