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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
Hardcover: Nov 2011
Paperback: 18 Sep 2012
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| The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. |
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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
by Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 28 Aug 2012
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| The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III, to testify at first hand the atrocities occurring in the camp. |
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Winter Journal
by Paul Auster
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 5 Nov 2013
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| Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations - both pleasurable and painful. |
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Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
by Paul Hendrickson
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 24 Jul 2012
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| A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. |
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
by Joy Harjo
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 29 Jul 2013
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| In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. |
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In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
by Fabio Geda
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 12 Jun 2012
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| When a ten-year-old boy's village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal. |
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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter
by Mark Seal
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 25 Apr 2012
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| A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. |
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No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
by Melissa Fay Greene
Hardcover: Apr 2011
Paperback: 24 Apr 2012
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| A loving portrait of a unique twenty first-century family with nine children as it wobbles between disaster and joy: "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers." |
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