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Trail of Crumbs
Kim Sunee
Abandoned at age three in a Korean marketplace, Sunee is adopted by an American couple who raise her in New Orleans. I...
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Shawn Levy
Paul Newman
As many diverse roles as Paul Newman played on the silver screen, he occupied nearly as many roles in his real life. Levy, in this...
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Bonnie and Clyde
Paul Schneider
Almost 75 years ago, the four-year murder and robbery spree of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow ended in a hail of bullets on a deso...
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The Invention of Everything Else
Samantha Hunt
A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel Ne...
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Always Looking Up
Michael J. Fox
The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City. I found myself s...
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Collection
Gerald Durrell
Beasts in my Belfry
Durrell's account of his early years as a keeper at Whipsnade Zoo filled with the usual assortment of animal c...
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Love, Alice
Audrey Meadows
Frequently Hilarious Memoir, Audrey Meadows Recalls the Years She Spent Playing Alice Kramden Opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph. Thi...
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Bravo Two Zero
Andy Mcnab
On the night of 22nd January 1991, at a remote airfield in Saudi Arabia, under cover of darkness and in conditions of the utmost s...
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Night
Elie Wiesel
Night is Elie Wiesels masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager ...
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The Bedford Boys
Alex Kershaw
This accessible and moving group biography portrays the men of Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, who wer...
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What Now
Ann Patchett
Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers ...
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Will in the World
Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (Joh...
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Angela's Ashes Series
Frank Mccourt
Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, and Teacher Man
Angela's Ashes (Book 1)
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memo...
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Alex and Me
Irene Pepperberg
On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pep...
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Decision Points
George W. Bush
In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and pers...
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Master of the Senate
Robert A. Caro
Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (a...
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The World According to Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson
The World According To Clarkson is a book of Jeremy Clarkson's columns he wrote while working for the Sunday Times. They ran from ...
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Here, There, and Everywhere
Geoff Emerick
Geoff Emerick was only 15 years old when he began working with the Beatles as assistant engineer for their early classics "I Want ...
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Julie and Julia
Julie Powell
Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a tiny apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowh...
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Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay thr...
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Ben Macintyre
Agent Zigzag
London Times associate editor Macintyre (The Man Who Would Be King) adroitly dissects the enigmatic World War II British double ag...
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The Autobiography
Eric Clapton
Mail on Sunday Clapton relates what happened with painful honesty. In other rock stars, such plump contentment might seem hypocri...
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