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  • MOLLY'S GAME [MOVIE TIE-IN]: THE TRUE STORY OF THE 26-YEAR-OLD WOMAN BEHIND THE MOST EXCLUSIVE, HIGH-STAKES UNDERGROUND POKER GAME IN THE WORLD
    MOLLY'S GAME [MOVIE TIE-IN]: THE TRUE STORY OF THE 26-YEAR-OLD WOMAN BEHIND THE MOST EXCLUSIVE, HIGH-STAKES UNDERGROUND POKER GAME IN THE WORLD
    BLOOM, MOLLY
    In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunette from Loveland, Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game Hollywood had ever seen - she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to play. Molly's Game is Ben Mezrich-style storytelling mixed with an insiders-only look at how one of the bigg...
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  • FIDEL, MY EARLY YEARS
    FIDEL, MY EARLY YEARS
    FIDEL CASTRO
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    Q. 150

  • THE ATLAS OF BEAUTY
    THE ATLAS OF BEAUTY
    MIHAELA NOROC
    MIHAELA NOROC lives in Bucharest, Romania, and has traveled to 55 countries in the last four years working on her ongoing photography project The Atlas of Beauty, which is documented on her blog (theatlasofbeauty.com) and on her enormously popular Instagram (@the.atlas.of.beauty) and Facebook (The Atlas of Beauty) pages. Mihaela's work has been featured in the Wall Street Journ...
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  • HEADSTRONG: 52 WOMEN WHO CHANGED SCIENCE-AND THE WORLD
    HEADSTRONG: 52 WOMEN WHO CHANGED SCIENCE-AND THE WORLD
    Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history's brightest female scientists.In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children." It wasn't until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devot...
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  • THIS IS LEONARDO DA VINCI
    THIS IS LEONARDO DA VINCI
    JOOST KEIZER
    Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career – from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth century Florence to his role as genius in residence at the court of the king of France – Leonardo created a kind of private universe for himself and his work.Leonardo also spent a great deal of time away from his easel, pursuing his interest in engineeri...
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  • LITERARY WITCHES
    LITERARY WITCHES
    TAISIA KITAISKAIA
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  • DAVID BOWIE: A LIFE
    DAVID BOWIE: A LIFE
    JONES, DYLAN
    Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled arti...
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  • IN PRAISE OF DIFFICULT WOMEN
    IN PRAISE OF DIFFICULT WOMEN
    KARBO, KAREN
    From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of 29 iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world.From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn ...
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  • RESISTENCIA
    RESISTENCIA
    SCOTT KELLY
    Antes de conquistar Marte, debemos aprender a sobrevivir en el espacio. Un libro ejemplar sobre el triunfo de la imaginación humana, la fuerza de voluntad y las maravillas infinitas de la galaxia. Scott Kelly es el hombre que más tiempo ha pasado en el espacio, 340 días, durante los cuales ha visto y vivido cosas que prácticamente ninguno de nosotros veremos o experimentarem...
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  • MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: THE LAST INTERVIEW
    MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: THE LAST INTERVIEW
    MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
    In time for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month, a timely collection of pivotal interviews with the most influential leader of the Civil Rights MovementAs the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to...
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    Q. 160

  • CHARLES DARWIN: VICTORIAN MYTHMAKER
    CHARLES DARWIN: VICTORIAN MYTHMAKER
    A.N. WILSON
    A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life.With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin--hailed as the man who "discovered evolution"--was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson challenges this long-held assumption. Contextua...
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  • NERUDA: THE POET'S CALLING
    NERUDA: THE POET'S CALLING
    MARK EISNER
    The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation moveme...
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  • HUNTING EL CHAPO: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE AMERICAN LAWMAN WHO CAPTURED THE WORLD'S MOST-WANTED DRUG LORD
    HUNTING EL CHAPO: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE AMERICAN LAWMAN WHO CAPTURED THE WORLD'S MOST-WANTED DRUG LORD
    HOGAN, ANDREW
    A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller--soon to be a major motion picture from Sony--chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo--the world's most wanted...
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    Q. 195

  • GOOD MORNING, MR. MANDELA: A MEMOIR
    GOOD MORNING, MR. MANDELA: A MEMOIR
    One of Mandela's three private secretaries and now working for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, "La Grange pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him: a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. The Mr. Mandela we meet in these pages is a man who refused to be defined by his past, who forgave and respected all, but who was also frank, teasing, and direct. As...
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  • 41: A PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER
    41: A PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER
    GEORGE W. BUSH
    "Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a president told the story of his father, another president, through his own eyes and in his own words ... The book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his ...
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  • JEFFERSON
    JEFFERSON
    BOLES, JOHN B
    From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sw...
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    Q. 350

  • LA LLAMADA DE LA TRIBU
    LA LLAMADA DE LA TRIBU
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    La autobiografía intelectual del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa. «La doctrina liberal ha representado desde sus orígenes las formas más avanzadas de la cultura democrática y lo que más nos ha ido defendiendo de la inextinguible "llamada de la tribu". Este libro quisiera contribuir con un granito de arena a esa indispensable tarea.» La diferencia entre La llam...
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  • BECOMING
    BECOMING
    MICHELLE OBAMA
    An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African-American to serve in that role--she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White H...
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    Q. 330

  • KEROUAC: A BIOGRAPHY
    KEROUAC: A BIOGRAPHY
    ANN CHARTERS
    Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed b...
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  • EL HOMBRE CON SU MUNDO DESTROZADO
    EL HOMBRE CON SU MUNDO DESTROZADO
    ALEXANDER R. LURÍA
    Alexander Luria es considerado el fundador de la neuropsicología. En este libro nos ofrece un cautivador retrato de la heroica lucha de un hombre por recuperar sus facultades mentales. En 1943, con 23 años, el soldado ruso Zasetski recibe una bala en la cabeza en la batalla de Smolensk. De pronto se descubre en un mundo aterrador: recuerda su infancia, mas no su pasado reciente...
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    Q. 200

  • VICTORIA: THE QUEEN: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY OF THE WOMAN WHO RULED AN EMPIRE
    VICTORIA: THE QUEEN: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY OF THE WOMAN WHO RULED AN EMPIRE
    BAIRD, JULIA
    The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen--a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS O...
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    Q. 200

  • CALL THE MIDWIFE: A MEMOIR OF BIRTH, JOY, AND HARD TIMES
    CALL THE MIDWIFE: A MEMOIR OF BIRTH, JOY, AND HARD TIMES
    JENNIFER WORTH
    The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton AbbeyViewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a co...
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  • CONVERSATIONS WITH ROBERT COLES
    CONVERSATIONS WITH ROBERT COLES
    JAY WOODRUFF
    Robert Coles is a psychiatrist with a novelist's sensibilities. "Of course everything I come up with," he says, "novelists have known beforehand."These twenty-three interviews selected from hundreds that Coles has given disclose not only an illustrious physician trained in pediatrics and psychoanalysis but also a sage whose compassion for children and suffering seems boundless....
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  • TOSCANINI: MUSICIAN OF CONSCIENCE
    TOSCANINI: MUSICIAN OF CONSCIENCE
    HARVEY SACHS
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  • APOLOGIA DE UN MATEMATICO
    APOLOGIA DE UN MATEMATICO
    G.H.HARDY
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    Q. 190

  • EL LIBRO DEL AGUA
    EL LIBRO DEL AGUA
    DA VINCI, LEONARDO
    En muchas ocasiones manifestó Leonardo la voluntad de ordenar sus materiales y escribir un libro del agua, algo que nunca realizó. La presente edición de Patxi Lanceros y Juan Barja no pretende tanto restaurar dicho libro como dar cuenta de un trabajo que se prolongó durante toda la vida de Leonardo. Para ello, rescata y ordena multitud de fragmentos, tramando así una diversida...
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    Q. 375

  • MARTÍN LUTERO
    MARTÍN LUTERO
    KAUFMANN, THOMAS
    Teología y biografía, fe y experiencia, contemplación y acción son inseparables en la persona de Martín Lutero. Por eso la búsqueda de la figura histórica de Lutero habrá de tratar siempre a un tiempo de su vida y de su fe, de su mundo y de su Dios, de la imagen que tenía de sí mismo y de los juicios sobre él. De la personalidad de Lutero son constitutivos tanto el retraimiento...
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    Q. 140

  • I'M WITH THE BAND
    I'M WITH THE BAND
    PAMELA DES BARRES
    Pamela Des Barres was the "Sweetheart of Rock," the reigning queen of L.A.Us wild music scene. A hopeful romantic and the ultimate star-chaser, she lived life in the fast lane. Now she tells everything.This item is Returnable ...
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  • THE PRISON LETTERS OF NELSON MANDELA
    THE PRISON LETTERS OF NELSON MANDELA
    NELSON MANDELA / VENTER, SAHM / DLAMINI-MANDELA, ZAMASWAZI
    Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow a...
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  • LEONARDO DA VINCI
    LEONARDO DA VINCI
    WALTER ISAACSON
    El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio más creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biografía. Basándose en las miles de páginas de los cuadernos manuscritos de Leonardo y nuevos descubrimientos sobre su vida y su obra. ...
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