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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
by Elie Wiesel

ISBN 0805210288 (0-8052-1028-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The long-awaited memoirs of Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, tell the story of his happy childhood in the Carpathian Mountains, his subsequent years of hell in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and his post-war life in France, where he discovered his voice as a writer. Highly recommended. [via]
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Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
by John Stuart Mill, John M. Robson

ISBN 0140433163 (0-14-043316-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited

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John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential Classical liberal thinker of the 19th century whose works on liberty justified freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He wrote the book Utilitarianism , a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. [via]
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Bad Blood
by Lorna Sage

ISBN 1841150428 (1-84115-042-8)
Hardcover, Zondervan

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Borstal Boy
by Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely

ISBN 1567921051 (1-56792-105-1)
Softcover, Roundhouse Publishing Limited

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This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window..." The men were, of course, the police, who knew seventeen-year-old Behan for the anti-imperialist terrorist he was and arrested him. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland. [via]
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron

ISBN 0679736395 (0-679-73639-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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In 1985 William Styron fell victim to a crippling and almost suicidal depression, the same illness that took the lives of Randall Jarrell, Primo Levi and Virginia Woolf. That Styron survived his descent into madness is something of a miracle. That he manages to convey its tortuous progression and his eventual recovery with such candor and precision makes Darkness Visible a rare feat of literature, a book that will arouse a shock of recognition even in those readers who have been spared the suffering it describes. [via]
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The Drowned and the Saved
by Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal

ISBN 067972186X (0-679-72186-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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This book, published months after Italian writer Primo Levi's suicide in 1987, is a small but powerful look at Auschwitz, the hell where Levi was imprisoned during World War II. The book was his third on the subject, following Survival in Auschwitz (1947) and The Reawakening (1963). Removed from the experience by time and age, Levi chose to serve more as an observer of the camp than the passionate young man of his previous work. He writes of "useless violence" inflicted by the guards on prisoners and then concludes the book with a discussion of the Germans who have written to him about their complicity in the event. In all, he tries to make sense of something that--as he knew--made no sense at all. [via]
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Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
by Edmund Gosse, Peter Abbs

ISBN 0140182764 (0-14-018276-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Edmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, "This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs." Father and Son remains one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. In it, Edmund Gosse recounts, with humor and pathos, his childhood as a member of a Victorian Protestant sect and his struggles to forge his own identity despite the loving control of his father. His work is a key document of the crisis of faith and doubt and a penetrating exploration of the impact of evolutionary science. An astute, well-observed, and moving portrait of the tensions of family life, Father and Son remains a classic of twentieth-century literature.

This edition contains an illuminating introduction, and provides a series of fascinating appendices including extracts from Philip Gosse's Omphalos and Edmund Gosse's harrowing account of his wife's death from breast cancer. [via]
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Gather Together in My Name
by Maya Angelou

ISBN 0553260669 (0-553-26066-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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In Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou continues her stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings us along in her struggle and dance through life.

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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana
by Haven Kimmel

ISBN 0767915054 (0-7679-1505-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965 in Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period--people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

To three-year-old Zippy, it made perfect sense to strike a bargain with her father to keep her baby bottle--never mind that when she did, it was the first time she'd ever spoken. In her nonplussed family, Zippy has the perfect supporting cast: her beautiful yet dour brother, Danny, a seeker of the true faith; her sweetly sensible sister, Lindy, who wins the local beauty pageant; her mother, Delonda, who dispenses wisdom from the corner of the couch; and her father, Bob Jarvis, who never met a bet he didn't like.

Whether describing a serious case of chicken love, another episode with the evil Edythe across the street, or the night Zippy's dad borrowed thirty-six coon dogs and a raccoon to prove to the complaining neighbors just how quiet his two dogs were, Kimmel treats readers to a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and shy as she navigates the quirky adult world surrounding Zippy.
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A Grief Observed
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0553274864 (0-553-27486-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian apologist on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. Painfully honest in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings, this is a book that details his paralysing grief, bewilderment and sense of loss in simple and moving prose. [via]
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
by Paul Auster

ISBN 0312422326 (0-312-42232-6)
Softcover, Picador USA

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It's no wonder that Paul Auster (The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo) creates such singular characters. While his youth comprised a series of failures too unbelievable for fiction, it also equipped him with a range of experiences to draw from that most fiction writers only dream of. He worked with Bowery bums at a summer camp, had a childhood friend join the Weather Underground, and was a student at Columbia in 1968 at the height of the student uprisings there (and at which point, he boasts, he knew seven of the FBI's ten most wanted men). He worked on an oil tanker, for a French Mafia-style film producer in Paris, and for a rare-book organization in New York. He translated the North Vietnamese constitution from French into English (don't ask). His work brought him in contact to varying extents with Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jerzy Kosinski, Sartre, Foucault, and John Lennon. The encounters and experiences must have been fascinating, failure aside, but Auster's prose here, sadly, lacks the tightness and luster of his fiction. The remainder--and major portion--of the volume consists of three plays, a baseball card game, and a detective novel, all written during this time. [via]
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Rigoberta Menchu, Elizabeth Burgos-Debray, Ann Wright

ISBN 0860917886 (0-86091-788-6)
Softcover, Verso Books

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Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father. [via]
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Istanbul
by Orhan Pamuk

ISBN 0571218326 (0-571-21832-6)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber, Limited

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Lessons in Living
by Maya Angelou

ISBN 0394223632 (0-394-22363-2)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd

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"This book is dedicated to Oprah Winfrey with immeasurable love" This book is about "being in all ways a woman, about the sweetness of charity, about the spirit, and about death and its legacy. Its about living well and living good, and the power of the word, and complaining, and sexual encouragement, and jealousy-and even taking time, just for yourself." [via]
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Life of Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus: The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
by St. Teresa of Avila

ISBN 072207901X (0-7220-7901-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
by Teresa of Avila Staff, J. M. Cohen

ISBN 0140440739 (0-14-044073-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Life of Teresa of Jesus: The Autobiography of Teresa of Avila
by E. Allison Peers

ISBN 0385011091 (0-385-01109-1)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing

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Madam Secretary
by Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward

ISBN 1401359620 (1-4013-5962-0)
Softcover, Miramax Books

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Madeleine Albright is one of the most deeply admired women of our time, and the first female in our nation's history to achieve the title Secretary of State. For eight years during the first and second Clinton terms, she was privy to some of the most fascinating and controversial episodes in memory. Now, in this outspoken memoir, Madeleine Albright shares her personal story, and provides an insider's look into the White House and world affairs during an era of unprecedented change. From a difficult start as a political refugee from Czechoslovakia, Albright went on to become a tireless advocate of civil and women's rights, and pursued a life in politics that ultimately landed her in the upper stratosphere of diplomacy and policy-making in her adopted country. Refreshingly candid, Madam Secretary brings to life the world leaders Albright worked with intimately in her years of service, and the battles she fought to prove her worth in a male-dominated arena. We also get to know Albright, the private woman: her life raising three daughters, the painful breakup of her marriage, and the discovery late in life of her own Jewish background and that her grandparents had died in concentration [via]
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Maus: A Survivors's Tale/Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman

ISBN 0679729771 (0-679-72977-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"* and a "brutally moving work of art,"** the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented," [it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event."

This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.

Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale -- and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors. [via]
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Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchu Y Asi Me Nacio LA Conciencia
by Elizabeth Burgos, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray

ISBN 9682313155 (968-23-1315-5)
Softcover, Editorial Trillas Sa De Cv

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The Meaning of It All
by Richard Phillips Feynman

ISBN 0738207950 (0-7382-0795-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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Praise for The Pleasure of Finding Things Out:"[A] sparkling collection."--Wall Street Journal"This marvelous collection of talks, interviews, and essays offers a memorable sample of the wit, brilliance, and irreverence of the most celebrated physicist of our time. The more one reads of Feynman, the more one falls in love with his refreshingly enthusiastic view of the world."--Alan Guth, author of The Inflationary Universe"A delightful reminder of Feynman's prodigious gifts."--Nature"Feynman's distinctive voice rings out in this book."--Scientific AmericanPraise for The Meaning of It All:"From the great physicist's archives, three delightful lectures on science, society, and our precious freedom of ignorance."--New York Times"Richard Feynman was a man of many reputations: brilliant physicist, charismatic teacher, irrepressible raconteur, and unforgettable character ...When Feynman describes the scientist as an acrobat walking 'beautiful tightropes of logic,' we understand how a generation of young physicists might have been drawn to follow this brilliant Pied Piper out onto the wire, high above the crowd."--Boston Globe"Scattered through this book is a wonderful collection of personal stories, told in the authentic Feynman style, bringing his meditations to life."--The New York Review of Books
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Monty - His Part in My Victory
by Spike Milligan, Jack Hobbs

ISBN 0718115317 (0-7181-1531-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited

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Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five hundred gunners try to dance with two girls and an old French matron...up there in Valhalla, Monty's laughing fit to burst. [via]
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My Early Life
by Winston Churchill

ISBN 0684823454 (0-684-82345-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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The voice of a vanished England speaks from the pages of Winston Churchill's evocative memoir of his first 30 years (1874-1904). The young Churchill inhabits a world in which men fight like hell in meaningless colonial wars--India, Egypt, South Africa--soldiering across the imperial map then extending the hand of friendship to their erstwhile enemy as if they were schoolmates at Harrow. Yet Churchill, born into a privileged family, was not an uncritical supporter of the Victorian status quo. He himself loathed Harrow; an especially amusing chapter skewers the school's emphasis on an irrelevant classical education and rote learning. A firm Tory, he considered himself a friend of the working class, and in 1899 campaigned for parliament with a Socialist colleague. Looking back from his vantage point of 1930, Churchill expresses the most attractive values of the English aristocracy--honor, loyalty, fair play--without giving the impression he wants to live in the past. The book's appeal also stems from its magisterial but colloquial prose. Anyone familiar with recordings of Churchill's rousing speeches during Word War II will hear in their minds' ears that growling timbre and unmistakably patrician accent as they read. Though he would have preferred the peace prize, My Early Life offers good evidence that Churchill's 1953 Nobel for literature was aptly awarded. --Wendy Smith [via]
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My Early Life: A Roving Commission
by Winston L. S. Churchill

ISBN 0684188031 (0-684-18803-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Naturalist
by Edward O. Wilson, Alastair Graham, Brian Taylor, David Gross, Margaret De Haas

ISBN 0446671991 (0-446-67199-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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E. O. Wilson, among the most prominent biologists working today, has made signal contributions to the field both large and small. As an entomologist, and especially as a student of several kinds of ants, he is famed among a small audience. He is better known for his work in the controversial subdiscipline of sociobiology for his formulations of island-biogeographic theory, and for his catastrophic view of modern extinctions. His lucid memoir, Naturalist, treats all these matters and more, and it celebrates the sea change in our view of nature--namely, that we now see that "we are bound to the rest of life in our ecology, our physiology, and even our spirit"--that has come about in no small measure because of Wilson's distinguished career. [via]
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
by Richard P Feynman, Jeffrey Robbin S, Freeman Dyson

ISBN 0465023959 (0-465-02395-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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Why do we do science? Beyond altruistic and self-aggrandizing motivations, many of our best scientists work long hours seeking the electric thrill that comes only from learning something that nobody knew before. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, a collection of previously unpublished or difficult-to-find short works by maverick physicist Richard Feynman, takes its title from his own answer. From TV interview transcripts to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, we see his quick, sharp wit, his devotion to his work, and his unwillingness to bow to social pressure or convention. It's no wonder he was only grudgingly admired by the establishment during his lifetime--read his "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry" to see him blowing off political considerations as impediments to finding the truth.
Feynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weapons. Though one or two pieces are a bit hard to follow for the nontechnical reader, for the most part the book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level. Freeman Dyson's foreword and editor Jeffrey Robbins's introductions to each essay set the stage well and are respectful without being worshipful. Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology; like any great scientist, he asked more questions than he answered, to give future generations the pleasure of finding things out. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
by Richard Phillips Feynman

ISBN 0738203491 (0-7382-0349-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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Why do we do science? Beyond altruistic and self-aggrandizing motivations, many of our best scientists work long hours seeking the electric thrill that comes only from learning something that nobody knew before. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, a collection of previously unpublished or difficult-to-find short works by maverick physicist Richard Feynman, takes its title from his own answer. From TV interview transcripts to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, we see his quick, sharp wit, his devotion to his work, and his unwillingness to bow to social pressure or convention. It's no wonder he was only grudgingly admired by the establishment during his lifetime--read his "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry" to see him blowing off political considerations as impediments to finding the truth.
Feynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weapons. Though one or two pieces are a bit hard to follow for the nontechnical reader, for the most part the book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level. Freeman Dyson's foreword and editor Jeffrey Robbins's introductions to each essay set the stage well and are respectful without being worshipful. Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology; like any great scientist, he asked more questions than he answered, to give future generations the pleasure of finding things out. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Spycatcher
by P. Wright

ISBN 0773721681 (0-7737-2168-1)
Hardcover, Stoddart Publishing

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From Publishers Weekly The British government's efforts to block publication of Peter Wright's Spycatcher: Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Agent climaxed in a sensational trial in Australia in 1986 that cast a shadow of disrepute on the British legal system, the Official Secrets Act and the government itself. The author of this engrossing, suspenseful account is the Australian attorney who represented Wright and his would-be Australian publisher. Excerpts from the trial testimony reveal that Turnbull uncovered mendacity, hypocrisy and cynicism at the highest levels of the British government, principally during his cross-examination of Sir Robert Armstrong, cabinet secretary and adviser on intelligence matters. In 1987 the High Court at Canberra dismissed the case and ordered the Thatcher government to reimburse legal costs to Wright and Heinemann Publishers Australia. Turnbull calls the Britishers' conduct in the affair "quite disgraceful" and adds that the experience "galvanized my determination to see Australia rid herself of its sic remaining constitutional links with England." Illustrated. 40,000 first printing; author tour. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. [via]
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Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
by Peter Wright

ISBN 0517014378 (0-517-01437-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Peter Wright was a key figure in British Intelligence for nearly 25 years. This is a memoir that recounts his extraordinary carrer in that wilderness of mirrors, the world of espionage. It is uncensored, remarkably candid, and enormously revealing about t [via]
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life With Autism
by Temple Grandin

ISBN 0679772898 (0-679-77289-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin

ISBN 0307275655 (0-307-27565-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autismbecause Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.

In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity. [via]
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This Boy's Life
by Tobias Wolff

ISBN 0060972777 (0-06-097277-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Fiction writer Tobias Wolff electrified critics with his scarifying 1989 memoir, which many deemed as notable for its artful structure and finely wrought prose as for the events it describes. The story is pretty grim: Teenaged Wolff moves with his divorced mother from Florida to Utah to Washington State to escape her violent boyfriend. When she remarries, Wolff finds himself in a bitter battle of wills with his abusive stepfather, a contest in which the two prove to be more evenly matched than might have been supposed. Deception, disguise, and illusion are the weapons the young man learns to employ as he grows up--not bad training for a writer-to-be. Somber though this tale of family strife is, it is also darkly funny and so artistically satisfying that most readers come away exhilarated rather than depressed. [via]
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Through The Narrow Gate
by Karen Armstrong

ISBN 0312119038 (0-312-11903-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press

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Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life, and a vivid, moving account of the spiritual coming age of one of our most loved and respected interpreters of religious.
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To the Stars
by George Takei

ISBN 0671536230 (0-671-53623-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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Best known as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise and Captain of the Starship Excelsior, George Takei is beloved by millions as part of the command team that has taken audiences to new vistas of adventure in Star Trek - the unprecedented television and feature film phenomenon. From the program's death at the hands of the network to its rebirth in the hearts and minds of loyal fans, the Star Trek story has blazed its own path into our recent cultural history, leading to a series of blockbuster feature films and three new versions of Star Trek for television. While the public record of Star Trek is familiar to us all, much of the real story is not. Starting with Star Trek's inception and encompassing its breakneck production schedule, the show's cancellation and its renewed life in films, George Takei gives a unique firsthand account of the creative experiences, personalities, and egos behind the thirty-year Star Trek phenomenon. The Star Trek story is one of boundless hope and crushing disappointment, wrenching rivalries and incredible achievements. It is also the story of how, after nearly thirty years, the cast of characters from a unique but poorly rated television show have come to be known to millions of Americans and people around the world as family. [via]
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To the Stars: Mr. Sulu Autobiography
by George Takei

ISBN 0671890085 (0-671-89008-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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This is the autobiography of one of Star Trek's most popular stars, George Takei. It tells of his triumph over adversity and of his huge success, despite an inauspicious start in a wartime US Asian relocation camp. In his lifetime, he has become an actor, a successful businessman, a writer, and a man deeply involved in politics and the democratic process. His story also includes his early days as an actor when he had brushes with greats like Alec Guinness, Burt Lancaster and Bruce Lee, as well as his first meeting with a writer/producer named Gene Roddenberry. The story continues with his days as Mr Sulu on Star Trek, with tales of what really went on behind the scenes, and a look at the production of the original TV series and the feature films. [via]
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Two Years Before the Mast
by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., John Seelye

ISBN 0451527593 (0-451-52759-3)
Softcover, Signet

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
by Richard Henry Dana

ISBN 0486458024 (0-486-45802-4)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated

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In 1834, a Harvard student enlisted as a common seaman--the result was this adventure classic. Crackling with realism, it offers memorable views of a dangerous voyage, vividly describing storms, whales, an insane captain, excruciating hardships, and magical beauty, as well as fascinating historical detail, including a portrait of California before the gold rush.
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., Thomas Philbrick

ISBN 0140390081 (0-14-039008-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
by Richard Henry Dana, Gary Kinder

ISBN 0375757945 (0-375-75794-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California before the gold rush. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, "Dana's small book is a very great book." [via]
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Vets Might Fly
by James Herriot

ISBN 0330443585 (0-330-44358-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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World War II takes James Herriot away from his vet's life in the Dales and into a training camp 'somewhere in England'. [via]
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 1414505396 (1-4145-0539-6)
Softcover, Pavilion Pr

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Illustrated. This book established the credentials of Thoreau to forever speak for America's love of natural beauty. Walden is about a man, a pond, and the great woods of the country By Henry Thoreau. [via]
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Walden And Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau, Jonathan Levin

ISBN 1593082088 (1-59308-208-8)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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Walden and Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry.

Jonathan Levin is Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of Literature and Culture at SUNY-Purchase. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, modernism and modernity, and environmental studies. He is the author of The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism, as well as numerous essays and reviews.
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Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau, Perry Miller

ISBN 0451523776 (0-451-52377-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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A philosophy of life and observations on government included in these famous books. [via]
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Walden and Resistance to Civil Government
by Henry David Thoreau, Owen Thomas, William Rossi

ISBN 0393959058 (0-393-95905-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

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On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is new in this edition, and those reading the book for the first time will discover why it has changed the lives of generations of readers. [via]
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Walden or Life in the Woods: and "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musingsas well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil libertyhave inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.

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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
by Marya Hornbacher

ISBN 0060930934 (0-06-093093-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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"I fell for the great American dream, female version, hook, line, and sinker," Marya Hornbacher writes. "I, as many young women do, honest-to-God believed that once I Just Lost a Few Pounds, suddenly I would be a New You, I would have Ken-doll men chasing my thin legs down with bouquets of flowers on the street, I would become rich and famous and glamorous and lose my freckles and become blond and five foot ten." Hornbacher describes in shocking detail her lifelong quest to starve herself to death, to force her short, athletic body to fade away. She remembers telling a friend, at age 4, that she was on a diet. Her bizarre tale includes not only the usual puking and starving, but also being confined to mental hospitals and growing fur (a phenomenon called lanugo, which nature imposes to keep a body from freezing to death during periods of famine). [via]
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
by Maya Angelou

ISBN 0553380176 (0-553-38017-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Women's Literature, Psychology, Inspiration [via]
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