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This I Believe
The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, eds.
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"To hold this range of beliefs in the palm of your hand is as fine, as grounding, as it was hearing them first on the radio. Heartfelt, deeply cherished beliefs, doctrines for living (yet none of them doctrinaire). Ideas and ideals that nourish. You can see it in their faces, in the photos in this book. And read it in their words. I'm so proud that NPR helped carry this Edward R. Murrow tradition into a new century. And so glad to have it in print, to encounter again and again."—
Susan Stamberg, special correspondent, National Public Radio
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
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"What is it about African wars that is so disturbing? Why do they unsettle us so? . . . The great benefit of Ishmael Beah's memoir,
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, is that it may help us arrive at an understanding of this situation. Beah's autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determine—perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer . . .
A Long Way Gone
is his first, remarkable book. . . . Beah's memoir joins an elite class of writing: Africans witnessing African wars . . .
A Long Way Gone
makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen."—
William Boyd,
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Escape from Slavery
The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan
St. Martin's Griffin
"Bok takes the Sudanese government and world leaders to task for their indifference to his people's suffering. Although he at first was an unwilling ambassador, he has become a leading voice for the antislavery movement in the United States."—
Detroit News and Free Press
"A touching modern-day slave narrative that is more than just an account of [Bok's] journey from childhood to manhood under the worst of circumstances . . . Pages of historical details are eye-opening and provide a glimpse into what can happen when religion is the impetus in the governing of a nation . . . An informative, inspiring read."—
The Boston Globe
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
The Authorized Adaptation
Tim Hamilton; Introduction by Ray Bradbury
Hill and Wang
“A new adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic work
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Julia Keller,
Chicago
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The 9/11 Report
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Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón; Foreword by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton
Hill and Wang
"The 130-page
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takes a document that is more than 500 pages long and often difficult to penetrate and makes it accessible to a much wider audience—tightening the narrative and increasing the spectacle without the fictionalization . . . The finished product is so solid that Sept. 11 commission Chairman Thomas Kean went from skepticism about a Sept. 11 report comic book to writing the foreword."—
Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle
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All But My Life
A Memoir
Gerda Weissmann Klein
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"Soul searching and human . . . A moving personal testament to courage."—
Herbert Mitgang,
The New York Times
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Elie Wiesel; A New Translation by Marion Wiesel; With a New Preface by the Author
Hill and Wang
“To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind so moving a record.” —
Alfred Kazin
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