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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

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Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there... (read more)
 
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Einstein: His Life and Universe Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson

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By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang...(read more)

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Driving Mr. Albert: a Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain Driving Mr. Albert: a Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain
by Michael Paterniti

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Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. (read more)

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

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After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more)
 
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : a Savage Journey To the Heart of the American Dream (71 Edition) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : a Savage Journey To the Heart of the American Dream (71 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson

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When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became... (read more)
 
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Entertainment and Performing Arts

The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more)
 
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New Arrivals

The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home
by Bibi Gaston

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In 1927, at the age of twenty-three, Rosamond Pinchot was hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America." At thirty-three, in a sudden, shocking, and highly public act, Rosamond took her own life, setting in motion generations of confusion in the family she... (read more)
 
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Cooking

Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.) Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
by Pete Jordan

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Dishwasher is Pete Jordan's amusing memoir of his itinerant dishwashing extravaganza. For 12 years, I was the most prolific dishlicker of them all. From 1989 - 2001, I dished my way around the country, unwittingly searching for direction. From a bagel... (read more)
 
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more)
 
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  1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
  3. The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls
  4. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
  5. A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
  6. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
  7. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
  8. Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
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  10. Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs

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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
by John Wood

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Wood, the executive who made it his business to bring books and schools to children around the developing world, chronicles his life and work, from the start-up years at Microsoft to his life-changing decision to leave, and includes the methods he uses... (read more)
 
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James Dean: Fifty Years Ago James Dean: Fifty Years Ago
by Dennis Stock

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Published on the 50th anniversary of his death, this is the definitive photographic portrait of James Dean in both his professional and his private worlds, the real man behind the lingering legend.... (read more)
 
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard

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Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard's own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to pass in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York... (read more)
 
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Literary

Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs

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"Burroughs has a way of writing reminiscent of David Sedaris. His mock-naivete is a little shocking, a little naughty. He confesses to things that most people just don't admit to in polite conversation. But the twinkle in the eye is there, the nudge in... (read more)
 
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Health and Fitness

Possible Side Effects
by Augsuten Burroughs

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This book is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This book is not approved to treat disorders such as eBay addiction or incessant blind dating. Doll collectors may experience... (read more)
 
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Rich and Famous

Oh the Glory of It All Oh the Glory of It All
by Sean Wilsey

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Strangely compelling, Sean Wilsey's bare-all memoir about his terribly eccentric family is as disturbing as it is entertaining. You know those moments in life when you think "this can't be happening"? Wilsey's life seems composed entirely of those... (read more)
 
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Presidents and Heads of State

Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell

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Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more)
 
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