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Nonfiction, May 2008
- Assaraf, John
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A key team member behind The Secret and his business partner offer the specific tools and mental strategies to help readers leap ahead in any career or business venture and achieve major financial success.
- Bragg, Rick
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In this final volume of the memoir that begins in All Over but the Shoutin' and continues in Ava's Man, Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons.
- Burroughs, Augusten
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The author of Running with Scissors delves into new territory with the story of his relationship with his father, his stunning psychological cruelty and the redemptive power of hope.
- Freston, Kathy
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Kathy Freston, the New York Times best-selling author of The One, is back with a life-changing guide to increasing health of the mind, body and spirit through small steps that can yield extraordinary changes.
- Gilmour, David
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Gilmour offers his 15-year-old son an unconventional deal: Jesse can drop out of school, but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Through their film club, father and son discuss everything from love to drugs — and their own lives change in surprising ways.
- Goldhill, Simon
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Goldhill provides a tour through the history of this most image-filled and ideology-laden city — from the bedrock of the Old City to the towering roofs of the Holy Sepulchre — that continues to be one of the most embattled places in the world.
- Gollner, Adam Leith
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Gollner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the world of fruit — from the jungles of Borneo to American supermarkets — in this vividly written tale of horticultural obsession.
- Halpern, Sue
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Halpern offers this essential foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss that are only now available to general readers.
- Hiaasen, Carl
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The best-selling author chronicles his shaky return to the bedeviling pastime of golf after almost four decades, in a riotous account that culminates with a savage 45-hole tournament.
- Hood, Ann
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Hood offers a moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief and learning to love again.
- Jacoboni, Marco
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A leading neuroscientist explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons and gets at the very heart of what it means to be human — the creation of a bridge between self and others that is fundamental to the development of culture and society.
- Jennings, Dana
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Part memoir and part music history, Jennings tells the story of the golden age of twang — the years from 1950 to1970 — and uses the songs of Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, George Jones and Loretta Lynn to explain the lives of his New Hampshire clan.
- Kershaw, Alex
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Kershaw presents the story of nine men who fought the Japanese from America's deadliest submarine, survived its sinkage and endured months of brutal torture in captivity.
- McEwen, Mark
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The morning-show host recalls his harrowing journey of rehabilitation and recovery from a massive stroke, and puts the spotlight on one of the least discussed conditions.
- Moore, Honor
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Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him from prominence as an activist to two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop's Daughter is a daughter's story of that complex, visionary man, in a memoir that engages the reader in the great issues of life.
- Nugent, Benjamin
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American Nerd explores the concept of nerdiness and the history of the nerd subculture: how they developed and how they have manifested in media, literature, schools, the workplace and in the general public.
- Nuland, Sherwin B.
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Long-time physician Sherwin B. Nuland presents a provocative and stimulating collection of stories illustrating the vagaries of medical practice over the years.
- Patchett, Ann
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While grads may have little idea of what's coming next, there's great pleasure to be found in not knowing and not having everything defined, according to best-selling author Patchett in this inspirational book.
- Price, David A.
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A look at the company that forever changed the film industry, The Pixar Touch is a story of technical innovation that revolutionized animation — and ended up a multibillion-dollar success.
- Schjeldahl, Peter
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Distinguished critic at The New Yorker since 1998, Schjeldahl has been described as America's most influential writer on art. Let's See features 75 of his engaging pieces, published together for the first time.
- Shatner, William
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Up Till Now is the riotous, self-deprecating story of William Shatner's life, as told by the man himself.
- Snyderman, Nancy
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In her practical and straightforward way, Dr. Snyderman reveals the truths behind unscientific, undocumented and dangerous medical myths.
- Strand, Ginger
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Ginger Strand reveals the hidden history of America's most iconic natural wonder, Niagara Falls, illuminating what it says about our history, our relationship with the environment and ourselves.
- Terkel, Studs
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An elegant new edition collects the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater.
- Unger, Miles J.
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Unger presents this new biography of the brilliant and ruthless statesman Lorenzo de' Medici, whose wielding of power helped nurture the Italian Renaissance.
- Walters, Barbara
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The most important woman in the history of television journalism offers this memoir that is heartbreaking and inspiring, surprising and fun, sometimes startling and always riveting.
- Winchester, Simon
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The author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa returns with the remarkable story of the growth of a great nation and the eccentric and adventurous scientist who defined its essence for the world.
- Zakaria, Fareed
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The author of The Future of Freedom describes a world in which the U.S. will no longer dominate the global economy.
- Zimmer, Carl
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From the award-winning science writer and author of Evolution comes a startlingly original look at what it means to be alive — as revealed by a microbe that dwells within each person.