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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 30 Jan 2007
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| A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by David O. Relin, Greg Mortenson
Hardcover: Mar 2006
Paperback: 30 Jan 2007
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| The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia. |
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A Strong West Wind
by Gail Caldwell
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 28 Jan 2007
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| A memoir of culture and history – of fathers and daughters, of two world wars
and the passionate rebellions of the sixties. It is also about the mythology of
place and the evolution of a sensibility: and about how literature can shape and
even anticipate a life. |
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Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 2 Jan 2007
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| A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. |
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Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
by Norah Vincent
Hardcover: Jan 2006
Paperback: 26 Dec 2006
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| Having gone where no woman (who wasn't an aspiring or actual transsexual) has gone for any significant length of time, let alone eighteen months, Norah Vincent's surprising account is an enthralling reading experience and a revelatory piece of anecdotally based gender analysis that is sure to spark fierce and fascinating conversation. |
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Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 14 Nov 2006
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| This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike. |
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Shakespeare
by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 1 Nov 2006
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Shakespeare: The Biography is quite unlike other more analytic biographies that have been written.
Ackroyd uses his skill, his extraordinary knowledge, and his historical intuition to craft this major full-scale book on one of the most towering figures of the English language. |
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A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder
by Robert B. Oxnam
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 10 Oct 2006
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| The harrowing, insightful, and courageous account of a prominent man's struggle with multiple personalities. |
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