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Social Science
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Rebound!: Basketball, Busing, Larry Bird, and the Rebirth of Boston
Michael Connelly serves up Boston social history here as if he were a waiter at the venerable Durgin Park restaurant in Faneuil Hall. The complicated stew of events and emotions that dominated th
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The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, a Widow's New Life
An explosive, heartbreaking memoir from the widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff, the first genuine inside story from a family member who has lived through—and survived
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'ReillyThe anchor o
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A Stolen Life: A Memoir
When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for more than eighteen years, held capti
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Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
Recovery? What Recovery?Did you lose money in the stock market in the last financial crisis of late 2008?Has your home lost value? Are you "underwater" in your mortgage or concerned about selling
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The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood
New York Times best-selling author William J.Bennett uses stories, essays, historical vignettes, and contemporary profiles to explore and explain what it means to be a man. Fashioning men has nev
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Bossypants
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her
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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate:
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Danse Macabre
From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experi
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Seriously... I'm Kidding
I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you'll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the words I've put together for you in this book. I thi
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Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lendersIn Reckless Endan
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Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World
"Giving 2.0 is a real gift to anybody committed to using his or her life, resources, and energies to make the world a better place. I've been involved in philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, an
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Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be heard and read in this deluxe, illustrated book and 8-CD s
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No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest l
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowle
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Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers
Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the y
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Night
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel
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Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us
Fear can't help you in a dangerous situation. A former FBI profiler shows you what can. As one of the world's top experts on psychopathy and criminal behavior, Mary Ellen O'Toole has seen repeate
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Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
Foreword by Morgan SpurlockFrom the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider’s look at how today’s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds,