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Hardcover : $12.95 Buy	The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion Quotations from the Speeches, Essays, and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr. Selected by Coretta Scott King. Introduction by Dexter Scott King St. Martin's Press Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountaintop, let freedom ring. --Martin Luther King, Jr. From the dusty back...

Hardcover : $65.00 Buy	François Mitterrand The Last French President Ronald Tiersky Palgrave Macmillan Tiersky examines three major themes of Mitterrand’s presidency--socialism, national reconciliation, and building Europe--and shows that on each count,...

Hardcover : $22.95 Buy	Inherit the Truth A Memoir of Survival and the Holocaust Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Thomas Dunne Books In the years following her liberation from the Nazi death camp, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, like most survivors of the Holocaust, struggled to build a normal life...

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Castro's Daughter

An Exile's Memoir of Cuba

Alina Fernandez St. Martin's Griffin

"Mommy, mommy, call him. Tell him to come here right away. I have so many things to tell him!" I had a ton of things to tell him. I wanted him to find a...

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Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Joan of Arc Her Story Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin; Translated by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams Palgrave Macmillan In a distinguished English translation, the bestselling French book now considered the standard biography of Joan published just in time for the upcoming film...

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	Leon Battista Alberti Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance Anthony Grafton Hill and Wang A lucid biographical study of a key figure of European culture Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) was one of the most original, creative, and exciting figures...

Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	Louis XIV Ian Dunlop St. Martin's Press Setting in motion events that would ultimately bring his nation to military and fiscal ruin-and his dynasty to a bloody end-Louis XIV also established France...

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The Legendary Mizners

Alva Johnston; Illustrated by Reginald Marsh Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The real-life adventures of Addison and Wilson Mizner, the subjects of a new Stephen Sondheim musical Gold! Alva Johnston's joint biography of Addison and...

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Josephine

A Life of the Empress

Carolly Erickson St. Martin's Griffin

In 1804, when Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband, Napoleon, to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark...

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Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	The Guest from the Future Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin Gyorgy Dalos; Translated from the German by Antony Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks In 1945 Isaiah Berlin, working in Russia for the British Foreign Office, met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they...

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Catfish and Mandala

A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Andrew X. Pham Picador

Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Gold Digger The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce Constance Rosenblum A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book One of America's most talked about Jazz Age personalities, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was the quintessential gold digger, the real-life Lorelei Lee. Married six...

Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	Last of the Dandies The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count D'Orsay Nick Foulkes Thomas Dunne Books From his first appearance in London in 1821 until his death in Paris in 1852, Count D'Orsay dominated and scandalized the whole of European society. For three...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Colonel Cody and the Flying Cathedral The Adventures of the Cowboy Who Conquered the Sky Garry Jenkins Picador Colonel Cody and the Flying Cathedral is the fascinating and bizarre history of Samuel Franklin Cody, who in his early years worked the same cattle trails as...

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The Prince of Princes

The Life of Potemkin

Sebag Montefiore Thomas Dunne Books

Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband, and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Their affair was so tumultuous, they...

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A Childhood in Fascist Italy

Rosetta Loy A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

In 1937, Rosetta Loy was a privileged five-year-old growing up among the well-to-do Catholic intelligentsia of Rome. But her childhood world of indulgent...

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Hardcover : $26.95 Buy	Philip Sidney A Double Life Dr. Alan Stewart Thomas Dunne Books Among the gilded youth of Elizabethan England, none was more golden than Philip Sidney. Courtier, poet, soldier, diplomat-he was one of the most promising...

Hardcover : $27.95 Buy	Franco A Concise Biography Gabrielle Ashford Hodges Thomas Dunne Books General Francisco Franco came to prominence during the days of David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson and was able to cling to absolute political power until...

Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Marie Antoinette The Last Queen of France Evelyne Lever; Translated by Catherine Temerson St. Martin's Griffin A riveting new biography of the legendary French queen ...

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The Imprisoned Guest

Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, The Original Deaf-Blind Girl

Elisabeth Gitter Picador

In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe, the ambitious director of Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind, heard about Laura Bridgman, a bright deaf-blind...

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Speak You Also A Survivor's Reckoning Paul Steinberg; Translated by Linda Coverdale Picador A concentration camp survivor confronts one of the most heated and vexed questions of the Holocaust: what price survival? In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul...

Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	Nasser The Last Arab Said K. Aburish Thomas Dunne Books The definitive biography of the most important Arab leaders of the 20th century.

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The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey

Gregory L. Vistica Thomas Dunne Books

On the night of February 25, 1969, an inexperienced, 25-year-old lieutenant, Bob Kerrey, led a commando raid on an isolated hamlet called Thanh Phong in...

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All But My Life

A Memoir

Gerda Weissmann Klein Hill and Wang

A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...

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