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Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking

In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion writes an account of her life since the 2003 death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion's grief was profound and debilitating; she and Dunne had been married for nearly 40 years, during which they were hardly ever apart. But in the course of her mou... Read more

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$3.00 - $19.00

Jim Sheeler - Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives

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$10.00 - $12.00

J. Anthony Lukas - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

The racial turmoil of late 1960s and early '70s Boston is expertly conjured in J. Anthony Lukas's COMMON GROUND, which explores the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968. The book chronicles the attempts to bring the black and white communities together, both th... Read more

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$11.00 - $13.00

Beth Kephart - A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage

In this 1998 National Book Award finalist, Kephart chronicles the tragedy of her son's developmental problems and her struggle to lead him toward wholeness. ... Read more

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$8.37 - $10.92

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

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$36.00 - $42.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

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$27.00 - $33.00

John Boswell - Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops, and even canonized saints. The historical bre... Read more

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$16.00 - $16.00

Jim Sheeler - Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives

In FINAL SALUTE journalist Jim Sheeler follows Major Steve Beck on one of the most heart-rending jobs imaginable: notifying family members of the death of a loved one while serving the United States in the Iraq War. Born out of Sheeler's Pulitzer Prize-winning feature article for the Rocky Mountain ... Read more

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$3.00 - $23.00

Carlos M.N. Eire - Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

Carlos Eire remembers growing up privileged in 1950s Havana, an interlude that ends with Fidel Castro and the revolution. Eire delivers transcendent prose that details the Cuba he grew up with and the "many deaths" he experienced, including being airlifted out of Cuba in 1962 with his brot... Read more

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$1.04 - $10.20

Maxine Kingston - China Men

The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Heres a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land. ... Read more

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$5.24 - $10.85

Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits by the world's leading anthropologists and by the Atomic Energy Commission's plans to use the ... Read more

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$9.00 - $13.00

Nina Bernstein - The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Through a long study of several principles in a landmark court decision, a journalist exposes the gulag of New York's foster care system. The author examines the lost lives that were caught up in the system, and the large social issues such as race, ethnicity, poverty, and human rights. She examines... Read more

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$10.00 - $11.00

Winthrop D. Jordan - White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

A discussion of white racial attitudes from before the first Negroes set foot on American soil in 1619 to the present national situation. ... Read more

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$27.00 - $37.00

Cornelius Eady - Brutal Imagination: Poems

A poet struggles to understand the role of the black man in America by evoking slave images to show the African-American family in crisis across three centuries. Simultaneous. ... Read more

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$7.13 - $10.92

Bernard Augustine De Voto - The Course of Empire

Tracing North American exploration from Balboa to Lewis Clark, DeVoto tells in classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. ... Read more

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$5.47 - $11.56

Natalie Angier - Woman: An Intimate Geography

At some point midway through my pregnancy, when I knew I was carrying a daughter, I began to think of myself as standing in a room with two facing mirrors, so that looking into one mirror you see the other mirror reflecting it, and you, off into something approaching an infinity of images. At twenty... Read more

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$10.00 - $11.00

Paul Monette - Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

Both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, this memoir by Paul Monette (1945-1995) tells about what he considered his "wasted years"--the years before he met the man who would become his long-term lover, and before he came out as a homosexual. The author discusses the pain of being a clo... Read more

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$11.00 - $28.00

David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823

Brion Davis displayed his mastery not only of a vast source of material, but also of the highly complex, frequently contradictory factors that influenced opinion on slavery. He has now followed this up with a study of equal quality....No one has written a book about the abolition of slavery that car... Read more

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$35.00 - $38.00

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

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$31.00 - $31.00

Alberto Rios - The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body

Alberto R?os explains the world through magic. These poems, set in a town that straddles the American/Mexican border, are lyric adventures, crossing boundaries as they move easily between cultures, languages, and sensibilities. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, R?os utilizes the intens... Read more

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$8.00 - $12.00

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