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by Dmitri Volkogonov
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008

The special assistant to Boris Yeltsin radically alters the traditional image of Lenin with a biography based on secret Soviet archives, revealing the Founding Father as a cruel, totalitarian leader who was responsible for the worst excesses of the Soviet state.
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A Case for Solomon

Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation

by Tal McThenia, Margaret Dunbar Cutright
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012

The spellbinding story of one of the most celebrated kidnapping cases in American history—the kidnapping of Bobby Dunbar—and a haunting family mystery that took almost a century to solve. THE MOST NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPING CASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went...
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by Mira Bartok
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant literary memoir about family and mental illness. Through stunning prose and original art, The Memory Palace captures the love between mother and daughter, the complex meaning of truth, and family’s capacity...
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Mark Twain

A Life

by Ron Powers
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005

Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's,...
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Marmee & Louisa

The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother

by Eve LaPlante
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

Louisa May Alcott was one of the most successful and bestselling authors of her day, earning more than any of her male contemporaries. Her classic Little Women has been a mainstay of American literature since its release nearly 150 years ago, as Jo March and her calm, beloved “Marmee” have shaped...
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William Golding

The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

by John Carey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to become Lord of the Flies, a book that would...
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When I Was a Loser

True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School

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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007

For Anyone Who's Ever Been a Teenager Who's teenage years weren't terrible? Remember the scary older kids? The sadistic gym teacher? The smelly kid who sat next to you in science class? Your first fumbling kiss? That time you threw up in the cafeteria? Your first attempt at putting on a condom?...
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Leonard Woolf

A Biography

by Victoria Glendinning
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006

Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into previously untapped sources, to write the first full biography of the extraordinary man who was the "dark star" at the center of the Bloomsbury...
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by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001

This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing...
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by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006

In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy matches that...
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We Heard the Heavens Then

A Memoir of Iran

by Aria Minu-Sepehr
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

ARIA MINU-SEPEHR was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary privilege as the son of a major general in the Shah’s Imperial Iranian Air Force. It seemed his father could do anything—lead the Golden Crowns in death-defying aerobatic maneuvers; command an air force unit using top American technology;...
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The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

by Andrew Lycett
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature's most enduring characters. Based on thousands of previously unavailable documents, Andrew Lycett,...
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My Heart is Boundless

Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's Mother

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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

Little Women’s “Marmee” is one of the most recognizable mothers in American literature. But the real woman behind the fiction—Louisa May Alcott’s own mother, Abigail—has for more than a century remained shrouded in mystery. Scholars believed that her papers were burned by her daughter...
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Bailout

An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street

by Neil Barofsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012

In this riveting account of the mishandling of the TARP bailout fund, a former federal prosecutor offers behind-the-scenes proof of the corrupt ways Washington officials serve the interests of Wall Street. In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted...
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