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Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
by Todd Burpo
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November 2, 2010
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A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven. Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins ...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
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Broadway
March 8, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of ...
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Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
by Jennifer S. Holland
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Workman Publishing Company
June 28, 2011
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Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a ...
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Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
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Back Bay Books
June 7, 2011
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Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Now that he's gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in Outliers: why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more ...
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
by Max Brooks
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Three Rivers Press
September 16, 2003
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In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he does, and he exh...
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Assholes Finish First
by Tucker Max
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Gallery Books
October 18, 2011
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What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you've got another bestselling book o...
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Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
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W. W. Norton & Company
August 22, 2011
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Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's ...
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S. C. Gwynne
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Scribner
May 10, 2011
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The vast, semi-arid grasslands of the southern Great Plains could be dominated by hunters and warriors on horseback. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Comanches, often referred to as ...
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Vintage)
by Christopher McDougall
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Vintage
March 29, 2011
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Book Description Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find ...
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The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life beyond This World
by Kevin Malarkey
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Tyndale House Publishers
June 28, 2011
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In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered an horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex...
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I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words
by George Beahm
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Agate B2
October 19, 2011
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"A book consisting entirely of quotes from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is being sped to market as much as a month ahead of schedule to meet demand following Jobs’ Oct. 5 passing. The accelerated schedule mirrors that of other, higher-profile Jobs books also in the works, such as Jobs’ ...
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
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Anchor
October 4, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything) turns his attention from science to society in his authoritative history of domesticity, At Home: A Short History of Private Life. While walking through his own home, a former Church of England rectory ...
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Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff
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Back Bay Books
September 6, 2011
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Starred Review. From its opening strains of music, this audiobook of Schiff's stellar biography of the Egyptian queen rewards the intellect and the senses. As Schiff dusts away history's spider webs, romance's distortions, and sexism's corruptions to revea...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
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Vintage
February 10, 2004
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Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that ...
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
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W. W. Norton & Company
February 1, 2011
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Although Lewis is perhaps best known for his sports-related nonfiction (including ...
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink
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Riverhead Trade
April 5, 2011
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According to Pink (A Whole New Mind), everything we think we know about what motivates us is wrong. He pits the latest scientific discoveries about the mind against the outmoded wisdom that claims people can only be motivated by the hope of gain and the fear of loss. Pink ...
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Vintage)
by Isabel Wilkerson
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Vintage
October 4, 2011
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A Look Inside The Warmth of Other Suns The author's father as a Tuskegee Airman ...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
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Scribner
January 9, 2006
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the...
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Scribner
August 9, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010: "In 2010, about six hundred thousand Americans, and more than 7 million humans around the world, will die of cancer." With this sobering statistic, physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee begins his comprehensive and eloquent "biography" of one of the most virulent ...
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Life
by Keith Richards
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Back Bay Books
May 3, 2011
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010: It's hard to imagine a celebrity memoir--or any memoir for that matter--that is as easy to drink in (so to speak) as Keith Richards's Life. Die-hard Stones fans will love tales of the band's ascension from the "interval" band at the ...
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