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Wil Wheaton – Just a Geek

25 July 2011  Biographies
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Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path to success. Despite early stardom through his childhood role in the motion picture “Stand By Me”, and growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, Wil left Hollywood in pursuit of happiness, purpose, and a viable means of paying the bills.

Edith Velmans – Edith’s Story: Courage, Love, and Survival During World War II

25 July 2011  Biographies,Historical,Other
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In 1940, while Germans occupied Holland, 14-year-old Edith van Hessen filled her diary with details of typical teenage life. By 1942, the war against the Jews had escalated, and this fun-loving girl grappled with one of the most unfathomable events in history. She survived by living hidden in plain sight, …

Rebecca Traister – Big Girls Don’t Cry

9 July 2011  Biographies,Non Fiction,Other
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Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
In the last two years, the United States – its history, assumptions, prejudices, and vocabulary – have all cracked open. A woman won a state presidential primary contest (quite a few of them, actually) for the first time in …

Mike Gilbert – How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder

9 July 2011  Biographies,Crime,Non Fiction
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The shocking tale told in How I Helped O. J. Get Away with Murder is unlike anything you’ve read before. It isn’t Mike Gilbert’s “version” of what happened’; it’s the unvarnished truth – the truth about O. J., the murders, and the infamous trial, not as Gilbert imagined or would …

Thomas Sowell – A personal Odyssey

4 July 2011  Biographies
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Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, a journey that took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story …

Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian – Kardashian Konfidential

20 May 2011  Biographies,Other
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Confessions of life as a Kardashian sister – stuffed with family stories, advice, beauty tips, and the inside scoop on their life growing up into the gorgeous Dash Dolls. The stars of not one but two number-one reality television shows, and frequent cover girls on all the weekly celebrity magazines, …

Ian Botham – Head On

22 April 2011  Biographies,Non Fiction
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Voted the greatest English cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, Sir Ian Botham is the English game’s one true living legend, and his story, both on and off the pitch, reads like a Boy’s Own rollercoaster ride.
Born with a natural genius for the game, Botham began breaking records …

Portia De Rossi – Unbareable Lightness – A Story of Loss and Gain

15 April 2011  Biographies
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“I didn’t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . .”
Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the …

Donald Rumsfeld – Known and Unknown

15 April 2011  Biographies
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Like Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown pulls no punches. With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld’s memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld’s unique and often surprising …

Barbara Walters – Audition: A Memoir

23 March 2011  Biographies
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“Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: ‘I want to be you.’ My stock reply is always: ‘Then you have to take the whole package.’”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package”, in her inspiring and …

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