Angela's Ashes

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Special edition of the bestselling classic, to tie-in with the release of Alan Parker's major new film of Angela's Ashes "When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. People everywhere brag or whimper about the woes of the... More >>

Angela's Ashes

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

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One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of... More >>

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

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William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Energy, and he dreamed of building one that would bring electricity and water to his village and change his life and the lives of those around him. His neighbors may have mocked him and called him misala... More >>

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

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A dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders. (20040603)... More >>

The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family

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Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist.  Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever -- to serve as Secretary of State.
 
But until she was 25 she never learned to swim.
 
Not because she wouldn't... More >>

Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family

BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family

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In the early 1990s, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and his brother, Terry “Southwest T,” rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family.  They socialized with music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, did business with New York's king of bling Jacob "The Jeweler" Arabo, and built allegiances with rap superstars Young Jeezy and Fabolous.  Yet even as BMF was attracting celebrity attention, its ... More >>

BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty

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BONUS: This edition contains a The Tudors discussion guide.

Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer provides a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty—and some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. In 1485, Henry Tudor, whose claim to the English throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, nevertheless sailed from France with a ragtag army to take the crown from the family that had ruled England for almost four centuries. Fifty years later, his son... More >>

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.... More >>

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

The History of the Kings of Britain

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Completed in 1136, "The History of the Kings of Britain" traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was questioned by other medieval writers. But Geoffrey of Monmouth's powerf... More >>

The History of the Kings of Britain

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

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By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians" (New York Times), Abuelaish has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life - ... More >>

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

The Royals

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Biography of the British royal family; includes new chapter.Amazon.com Review
The killer quill of Kitty Kelley, who skewered Jackie Onassis, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Reagan, goes for royal blood in her latest tell-all biography, The Royals. Fans of the 1992 book Diana used to bash her in-laws--Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story--and Prince Charles's 1995 riposte--Jonathan Dimbleby's The Prince of Wales--will detect much familiar material. So will ... More >>

The Royals

What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing

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New thoughts and reflections from the authors of the inspirational New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different as Me. The more than four hundred thousand readers stirred by the story of Ron Hall and Denver Moore will resonate with the all new, stand-alone true stories of hope and healing offered in this intimate, authentic follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different as Me. With new "Denverisms" and reflections from D... More >>

What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing

Churchill

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An acclaimed historian presents a revelatory look at the greatest statesman of the twentieth century

For eminent historian Paul Johnson, Winston Churchill remains an enigma in need of unraveling. Soldier, parliamentarian, Prime Minister, orator, painter, writer, husband, and leader-all of these facets combine to make Churchill one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history.

In Churchill, Johnson applies a wide lens and an unc... More >>

Churchill

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary

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The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary--and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W... More >>

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary

Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there?

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Have you noticed that things aren't as civil as they once were? Or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle? Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. People are yakking on cell phones in restaurants, even at church. Folks in carpools wear enough cologne to make our eyes bleed. Complete strangers think it's OK to rub a pregnant lady's belly. Passengers abuse flight attendants, f... More >>

Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there?

Oprah: A Biography

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For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about... More >>

Oprah: A Biography

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, an... More >>

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running

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From the bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, this is a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on his life.... More >>

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running

Strength in What Remains

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In Strength in What Remains Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man�s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances.Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars no English and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries living in Central Pa... More >>

Strength in What Remains

The Souls of Black Folk

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals - a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, "The Souls of Black Folk", in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work. Its insights int... More >>

The Souls of Black Folk

Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office

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"I'm not a businessman-I'm a business, man."
--Jay-Z

Some people think Jay-Z is just another rapper. Others see him as just another celebrity/mega-star. The reality is, no matter what you think Jay-Z is, he first and foremost a business. And as much as Martha Stewart or Oprah, he has turned himself into a lifestyle.

You can wake up to the local radio station playing Jay-Z's latest hit, spritz yourself with his 9IX cologne, slip on a pair of h... More >>

Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Ange... More >>

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Negro

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The Negro, written by one of the great minds of the modern era, was the first overall examination of the history of African and African-derived people, from their early cultures through the period of the slave trade and into the twentieth century. Although DuBois's beautifully written history was acclaimed in its time, widely read, and deeply influential in both the white and black communities, it is virtually unknown today. In his detailed afterword, Robert Gregg, ... More >>

The Negro