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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men...
by Sebastian Junger
October 1991. It was 'the perfect storm'--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to ... Read More
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Teacher Man: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt, the author of ANGELA’S ASHES and ’TIS, wraps up his trilogy of memoirs with this account of the 30 years he spent teaching in New York public high schools, from his rocky beginning as a young man teaching English in a vocational school to his eventual ... Read More
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Middle Place, The
by Kelly Corrigan
'An amazing story told with steep honesty. The Middle Place is memoir at its highest form.'
--Darin Strauss, author of More Than It Hurts You and The Real McCoy 'If you're in a book club or just love to read, make sure this book ends up in your lap, ... Read More
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan ... Read More
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The Smartest Guys In The Room
by Bethany McLean
Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President's Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The Smartest Guys in the ... Read More
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for...
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Emotionally wrung-out from her divorce, the painful ending of a subsequent love affair, and a general, long-standing feeling of malaise, novelist and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert decides to recharge herself through a year's worth of travel, believing that her return to happiness could be ... Read More
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My Life: The Presidential Years Vol. II
by Bill Clinton
People see Bill Clinton's two-term presidency either as a tumultuous one from the start that ended ignominiously in scandal, or as a very ambitious and successful eight years of service that left the economy strong and increased America's influence abroad both militarily and diplomatically. ... Read More
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Buddha
by Karen Armstrong
The author of The Battle for God and other works on religion focuses her attention on the Buddha, retracing his life from prince to savior of humankind, in a philosophical portrait that offers an illuminating look at how his life and path to spiritual enlightenment spawned one of the great ... Read More
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Einstein: A Relative History
by Donald Goldsmith
From his early childhood through the evolution of his remarkable scientific discoveries, a lucid portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest minds offers an accessible introduction to his scientific theories and his "thought experiments," which he utilized to visualize ... Read More
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Jarhead
by Anthony Swofford
A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry Marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines, his girlfriend's infidelity, his battles with fear and suicide, his brushes with death, and his identity as a soldier and an American. Reprint. (A Universal Pictures film, ... Read More
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