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A Simple Christmas [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Mike Huckabee
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A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Nina Burleigh
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 As the wife of a top CIA official and mistress to President John F. Kennedy, Mary Meyer 'knew things.' Was that why she was murdered? Journalist Nina Burleigh attempts to answer this question as she explores Meyer's links to such notables as spymaster James Angleton and LSD guru Timothy Leary in this fascinating account of the life and death of A Very Private Woman.
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A Weeping upon the Thames [An Exploration of Charles Dickens] [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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 Charles Dickens was one of the top three investigative journalists of his century, besides being a famous novelist. We explore the surprising and often shocking background that makes him as relevant today as he was in the Victorian world. London's rookeries were even more notorious than the Five Points section in Gangs of New York. (Published: 2003)
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Assassination Vacation [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Sarah Vowell
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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>>
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Biography of a Slave [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charles Thompson
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In publishing this book I hope to do good not only to my own race, but to all who may read it. I am not a book-maker, and make no pretensions to literary attainments; and I have made no efforts to create for myself a place in the literary, book-making ranks. I claim for my book truthfulness and honesty of purpose, and upon that basis it must succeed or fail. The Biography of a Slave is called for by a very large number of my immediate acquaintances, and, I am assured, will meet with such recepti... more info>>
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Dog Years [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Mark Doty
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Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become Mark Doty's intimate companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days. Their t... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Escape [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
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The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ ... 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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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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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Evan Wright
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In the tradition of Black Hawk Down and Jarhead comes a searing portrait of young men fighting a modern-day war. A powerhouse work of nonfiction, Generation Kill expands on Evan Wright's acclaimed three-part series that appeared in Rolling Stone during the summer of 2003. His narrative follows the twenty-three marines of First Recon who spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This elite unit, nicknamed "First Suicide Battalion," searched out enemy fighters by racing ahead of American battle forces a... more info>>
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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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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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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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Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Kerry Cohen
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Kerry Cohen's extraordinary memoir tells it like it is--she's a teenager like any other, dealing with parents, school, and friends, but for some reason, "standing out" seems to have become almost impossible. Boys--and men--are a different matter altogether, and young Kerry soon realizes that, with the right clothes and attitude, she can get all the male attention she wants. What she doesn't realize is how easy it is to get more than you're ready for. In rich, engaging detail, LOOSE GIRL discover... more info>>
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Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Kathy Griffin
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A Conversation with Kathy Griffin: Q: State your name and profession. KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d**k jokes. And a plumber. Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything before? A novel? Or a work of historical scholarship? Or a children's story? KG: I had not considered it, because I'd always been told by the nuns at St. Bernadine's that my cursive was poor. A children's story is an interesting idea. How's this for a title: "Waterboarding Pre-Teens... more info>>
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Paul McCartney: A Life [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Peter Ames Carlin
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A biography of musician Paul McCartney, spanning from his years with The Beatles to his solo albums today.
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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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sTORI Telling [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Tori Spelling
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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>>
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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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A Concise Biography of Adolf Hitler [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Thomas Fuchs
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Organized by subject areas in a unique Q&A format, this book offers quick access to facts and anecdotes about Hitler's life, shedding light on his habits, beliefs, and obsessions. "A wonderful addition to the works about Hitler."--Isaiah Kuperstein, Association of Holocaust Organizations. of rare photos.
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Haven Kimmel
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When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would run around like a circus monkey, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back in time to when small-town America was still trapped in the amber of the innocent post-war period--people help their neighbors, go to church, keep barnyard animals in their backyards. To three-year-ol... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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23.51% |
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![Long [100000 words]](/images/long.gif "Long [100000 words]")
![Very Long [150000 words]](/images/verylong.gif "Very Long [150000 words]")
