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ISBN13: 9780446409483 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower pace, in a small... 

ISBN13: 9780061370465 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church (“a beautiful, absorbing memoir.”—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched... 

ISBN13: 9780891419198 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War.... 

ISBN13: 9780143038412 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description 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... 

ISBN13: 9780061825934 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description “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... 

ISBN13: 9780307739582 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionTemple 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,... 

Product DescriptionWoodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism highlights Wilson’s sharp departure from the traditional principles of American government, most notably the Constitution. Ronald J. Pestritto persuasively argues that Wilson’s unfailing criticism places him clearly in line with the Progressives’... 

Product DescriptionAn otherwise ordinary cat he’d sooner give you his back than curl up on your lap Oscar has the uncanny ability to predict when people are about to die. Adopted by staff members at Steere House nursing home when he was a kitten, the three-year-old tabby has presided over the deaths of more than twenty-five... 

Product DescriptionNearly 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... 

ISBN13: 9780812980554 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThis compelling and inspiring book, now in a deluxe paperback edition, shows how one person can work wonders. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize—winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted... 

Product Description It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward... 

ISBN13: 9781416592372 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression — and are still hurting America today.In this shocking... 

ISBN13: 9780345522399 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying... 

Product Description“The greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards story… This isn’t just politics, it’s literature. It’s the great American novel, the kind that isn’t written anymore.” –Michael Wolff on John Edwards’s... 

Product DescriptionFast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was without doubt at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression will make for... 

Product Description Most Christians know John Newton as a man who once captained a slave ship, was dramatically converted to Christ on the high seas, and later penned one of the greatest hymns of the faith, “Amazing Grace.” But he also had a huge impact on his times as an icon of the evangelical movement, as... 

Product DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they... 

ISBN13: 9780679763307 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint.... 

ISBN13: 9780374531263 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionMy new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”“Because there is a war.”“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting... 

Product DescriptionI have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want toswim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin,... 

ISBN13: 9780375714832 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionHere, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving... 

Product DescriptionThe author of Operating Instructions presents an intensely personal, inspirational, and witty guide that shares step-by-step pointers on how to live a writer’s life. 35,000 first printing. Tour.Amazon.com ReviewThink you’ve got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn’t afraid to help... 

ISBN13: 9780316096195 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What... 

ISBN13: 9780142414125 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThis young readers edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the... 

Product DescriptionThe Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was one of the most spectacular exhibitions the world has ever seen. This is the story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked – an architect and a serial killer. The architect as Daniel H. Burnham, who created the White City, a magical landscape... 

ISBN13: 9780143144007 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionUnabridged CDs • 5 CDs, 5 1?2 hours A brain scientist’s personal experience with a stroke and her journey to a full recovery.Amazon.com ReviewA brain scientist’s journey from a debilitating stroke to full... 

ISBN13: 9780140280197 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAmoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention–grabbing in its design as it is in its... 

Product DescriptionMaybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.... 

ISBN13: 9780316043588 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWhen a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless is found brutally executed, reporter Cindy Thomas knows the story could be huge. Probing deeper into the victim’s history, she discovers he may not have... 

ISBN13: 9780060596989 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe Liars’ Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, “continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal”... 

ISBN13: 9780061730320 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWilliam 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... 

ISBN13: 9780061884986 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a land withered by drought and hunger, a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills and dreamed of building one that would bring his... 

ISBN13: 9780849963957 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionMeet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver’s...