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Night

Elie Wiesel; A New Translation by Marion Wiesel; With a New Preface by the Author Hill and Wang

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...

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Feynman

By Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Myrick First Second

Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents...

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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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Night

Elie Wiesel; A New Translation by Marion Wiesel; With a New Preface by the Author Hill and Wang

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...

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A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah Sarah Crichton Books

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean,...

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William Henry Harrison

The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841

The American Presidents

Gail Collins; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz, General Editors Times Books

The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's...

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The Silence of Our Friends

written by Mark Long and Jim Demonakos; illustrated by Nate Powell First Second

As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families—one white, one black—find common ground. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas,...

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Night

Elie Wiesel; A New Translation by Marion Wiesel; With a New Preface by the Author Hill and Wang

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...

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The Real Elizabeth

An Intimate Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

Andrew Marr Henry Holt and Co.

A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her...

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Mob Daughter

The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!

Karen Gravano with Lisa Pulitzer St. Martin's Press

From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with...

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Alan's War

The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope

Emmanuel Guibert, illustrated by the author First Second

“When I was eighteen, Uncle Sam told me he’d like me to put on a uniform and go off to fight a guy by the name of Adolf. So I did.” When Alan Cope joined...

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Kosher Chinese

Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion

Michael Levy Holt Paperbacks

An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in...

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The Red Circle

My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen

Brandon Webb with John David Mann St. Martin's Press

BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS… HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF. Brandon Webb’s experiences in the world’s most elite sniper corps are the stuff...

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The Queen Mother

The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Lady Colin Campbell St. Martin's Press

Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about...

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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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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Catch a Fire The Life of Bob Marley Timothy White Holt Paperbacks The classic biography of reggae legend Bob Marley, updated and revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death Bob Marley left an indelible mark on...

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A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah Sarah Crichton Books

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean,...

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Hardcover : $23.00 Buy	Chester Alan Arthur The American Presidents Series: The 21st President, 1881-1885 The American Presidents Zachary Karabell; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtured him Chester...

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John Tyler

The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845

The American Presidents

Gary May; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz, General Editors Times Books

The first “accidental president,” whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion When William Henry Harrison died in April...

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Hardcover : $23.00 Buy	Martin Van Buren The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841 The American Presidents Ted Widmer; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become...

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Woodrow Wilson

The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921

The American Presidents

H. W. Brands; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books

A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policy On the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow...

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The Real Elizabeth

An Intimate Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

Andrew Marr Henry Holt and Co.

A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her...

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Ulysses S. Grant

The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877

The American Presidents

Josiah Bunting III; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books

The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely...

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Zachary Taylor

The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850

The American Presidents

John S. D. Eisenhower; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz, General Editors Times Books

The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil...

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