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1	The Last Lecture [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Randy Pausch		"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>> Category: People	10 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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2	Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Kaylene Johnson		In Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside-Down, the first biography released of Governor Palin, author Kaylene Johnson draws upon personal interviews with Palin, her family, and other highly placed sources to explore Palin's family life, her upbringing in a devout Christian home, her political rise, and how she went from being a long-shot candidate to--potentially--one of the world's most powerful women and political figures. The book features dozens of family and pol... more info>> Category: People	2 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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3	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader] by Barack Obama		In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Keny... more info>> Category: People	15 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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4	Worth the Fighting For: What I've Learned from Mavericks, Heroes, and Politics [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe] by John McCain & Mark Salter		In 1999, John McCain wrote one of the most acclaimed and bestselling memoirs of the decade, Faith of My Fathers. That book ended in 1972, with McCain's release from imprisonment in Vietnam. This is the rest of his story, about his great American journey from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying run for the presidency, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years--Ted Williams, Theodore Roosevelt, visionary aviation proponent Billy Mitchell, Marlon Bra... more info>> (Published: 2002) Words: 150000 - Reading Time: 428-600 min. Category: People	2 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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5	Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Elizabeth Gilbert		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>> Category: People	4 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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6	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Bill Bryson		After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic mu... more info>> Category: People	7 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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7	Pieces of My Heart: A Life [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Scott Eyman		In this moving memoir, Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible life.... He grew up in Bel Air next door to a golf course that changed his life. As a young boy, he saw a foursome playing one morning featuring none other than Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant. Seeing these giants of the silver screen awed him and fueled his dreams of becoming a movie star. Battling a revolving door of boarding schools and a father wh... more info>> Category: People
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8	Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations ... One School at a Time [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Greg Mortenson		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>> Category: People	3 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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9	Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe] by Patrick Robinson & Marcus Luttrell		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>> Category: People	12 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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10	John Adams [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by David McCullough		In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot--"the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him--who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out... more info>> (Published: 2001) Category: People	24 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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11	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)] by Doris Kearns Goodwin		Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed ... more info>> Category: People	8 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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12	Promises to Keep: Joseph Biden On Life and Politics [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)] by Joe Biden		As a United States senator from Delaware since 1973, Joe Biden has been an intimate witness to the major events of the past four decades and a relentless actor in trying to shape recent American history. He has seen up close the tragic mistake of the Vietnam War, the Watergate and Iran-contra scandals, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, a presidential impeachment, a presidential resignation, and a ... more info>> Category: People
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13	Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Alan Alda		He's one of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors--a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. "My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six," begins Alda's irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early ... more info>> Category: People	13 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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14	The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of Boxer Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Chris Blatchford		An astonishing and groundbreaking look at the Mexican Mafia, The Black Hand is an unprecedented story of depravity, violence, and redemption. Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison--at the age of nineteen--Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La Eme. What... more info>> Category: People
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15	The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life [Secure Mobipocket] by Alice Schroeder		Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as "The Oracle of Omaha." Although the media trac... more info>> Category: People
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16	Deconstructing Sammy: Music, Money, Madness, and the Mob [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Matt Birkbeck		Sammy Davis Jr. lived a storied life. Adored by millions over a six-decade-long career, he was considered an entertainment icon and a national treasure. But despite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million, Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy. His estate was declared insolvent, and there was no possibility of itever using Sammy's name or likeness again. It was as if Sammy had never existed. Years later his wife, Altovise, a once-vivacious woman and heir to one of the greatest entertainment legac... more info>> Category: People
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17	Faith of My Fathers [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by John McCain		John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like pygmies." John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. This is a memoir about their lives, their heroi... more info>> (Published: 2000) Words: 100000 - Reading Time: 285-400 min. Category: People	3 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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18	Assassination Vacation [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader] by Sarah Vowell		Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other--a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage. From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of political... more info>> Category: People	8 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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19	Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe] by Belle de Jour		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) Category: People	3 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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20	How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader] by Michael Gates Gill		In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house in the suburbs, a loving family, and a top job at an ad agency with a six-figure salary. By the time he turned sixty, he had lost everything except his Ivy League education and his sense of entitlement. First, he was downsized at work. Next, an affair ended his twenty-year marriage. Then, he was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, prognosis undetermined. Around the same time, his girlfriend gave birth to a son. Gill had no money, ... more info>> Category: People	2 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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21	sTORI Telling [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)] by Tori Spelling		She was television's most famous virgin--and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed--and sometimes slammed--the same doors it had opened. sTORI Telling is Tori's chance to finally tell ... more info>> Category: People	2 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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22	Einstein: His Life and Universe [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader] by Walter Isaacson