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Nonfiction, October 2008
- Alexander, Matthew
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Reading like a fast-paced, true crime thriller, this work looks at military interrogators who perform feats of mental manipulation in an effort to find and destroy the leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
- Blount, Roy, Jr.
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After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, Blount still can't get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations.
- Butcher, Tim
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Blood River offers a compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world — vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist.
- Carroll, Diahann
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In this candid memoir, award-winning actress Diahann Carroll comes clean about aging, acting, marrying, mothering and everything else she's learned along the way.
- Cross, Charles R.
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An unparalleled look inside the mind of one of America's most revered rock legends, Cobain Unseen collects previously unseen artifacts and photographs from the estate's archives to form a fascinating portrait of the creativity, madness and genius of Kurt Cobain.
- Ebert, Roger
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Roger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received — for 1967’s I Call First — when both men were just embarking on their careers. Here Ebert puts Scorsese’s career in illuminating perspective, exploring the different phases of his development and the abiding themes that give his work such complexity and depth.
- Finch, Phillip
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Finch chronicles the harrowing true story of two friends who plunge 900 feet into the water in South Africa — and only one returns.
- Fischer, David Hackett
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian provides this account of Samuel de Champlain, who founded Quebec 400 years ago and established a colony where respect for the native people and religious tolerance were practiced.
- George, Rose
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An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste, The Big Necessity takes aim at the taboo and reveals everything that matters about how people do — and don't — deal with their own waste.
- Golenbock, Peter
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Sparing no detail, no name and no ego, actor Tony Curtis shares the true record of his life with humor and grace. Some like it hot, and they will not be disappointed.
- Heat-Moon, William Least
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In his previous book Blue Highways, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Now, the author is back on the backroads, in this lyrical, funny and touching account of his series of journeys into small-town America.
- Herring, George C.
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In this installment of the multi-volume Oxford History of the United States, Herring delivers a sweeping account of the United States' foreign relations and diplomacy, which tells the dramatic story of America's emergence as superpower — its birth in revolution, its troubled present and its uncertain future.
- Macaulay, David
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In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, multi award-winner David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he can. This one-of-a-kind book takes readers on a visual journey through the human body. With his trademark humor, Macaulay builds a body and explains how it works.
- Majd, Hooman
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This stylish, witty and enlightening portrait of contemporary Iran brilliantly captures the often misunderstood character of the people and their complex, paradoxical and changing nation.
- Mitchell, Elvis
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In The Black List, 22 prominent African Americans offer their own stories and insights on the struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in America. This book was created in conjunction with the film of the same name, which will air on HBO in fall 2008.
- Mizrahi, Isaac
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The king of real world chic shares his tips and award-winning flair in a colorful guidebook designed to unleash every woman's inner fashionista. A 20-year veteran of the fashion industry, Mizrahi has become a unique icon in the world of style — a problem solver and a titan of trendsetting who believes that fashion should be seriously fun.
- Norman, Philip
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From the bestselling author of Shout comes the most deeply researched and comprehensive biography available on John Lennon — an extraordinarily detailed, vibrant, in-depth account his life, his loves, his music and his legacy.
- Norris, Kathleen
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Norris's masterpiece is a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term "acedia," or soul-weariness, and explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
- Parini, Jay
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Parini examines the life and times of 13 books that have changed America. Each of the books has been a watershed, gathering intellectual currents and marking a turn in American life and thought. The 13 books range from Of Plymouth Plantation to The Feminine Mystique.
- Plait, Philip C.
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According to astronomer Plait, the universe is an apocalypse waiting to happen. With humor and wit, Plait details the myriad doomsday events that the cosmos could inflict to destroy the planet and life in general.
- Rice, Anne
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Anne Rice has written magnificent tales of otherworldly beings: novels that explore the realms of good and evil, love and alienation, pageantry and ritual, each a reflection of her own moral journey. Now, in a powerful and haunting memoir — her first work of nonfiction — she writes about her own life as a Catholic.
- Ryback, Timothy W.
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Ryback has uncovered in the Library of Congress hundreds of volumes from Hitler's forgotten private book collection and traces key phrases and ideas from these works into his writing, speeches, conversations, thinking and actions.
- Servan-Schreiber, David
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Combining memoir with a synthesis of science, and describing both conventional and alternative ways to slow and prevent cancer, Anticancer advocates a revolutionary change in the way individuals understand and confront cancer.
- Spiegelman, Art
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The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form — and how it has formed him. This illustrated essay looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, in this collection that alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.
- Vowell, Sarah
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From the author of the bestseller Assassination Vacation comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities.
- Wagner, Robert
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Pieces of My Heart offers a moving, candid and deeply personal look at the triumphs and tragedies, loves and heartbreaks of one of Hollywood's most popular and enduring stars.
- Williams, Terry Tempest
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In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation.