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The Junior Officers’ Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars
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Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers’ Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee’s profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp bookshelves, Hennessey and a handful of his pals from military academy form the Junior Officers’ Reading Club. By the time he reaches Afghanistan and the rest o… More >>
The Junior Officers’ Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars
September 7, 2010
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Farewell to Manzanar
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During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a seven-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which sh… More >>
September 3, 2010
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Exploiting My Baby: A Memoir of Pregnancy & Childbirth
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Teresa Strasser made her baby a spleen and some eyebrows.
He got her a book deal.
Everyone loves babies-and pregnant women-so TV and radio personality Teresa Strasser decided to use this obsession to her advantage. She came up with a way to provide for her newfound family and help other mommies-to-be with this down- and-dirty memoir about first-time pregnancy.
An award-winning writer, Teresa is achingly honest about the motherhood she … More >>
Exploiting My Baby: A Memoir of Pregnancy & Childbirth
September 1, 2010
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Evelina
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Frances Burney (1752-1840) is often remembered for her connections with such eighteenth-century figures as Johnson, Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, and Mrs. Thrale. She was famous in her own day, however, for her literary oeuvre, and her reputation was established largely on the grounds of her first novel, Evelina. Published anonymously in 1778, it is an epistolary account of a sheltered, orphaned young woman’s entrance into society and her experience of family. Its com… More >>
August 30, 2010
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Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One
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“I know the liberals call you ‘the most dangerous man in America,’ but don’t worry about it, they used to say the same thing about me. Keep up the good work.”
-Ronald Reagan in a letter to Rush Limbaugh, December 11, 1992
Do you remember your first time?
People tend to remember the moment they first heard The Rush Limbaugh Show on the radio. For Zev Chafets, it was in a car in Detroit, driving down Woodward Avenue. Limbaugh’s braggadocio, the … More >>
August 28, 2010
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Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite
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The New York Times restaurant critic’s heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough
Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he knew he would be performing one of the most watched tasks in the epicurean universe. And with food his friend a… More >>
Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite
August 26, 2010
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A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
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At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C., honor students have learned to keep their heads down. Like most inner-city kids, they know that any special attention in a place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric Jennings will not swallow his pride, and with unwavering support from his mother, he studies and strives as if his life depends on it–and it does. The summer after his junior year, at a program for minorities at… More >>
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
August 24, 2010
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Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home
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On March 17, 2009, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors who were fleeing the desperate conditions in their homeland. While filming on the Chinese–North Korean border, they were chased down by North Korean soldiers who violently apprehended them. Laura and Euna were charged with trespassing and “hostile acts,” and imprisoned by Kim Jong Il’s notoriously secretive Communist state. Kept totally apart, they … More >>
Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home
August 18, 2010
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Pascal’s Pensées
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August 16, 2010
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This Boy’s Life: A Memoir
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This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are … More >>
August 14, 2010
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