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Biography


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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
by Jonathan Lopez
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It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering, making a mockery of the Nazis... (read more)

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The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond
The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond
by Peter G. Peterson
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With insight and refreshing candor, Peter G. Peterson describes his remarkable life story beginning in Kearney, Nebraska as an eight-year-old manning the cash register at his father's Greek diner through his Mad Men advertising days, to Secretary of... (read more)

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
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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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
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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Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
by Susan Nagel
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The first major biography of one of France’s most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette’s only child to survive the revolution. Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to... (read more)

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
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Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more)

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The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok
The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok
by Greg Barrett
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Three decades ago in a cordoned-off corner of the developing world an angry Catholic priest armed only with pencil, paper, and crayons, declared a revolution. From a shanty school shared with Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok's squatter slums, Father Joe... (read more)

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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
by Steve Lopez
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Now a major motion pictureaaAn intimate portrait of mental illness, of atrocious social neglect, and the struggle to resurrect a fallen prodigy.a (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down) This is the true story of journalist Steve Lopezas discovery of... (read more)

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Stephen Hawking: A Biography
Stephen Hawking: A Biography
by Kristine Larsen
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Writing in nontechnical language for the lay reader, Larsen clearly explains Hawkings complex scientific accomplishments, while telling the story of his challenging life.... (read more)

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Truck: A Love Story
Truck: A Love Story
by Michael Perry
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The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and...gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old... (read more)

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Guests | June 29, 2009

All posts by Cheryl Wagner The Character Previously Known as Jake

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Review-a-Day | June 29, 2009

China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story

Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang by Ziyang Zhao

Reviewed by Jonathan Mirsky
New York Review of Books

Prisoner of the State is the secretly recorded memoir of Zhao Ziyang, once holder of China's two highest Party and state positions and the architect of the economic reforms that have brought the country to the edge of great-power status. Continue »


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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | June 12, 2009

All posts by Marie Brenner Powell's Q&A: Marie Brenner

My latest book, Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found, took me to my brother's apple orchards in Washington State. Now I am traveling in my imagination and spending as much time as possible in India, where... Continue »


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Original Essays | June 11, 2009

All posts by Peter Manseau Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

Though I began writing Songs for the Butcher's Daughter just three years ago, the story it tells had been following me around for more than a... Continue »


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