- Bass, Rick
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Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-'in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (September 2004)
799.2765 B317 2004
While many Americans are concerned about assaults on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, not all are aware that a culture is at risk along with the 129,000 caribou of the Porcupine herd. Those who read this testament to the place, its animals and its people will understand the interconnectedness of the three.
- Beevor, Antony
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The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: Was Hitler's Favorite Actress a Russian Spy? (September 2004)
791.43028 T877b 2004
Chekhova, Anton Chekhov's niece, went to Germany in 1920 and became a film star there. This book explores the question of whether she was spying for the NKVD in Germany.
- Bourke, Angela
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Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker (October 2004)
B-Br752b 2004
Bringing a compelling personality to life, this book follows the triumph and tragic odyssey of The New Yorker's Maeve Brennan, from happy Dublin childhood to Manhattan glamour, from madness, homelessness and death to recent rediscovery.
- Breslin, Herbert H.
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The King & I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary (October 2004)
782.1092 P337br 2004
Breslin recounts his 36 years as Luciano Pavarotti's manager and how he and Pavarotti changed the landscape of opera. He also provides a portrait that is affectionate and satirical by turns and full of hilarious details and tales out of school.
- Browne, Jill Conner
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men: Every Man I Love Is Either Married, Gay, or Dead (October 2004)
814.5 B882sm 2004
Browne brings you a humorous (and highly instructive) handbook about the men we love to hate, and the ones we love to love.
- Brzezinski, Matthew
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Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security — An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State (September 2004)
355.033 B916f 2004
From an unheeded warning six years before the WTC disaster to dramatic war-game scenarios secretly conducted at Andrews Air Force Base and chilling on-site simulations of actual attacks, Brzezinski paints a sobering picture of the future of freedom … and what life may be like in a maximum security state.
- Chatzky, Jean Sherman
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Pay It Down!: From Debt to Wealth on $10 a Day (September 2004)
332.024 C495p 2004
This companion book to a yearlong Today show series tackles the number one personal finance challenge: getting out of debt.
- Crandell, Doug
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Pig Boy's Wicked Bird: A Memoir (September 2004)
B-Cr849p 2004
This gritty, tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year — 1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow up to be a hog man like his father.
- Dearborn, Mary V.
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Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim (September 2004)
704.7 G942d 2004
Dearborn's unprecedented access to Guggenheim's family, friends and papers contributes rich insight to her traumatic childhood in New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists and her battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims.
- Derr, Mark
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A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent (September 2004)
636.7 D428dh 2004
In this remarkable history of the interaction between humans and dogs, Mark Derr looks at the ways in which we have used canines — as sled dogs and sheepdogs, hounds and Seeing Eye dogs, guard dogs, show dogs and bomb-sniffing dogs. The result is an enlightening perspective on American history through the eyes of humanity's best friend.
- Dolan, Brian
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Wedgwood: The First Tycoon (October 2004)
738.092 W393d 2004
With its familiar white classical figures against a pale-blue background, Wedgwood has been one of the most recognizable brand names in the world for more than 200 years. Dolan presents this portrait of Josiah Wedgwood and his innovations to labor that continue today.
- Ferling, John E.
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Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (September 2004)
324.973 F357a 2004
This gripping history is a fast-paced narrative of the election of 1800, in which two Founding Fathers waged a bitter battle to shape the destiny of the young nation.
- Gill, Gillian
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Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale (September 2004)
B-N687gi 2004
Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain — if not the world. We know her today as a heroic reformer of Britain's health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In a narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, Gill tells the story of this complex woman and her extraordinary family.
- Goldensohn, Leon
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The Nuremberg Interviews (October 2004)
341.69 G618n 2004
The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. Their reflections are recorded in a set of interviews conducted by a U.S. Army psychiatrist.
- Hart, Bill
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Evil: A Primer: A History of a Bad Idea from Beelzebub to Bin Laden (October 2004)
170 H325e 2004
What is evil? Does it exist? Veteran journalist Hart tries to drag evil out of the darkness and hold it up to the light. In doing so, he has written a very readable account of 5,000 years of philosophy, theology and human history.
- Hawkins, Jeff
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On Intelligence (October 2004)
612.82 H393o 2004
Hawkins, inventor of the PalmPilot, shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines in silicon that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways.
- Heller, Peter
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Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River (October 2004)
797.1224 H477h 2004
In this grand adventure, an elite kayaking team makes a heroic conquest of the world's last great adventure prize: Tibet's Tsangpo River.
- Hill, Gregg
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On the Run: A Mafia Childhood (September 2004)
364.1092 H6459o 2004
Written by the son and daughter of Henry Hill, the real-life focus of "Wiseguy" and "Goodfellas," this is a harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an out-of-control father while dodging Mafia retribution.
- Jacobs, A. J.
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (October 2004)
031 J17k 2004
Alarmed and more than a little chagrined at the massive gaps in his personal knowledge base, Jacobs sets for himself a daunting, and some might say insane, task: to fill in the holes in his Ivy-league education by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
- Jager, Eric
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France (September 2004)
394.8 J24L 2004
Set during the Hundred Years War, this is the gripping true story of a "duel to end all duels" in medieval France: a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight's beautiful young wife.
- Kerouac, Jack
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Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (October 2004)
B-K395w 2004
Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac's life, 1947-1954 — a self-portrait of the artist as a young man.
- Lansky, Aaron
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (October 2004)
002.075 L295o 2004
The man who spearheaded what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history" recounts his poignant, intrepid and often riotous quest to safeguard a vanishing civilization.
- Leland, John
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Hip: The History (October 2004)
306.1 L537h 2004
Leland tells the story of the evolution of American popular culture over the 20th century to its current position as the world's cultural touchstone.
- Lynn, Cari
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Leg the Spread: A Woman's Adventures Inside the Trillion-Dollar Boys' Club of Commodities Trading (September 2004)
332.644 L989L 2004
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is the busiest Futures exchange in the world. Based on Lynn's firsthand experiences as a clerk on the Merc, Leg the Spread celebrates the hard-hitting, resourceful women who are making it big in the financial arena.
- Mayes, Frances
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Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style From the Heart of Italy (October 2004)
747.0945 M468b 2004
Mayes offers a lavishly illustrated book for everyone who dreams of integrating the Tuscan lifestyle — from home decoration and cooking, to eating and drinking, to gardening, socializing and celebrating — into their own lives.
- Mehta, Suketu
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found (September 2004)
954.792 M498m 2004
This illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people — a book as vast, diverse and rich in experience, incident and sensation as the city itself — is from an award-winning Indian journalist and fiction writer.
- Ochs, Vanessa L.
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Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons From the Wisdom & Stories of Biblical Women (September 2004)
221.922 O16s 2005
In this vivid collection, Judaic scholar Vanessa Ochs brings the legends of the biblical matriarchs to new life. Intimate, familiar and wise, these heroines are revealed to be inspiring role models for women today.
- Oz, Amos
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (October 2004)
B-Oz13t 2004
Tragic, comic and utterly honest, this memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of the nation of Israel and lived through its turbulent history.
- Parson, Ann B.
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The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine (September 2004)
616.02774 P266p 2004
Parson describes the little-known events leading up to the discovery of the stem cell, and goes on to describe its vast potential in a book that is part detective story, part portrait of the state of cutting-edge biomedicine.
- Pignone, Charles
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The Sinatra Treasures: Intimate Photos, Mementos, and Music From the Sinatra Family Collection (October 2004)
782.42164 S615p 2004
Created in conjunction with the Frank Sinatra estate, this is the first-ever collection from the archives of the Chairman of the Board, filled with never-before-seen photos, letters, mementos and more.
- Powers, Richard Gid
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Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI (October 2004)
363.25 P888b 2004
Historian Powers shows how the FBI has arrived at a critical juncture and why its future has become gravely imperiled.
- Riordan, Teresa
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Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations That Have Made Us Beautiful (October 2004)
391.6 R585i 2004
In this meticulously researched romp through the annals of the beauty industry, New York Times columnist Riordan throws back the curtain on a century of shrewd, canny women who have knowingly deployed artifice in a ceaseless battle to captivate the roving eye of the male.
- Slater, Nigel
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Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger (October 2004)
B-SL1543t 2004
Toast is Slater's story of a childhood remembered through food. A bestseller in the United Kingdom, it is sure to please both foodies and memoir readers on this side of the pond.
- Taylor, G. Porter
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From Anger to Zion: An Alphabet of Faith (September 2004)
252.03 T241f 2004
Taylor reflects on an alphabet of biblical words in ways that will help newcomers to Christianity understand and speak the language, and that will encourage those familiar with these words to rethink them. The essays, each based on a biblical text, take ancient words and ideas and bring them into contemporary life.
- Tsiaras, Alexander
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The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed (October 2004)
611.0022 T882a 2004
Using advanced medical and computer technology, Tsiaras, founder of a medical-imaging company, hones in on the body's systems and isolates structures that have never been seen before. In more than 500 astonishing images, he dismantles each system, highlights the anatomical difference between men and women, and rebuilds the body from the molecular level on up. Barry Werth's lyrical, informative text enhances the power of the images.
