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The Lassa Ward: One Man’s Fight Against One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases
by Dr. Ross Donaldson MD, MPH
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 20 Jul 2010
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| Ross Donaldson is one of just a few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases.More than just an adventure story, it is a portrait of the Sierra Leone people and the struggle of those risking all to aid them. |
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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
Hardcover: Jul 2009
Paperback: 15 Jun 2010
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| The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. |
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Abigail Adams
by Woody Holton
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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| Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Nonfiction Book Award.
In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of America's founding era, prize-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams's life story and of women's roles in the creation of the republic. |
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Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story
by Karen Connelly
Hardcover: 18 May 2010
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| Orange Prize–winner Karen Connelly’s compelling memoir about her journey to Burma, where she fell in love with a leader of the Burmese rebel army. |
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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
by Michael Chabon
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 11 May 2010
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| The Pulitzer Prize-winning author— "an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)—offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction. |
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Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled - and Knuckleheaded - Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
by Mark Obmascik
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 11 May 2010
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| When Mark Obmascik's twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug, he can't resist the opportunity for some father-son bonding. But after their first joint climb, Obmascik decides to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains - and to do them in less than one year. |
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Strength in What Remains: A journey of remembrance and forgiveness
by Tracy Kidder
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 4 May 2010
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| Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him – a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances. |
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A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
by Tori Murden McClure
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 1 Apr 2010
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| In June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. It was a journey that affected her life in unexpected ways for years to come. |
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