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Assassination Vacation [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Sarah Vowell
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End the Fed [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Ron Paul
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 In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Fed is both corrupt and unconstitutional. It... more info>>
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FDR [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jean Edward Smith
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One of today's premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of America's greatest presidents. This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt's restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to proj... more info>>
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Fear of Fifty [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Erica Jong
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Seducing the Demon has introduced Erica Jong to readers who hadn't been born when Fear of Flying was published in 1973. Now one of her finest works of nonfiction -and a New York Times bestseller-is back in print with a new afterword. In Fear of Fifty, a New York Times bestseller when first published in 1994, Erica Jong looks to the second half of her life and "goes right to the jugular of the women who lived wildly and vicariously through Fear of Flying" (Publishers Weekly), delivering highly en... more info>>
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Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Valerie Bertinelli
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Welcome back to chez Bertinelli, where life is as crazy and comical as ever. In revealing talks with her longtime boyfriend, Tom, Valerie gets even more personal about her inner worries: her maternal anxieties about her son, Wolfie (he's fallen in love and, as she writes, "getting your sex talk from Eddie Van Halen wasn't recommended in any of the parenting books I read"); the challenges of dealing with a blended family; her mother's own new diet adventure; and a craving for a deeper relationshi... more info>>
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Geisha, A Life [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Mineko Iwasaki,
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No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling ... But I feel it is time to speak out. Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Perri Knize
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A fascinating, lyrical memoir about one woman's obsessive search for the perfect piano--and about finding and pursuing passion at any age. How can a particular piano be so seductive that someone would turn her life upside down to answer its call? How does music change human consciousness and transport us to rapture? What makes it beautiful? In this elegantly written and heartfelt account, Perri Knize explores these questions with a music lover's ardor, a poet's inspiration, and a reporter's thir... more info>>
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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)]
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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High On Arrival [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Mackenzie Phillips
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Not long before her fiftieth birthday,Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin. Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father's fr... more info>>
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Deborah Rodriguez
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Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills--as doctors, nurses, and therapists--seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Wes... more info>>
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Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter. Writing for all who admire his example and who search for wisdom only a man of great experience can offer... more info>>
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Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Madeleine Albright
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Before long, and without intending it, I found that jewelry had become part of my personal diplomatic arsenal. Former president George H. W. Bush had been known for saying "Read my lips." I began urging colleagues and reporters to "Read my pins." It would never have happened if not for Saddam Hussein. When U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright criticized the dictator, his poet in residence responded by calling her "an unparalleled serpent." Shortly thereafter, while preparing ... more info>>
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Azar Nafisi
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We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; ... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Scatterbrain [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Larry Niven
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Larry Niven is the New York Times bestselling author of such classic science fiction novels as Ringworld and Destiny's Road. His previous collection, N-Space was lauded by the Houston Post as "Outstanding ... hours of entertainment," while Publishers Weekly called it "A must for science fiction fans." A follow-up volume, Playgrounds of the Mind, was praised by Kirkus Reviews as "Grand Entertainment." Now, ten years later, Scatterbrain collects an equally engaging assortment of Niven's latest wor... more info>>
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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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>>
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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Ben Mezrich
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The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends--outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance--and sexual success--was getting invited to join one of... more info>>
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The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of Boxer Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Chris Blatchford
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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>>
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by William Kamkwamba
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William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Energy, and he dreamed of building one that would bring electricity and water to his village and change his life and the lives of those around him. His neighbors may have mocked him and called him misala--crazy--but William was deter... more info>>
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Allison Hoover Bartlett
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In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him.Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves, of course, steal for profit. John Charles Gilkey steals purely for the love of books. In an attempt to understand him better, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett plunged herself into the world of book lust an... more info>>
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Sidney Poitier
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"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set."--Sidney Poitier. In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and... more info>>
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The Royals [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Kitty Kelley
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Biography of the British royal family; includes new chapter.
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The Tender Bar [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by J. R. Moehringer
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JR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before JR spoke his first words. As a boy, JR would press his ear to a battered clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of identity and masculinity. When the voice disappeared, JR found new voices in the bar on the corner. A grand old New York saloon, the bar was a sanctuary for all sorts of men--cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums. The fl... more info>>
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The Time of My Life [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Patrick Swayze
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In a career spanning more than thirty years, Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage, the screen, and television. Known for his versatility, passion and fearlessness, he's become one of our most beloved actors. But in February 2008, Patrick announced he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Always a fighter, he refused to let the disease bring him to his knees, and his bravery has inspired both his legion of fans and cancer patients everywhere. Yet this memoir, writ... more info>>
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Haruki Murakami
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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and--even more important--on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 N... more info>>
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'Tis: A Memoir [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Frank McCourt
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The sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes, 'Tis is the story of Frank McCourt's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. When Frank returns to Amer... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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