JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES by Minsky Hyman P.
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Category: Biography
"Today, Mr. Minsky's view [of economics] is more relevant than ever."- The New York Times "Indeed, the Minsky moment has become a fashionable catch phrase on Wall Street."-The Wall Street Journal John Maynard Keynes offers a timely reconsideration of the work of the revered economics icon. Hyman Minsky ...Show more
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Lisa Ling
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Category: Biography
On March 17, 2009, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors who were fleeing the desperate conditions in their homeland. While filming on the Chinese-North Korean border, they were chased down by North Korean soldiers who violently apprehended the ...Show more
A Common Pornography: A memoir by Kevin Sampsell
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Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Common Pornography explores the fragmented world of youthful memories in a style at once spare, haunting, and uncomfortably nostalgic. Kevin Sampsell's daring and creative style of memoir is peppered with insightful (perhaps distracting) footnotes by Mike Daily and ethereal photo-colleges by Melody Ow ...Show more
MAN WHO LOVED CHINA AUDIO UNABRIDGED by Simon Winchester (Read by)
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Category: Biography
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman (Elegant and scrupulous--New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa (A mesmerizing page-turner--Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist w ...Show more
WILD NIGHTS by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Biography
Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway--Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic events of their lives. In subtly nuanced language sugge ...Show more
GONE TO THE CRAZIES by Alison Weaver
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Category: Biography
As a child, Alison Weaver's life shone with surface-level perfection--full of nannies, private schools, and ballet lessons. She had all the luxuries of a wealthy Manhattan upbringing, and all the makings of a perfect Upper East Side miss. But her childhood memories were laced with darker undertones: Her ...Show more
SUMMER AT TIFFANY LARGE PRINT by Marjorie Hart
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Category: Biography
"Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan.... [She makes] the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and contemporary." --USA Today "[A] glorious once upon a time fairytale come true....I loved every moment!" --Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine A ...Show more
Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxas
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Category: Biography
Amazing Grace is the story of British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833), a man of whom it can truly be said: he changed the world. Human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament, Wilberforce led a twenty year battle to abolish the British slave trade. He won this battle in ...Show more
WHEN IN ROME HOW AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN ITALY LOST WEIGHT EATI by Debra Friedland
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Category: Biography
GENUINE ATHLETIC THE REAL LIFE OF RALPH LAUREN by Michael Gross
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Category: Biography
A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an afterword."Deep-dish...sharp-clawed...honestly admiring."--New York TimesThere are at least two Ralph Laurens. To the public he's a gentle, modest, yet secure and purposeful man. Inside the walls of ...Show more
The Music of Silence by Andrea Bocelli
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Category: Biography
You don't have to be an opera fan to appreciate this beautifully written memoir by world-famous tenor Andrea Bocelli. Born among the vineyards of Tuscany, Bocelli was still an infant when he developed glaucoma. Music filtering into his room soothed the unsettled child. By the age of twelve he was comple ...Show more
Lit by Mary Karr
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Category: Biography
"The Liars' Club" brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. "Cherry," her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into t ...Show more