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| 1776 | ||
| McCullough, David | ||
| 1776 is powerful testimony to how much is owed to a rare few in that brave founding epoch, and what a miracle it was that things turned out as they did. Written as a companion to his celebrated biography of John Adams. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| 25 Ways to Win With People How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks | ||
| Maxwell, John C. and Parrott, Lee | ||
| 25 Ways to Win With People will help any leader, salesperson, parent, or volunteer who wants a quick refresher course on interpersonal relationships. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People & The 8th Habit | ||
| Covey, Stephen R. | ||
| Enjoy Dr. Covey’s lessons on powerful personal change and how to incorporate his ideas into your life to fulfill your ultimate potential. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| 8 Weeks to Optimum Health | ||
| Weil, Andrew | ||
| Preventive in the broadest sense, straightforward, and encouraging, Eight Weeks to Optimum Health has proved to be, and in this updated version will continue to be, an essential book. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/04/2007
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| A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity A Memoir Coming Soon! | ||
| O’Rilly, Bill | ||
| In his most intimate book yet, O’Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and best-selling author. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| A Call to Conscience The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | ||
| Carson, Clayborne, ed. | ||
| These 12 moving speeches voiced by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are original recordings collected here for the first time ever. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| A Death in Belmont | ||
| Junger, Sebastian | ||
| A Death in Belmont chronicles three lives that collide, and are ultimately destroyed, in the vortex of one of the most controversial serial murder cases in America. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | ||
| Beah, Ishmael | ||
| This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped up on drugs, and weilding AK-47s. It is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? Beah, now 25, tells a riveting story. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 03/02/2007
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| A Mighty Heart The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl | ||
| Pearl, Mariane | ||
| The complete account of Daniel Pearl’s abduction, the intense effort to rescue him, and the aftermath are told here in astonishing detail, and with courage and insight by his surviving wife, Mariane. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| A New Earth Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose | ||
| Tolle, Eckhart | ||
| Tolle shows us how we have an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/09/2008
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| A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend | ||
| Huffman, Felicity and Patricia Wolff | ||
| A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend lays out the manly steps involved in becoming a good boyfriend, while still maintaining guy-dignity. | ||
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| A Short History of Myth The Myths | ||
| Armstrong, Karen | ||
| Armstrong takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the “Great Western Transformation” of the last 500 years and the discrediting of myth by science. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| A Short History of Nearly Everything | ||
| Bryson, Bill | ||
| This beloved comic genius takes information that he gets from the world’s leading experts and explains it to us in a way that makes it exciting and relevant. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| A Walk In The Woods | ||
| Bryson, Bill | ||
| Bryson’s acute eye is a wise witness to the fragility and beauty of the Appalachian Trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America’s last great wilderness. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| A Wolf At The Table A memoir of My Father | ||
| Burroughs, Augusten | ||
| A Wolf at the Table is the story of Augusten’s relationship with his father, John Robinson, Sr., a man only briefly touched upon in Running With Scissors. It’s a story of psychological cruelty and the redemptive power of hope. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 06/16/2008
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| A Woman in Charge The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| Bernstein, Carl | ||
| This book enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistently, even obsessively, asking about Hillary Clinton: What is her character? What is her political philosophy? Who is she? What can we expect of her? | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| Against Medical Advice One Family’s Struggle With an Agonizing Medical Mystery Coming Soon! | ||
| Patterson, James, Friedman, Hal | ||
| Against Medical Advice is the true story of Cory Friedman and his family’s decades-long battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a maddening medical establishment. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| The Age of Miracles Embracing the New Midlife | ||
| Williamson, Marianne | ||
| This book is to help serve in the transition to middle age and show that it is a magical turning point toward life as we’ve never known it. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/09/2008
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| Age of Turbulence Adventures In a New World | ||
| Greenspan, Alan | ||
| The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s attempt to understand this new global, capitalist economy world, that is more flexible, resilient, and faster changing, than it was a quarter century earlier. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes | ||
| Angelou, Maya | ||
| In this beautiful exploration of her life in 1960s Africa, Maya Angelou reaffirms her stature as one of the most gifted authors of our time. She experiences the joy of being black among so many others who are also black, excitement of politics and the beauty of an unspoiled land. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| All-Audio Italian | ||
| Living Language | ||
| Developed by the experts at Living Language, this program is designed for people on the move. You can learn Italian as you drive, work around the house, or exercise at the gym. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| All-Audio Spanish | ||
| Stern, Irwin | ||
| This program is designed for people on the move. You can learn Spanish as you drive, work around the house, or exercise at the gym. You’ll also learn some intriguing facts about Spanish customs and culture. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| Alphabet Juice Coming Soon! | ||
| Blount, Roy Jr. | ||
| Alphabet Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| American Creation | ||
| Ellis, Joseph J. | ||
| American Creation is an audio book that delineates an era of flawed greatness, at a time when understanding our origins is more important than ever. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| American Gangster and Other Tales of New York | ||
| Jacobson, Mark | ||
| In American Gangster, Mark Jacobson’s captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas joins other tales of New York City from the past 30 years. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life | ||
| Kingsolver, Barbara | ||
| Part memoir and part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea | ||
| Handler, Chelsea | ||
| Displaying the candor and irresistible turn of phrase that have earned her a recurring stint as a correspondent on The Tonight Show as well as her own E! series, Chelsea lets it rip in these relentlessly entertaining essays. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 06/18/2008
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| The Areas of My Expertise | ||
| Hodgman, John | ||
| Here is a different kind of desk reference, one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman, which is the nice way of saying: He made it all up. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/04/2007
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| The Art of Friendship 70 Simple Rules for Making Meaningful Connections | ||
| Horchow, Roger and Sally Horchow | ||
| Whether the goal is to start a new relationship, cement a developing alliance, or reinvest in a long-standing friendship, The Art of Friendship will help to make the connection. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/03/2006
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| The Art of War | ||
| Tzu, Sun | ||
| Art of War is an indispensable guide for anyone who wants an edge over the competition. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/04/2007
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| Assassination Vacation | ||
| Vowell, Sarah | ||
| Sarah Vowell takes us on a road trip like no other, a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| The Assault on Reason | ||
| Gore, Al | ||
| Here is a visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith have combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason. Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| At the Center of the Storm My Years at the CIA | ||
| Tenet, George | ||
| Candid and compelling, At the Center of the Storm is George Tenet’s memoir of his life at the CIA -- a revealing look at the inner workings of America’s top intelligence agency and its dealings with national leaders at home and abroad. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| The Audacity of Hope Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | ||
| Obama, Barack | ||
| A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Senator Obama has written a book of transforming power. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Augustus the Life of Rome’s First Emperor | ||
| Everitt, Anthony | ||
| Historian Anthony Everitt brings Caesar Augustus to vivid life in this fascinating narrative. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| Baseball a History of America’s Favorite Game | ||
| Vecsey, George | ||
| Baseball is a concise history filled with details and stories that will appeal to rookie and veteran fans alike. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 03/02/2007
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| Basic Black The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and Life) | ||
| Black, Cathie | ||
| No matter where you are in your career, Basic Black offers invaluable lessons that will help you land the job, promotion, or project you’re vying for. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| Before You Do Making Life Decisions That You Won’t Regret Coming Soon! | ||
| Jakes, T. D. | ||
| T.D. Jakes confronts the topic of relationships and the issues that need resolving once you’ve learned to use the spiritual and psychological tools for reevaluating your place in life and for repositioning yourself for a life without limits. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| Beowulf | ||
| Heaney, Seamus (translator) | ||
| Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel’s mother. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/06/2007
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| Berlitz Italian Guaranteed | ||
| Berlitz | ||
| This is an all-audio course for beginners or those who want to brush up their language skills, complete with cultural information and pronunciation tips. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/06/2007
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| The Best Poems of All Time Volume 1 | ||
| edited by Leslie Pockell | ||
| This perfect poetry companion brings the words of the world’s favorite poets to life. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Big Bam The Life and Times of Babe Ruth | ||
| Montville, Leigh | ||
| The Big Bam traces Ruth’s life from his bleak childhood in Baltimore to his brash entrance into professional baseball, from Boston to New York and into the record books as the world’s most explosive slugger and cultural luminary. | ||
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| Big Russ and Me Father and Son, Lessons of Life | ||
| Russert, Tim | ||
| Tim Russert celebrates the indelible connection between fathers and sons, and the timeless dreams they share, even in our changing world. Listeners everywhere will laugh, cry, and identify with the lessons of life taught by the indomitable Big Russ. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 06/18/2008
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| Bill Bryson Collector’s Edition: Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There, I’m a Stranger Here Myself | ||
| Bryson, Bill | ||
| This offering by Bill Bryson provides a hilarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/04/2007
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| Blackwater The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army | ||
| Scahill, Jeremy | ||
| Meet Blackwater USA, the most secretive, most powerful, and fastest-growing private army on the planet. Ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to Washington, D.C., where they are hailed as heroes, this is the dark story of Blackwater’s rise to power. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Blink the Power of Thinking Without Thinking | ||
| Gladwell, Malcolm | ||
| Explores the process by which people make decisions, explaining how the difference between good and bad decision making is directly related to the details on which people focus, and offers advice on how to improve decision making skills. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Boogers Are My Beat More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism from Dave Barry Coming Soon! | ||
| Barry, Dave | ||
| “Barry has never been as funny as he is in this rip-roaring, hilarious new collection of columns.” (Booklist) | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| Boom! Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections On the ‘60s and Today | ||
| Brokaw, Tom | ||
| Tom Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring how individual lives and the national mindset were affected by a controversial era and showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| Born on a Blue Day A Memoir | ||
| Tammet, Daniel | ||
| One of the world’s 50 living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story and explain how his incredible mind works. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 03/02/2007
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| Born Standing Up A Comic’s Life | ||
| Martin, Steve | ||
| Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Buddha | ||
| Armstrong, Karen | ||
| This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Carpe Diem Put A Little Latin in Your Life | ||
| Mount, Harry | ||
| Filled with fascinating tidbits and humorous asides, Carpe Diem will delight the word lovers who made Eats, Shoots and Leaves such a monster hit. Journalist Harry Mount breathes life back into the greatest language of all. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Change We Can Believe In Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise | ||
| Obama, Barack | ||
| Change We Can Believe In asks you not just to believe in Barack Obama’s ability to bring change to Washington, it asks you to believe in yours. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| Chasing Life New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today | ||
| Gupta, Sanjay | ||
| This is not an anti-aging book. It’s a groundbreaking guide to functional aging - extending our healthy and active lives longer than ever thought possible. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| Counselor A Life At The Edge Of History | ||
| Sorensen, Ted | ||
| Sorensen describes in thrilling detail his experience advising JFK during some of the most crucial days of his presidency, from the decision to go to the moon to the Cuban Missile Crisis. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/08/2008
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| Culture Warrior | ||
| O’Reilly, Bill | ||
| Bill O’Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior, and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at his command. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/03/2006
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| The Devil in the White City | ||
| Larson, Erik | ||
| In a thrilling narrative that reads more like fiction than fact, Erik Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World’s Columbian Expostion in Chicago. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Dewey the Small - Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Coming Soon! | ||
| Myron, Vicky and Witter, Bret | ||
| Dewey is the heartwarming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa, as told by his owner and companion of 19 years, Vicki Myron, the librarian who found him when he was abandoned as a kitten in the book drop slot. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| The Diana Chronicles | ||
| Brown, Tina | ||
| In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them. Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler, England’s glossiest gossip magazine, knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| Dispatches from the Edge | ||
| Cooper, Anderson | ||
| Dispatched From the Edge is an unforgettable memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the cataclysmic events of our age and allows us to see them through the eyes of one of America’s most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success | ||
| Simmons, Russel with Chris Morrow | ||
| This book will demonstrate how it’s impossible to receive any sort of lasting success from the world without giving something of lasting value to the world first. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| Don’t Know Much About Mythology | ||
| Davis, Kenneth C. | ||
| This work vividly brings the past to life and proves that Americans don’t hate history, they just hate the dull, textbook version they were fed in school. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings | ||
| Perry, Tyler | ||
| As Madea is fond of saying, “Sometimes life is hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.” | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 03/02/2007
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| Dr. Blair’s Mandarin Chinese in No Time | ||
| Blair, Robert | ||
| Dr. Blair’s Mandarin Chinese in No Time will get you speaking Mandarin Chinese more quickly and enjoyably than you ever thought possible. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| Dreams From My Father A Story of Race and Inheritance | ||
| Obama, Barack | ||
| In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| The Drunkard’s Walk How Randomness Rules Our Lives | ||
| Mlodinow, Leonard | ||
| Offering listeners not only a tour of randomness, chance and probability but also a new way of looking at the world, this original, unexpected journey reminds us that much in our lives is about as predictable as the steps of a stumbling man afresh from a night at a bar. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/08/2008
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| Eat, Pray, Love One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia | ||
| Gilbert, Elizabeth | ||
| An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| Einstein His Life and Universe | ||
| Isaacson, Walter | ||
| Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk, a struggling father in a difficult marriage, became the genius to unlock the mysteries of the atom. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| Faith Of My Fathers A Family Memoir | ||
| McCain, John with Salter, Mart | ||
| Faith of My Fathers is the story of John McCain, his father and grandfather, and what they gave each other and what endures. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| Fast Food Nation | ||
| Schlosser, Eric | ||
| Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/03/2006
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| Financial Freedom Creating True Wealth Now | ||
| Orman, Suze | ||
| In this practical advice book, Suze Orman explains how to break free of financial worries, master the essential elements of financial life, and finally realize that we cannot measure our self worth by our net worth. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/09/2008
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| The Fire Next Time | ||
| Baldwin, James | ||
| James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| The First Billion is The Hardest Coming Soon! | ||
| Pickens, Boone T. | ||
| Pickens presents a comprehensive plan for American energy independence as well as provides a fascinating glimpse into key resources such as water - yet another area where he is putting billions on the line. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| Fleeced Coming Soon! | ||
| Morris, Dick and McGann, Eileen | ||
| Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American taxpayers are routinely fleeced - by our own government; by foreign countries; and by hedge-fund billionaires collecting huge tax breaks. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| Fodor’s French for Travelers | ||
| Fodor’s | ||
| The simplest way to get by in French, before you go and while you’re there. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| The Forgotten Man Coming Soon! | ||
| Shlaes, Amity | ||
| “A thoughtful, even-tempered corrective to too often unbalanced celebrations of FDR and his administration’s pathbreaking policies.” (Publishers Weekly) | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| The Four-Hour Work Week Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | ||
| Ferriss, Timothy | ||
| The Four-Hour Work Week explains what a lifestyle entrepreneur is and why you should want to become one. It teaches you how to “kill” your job and design a life. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| Freakonomics a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | ||
| Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner | ||
| Takes an unconventional look at how the economy really works, from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, offering a very different view on what really matters and what really drives the economy. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| French Women Don’t Get Fat The Secret of Eating for Pleasure | ||
| Guiliano, Mireille | ||
| French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. This ultimate non-diet book could radically change the way you think and live. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| From Pieces to Weight Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens | ||
| 50 Cent | ||
| This memoir reveals not only 50 Cent’s story but the story of a generation of youth faced with hard choices and very little options. This narrative details his struggle to survive at all costs...and behold the riches of the American Dream. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Garlic and Sapphires The Secret Life of a Critic In Disguise | ||
| Reichl, Ruth | ||
| A remarkable account of how one's outer appearance can very much influence one's inner character, expectations, and appetites. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Generation Text Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything | ||
| Osit, Michael Dr. | ||
| This audio book provides reasonable, down-to-earth strategies listeners can use to address the unique issues faced by children surrounded by infinite choices...and very few limits. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| Get in the Game Eight Elements of Perseverance That Make a Difference | ||
| Ripkin, Cal Jr. and Donald T. Phillips | ||
| Get in the Game gives all of us access to legendary advice from a legendary achiever. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World | ||
| Clinton, Bill | ||
| Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/06/2007
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| Goals! How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible | ||
| Tracy, Brian | ||
| This is the most complete book on setting and achieving goals ever written. It is based on more than 20 years of research and speaking to people throughout the United States, Canada, and 22 foreign countries. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| God is Not Great How Religion Poisons Everything | ||
| Hitchens, Christopher | ||
| In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’ recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| The Google Story Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time | ||
| David A. Vise and Mark Malseed | ||
| The Google Story is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith | ||
| Lamott, Anne | ||
| Anne Lamott examines the ways we’re caught in life’s most daunting predicaments: love, mothering, work, politics, and maybe toughest of all, evolving from who we are to who we were meant to be. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing | ||
| Fogarty, Mignon | ||
| Chock full of tips on style, business writing, and effective e-mailing, Grammar Girl’s latest audio book should be heard by every communicator. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| The Great Influenza The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History | ||
| Barry, John M. | ||
| In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| Gullible’s Travels The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist | ||
| Peters, Cash | ||
| Join British journalist Cash Peters on this outrageous behind-the-scenes look at the frustrations of a travel reporter on the road. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| Guns, Germs, and Steel The Fates of Human Societies | ||
| Diamond, Jared | ||
| Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world’s peoples, a unified narrative of human life. | ||
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| Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment | ||
| Ben-Shahar, Tal | ||
| In Happier, you’ll discover that happiness, not money, is the ultimate currency, that we can’t be happy unless we first give ourselves permission to be human, and that happiness isn’t so elusive after all. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/06/2007
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| He’s Just Not That Into You The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys | ||
| Behrendt, Greg and Liz Tuccillo | ||
| He’s Just Not That Into You, educates otherwise smart women on how to tell when a guy doesn’t like them enough, so they can stop wasting time making excuses for a dead-end relationship. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Holidays on Ice | ||
| Sedaris, David | ||
| Holidays on Ice collects six of David Sedaris’ most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last minute coaster or ice scraper. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/03/2006
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| Home Memoir Of My Early Years | ||
| Andrews, Julie | ||
| A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her listeners on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/08/2008
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| Hot, Flat, and Crowded Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America | ||
| Friedman, Thomas L. | ||
| Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy -- both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| How the Irish Saved Civilization | ||
| Cahill, Thomas | ||
| The great heritage of Western civilization - from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works - would have been utterly lost were it not for the holy men and women of unconquered Ireland. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less | ||
| Boothman, Nicholas | ||
| The most powerful idea for making connections is revealed, step by step, in Nicholas Boothman’s breakthrough program of rapport by design. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/04/2007
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| How to Meditate With Pema Chodron | ||
| Chodron, Pema | ||
| This American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and best-selling author presents her first complete spoken-word course for those new to meditation. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/09/2008
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| I Am America (And So Can You!) | ||
| Colbert, Stephen | ||
| The author describes his audio book as a simple audio book from a simple mind: Stephen Colbert’s. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| I Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman | ||
| Ephron, Nora | ||
| Nora Ephron speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. It is a book of wisdom, advice, and laugh-out-loud moments, a scrumptious, irresistible treat. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| I Like You Hospitality Under the Influence Coming Soon! | ||
| Sedaris, Amy | ||
| “Sidesplitting...Her advice is both practical and hilarious...Sedaris’ first solo effort..is an outrageous and deadpan delight.” (Publishers Weekly). | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This And Other Things That Strike Me As Funny | ||
| Newhart, Bob | ||
| In this, Bob Newhart’s first audiobook ever, he gives us his brilliant and bemused twist on a multitude of topics, including flying, the trials of a family holiday in a Winnebago, and more serious subjects, such as golf. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| The Iliad Coming Soon! | ||
| Homer | ||
| This new translation by Robert Fagles, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, brings the energy of contemporary language while maintaining the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| In Cold Blood | ||
| Capote, Truman | ||
| A family of four was savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun. Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| The Innocent Man | ||
| Grisham, John | ||
| John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/03/2006
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| Inside My Heart Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose | ||
| McGraw, Robin | ||
| Robin McGraw speaks directly to the heart of every woman and challenges her to recognize and develop her unique role -- leading to satisfaction with herself, her profession, her family, and anything she might strive after. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Instant Immersion French | ||
| Tomaszewski, Nathalie | ||
| Not a phrase book, not a translation guide, Instant Immersion French is the speedy, sophisticated route to proper French, for all non-native speakers on the go. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/26/2007
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| Instant Immersion Ingles Coming Soon! | ||
| Instant Immersion | ||
| Ingles es la ruta agil y avanzada hacia un ingles correcto para todos los hablantes no nativos que estan en movimiento. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/29/2008
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| Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced | ||
| Lona, Jennifer | ||
| Yearning for the Yucatan? Going back to Baja? Now, Intermediate-level Spanish speakers can take their fluency to the next level. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| Instant Immersion: Arabic (Eastern Colloquial) | ||
| Farhoud, Walid B. | ||
| From introductory verbs to regional variations, this comprehensive program ensures detailed language learning, all set to a lively lesson plan of practical Arabic vocabulary. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| Instant Immersion: french | ||
| Lona, Jenny | ||
| Not a phrase book, not a translation guide, Instant Immersion: Spanish is the speedy, sophisticated route to proper Spanish, for all non-native speakers on the go. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 03/02/2007
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| Instant Immersion: German | ||
| Wideburg, Laura | ||
| Instant Immersion: German is the speedy, sophisticated route to proper German, for all non-native speakers on the go. Follow the audio lesson plan at your own pace. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/06/2007
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| Into the Wild | ||
| Krakauer, Jon | ||
| A young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless hitchhhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness of Mt. McKinley. Six months later, a hunter found his body, a cryptic diary, and a camera with five rolls of film. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/20/2007
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| Irregulars Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington | ||
| Conant, Jennet | ||
| Conant’s narrative uses never-before-seen wartime letters, diaries and interviews to create a fascinating, lively account of deceit, double dealing and moral ambiguity - all in the name of victory. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| It’s All Too Much An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life With Less Stuff | ||
| Walsh, Peter | ||
| At last, here is a system for managing your clutter, regaining control, and living the life you imagine for yourself. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/08/2008
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| James Earl Jones Reads the Bible The New Testament, King James Version | ||
| Jones, James Earl | ||
| In a voice as rich as it is recognized, James Earl Jones lends his narrative talents to the King James Version of the New Testament. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Jim Cramer’s Real Money Safe Investing in an Insane World | ||
| Cramer, Jim | ||
| Written in Cramer’s distinctive turbocharged style, this is every investor’s guide to what you really must know to make big money in the stock market. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/03/2006
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| Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad for Life Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer) | ||
| Cramer, James J. | ||
| Jim Cramer covers all the essentials: how to save, where to invest, which pitfalls to avoid. This money guide is full of practical, insightful, and invaluable financial advice. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Just A Guy Notes from a Blue Collar Life | ||
| Engvall, Bill and Alan Eisenstock | ||
| Just a Guy chronicles a lifetime pursuit of a guy’s three basic needs: eating, sleeping, and sex. In this memoir, Bill Engvall takes you on the rollicking ride of his life, including his childhood in Texas and adolescence in Arizona. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| Kitchen Confidential Adventures In The Culinary Underbelly Coming Soon! | ||
| Bourdain, Anthony | ||
| Bourdain’s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Kitchen Confidential Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | ||
| Bourdain, Anthony | ||
| Bourdain’s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| The Last Lecture | ||
| Pausch, Randy | ||
| Computer science professor, Randy Pausch, shares his last lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” which details the importance of overcoming obstacles, enabling dreams of others, and seizing every moment. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 06/18/2008
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| Learn in Your Car Italian (Level 2) | ||
| Raymond, Henry N. | ||
| The Learn in Your Car language series is the first system ever designed to teach a language in your car...or anywhere...without a textbook. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/04/2007
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| The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid | ||
| Bryson, Bill | ||
| Bryson recreates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality, at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/03/2006
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| Lone Survivor The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 | ||
| Luttrell, Marcus | ||
| This is the story of team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing and the desperate battle that led to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/12/2007
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| The Long Tail Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More | ||
| Anderson, Chris | ||
| The Long Tail is really about the economics of abundance, an entirely new model for business that is just starting to show its power as unlimited selection reveals new truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 11/03/2006
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| Longitude The True Story of a Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | ||
| Sobel, Dava | ||
| John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution to measuring longitude at sea. Complete with a new foreword written and read by Neil Armstrong. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Marley and Me Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog | ||
| Grogan, John | ||
| A young couple was just beginning their life together with a perfect house and not a care in the world. Then came Marley, a yellow furball puppy and life would never be the same. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/09/2008
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| Mayflower A Story of Courage, Community, and War | ||
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | ||
| Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding book the true story of the Pilgrims. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Measure of a Man A Spiritual Autobiography | ||
| Poitier, Sidney | ||
| A triumph of the spirit, The Measure of a Man captures the essential Poitier. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 03/02/2007
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| Memo to the President Elect How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership | ||
| Albright, Madeleine | ||
| The former secretary of state and best-selling author, Madeleine Albright, offers provacative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face and how to return America to its rightful role as a source of inspiration across the globe. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/17/2008
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| Mere Christianity | ||
| Lewis, C.S. | ||
| Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of religion. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 10/09/2006
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| Mindless Eating Why We Eat More Than We Think | ||
| Wansink, Brian | ||
| In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you’re eating, what you’re eating, or why you’re even eating at all. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/04/2007
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| Mistaken Identity Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope | ||
| Ryn, Don Van Ryn, Susie Van | ||
| This book details the tragic accident that resulted in the confusion of the identity of two girls, and how their respective families clung to hope and dealt with the final truth. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 04/09/2008
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| Money, and the Law of Attraction Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness | ||
| Hicks, Esther & Hicks, Jerry | ||
| The concepts offered here relate to the topic of abundance and prosperity. They will show you that you truly need to think about what you want in your life and not what you don’t want. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 09/25/2008
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| The Monster of Florence | ||
| Preston, Douglas and Spezi, Mario | ||
| The Monster of Florence, which reads like one of Preston’s thrillers, tells a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, suicide, carnival trials, voyeurism, princes and palaces, body parts sent by post, devil worship and Satanic sects, poisonings and exhumations, Florentine fashion houses, and drunken peasants. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 07/08/2008
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| Moscow 1941 A City and Its People at War | ||
| Braithwaite, Rodric | ||
| This is a brilliantly researched and realized history, and an essential addition to the literature of World War II. | ||
| Subject: Non-Fiction Date Added: 01/04/2007
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| Mother Warriors A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds Coming Soon! | ||
| McCarthy, Jenny | ||
| Emotional and genuinely practical, Mother Warriors will inspire a generation of parents with hope | ||