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The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars
by Andrew X. Pham
Hardcover: Jun 2008
Paperback: 23 Jun 2009
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| A son’s searing memoir of his Vietnamese father’s experiences over the course of three wars. |
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My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
by Mahvish Khan
Hardcover: Jun 2008
Paperback: 22 Jun 2009
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| Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, Mahvish Khan volunteered to translate for the prisoners. Her story is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is —and who we are. |
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Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China
by Diane Wei Liang
Paperback: 2 Jun 2009
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| Beijing University, 1986. The Communists were in power, but the Harvard of China was a hotbed of intellectual and cultural activity, with political debates and "English Corners" where students eagerly practiced the language among themselves. It was there that Wei met Dong Yi, beside the Lake with No Name. |
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
by Stacey O'Brien
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: 2 Jun 2009
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| When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing, she knew he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild, so gave him a permanent home living with her. This is the funny, poignant story of their two decades together. |
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Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Campbell McGrath
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2009
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| From the inimitable Campbell McGrath comes an epic poem of George Shannon, the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, who wandered the prairie alone for sixteen days. |
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 5 May 2009
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| The Man Who Loved Chinatells the sweeping story of China through the remarkable life of Joseph Needham's , a brilliant Cambridge scientist . Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself great—related by one of the world's inimitable storytellers. |
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: 30 Apr 2009
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| Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency–and America itself. |
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
by Robyn Scott
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 31 Mar 2009
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| A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs |
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