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Prozac Diary [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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 The author of the acclaimed Welcome to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life." Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir, she describes what it's like to spend most of your life feeling crazy--and then to wake up one day and find yourself in the strange state of feeling well. And...
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October Sky: A Memoir (aka Rocket Boys) [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir--a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space ... and who made those dreams come true. With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evo...
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A Weeping upon the Thames [An Exploration of Charles Dickens] [MultiFormat]
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Charles Dickens was one of the top three investigative journalists of his century, besides being a famous novelist. We explore the surprising and often shocking background that makes him as relevant today as he was in the Victorian world. London's rookeries were even more notorious than the Five Points section in Gangs of New York. (Published: 2003)
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Jane Fonda: My Life So Far [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood's elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her life today, Jane Fonda reveals intimate details and universal truths that she hopes "can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how th...
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Biography of a Slave [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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In publishing this book I hope to do good not only to my own race, but to all who may read it. I am not a book-maker, and make no pretensions to literary attainments; and I have made no efforts to create for myself a place in the literary, book-making ranks. I claim for my book truthfulness and honesty of purpose, and upon that basis it must succeed or fail. The Biography of a Slave is called for by a very large number of my immediate acquaintances, and, I am assured, will meet with such recepti...
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One Soldier's Story: A Memoir [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Before he became one of America's most respected statesmen, Bob Dole was an average citizen serving heroically for his country. The bravery he showed after suffering near-fatal injuries in the final days of World War II is the stuff of legend. Now, for the first time in his own words, Dole tells the moving story of his harrowing experience on and off the battlefield, and how it changed his life. Speaking here not as a politician but as a wounded G.I., Dole recounts his own odyssey of courage and...
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Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life--an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told ... or lived. Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief who ever lived. During a thirty-year career he charmed his way into the inner circles of high society and stole more than $35 million worth of fabulous jewels from such celebrities as Robert Goulet...
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My Life [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals. Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all...
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Memoirs of a Slave Girl [MultiFormat]
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An honest and fearless account of her exploitation as a slave. This is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, Black history, or the subject of sexual exploitation throughout history. Jacobs' story is unflinching and unusual in its candor. (Published: 2004)
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Saving Grace [MultiFormat]
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In this sledgehammer of a story, four-year-old Grace is molested sexually by her unstable father, after which he murders her mother and tries to murder the children. He's sentenced to prison, and the children are sentenced to foster care. Grace's foster care experience, with one exception, ranges from abusive to rejecting. Then she goes to live with her alcoholic grandmother and Grace's treatment is worse. When her insane father is released from prison after seven years, she must live with him, ...
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Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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You've heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance. It was a time when anything seemed possible--instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury--and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors' money in t...
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Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis, into the world, a crippling depression followed. In Down Came the Rain, Brooke writes about the tribulations, depression, and, ultimately, the triumphs that happened before and after the birth. With a knowledgeable voice and a self-deprecating sense of humor, Brooke discusses her battle with postpartum depression, a disorder that has been widely misunderstood and is prevalent in many new mothers. Having successfully recovered thro...
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Lucky Man: A Memoir [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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This memoir discusses Michael J. Fox's life--growing up in Canada and then becoming a national television star in the U.S. at the age of 19. Fox reveals the excess and temptations he fell into as a young star, and how with the help of his wife, Tracy Pollan, he quit drinking and drowning in self-pity. He tells of noticing the first tremors of Parkinson's disease, which he ignored; finding out at the age of 30 that he was suffering from early onset of Parkinson's; how this has affected his family...
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Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of Passing for Thin, Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim. He strides past her without a glimmer of recognition because she barely resembles the woman he is expecting to see. Jim had last seen her when she was 188 pounds heavier. What follows is one of the most piercing explorations of the limits and promises of a body since Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face. W...
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Love in the Driest Season [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She'd been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers th...
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Trump: How to Get Rich [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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First he made two billion dollars. Then he made The Apprentice. Now The Donald shows you how to make a fortune, Trump style. How To Get Rich Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV impresario Donald J. Trump reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice. Over the years, everyone has urged Trump to write on this subject, but it wasn't until NBC and executive producer Mark Burnett asked him to star in The Apprentice that he realized ju...
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The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Get the inside story on America's most powerful political dynasty. President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the first full-scale biography of the Bushes, Peter and Rochelle Schweizer trace the extraordinary trajectory of their rise to power. Through a series of exclusive, surprisingly candid interviews with members of the family and close fri...
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Time to be in Earnest [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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In 1997, P. D. James decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of a diary. Structured as the diary of a single year, it roams back and forth through time, illuminating James's extraordinary, sometimes painful and sometimes joyful life." "Here, interwoven with reflections on her writing career and the craft of crime novels, are vivid accounts of episodes in her own past--of school days in 1920s and 1930s Cambridge ... of the war and the tragedy o...
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My Wars Are Laid Away In Books [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson's growth--a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production. Building ...
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Comfort Me With Apples [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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In Ruth Reichl's latest book--one that will delight her fans and convert those as yet uninitiated to her charming tales--the author brings to life her adventures in pursuit of good meals and good company. Picking up where Tender at the Bone leaves off, Comfort Me with Apples recounts Reichl's transformation from chef to food writer, a process that led her through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles and brought lessons in life, love, and food. It is an apprenticeship by turns delight...
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Love, Greg & Lauren [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning-a wife, the mother of a ten-month-old son, and a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald-came to work, as always, at One World Trade Center. As she stepped into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft, and in that split second her life was changed forever. Lauren was burned over 82.5 percent of her body. As he watched his wife lie in a drug-induced coma in the ICU of the Burn Center at New York-Presbyterian ...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Inspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics--indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left italy, his birthplace, his inventions and discove...
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds.... This is the terrifying story of what really happened that fateful day at the top o...
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A Song Flung Up To Heaven [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she ...
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Up From Slavery [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Simple in its style and anecdotal in its approach, this book vividly recounts Washington's birth into slavery, his yearning for education, and his single-minded vision of building an educational center for black students. He helped advance the cause of racial equality and brought a rational and respected voice to the boiling question of how America should treat its black citizens. (Published: 2000)
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