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  • SURVIVING HENRY
    SURVIVING HENRY
    YOUNG, ERIN TAYLOR
    You don't always know what you're getting into when you bring home a puppy. Enter Henry, a boxer who suffers from Supreme Dictator of the Universe Syndrome. He vandalizes his obedience school, leaps through windows, cheats death at every turn, and generally causes his long-suffering owner Erin Taylor Young to wonder what on earth she did that God would send this dog to derail h...
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    Q. 140

  • BLACKBOARD
    BLACKBOARD
    LEWIS BUZBEE
    A captivating meditation on education from the author of "The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop "In "Blackboard," Lewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shaped everything from class size to the l...
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    Q. 230

  • WORKING STIFF
    WORKING STIFF
    MELINEK, JUDY
    The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases--hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex--that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and t...
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    Q. 250

  • BURNT TOAST MAKES YOU SING GOOD
    BURNT TOAST MAKES YOU SING GOOD
    FLINN, KATHLEEN
    A delicious memoir from the author of "The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry" In this family history interwoven with recipes, Kathleen Flinn returns readers to the mix of food and memoir beloved by readers of her bestselling "The Sharper Your""Knife, the Less You Cry." "Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good" explores the very beginnings of her love affair with food and its connect...
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    Q. 280

  • NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON AN ANGUS COW
    NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON AN ANGUS COW
    POL, JAN / FISHER, DAVID
    The star of "The Incredible Dr. Pol "shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan. Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild's hit show "The Incredible Dr. Pol" and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol's more th...
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    Q. 270

  • EL ESBIRRO
    EL ESBIRRO
    SERGEI KOURDAKOV
    El esbirro, un espectacular best-seller, es el relato heroico yconmovedor de la lucha de un joven por la supervivencia y por laverdad en el cínico mundo del Imperio comunista. ...
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    Q. 180

  • DOCTORED
    DOCTORED
    JAUHAR, SANDEEP
    In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. "Doctored," his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist.Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Jauhar accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the out...
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    Q. 260

  • WORN STORIES
    WORN STORIES
    SPIVACK, EMILY
    Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has collected over sixty of these clothing-inspired narratives from cultural figures and talented storytellers. First-person accounts range from the everyday to the extraordinary, such as artist Marina Abramovic on the boots she wore to walk the Great Wall of China; musician Ros...
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    Q. 250

  • SISTER MOTHER HUSBAND DOG
    SISTER MOTHER HUSBAND DOG
    EPHRON, DELIA
    Bestselling author Delia Ephron shares a deeply personal collection of stories and essays, anchored by a loving remembrance of her sister Nora. In "Sister Mother Husband Dog, "Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, sisterhood, movies, and family. In "Losing Nora," she deftly captures the rivalry, mut...
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    Q. 150

  • MISDIAGNOSED
    MISDIAGNOSED
    BERGER, JODY
    "Berger movingly details her journey to healing. Her indefatigable quest...underscores the fact that there is no such thing as one size fits all in medicine."--Gayatri Devi, MD, clinical associate professor, NYU School of Medicine, and author of A Calm BrainTaking charge of your health has never been so important as it is today.Jody Berger has discovered this first hand: at for...
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    Q. 150

  • REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE
    REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE
    HUEY P. NEWTON
    Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. ...
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    Q. 190

  • MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    CHARLIE CHAPLIN
    Chaplin's heartfelt and hilarious autobiography tells the story of his childhood, the challenge of identifying and perfecting his talent, his subsequent film career and worldwide celebrity. In this, one of the very first celebrity memoirs, Chaplin displays all the charms, peculiarities and deeply-held beliefs that made him such an endearing and lasting character. Re-issued as p...
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    Q. 200

  • HIJO DE HAMAS
    HIJO DE HAMAS
    MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF
    Una conmovedora historia de terror, intriga politica y decisiones impensables."Hijo de Hamas" es la conmovedora historia verdadera de un miembro del movimiento Hamas que rechazo su violento destino y ahora lo arriesga todo al exponer los secretos de la organizacion extremista islamica para mostrarle al mundo un camino hacia la paz. Mosab Hassan Yousef conoce este devastador gru...
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    Q. 180

  • LA VIDA PRIVADA DE STALIN
    LA VIDA PRIVADA DE STALIN
    LILLY MARCOU
    El mito alrededor de Stalin hace que con frecuencia se olvide al hombre que fue. Este libro sigue la vida del hombre en sus experiencias privadas, y presenta un retrato poco frecuente del ser humano de carne y hueso detrás de la figura cuya sombra cubrió la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Apoyado en archivos inéditos y testimonios de los descendientes y los amigos más cercanos, el ...
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    Q. 110

  • CRISTÓBAL COLÓN
    CRISTÓBAL COLÓN
    PATRICK GIRARD
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    Q. 150

  • 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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    Q. 290

  • 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