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  • LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS DE MUSSOLINI
    LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS DE MUSSOLINI
    PIERRE MILZA
    Milán, 25 de abril de 1945, 20 horas: la caravana que lleva a Mussolini y a sus más fieles lugartenientes emprende camino hacia un destino incierto. Tres días más tarde, en Giulino di Mezzegra, en la orilla oeste del lago Como, el Duce y Claretta Petacci son ejecutados.¿Qué sucedió durante esos tres largos días? ¿Cómo fue arrestado el dictador? ¿Quién disparó? ¿El Duce y su com...
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    Q. 95

  • ANTONIO Y CLEOPATRA
    ANTONIO Y CLEOPATRA
    ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY
    Los verdaderos hechos de uno de los grandes romances de todos los tiempos, tan fascinantes como su mito. Marco Antonio y Cleopatra vivieron un lujoso esplendor, lucharon por un imperio que perdieron y acabaron quitándose la vida. Su historia es la del choque de dos culturas, una crónica de ambición, crueldad y pasión. Con cuadernillo a todo color. ...
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  • COSBY
    COSBY
    WHITAKER, MARK
    The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy. Far from the gentle worlds of his routines or TV shows, Cosby grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son o...
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    Q. 300

  • OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS
    OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS
    BAILEY, MARK
    True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes.Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would water-ski to the set of "Night of the Iguana" holding a towline in one hand and a cocktail ...
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    Q. 220

  • MAN ALIVE
    MAN ALIVE
    MCBEE, THOMAS PAGE
    "Thomas Page McBee's "Man Alive" hurtled through my life. I read it in a matter of hours. It's a confession, it's a poem, it's a time warp, it's a brilliant work of art. I bow down to McBee--his humility, his sense of humor, his insightfulness, his structural deftness, his ability to put into words what is often said but rarely, with such visceral clarity and beauty, communicat...
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    Q. 160

  • DR. MUTTER'S MARVELS
    DR. MUTTER'S MARVELS
    OKEEFE APTOWICZ, CRISTIN
    A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools--or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mutter began his trailbl...
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    Q. 280

  • EPILOGUE
    EPILOGUE
    BOAST, WILL
    Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: He d had another family before Will's a wife and two sons in Engl...
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    Q. 260

  • NOT FADE AWAY
    NOT FADE AWAY
    ALEXANDER, REBECCA
    Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within. Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by age 30. Then, at 18, a fall from a window left her athletic body completely shattered. No...
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    Q. 270

  • HER BEAUTIFUL BRAIN
    HER BEAUTIFUL BRAIN
    HEDREEN, ANN
    Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen s story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner s daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, survived the turbulent 60s, and got her B.A. and M.A. at 40 so she could support her family as a Seattle sc...
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    Q. 170

  • DARING
    DARING
    GAIL SHEEHY
    The author of Passages, a book that changed millions of lives, now lays bare her own life passages in a captivating memoir that reveals her harrowing and ultimately triumphant path from groundbreaking 1960s "girl" journalist to fearless bestselling author who made a career of excavating cultural taboos--from sex, menopause, and midlife crisis to illness, caregiving, and death. ...
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    Q. 300

  • STRINGS ATTACHED
    STRINGS ATTACHED
    JOANNE LIPMAN
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    Q. 160

  • HAND TO MOUTH
    HAND TO MOUTH
    TIRADO, LINDA
    "I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am...
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    Q. 260

  • MY GRANDFATHER'S GALLERY
    MY GRANDFATHER'S GALLERY
    SINCLAIR, ANNE
    A singular man in the history of modern art, betrayed by Vichy, is the subject of this riveting family memoir On September 20, 1940, one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in New York, one of hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy France. Leaving behind his beloved Paris gallery, Paul Rosenberg had managed to save his family, but his paintings--modern master...
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    Q. 260

  • AND GIVE UP SHOWBIZ?
    AND GIVE UP SHOWBIZ?
    YOUNG,JOSH
    In the early '90s, Big Tobacco was making a killing. There was no entity more powerful, and national tobacco-related deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands each year. The economic loss from smoking-related illnesses was billions of dollars. And yet, Big Tobacco had never paid a nickel in court. Until one trial lawyer discovered he could revise part of a Medicaid law so th...
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    Q. 250

  • FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES
    FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES
    BLOW, CHARLES
    A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past" New York Times" columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place where slavery's legacy felt astonishingly close, reverberating in the elders' stori...
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    Q. 270

  • SLOW GETTING UP
    SLOW GETTING UP
    JACKSON, NATE
    One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football LeagueAs an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice as long as the average player. Through his story recounted here--from scouting combines t...
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    Q. 150

  • THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF ROBERT PEACE
    THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF ROBERT PEACE
    HOBBS, JEFF
    A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets--and of one's own nature--when he returns home. When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Ro...
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    Q. 270

  • THE PRINCE OF LOS COCUYOS
    THE PRINCE OF LOS COCUYOS
    BLANCO, RICHARD
    Where am I from? Where do I belong? Who am I? These are the universal questions that have emerged from Richard Blanco's illuminating, story-rich poetry. Now Blanco explores these questions in this vivid account of his coming of age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his effort to contend with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities. These are the stories of that shy yet...
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    Q. 260

  • ON IMMUNITY
    ON IMMUNITY
    BISS, EULA
    Why do we fear vaccines? A provocative examination by Eula Biss, the author of "Notes from No Man's Land," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear--fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cann...
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    Q. 240

  • BILLION DOLLAR PAINTER
    BILLION DOLLAR PAINTER
    KUSKEY, G ERIC
    The unbelievable true story of artist Thomas Kinkade, self-described Painter of Light, and the dramatic rise -- and fall -- of his billion-dollar gallery and licensing business. ...
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    Q. 260

  • ALL OR NOTHING
    ALL OR NOTHING
    SCHENKER, JESSE
    "Remember, it's not just about the food--it has to be an experience."Thirty-one-year-old Jesse Schenker has rocketed to the top of the culinary world. An Iron Chef winner and a James Beard nominee, he was voted Best New Chef by New York magazine, and his acclaimed Recette was named Best New Restaurant by the New York Times. Manhattan magazine has called him "a boy wonder . . . ...
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    Q. 260

  • DREAM WEAVER
    DREAM WEAVER
    WRIGHT, GARY
    Music legend Gary Wright reflects on his professional collaboration, friendship, and spiritual journey with quiet Beatle George Harrison, and releases for the first time a song they wrote together. Best known for his multiplatinum hits Dream Weaver and Love is Alive, Gary Wright came to prominence as a singer and songwriter during the golden age of rock in the 1970s. What is no...
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    Q. 280

  • FAR AND NEAR
    FAR AND NEAR
    PEART, NEIL
    Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, "Far and Away," combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers.Now "Far and Near" brings together reflections from another three years of ...
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    Q. 300

  • CARLOS PELLICER
    CARLOS PELLICER
    ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ PEREA
    Poeta de la naturaleza tropical, enamorado de la vida y del amor; poeta de Nuestra América martiana, apasionado de la belleza y sus colores; poeta del mar y del cielo divino, pendiente del Cristo y de Simón Bolívar, Carlos Pellicer (1897-1977) fue no sólo un artista sino un titán de fuerza telúrica. En estas páginas se reúne por primera vez una generosa muestra de su poesía jun...
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    Q. 280

  • RICARDO GARIBAY
    RICARDO GARIBAY
    JOSEFINA ESTRADA
    Ricardo Garibay fue uno de los escritores más prolíficos y polémicos del siglo XX. Esta antología ofrece una colección de sus textos memorables y entrañables dentro de los géneros de cuento, memoria, crónica, semblanza, diálogos y paraderos literarios.Garibay fue un maestro del lenguaje empleado en todos los niveles de la sociedad mexicana. Con un oído finísimo, nadie como él h...
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    Q. 315

  • ATREVETE A SABER
    ATREVETE A SABER
    RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI
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    Q. 190

  • YOUR LIFE ISN´T FOR YOU
    YOUR LIFE ISN´T FOR YOU
    BERRETT-KOEHLER
    In this book, Seth Adam Smith expands on the philosophy behind his extraordinarily popular blog post Marriage Isn t for You which received over 30 million hits and has been translated into over twenty languages and shares how living for others can enrich every aspect of your life, just as it has his. With a mix of humor, candor, and compassion, he reveals how, years before his ...
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    Q. 130

  • BOY ON ICE
    BOY ON ICE
    BRANCH, JOHN
    The much-anticipated debut from the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, Boy on Ice is a moving human story and behind-the-scenes account of a life lived in the glare of sporting fame. ...
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    Q. 270

  • THEN CAME LIFE
    THEN CAME LIFE
    LUCAS, GERALYN
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    Q. 270

  • SEPARATED @ BIRTH
    SEPARATED @ BIRTH
    FUTERMAN, SAMANTHA
    Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, "I think we might be twins...don't freak out..." It all began when design student Anais Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anais found that the Los Angeles actress Samantha Futerman was born in a South Korean port city called Busan on November 19...
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    Q. 270