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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Jon Krakauer
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Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds.... This is the terrifying story of what really happened that fateful day at the top o... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Resilience: The New Afterword [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Elizabeth Edwards
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In the year since the publication of her second memoir, Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards has once again found herself living in the glare of the media spotlight. Now, in an eloquent, intimate, and emotionally powerful new afterword to her #1 national bestselling book, she offers readers a window into her world at a time when she is required to adjust once more to a new reality and to forge a new life for herself and her children.
In writing candidly about the gulf between her private self and he... more info>>
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Memoirs of a Slave Girl [MultiFormat]
by Harriet Jacobs
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An honest and fearless account of her exploitation as a slave. This is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, Black history, or the subject of sexual exploitation throughout history. Jacobs' story is unflinching and unusual in its candor. (Published: 2004)
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Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Anthony Bozza
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does eminem matter?
On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white teenagers as his first single, “My Name Is,” went into heavy rotation on MTV.
Who could have predicted that in a mere two years, Eminem would become the most reviled and controversial hip-hop figure ev... more info>>
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Education of a Wandering Man [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Louis L'Amour
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From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning--from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'... more info>>
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Faraday as a Discoverer [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by John Tyndall
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Daily and weekly, from all parts of the world, I receive publications bearing upon the practical applications of electricity. This great movement, the ultimate outcome of which is not to be foreseen, had its origin in the discoveries made by Michael Faraday, sixty-two years ago. From these discoveries have sprung applications of the telephone order, together with various forms of the electric telegraph.
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Home to Stay: One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Daniel Gordis
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In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, but a few months into their stay, Gordis and his wife decided to remain in Jerusalem permanently, confident that their children would be among the first generation of Israelis to grow up in peace.Immediately after arriving in Israel, Daniel had started sending out e-mails about his life to friends and family abroad. These missives--passionate, thoughtful, beautifully written... more info>>
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Nujood Ali
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“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough ha... more info>>
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Love in the Driest Season [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Neely Tucker
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Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She'd been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers th... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Ben Mezrich
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 The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends--outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance--and sexual success--was getting invited to join one of... more info>>
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Jon Krakauer
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The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join ... more info>>
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A Very Small Farm [Secure eReader]
by William Paul Winchester
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"It was for the most self-indulgent of reasons I came to the farm--to be happy," writes William Winchester in this eloquent journal of a decade on his small farm in northeastern Oklahoma. In the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden, Winchester presents the everyday details of his life on twenty acres--how he built his own house and barn, put in a garden and orchard, acquired a milk cow and took up beekeeping. "I sometimes think of Soundwind Farm as a small ship outfitted and provisioned for... more info>>
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A Woman in Charge [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Carl Bernstein
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Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the complex human being and political meteor who has already helped define one presidency and... more info>>
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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Anthony Everitt
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He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling aut... more info>>
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Ava's Man [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Rick Bragg
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With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin' a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he's writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family's table through the worst of the Great ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Ben Hogan: An American Life [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by James Dodson
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Authorized, intimate, and definitive, Ben Hogan: An American Life is the long-awaited biography of one of golf's greatest, most enigmatic legends, narrated with the unique eloquence that has made author James Dodson a critically acclaimed national bestseller. One man is often credited with shaping the landscape of modern golf. Ben Hogan was a short, trim, impeccably dressed Texan whose fierce work ethic, legendary steel nerves, and astonishing triumph over personal disaster earned him not only a... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by David Brock
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In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. David Brock pilloried Anita Hill in a bestseller. His reporting in The American Spectator as part of the infamous ?Arkansas Project? triggered the course of events that led to the historic impeachment trial of President Clinton. Brock was at the cen... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 100000 - Reading Time: 285-400 min.
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Bringing in the Sheaves [Secure eReader]
by Richard Higgs
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Every spring, as the wheat begins to ripen in Texas, harvesting crews gather, load trucks, trailers and enormous combines, and head to the southernmost wheat fields of America’s great midwestern "breadbasket" to begin the annual harvest, an undertaking that will literally feed the world for the coming year. Here Richard Higgs depicts that season of harvest. In this vast landscape he tells the story of the wheat itself, and the elements that challenge those who come to cut it. He writ... more info>>
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Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Peter Schweizer
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"I don't own a single share of stock."--Michael Moore. Members of the liberal left exude an air of moral certitude. They pride themselves on being selflessly committed to the highest ideals and seem particularly confident of the purity of their motives and the evil nature of their opponents. To correct economic and social injustice, liberals support a whole litany of policies and principles: progressive taxes, affirmative action, greater regulation of corporations, raising the inheritance tax, s... more info>>
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Keny... more info>>
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Five Men Who Broke My Heart [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Susan Shapiro
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In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who'd broken her heart and find out what really went wrong. Between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five, Susan had plunged into love, heart-first, five times. One bad breakup was more hurtful and humiliating than the next. With insight and daring, Susan chronicles her six-month-long journey back down a road strewn with romantic regret. Although for yea... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbably Career in Magazines and Makeup [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Jean Godfrey-June
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"Everybody loves beauty products. Even if you think you know nothing about them, or even if you think you hate them, you actually know plenty about them and, in fact, have several of them that you love. You have major opinions that lie barely beneath the surface. Women who modestly/moralistically claim to "never use all that beauty stuff" are big Clinique ladies, usually with a healthy helping of Neutrogena." From the beloved beauty editor of Lucky magazine comes a dishy, charming, and insightfu... more info>>
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Galileo and the Magic Numbers [MultiFormat]
by Sidney Rosen
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Sixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths. His father, musician Vincenzio Galilei said, "Truth is not found behind a man's reputation. Truth appears only when the answers to questions are searched out by a free mind. This is not the easy path in life but it is the most rewarding." Galileo challenged divine law and the physics of Aristotle, and questioned everything in search of truths. And i... more info>> (Published: 1958)
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Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Kate M. Taylor
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As a culture, we are fascinated, or perhaps morbidly transfixed, by the spectacle of anorexia. But even after twenty-five years of pop psychology, TV movies, celebrity magazines, and feminist tracts, how much do we really understand it? Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their experiences from the distance of recovery. Their honesty illuminates as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world. The authors discuss factors including genetics, depression, sexuality, religion,... more info>>
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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Danielle Steel
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"This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death. I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it. I want Nick's life to be not only a tender memory for us, but a gift to others.... I would like to offer people hope and the realities we lived with. I want to make a difference. My hope is that someone will be able t... more info>>
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