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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists recognize her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken not including her knowledge—became one of the much important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead ...
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Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
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From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win ...

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
DescriptionThe companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national dialog concerning the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to modify it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question ...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Description The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard

Anyone who despairs of the unique’s power to modify lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s ...

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More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
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Tom Reynolds is an ambulance worker. On any given day he can be attacked by strangers, sworn at by motorists, puked on, covered in blood, and other much extra unpleasant substances. He could help to bring a baby in the morning and witness the last moments of a dying man in the afternoon. He deals together with road accidents, knife attacks, ...
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The 48 Laws of Power
DescriptionAmoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, ...
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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
DescriptionSince he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its much popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. ...
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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
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In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches together with this wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.
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With the Old Breed
DescriptionIn The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named Together with the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, ...
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The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down
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“The greatest political saga, the one this has it all, this gets to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards story... This isn’t just politics, it’s literature. It’s the excellent American novel, the kind this isn’t written anymore.” --Michael Wolff on John Edwards's ...

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