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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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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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I. Asimov: A Memoir [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Isaac Asimov
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Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." I. Asimov is his personal story--vivid, open, and honest--as only Asimov himself could tell it.Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; ... more info>>
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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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Open: An Autobiography [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Andre Agassi
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From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.Agassi's incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time ... more info>>
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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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Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Noel Riley Fitch
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Julia Child became a household name when she entered the lives of millions of Americans through our hearts and kitchens. Yet few know the richly varied private life that lies behind this icon, whose statuesque height and warmly enthused warble have become synonymous with the art of cooking.In this biography we meet the earthy and outrageous Julia, who, at age eighty-five, remains a complex role model. Fitch, who had access to all of Julia's private letters and diaries, takes us through her life,... 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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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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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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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man who could Cure the World [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul F... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Strength in What Remains [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man's remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brillia... more info>>
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The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Jeff Deck
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The signs of the times are missing apostrophes.
The world needed a hero, but how would an editor with no off-switch answer the call? For Jeff Deck, the writing was literally on the wall: “NO TRESSPASSING.” In that moment, his greater purpose became clear. Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilization… and only he could wield the marker to defeat them.
Recruiting his friend Benjamin and other valiant companions, he created the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Armed wi... 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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13 Is the New 18: And Other Things My Children Taught Me--While I Was Having a Nervous Breakdown Being Their Mother [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Beth J. Harpaz
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"I wonder sometimes if there's something to the old superstition about the number thirteen. Maybe that superstition was originally created by the mothers in some tribe who noticed that in their children's thirteenth year, they suddenly became possessed by evil spirits. Because it did seem that whenever Taz was around, things spilled and shattered, calm turned into chaos, and tempers were lost." So laments the mother of one thirteen-year-old boy, Taz, a teen who, overnight it seemed, went from a ... more info>>
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Suze Rotolo
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A Freewheelin' Time is Suze Rotolo's firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in the ring with him. A shy girl from Queens, Suze Rotolo was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists. Growing up a... more info>>
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A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Redneck [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Trace Adkins
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Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn't exactly known for holding back what's on his mind. And if the millions of albums he's sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things ought to be. In his inimitable pull-no-punches style, Trace gives us the state of the union as he sees it, from the lessons of his bo... 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 Weeping upon the Thames [An Exploration of Charles Dickens] [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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Charles Dickens was one of the top three investigative journalists of his century, besides being a famous novelist. We explore the surprising and often shocking background that makes him as relevant today as he was in the Victorian world. London's rookeries were even more notorious than the Five Points section in Gangs of New York. (Published: 2003)
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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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Alfred Hitchcock [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Paul Duncan
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Who was Hitchcock? A fat man who played practical jokes on people? A control freak who humiliated others to make himself look better? A little boy afraid of the dark? One of the greatest storytellers of the century? He was all of these and more--twenty years after his death, he is still a household name; most people in the Western world have seen his film, and he popularised the action movie format we see every week on the cinema screen. He was both a great artist and dynamite at the box office.... more info>>
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All Over but the Shoutin' [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Rick Bragg
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This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.But at the center of this soaring memoir is Brag... more info>>
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Jon Meacham
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Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politic... more info>>
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American Prince: A Memoir [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Peter Golenbock
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"All my life I had one dream and that was to be in the movies." He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned him fame, women, and adulation--Elvis copied his look and the Beatles put him on their Sgt. Pepper album cover. But the Hollywood life of his dreams brought both invincible highs and debilitating lows. Now, in ... 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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