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Trade Paperback : $11.95 Buy	My Brother Joseph The Spirit of a Cardinal and the Story of a Friendship Eugene Kennedy St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Nothing to Declare Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone Mary Morris Picador Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of...

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My Grandfather's House

A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith

Robert Clark Picador

Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography In the tradition of Augustine's Confessions, Robert Clark tells the story of his return to the Catholic...

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Hardcover : $65.00 Buy	A Passionate Sisterhood Women of the Wordsworth Circle Kathleen Jones Palgrave Macmillan A group biography of the women who featured in the lives of the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.

Hardcover : $27.95 Buy	Khomeini Life of the Ayatollah Baqer Moin Thomas Dunne Books The Ayatollah Khomeini was the most radical Muslim leader of this age. In transforming himself from a traditional Muslim theologian into the charismatic...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	How to Win Friends, Kick Ass and Influence People Lynne Russell St. Martin's Griffin After fifteen years of international exposure as an anchor for CNN's Headline News, Lynne Russell has become one of the most recognized and beloved women...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	My Mother Ruth Hillary Johnson with Art by Ruth Jones St. Martin's Griffin When Hillary Johnson learned that her mother, Ruth, had terminal cancer, she left New York City and returned to Minneapolis to care for Ruth in her final...

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Memories of a Parish Priest

Andrew M. Greeley Forge Books

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Here's to you, Jesúsa!

Elena Poniatowska; Translated from the Spanish by Deanna Heikkinen Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The first English edition of the masterful, moving story of one woman's life-by the acclaimed Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska's best and most accessible...

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Before I Say Goodbye Recollections and Observations from One Woman's Final Year Ruth Picardie Holt Paperbacks By turns humorous and heart-rending, an unforgettable account of a young woman's spiritual triumphs over breast cancer in the last year of her life Ruth...

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From the Place of the Dead

The Epic Struggles of Bishop Belo of East Timor

Arnold S. Kohen; Introduced by The Dalai Lama St. Martin's Griffin

East Timor's struggle for independence under Indonesian occupation has dominated international headlines. Now, as UN troops uphold the August 1999 referendum...

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Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	The Huntress The True Saga of Dottie And Brandi Thorson, Modern-Day Bounty Hunters Christopher Keane and Dottie Thorson Forge Books When famed bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson is killed by a car bomb, his widow and daughter take over the family business, tracking down wanted felons. ...

Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	John Paul II A Personal Portrait of the Pope and the Man Ray Flynn, Robin Moore, and Jim Vrabel St. Martin's Griffin Unlike any other pope, John Paul II has reached out, creating dialogue or creating uproar, but always striving to unite the human community. Drawing on years...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	Living at the Edge of the World How I Survived in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station Tina S. and Jamie Pastor Bolnick St. Martin's Griffin In this powerful and inspiring true story, Tina S. tells of four years living in the train tunnels beneath Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and the...

Hardcover : $25.95 Buy	The Girl in the Red Coat A Memoir Roma Ligocka with Iris von Finckenstein; Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo St. Martin's Press When she first saw Schindler's List--to whose premiere in Germany she was invited--Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was witnessing a part of her own life....

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	The Woman That I Am The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color D. Soyini Madison; Introduction by Joy Harjo, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Angela de Hoyos, Diana Chang, and Sujata Bhatt St. Martin's Griffin Selected to represent a diversity of voices, styles, and genres, The Woman That I Am gathers 126 works of contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography,...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Bone Black Memories of Girlhood bell hooks Holt Paperbacks Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Through the Narrow Gate A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery Karen Armstrong; With a New Introduction by the Author St. Martin's Griffin Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on...

Hardcover : $23.95 Buy	The Widening Circle A Lyme Disease Pioneer Tells Her Story Polly Murray St. Martin's Press The first person to focus attention on Lyme disease, Polly Murray tells the harrowing story of her early efforts to identify what was making her family so...

Trade Paperback : $12.99 Buy	Oasis Supersonic Supernova Michael Krugman St. Martin's Griffin For the biggest band to come out of England since the Beatles, here's the book that charts their incendiary rise to the top of the worldwide Pop charts....

Mass Market Paperbound : $8.99 Buy	Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer St. Martin's Paperbacks In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her...

Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	Unveiled Cherry Mosteshar St. Martin's Paperbacks She was trapped behind the veil of hell Attractive exucated in Oxdord, and a respected journalist, Cherry Mosteshar seemed the last woman likely to become a...

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Maimonides

A Biography

Abraham Joshua Heschel; Translated by Joachim Neugroschel Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Heschel's classic work on Maimonides, originally published in Berlin during the thirties, in one of the few scholarly biographies available of the great...

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Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	A Vow of Conversation Journals, 1964-1965 Thomas Merton; Edited by Naomi Burton Stone Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The journal kept by Merton during 1964 and 1965, containing his daily meditations during the crucial and difficult period in which the permission he had...

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