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I Loved a Girl: A Private Correspondence
by Walter Trobisch
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The spiritual vision of Trobisch's classic answers to love's questions is reproduced here in a new edition.... ( read more)
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The Story of My Life (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Helen Keller
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Great story of human courage and dedication recounted in autobiography of a remarkable woman: the magical moment when Miss Keller first recognizes the connection between words and objects, her joy at learning how to speak, friendships with notable... ( read more)
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel... ( read more)
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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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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... ( read more)
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My Life in France
by Julia Child
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Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing... ( read more)
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Colors of the Mountain (99 Edition)
by Da Chen
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Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer. <BR>Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao... ( read more)
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas
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In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... ( read more)
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
by Jon Krakauer
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Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild knows he was born to write about quirky, iconoclastic characters who travel their own road, ultimately leading to a tragic demise. Where Men Win Glory is every bit as captivating and even more timely than... ( read more)
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Introducing Stephen Hawking
by J P Mcevoy
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A graphic introduction to the best-known physicist alive today.... ( read more)
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Last Exit from Bridgeton: An East End Childhood Remembered
by James Mckenna
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When James McKenna first published his personal recollections of life in Bridgeton, he had no idea how quickly and widely his account of everyday life in the East End of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s would be embraced by former inhabitants - including... ( read more)
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Interviews | November 3, 2009
By Sheila A.
Donald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir,
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to...
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Guests | October 27, 2009
By Elna Baker
First off, thank you for the costume suggestions. They were all marvelous. I'm leaning towards the clever-yet-sexy Freudian slip. On the other hand,...
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Guests | October 26, 2009
By Elna Baker
Hello readers, My name is Elna Baker and I will be your guest blogger for the next week. Whazzzup? For those of you unfamiliar with my work, or me...
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Original Essays | September 26, 2009
By Bryan Mealer
One of the chief pleasures in writing
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with William Kamkwamba was knowing that such an inspiring story was coming from a most unlikely place. With the daily news from Africa so traditionally grim, it's no wonder most people have given up on the place. As one of those reporters who...
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Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba
Guests | September 14, 2009
By Oran Canfield
I got a call from my publishers last Wednesday letting me know that the
New York Post wanted to do an exclusive interview with me the next day. It was to be an exclusive feature, to let people know about the release on September 15. Other than doing an interview for
Vice magazine's website, and making my first promo video on iMovie, I had been mostly sitting on my ass for a month waiting for...
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