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Dog Years: A Memoir
by Mark Doty
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 1 Apr 2008
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| When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a golden retriever. A moving and intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss. |
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The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam
by Tom Bissell
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 11 Mar 2008
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| Opening with a gripping account of the chaotic and brutal last month of the war, The Father of All Things is Tom Bissell’s powerful reckoning with the Vietnam War and its impact on his father, his country, and Vietnam itself. |
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Marley & Me
by John Grogan
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 11 Mar 2008
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| Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans! |
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Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
by Sue William Silverman
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: 14 Feb 2008
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| A powerful, deeply personal and often lyrical memoir of a woman learning to value herself as a person rather than a sex object, after years of sexual abuse by her father. Silverman's message is relevant to anyone suffering from addictions. |
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Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
by Alexander Frater
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 12 Feb 2008
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| From one of the most celebrated travel writers at work today—a vibrantly observant, witty, utterly captivating account of a lifetime’s worth of travel between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. |
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Grayson
by Lynne Cox
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 1 Feb 2008
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| The true story of long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox's ocean encounter with an 18-foot baby whale and her efforts to reunite "Grayson" with his mother - part mystery, part magical tale. |
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The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
by Oral Lee Brown, Caille Millner
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 30 Dec 2007
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| The inspiring story of one woman's extraordinary promise and steely determination to make a difference in the world. |
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 18 Dec 2007
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| Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. Thus an idea was born. |
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