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Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism--because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that co... more info>>
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Nujood Ali
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“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough ha... more info>>
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations ... One School at a Time [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Greg Mortenson
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 The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools--e... more info>>
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Patrick Robinson, Marcus Luttrell
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Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to have a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive. This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, SEAL team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the largest loss of life in American N... more info>>
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man who could Cure the World [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul F... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Jeannette Walls
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The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family. The Wa... more info>>
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Not Without Hope [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB/Mobipocket]
by Nick Schuyler
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On February 28, 2009, Nick Schuyler, a twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, left for a deep-sea fishing trip with three friends: NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, and Will Bleakley, his best friend, who once played football for the University of South Florida. It was supposed to be a day of fun and relaxation aboard Cooper's twenty-one-foot boat, which anchored seventy miles west of Tampa, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. The friends were out to catch some amberjack and grouper and ma... more info>>
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Making Toast [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Adobe EPUB]
by Roger Rosenblatt
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""How long are you staying, Boppo?"" ""Forever."" When his daughter, Amy-a gifted doctor, mother, and wife-collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, leave their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren: six-year-old Jessica, four-year-old Sammy, and one-year-old James, known as Bubbies. Long past the years of diapers, homework, and recitals, Roger and Ginny-Boppo a... more info>>
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a bal... more info>>
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Julie Powell
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With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classi... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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The Last Lecture [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Randy Pausch
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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."--Randy Pausch. When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was asked to give a "last lecture," he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (... more info>>
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Ishmael Beah
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What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier?
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Against Medical Advice [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by James Patterson
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Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. Sim... more info>>
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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks [PRE-ORDER ONLY: Available: Mar 30, 2010] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by John Curran
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   A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's seventy-three private notebooks, including illustrations and two unpublished Poirot storiesWhen Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide, in more than one hundred countries, she had achieved the impossible—more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller.So prolific was Agatha Christie's output—... more info>>
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Audition: A Memoir [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Barbara Walters
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Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package." And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that "whole package," in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures, and celebrities of all kinds, Barbara Walters has turned her gift... more info>>
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Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
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Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more than anyone she knew--by becoming a call girl (Published: 2007)
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Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Sonny Barger
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Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over. Dozens of ... more info>>
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Lucky [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
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Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go. Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with mordant wit and an eye for life's absurdities, as she de... more info>>
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
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A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities. On the morning of December 10, 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall a... more info>>
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Alison Weir
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Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn's final days.
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Artie Lange: Too Fat to Fish [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
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Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of The Howard Stern Show--with a foreword by Howard Stern. When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show's move to the wild, uncensored frontier of satellite radio. Lange provided what Stern had yet to find all in the same place: a wit quick enough... more info>>
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Confessions of a Video Vixen [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
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An instant bestseller upon publication, Confessions of a Video Vixen is the page-turning memoir of Karrine Steffans: dancer, actress, and companion to many a celebrity. But more than a glimpse at what happens in the boardrooms and bedrooms of hip hop's A list, Confessions of a Video Vixen is also the first true account of how women are treated in the music industry, and its honest, direct revelations have generated debates and controversy across the country. By sharing her story, Steffans hopes ... more info>>
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Devotion [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Dani Shapiro
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In her mid-forties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was?a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean? Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditional family, Shapiro had no personal sense of faith, despite repeated attempts to create a connection to something greater. Feeling as if she was plunging headlong into what Carl Jung termed ... more info>>
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General George Washington: A Military Life [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
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Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and "father of his country." Less often discussed is Washington's military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing work of historical biography, Edward Lengel has written the definitive account of George Washington the soldier. Based largely on Washington's personal papers, this engrossing book paints a vivid, factual... more info>>
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
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The inspiring story of Ben Carson, M.D. takes readers into the life of an inner-city youngster who rose above his circumstances to become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
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