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Nonfiction, March 2009
- Angwin, Julia
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Angwin offers a look at the unlikely success of MySpace and the drama surrounding one of the biggest business deals of the Internet age.
- Barra, Allen
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Sportswriter Barra presents a gripping biography of the legendary Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra, one of the most quotable figures in American culture.
- Barry, Lynda
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Nearsighted Monkey collects a series of portraits in which the pleasant primate goes about her daily life — smoking while hogging the remote, making pancakes, waiting for the bus — alternately bundled up for her travels or lounging in slippers and a housecoat.
- Blanke, Gail
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Real Simple columnist Blanke wants to start a movement of people across America to throw out 50 things that will help liberate them from the stuff — physical and mental — that clutters their lives.
- Black, Keith
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Dr. Black invites readers to shadow his journeys into neurosurgery. Along the way, he shares his unique insights about the inner workings of the brain, his unwavering optimism for the future of medicine and the extraordinary stories of his patients.
- Boser, Ulrich
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One museum, two thieves and the Boston underworld — this account tells the true story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces and the art detectives who swore to get them back.
- Cafferty, Jack
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The author of It's Getting Ugly Out There covers the colossal blunders and hypocrisies the Bush administration has perpetrated on the world, as well as the mistakes the new Democratic-controlled Congress is making, in this timely, up-to-the-minute work.
- Caldwell, Christopher
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Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighborhoods have forced Europeans to confront the limits of their long-held liberal values. Caldwell reports that by underestimating the culture-shaping potential of religion, Europe has trapped itself in a problem to which it has no obvious solution.
- Eule, Brian
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Three new doctors — all women — struggle to balance professional ambitions and personal relationships, triumphs and crises, uncertainties and decisions, through the first year of their careers in medicine.
- Gillies, Isabel
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Gillies pens a fast-paced, intriguing memoir in which she is forced to come to terms with the swift destruction of her picture-perfect life after her husband leaves her for another woman — something her rival reminds her, happens every day.
- Gubar, Susan
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In this expansive cultural biography of Judas, a prominent scholar explores the meaning of Jesus' betrayer over 20 centuries. Gubar shows how Jesus' most notorious disciple has provoked profound reflections on the problem of evil that still resonate today.
- Hajratwala, Minal
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Hajratwala mixes history, memoir and reportage to explore the questions facing not only her own Indian family but that of every immigrant: Where did we come from? Why did we leave? and What did we give up and gain in the process?
- LeClaire, Anne D.
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A critically acclaimed novelist offers an enlightening look at the joys and benefits of silence and shows how it can transform people's daily lives.
- Longrigg, Clare
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Taking readers into the eye of the Sicilian Mafia, Boss of Bosses tells the story of Bernardo Provenzano, the man who oversaw a deadly empire of corruption so large, the full sweep of its dark reach has yet to be fully accounted.
- Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff
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The best-selling author of When Elephants Weep explores humans' relationship with the animals they call food. Masson investigates how denial keeps people from recognizing the animal at the end of their fork as well as each culture's distinctions among animals considered food and those that are forbidden.
- Orloff, Judith
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Synthesizing traditional and nontraditional medicine, Dr. Orloff shows how to identify the most powerful negative emotions such as depression, anger and fear and transform them into hope, compassion and courage.
- Parness, Michael
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Stock trader and motivational speaker Parness applies his aggressive strategy to normally ignored or undermanaged 401(k) and IRA accounts, offering tangible, proven, no-nonsense financial advice.
- Seidl, Amy
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As Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver examine food issues through their own families’ meals, ecologist Amy Seidl looks at climate change through family walks in the woods, work in her garden and seasonal community events throughout the year.
- Showalter, Elaine
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In a narrative of immense scope and fascination — spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions — readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
- Singer, Peter
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Singer uses ethical arguments, provocative thought experiments and case studies of charitable giving to show that the current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible.
- Wizenberg, Molly
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A memoir with a practical purpose and a cookbook with a life beyond the kitchen, this resource offers 50 recipes full of fresh flavors and the author's lessons from the kitchen that show who people are, who they love and who they want to be.
- Wolff, Daniel
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Wolff presents an engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of 12 great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley.
- Zoellner, Tom
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The fascinating story of the substance that can sustain life — or destroy it — Uranium illustrates how the use of this mineral has shaped the modern world order.