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The Know It All

By: A J Jacobs

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2005

Seller ID: 0064632

ISBN: 0743250621

Condition: Good

33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), "The Know-It-All" chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" from A to Z. To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a...
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Kate Remembered (Katharine Hepburn)

By: A Scott Berg

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Publisher: W. W. Norton: 2003

Seller ID: 0015259

ISBN: 0399151648

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Edward M. Kennedy

By: Adam Clymer

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Harper Books: 2009

Seller ID: 0067789

ISBN: 0061843717

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Edward M. Kennedy is one of the most influential senators in Congress. For the last 35 years, he′s played a major role in events ranging from the Vietnam War to Supreme Court confirmations. He′s also been closely associated with issues such as health care, civil rights and campaign finance reform. More than the foremost lawmaker and best orator in the Senate, he′s enthralled (and disappointed) a generation who saw him as the keeper of his famous brothers′ flame. He′s seen America -- and her politics -- change in drastic ways. In this definitive biography, New Y...
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Through The Children's Gate (Adam Gopnik)

By: Adam Gopnik

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Publisher: Knopf: 2006

Seller ID: 0069303

ISBN: 0676978266

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Even After All This Time

By: Afschineh Latifi

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Publisher: Reagan Books: 2005

Seller ID: 0137119

ISBN: 0060745339

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That's What I Am

By: Al Waxman

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Publisher: Malcolm Lester Books: 1984

Seller ID: 0077829

ISBN: 1894121260

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The Lives Of John Lennon

By: Albert Goldman

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Publisher: William Morrow: 1991

Seller ID: 0037914

ISBN: 0688047211

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The Doctor and the Damned

By: Albert Haas

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Publisher: St Martin's: 1984

Seller ID: 0107679

ISBN: 0312214782

Condition: Fair

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Kipling - A Brief Biography

By: Alberto Manguel

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Publisher: Bayeux Arts: 0000

Seller ID: 0058533

ISBN: 1896209483

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Front Page Challenge: History Of A Television Legend

By: Alex Barris

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Publisher: Macmillan Canada: 1999

Seller ID: 0096963

ISBN: 0771576625

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Autobiography Of Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)

By: Alex Haley

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Publisher: Grove Press: 1965

Seller ID: 0141632

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Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight

By: Alexandra Fuller

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Publisher: Random House: 2003

Seller ID: 0110848

ISBN: 0375758992

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In "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, " Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller's debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.
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Go Ask Ali

By: Ali Wentworth

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Publisher: Harper: 2018

Seller ID: 0140729

ISBN: 0062466011

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The Same River Twice - Honoring the Difficult

By: Alice Walker

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Publisher: Scribner: 1996

Seller ID: 0128484

ISBN: 0684814196

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Defiant

By: Alvin Townley

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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: 2015

Seller ID: 0127260

ISBN: 1250060338

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The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo

By: Amy Schumer

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Pocket: 2018

Seller ID: 0141184

ISBN: 1982110988

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Red Azalea

By: Anchee Min

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Anchor: 2006

Seller ID: 0066275

ISBN: 1400096987

Condition: Good

"Red Azalea" is Anchee Min's celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao's China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao's political operas, Min's life changed overnight. Then Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world. A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, Anchee Min's memoir is exception...
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