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A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930's

A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930's

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Selling Without Selling Out: How to Sell Your Business Without Selling Your Soul

Selling Without Selling Out: How to Sell Your Business Without Selling Your Soul

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Max Weber: Politics And The Spirit Of Tragedy

Max Weber: Politics And The Spirit Of Tragedy

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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

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Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution

Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution

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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

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The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

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Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever

Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever

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Being You, Being Happy: How to Love Yourself and Achieve Your Dreams

Being You, Being Happy: How to Love Yourself and Achieve Your Dreams

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Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)

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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

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Philip Roth: The Biography

Philip Roth: The Biography

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Zeus: A Journey Through Greece in the Footsteps of a God

Zeus: A Journey Through Greece in the Footsteps of a God

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A New Heaven

A New Heaven

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The Senator from Central Casting: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Thomas J. Dodd

The Senator from Central Casting: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Thomas J. Dodd

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Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

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Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

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Every Other Thursday (Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists)

Every Other Thursday (Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists)

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Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs

Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs

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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

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George Rickey: A Life in Balance

George Rickey: A Life in Balance

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Just Us: An American Conversation

Just Us: An American Conversation

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Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs

Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs

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Little a

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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

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Business is Personal: The Truth About What it Takes to Be Successful While Staying True to Yourself

Business is Personal: The Truth About What it Takes to Be Successful While Staying True to Yourself

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I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

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Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

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Skirting History: Holocaust Refugee to Dissenting Citizen

Skirting History: Holocaust Refugee to Dissenting Citizen

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The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found

The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found

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Paris Without Her: A Memoir

Paris Without Her: A Memoir

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Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America

Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America

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Knopf

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Charles Follen's Search for Nationality and Freedom: Germany and America, 1796-1840 (Harvard Historical Studies)

Charles Follen's Search for Nationality and Freedom: Germany and America, 1796-1840 (Harvard Historical Studies)

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Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness 1921-70

Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness 1921-70

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