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Nonfiction, June 2008
- Brampton, Sally
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Behind Brampton's successful, glamorous career is a story that many of her friends and colleagues had known nothing about — her ongoing struggle with severe depression and alcoholism. This book offers her wrenching, but ultimately inspirational, story as it charts her recovery.
- Capuzzo, Michael
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Capuzzo presents the thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society — a team of the world's finest forensic investigators who meet monthly in its secretive chambers to solve a cold murder over a gourmet lunch.
- Conley, Kevin
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Journalist Conley takes readers inside one of the most fascinating and dangerous jobs in the world — the Hollywood stuntman — and explains why they do what they do.
- Dennis, Felix
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An outspoken entrepreneurial dynamo reveals the secrets behind his self-made fortune. Starting as a college dropout with no family money, Felix Dennis made himself the 65th richest individual in the U.K. — and had a blast in the process.
- Dobbs, Michael
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Veteran Washington Post reporter Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet and Cuban sources to produce this authoritative book on the Cuban missile crisis, offering an hour-by-hour account of just how close the nations came to war.
- Fisher, Paul
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Revealing the fascinating complexities of one of history's most brilliant, eccentric and daring families, House of Wits looks at how the James family was traumatized by the restrictive standards of their times but reached out for new ideas and new ways to live.
- Gordon, M. D.
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A world-renowned psychiatrist offers a groundbreaking, inspiring and practical guide to healing depression without the use of antidepressants.
- Harris, Russ
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Based on the insights and techniques of a new form of psychotherapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this new book by Harris offers key principles and techniques for escaping the "happiness trap" to create a full, rich and meaningful life.
- James, Jamie
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In the narrative tradition of Into the Wild and The Perfect Storm, an acclaimed journalist tells the dramatic story of the life and death of a modern adventurer Joe Slowinski, the young, charismatic world expert on poisonous snakes.
- Lacy, Sarah
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Business reporter Lacy brings to light the captivating story of the mavericks who emerged from the dot com rubble to found the multibillion-dollar companies taking the Web into the 21st century.
- Macdougall, Doug
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Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms.
- Morris, Bob
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A New York Times Style columnist has written this humorous and bittersweet chronicle of the year he spent taking charge of his recently widowed, 80-year-old father's dating life — and how it inspired his own quest for love.
- Pham, Andrew X.
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From the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala comes a son's searing memoir of his Vietnamese father's experiences over the course of three wars.
- Preston, Douglas J.
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In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy.
- Preston, Richard, 1954-
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The author of The Hot Zone delivers a new collection of compulsively engaging — and often frightening — explorations of the fringes of science and medicine.
- Quasthoff, Thomas
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Voice is the inspiring memoir of one of the most sought-after and admired classical singers in the world — a man who has arrived at the summit of his artistry by overcoming extraordinarily daunting odds.
- Ripley, Amanda
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Prize-winning journalist Ripley illuminates how humans function — or don't — in the first moments of catastrophe. Deconstructing in vivid detail some of the world's most harrowing catastrophes, Ripley reveals the three stages of disaster response.
- Salamon, Julie
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Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the delivery of health care today, but those issues may not always be what we think they are. Best-selling author Julie Salamon enlightens us with a thorough, year-long study of a Brooklyn medical center.
- Sedaris, David
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Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in an account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, his sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing.
- Shurin, Aaron B.
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Based on the author's life as a gay man and a poet, King of Shadows is a collection of autobiographical essays that circle in and around San Francisco since the 1960s.
- Thurman, Robert
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Renowned Tibetan scholar Thurman presents his five-point plan for China's creation of an autonomous Tibet, and shows just why the Dalai Lama is the only person who can usher in this new, peaceful era for the world.
- Wax, Steven T.
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“Federal public defender Wax masterfully delivers a harrowing story of the erosion of civil liberties after the September 11 terrorist attacks in a powerful testimony that reads like a thriller. . ." Publishers Weekly
- Wells, Patricia
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The acclaimed food writer and her husband recall their pursuit of happiness in Paris and the French countryside in a charming memoir. Filled with the tastes, sounds and soul of France, this work also includes more than 30 recipes that reflect aspects of their life abroad.
- White, Dan
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The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-And Almost Found Myself-On the Pacific Crest Trail (June 2008)In this hilarious and harrowing account of a young couple's hike along the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, White shares the hardships they face as he and his girlfriend confront nature, themselves and each other.
- Winn, Marie
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Winn explores a once-hidden world in a series of interlocking narratives about the extraordinary denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park.