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Nonfiction, August 2008
- Baker, Nena
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While chemical advances have helped raise our standard of living, making our lives easier and safer in many ways, there are costs to these conveniences that chemical companies would rather consumers never knew about. Investigative journalist (and former Oregonian staff writer) Baker draws back the curtain on this untold impact and assesses where we go from here.
- Bayoumi, Moustafa Mohamed
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Bayoumi presents the story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy.
- Burgess, Glenda
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This poignant exploration of the depths of the human heart and the ability to love and to trust, no matter the obstacles, is a reminder that "real" life is always richer — and often stranger — than fiction.
- Fortey, Richard
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In an elegant and illuminating narrative, the author of Trilobite! and Earth: An Intimate History acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the Natural History Museum in London.
- Friedman, Thomas L.
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Friedman's bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
- Geddes, John
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Geddes, a private military contractor, delivers a frontline report on life as a hired gun in Iraq.
- Harrison, Kathy
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Self-sufficiency at home or in a temporary safe haven takes away much of the fear and helplessness associated with disasters. Just in Case puts the power back in the hands of individuals who are equipped and ready to take over when public services fail.
- Kerouac, Jack
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In the early 1950s, Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality. As a compendium of the teachings of the Buddha, Wake Up is a profound meditation on the nature of life, desire, wisdom and suffering.
- LeBlanc, Phyllis Montana
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Hurricane Katrina survivor LeBlanc- — featured in Spike Lee's documentary When the Levees Broke — offers an astounding and poignant account of her struggle to survive one of the nation's worst disasters.
- Lessing, Doris May
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In this work that combines fiction and memoir, Nobel Laureate Lessing offers a moving meditation on parents and children, war and memory, as she explores the lives of her parents, two individuals irrevocably damaged by the Great War.
- Mahler, Jonathan
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In 2006, a young defense lawyer assigned to represent Osama bin Laden's driver in a military tribunal sued the Bush administration over the legality of the tribunals and won. Here is the inside story of this seminal case.
- Moore, Harold G.
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The authors of We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young return to the Vietnam battlefield they immortalized to explore how the war has changed them, their country, their brothers and their enemies.
- Pelosi, Nancy
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When Pelosi became the first woman Speaker of the House, she made history. Now she continues to inspire women everywhere in this thought-provoking collection of wise words — her own and those of the important people who have played pivotal roles in her journey.
- Singh, Simon
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In this groundbreaking analysis, more than 30 of the most popular alternative healing treatments — acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropractic and herbal medicines — are examined for their benefits and potential dangers.
- Theroux, Paul
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Thirty years after his classic The Great Railway Bazaar, Theroux revisits Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan and Siberia.
- Trudeau, Noah Andre
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Award-winning Civil War historian Trudeau has written a fascinating new history of Sherman's legendary and devastating march through Georgia. Told through diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers, this work paints a vivid picture of an event that changed the course of America.
- Vanderbilt, Tom
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Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity. Ultimately, this work is about more than driving: it's about human nature.
- Waiter, The
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Based on the award-winning blog, Waiter Rant tells the story from the server's point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogance and misbehavior.