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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional biographies & memoirs
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Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 9 Sep 2008
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| From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph. |
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Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir
by Carolyn Jourdan
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 19 Aug 2008
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| Heart in the Right Place, an alternately laugh-out-loud-funny and cry-your-eyes-out-serious memoir about the down-sizing of Carolyn Jourdan's life from white marble columns, gilded domes, and Neiman Marcus to naugahyde, peeling linoleum, and Wal-mart. |
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by Ben Macintyre
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 12 Aug 2008
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| Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier. |
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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
by Susan Richards Shreve
Hardcover: Jun 2007
Paperback: 10 Jun 2008
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| A rich and moving memoir of childhood illness and its aftermath by a member of the last generation of Americans to have experienced childhood polio. |
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 13 May 2008
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| By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 29 Apr 2008
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| Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. |
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If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
by Janine Latus
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 15 Apr 2008
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| In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, it read, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me... |
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