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  • DALI. LE GRAND PARANOIAQUE
    DALI. LE GRAND PARANOIAQUE
    GAILLEMIN, JEAN-LOUIS
    Celui qui, à seize ans, confiait à son carnet «Je serai un génie et le monde m'admirera», est salué par André Breton en 1929 comme le nouveau champion du Surréalisme avant d'être stigmatisé, dix ans plus tard, sous l'anagramme d'Avida Dollars. Entre ces deux dates, se situe l'excellence d'une oeuvre révolutionnaire et visionnaire. Du purisme des années vingt aux grandes toiles ...
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    Q. 285

  • UN LONG CHEMIN VERS LA LIBERTE
    UN LONG CHEMIN VERS LA LIBERTE
    MANDELA, NELSON
    Nelson Mandela commence la rédaction de ses souvenirs en 1974 au pénitencier de Robben Island et l'achève après sa libération, en 1990, à l'issue de vingt-sept années de détention. Né et élevé dans la famille royale des Thembus, Mandela gagne Johannesburg où il ouvre le premier cabinet d'avocats noirs. Il devient un des leaders de l'ANC (Congrès national africain). Dès lors, à ...
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    Q. 175

  • HIJA DE DIOS
    HIJA DE DIOS
    Maradona Dalma
    Dalma Maradona nació el 2 de abril de 1987. Un año antes de su nacimiento, luego de la victoria argentina en el Mundial de fútbol México 86, una encuesta arrojó como resultado que Diego Maradona era más famoso que Jesús. ¿Cómo es haber nacido hija del hombre más conocido del mundo? ¿Cómo es ese vínculo padre-hija? Hija de Dios es biografía, catarsis, ensayo y reflexión. Todos c...
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    Q. 360

  • PRAYERS FOR BOBBY
    PRAYERS FOR BOBBY
    LEROY AARONS
    Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life.Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's...
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    Q. 195

  • CARTAS AUTÓGRAFAS DE Y PARA JOSÉ CECILIO DEL VALLE
    CARTAS AUTÓGRAFAS DE Y PARA JOSÉ CECILIO DEL VALLE
    JOSÉ CECILIO DEL VALLE
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    Q. 160

  • LABOR DAY
    LABOR DAY
    Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories--the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profane It's an elemental, almost animalistic urge--the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy manuals, but the shelves are virtually empty of artful, entertaining, unvarnished accounts of lab...
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    Q. 260

  • A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS
    A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS
    CHRISSIE WELLINGTON
    In 2007, Chrissie Wellington shocked the triathlon world by winning the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a newcomer to the sport and a complete unknown to the press, Chrissie's win shook up the sport. A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS is the story of her rise to the top, a journey that has taken her around the world, from a childhood in England, to the mountains of Nepal, to the o...
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    Q. 160

  • L´ABCDAIRE DE VICTOR HUGO
    L´ABCDAIRE DE VICTOR HUGO
    BESNIER, PATRICK (1948-....)
    Biographie - Linguistique et critique littéraire - Littérature ...
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    Q. 70

  • SLIM. EL HOMBRE MAS RICO DEL MUNDO
    SLIM. EL HOMBRE MAS RICO DEL MUNDO
    DIEGO ENRIQUE OSORNO
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    Q. 140

  • BREVE HISTORIA DE MI VIDA
    BREVE HISTORIA DE MI VIDA
    STEPHEN W. HAWKING
    La mente maravillosa de Stephen Hawking ha deslumbrado al mundo entero revelando los misterios del universo. Ahora, por primera vez, el cosmólogo más brillante de nuestra era explora, con una mirada reveladora, su propia vida y evolución intelectual.Breve historia de mi vida cuenta el sorprendente viaje de Stephen Hawking desde su niñez en el Londres de la posguerra a sus años ...
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    Q. 180

  • THIS STAR WON'T GO OUT
    THIS STAR WON'T GO OUT
    ESTHER EARL
    A collection of the journals, fiction, letters, and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Photographs and essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her. ...
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    Q. 200

  • GONE FERAL
    GONE FERAL
    NOVELLA CARPENTER
    Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "The Signature of All Things" and "Eat, Pray, Love""I'm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book... The resulting journey is both brave and honest." Novella Carpenter picks up the phone one day to receive some disturbing news: her father has officially gone missing. Carpenter's father, George--a back-to-the-land homesteader and troubled Korea...
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    Q. 270

  • JONY IVE: THE GENIUS BEHIND APPLE'S GREATEST PRODUCTS
    JONY IVE: THE GENIUS BEHIND APPLE'S GREATEST PRODUCTS
    LEANDER KAHNEY
    “An adulating biography of Apple’s left-brained wunderkind, whose work continues to revolutionize modern technology.” —Kirkus ReviewsIn 1997, Steve Jobs discovered a scruffy British designer toiling away at Apple’s headquarters, surrounded by hundreds of sketches and prototypes. Jony Ive’s collaboration with Jobs would produce some of the world’s most iconic technology products...
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    Q. 170

  • DECISIONES DIFÍCILES
    DECISIONES DIFÍCILES
    CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM
    La historia intima de las crisis, decisiones y retos que enfrento Hillary Rodham Clinton durante sus cuatro anos como sexagesima septima Secretaria de Estado de America, y de como esas experiencias motivan su vision del futuro. "Todos afrontamos decisiones dificiles en la vida," escribe Hillary Rodham Clinton en las primeras paginas de esta cronica personal de sus anos en el ep...
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    Q. 200

  • FIERCE PATRIOT
    FIERCE PATRIOT
    ROBERT L. O'CONNELL
    William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. "Fierce Patriot" is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape--and the American character. America's first "celebrity" general, William Tecumseh Sherman was a man of many faces. Some of them were exalted in the public eye. Othe...
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    Q. 280

  • HARD CHOICES
    HARD CHOICES
    CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM
    In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed...
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    Q. 350

  • MY TWO ITALIES
    MY TWO ITALIES
    JOSEPH LUZZI
    A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this "Bel Paese," "Beautiful Land," where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of Michelangelo to "The""Sopranos"The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, in "My Two Italies" Jose...
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    Q. 230

  • A STREET CAT NAMED BOB
    A STREET CAT NAMED BOB
    JAMES BOWEN
    James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet.Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship that has been charming readers from Thailand to Turkey. A Street Cat Named Bob is an international sensation, landing on the bestseller list in England for 52 consecutive weeks and selling in 26 co...
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    Q. 165

  • IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE
    IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE
    HAMPTON SIDES
    "New York Times" bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost carto...
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    Q. 290

  • 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