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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 8 Mar 2011
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Winner of BookBrowse's 2010 Best Book Award
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
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Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero
by Stephan Talty
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 18 Jan 2011
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| Emotionally powerful and irresistibly page-turning, Escape from the Land of Snows is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who was ultimately transformed into the towering figure the world knows today. |
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
Hardcover: 16 Nov 2010
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| In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man's journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. |
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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
by Iain McCalman
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 15 Nov 2010
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| Darwin's Armada tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the nineteenth century in search of adventure and scientific fame. |
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
Hardcover: Dec 2009
Paperback: 21 Sep 2010
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| A remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens |
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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
by Peter Singer
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 14 Sep 2010
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| For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the world’s population, we must become part of the solution. |
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The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
by Margaret Drabble
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 10 Sep 2010
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| An original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. |
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Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 1 Sep 2010
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| Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits - from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth - and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. |
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