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Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impass... Read more

Stores Selling: 6

$4.64 - $18.96

Dexter Filkins - The Forever War

Journalist Dexter Filkins provides a long view of the conflict with Islamofascism, before and after 9/11. Filkins reports on the rise of the Taliban in the '90s, the attacks of September 11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and their aftermath. He covers a great deal of territory, reporting fr... Read more

Stores Selling: 11

$5.00 - $20.00

Helene Cooper - The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

Born into Liberia's privileged upper class, Helene Cooper's family were the descendants of the freed American slaves who first turned Liberia into a country. Her life took a drastic change in 1980 when Liberia plunged into a long and bloody civil war. Her family's possessions were seized, her mother... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$4.64 - $10.80

Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past

Ariel Sabar grew up ashamed of his idiosyncratic father, Yona, a Kurdish Jew from a tiny Iraqi village. Impelled by a mid-life desire to understand him, Sabar investigates the lost world in which his father grew up, retracing the family's expulsion from Iraq, their abysmal period in Israel, and thei... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$4.60 - $10.76

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

Stores Selling: 3

$23.00 - $25.00

Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Ariel Sabar grew up ashamed of his idiosyncratic father, Yona, a Kurdish Jew from a tiny Iraqi village. Impelled by a mid-life desire to understand him, Sabar investigates the lost world in which his father grew up, retracing the family's expulsion from Iraq, their abysmal period in Israel, and thei... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$12.00 - $16.00

Tim Jeal - Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

We think of Stanley as a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo--and the journalist who conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" But these perc... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$6.00 - $25.00

Daniel Mendelsohn - The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Noted critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn never knew his uncle Shmiel, who died in the Holocaust, but family members who did never forgot him, and they spoke about him to Daniel, who was moved enough to begin a search to learn of the fate of his uncle, his uncle's wife, and their four daughters.... Read more

Stores Selling: 8

$5.00 - $21.00

Andrew X. Pham - The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars

Scenes of ethereal beauty alternate with violent upheavals in this atmospheric memoir. Andrew X. Pham tells the story of his father's life in small, dreamy sequences, skipping about through time masterfully. Once the scion of an old wealthy family, Thong Van Pham watched his fortune, his country, a... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$10.00 - $16.00

David Hajdu - Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina

Discusses how Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Mimi and Richard Farina gathered together in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, chronicling their rise from coffeehouse folksingers to popular icons. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$11.00 - $12.00

Robin Marantz Henig - The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

In THE MONK IN THE GARDEN, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly evokes a little-known chapter in science, taking us back to the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Shrouded in mystery, Gregor Mendel's quiet life and discoveries make ... Read more

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$10.00 - $12.00

Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most ... Read more

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$12.00 - $14.00

Patrick French - The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

A study of Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul examines his difficult early life as a child of Indian parents in colonial Trinidad, and his Oxford education, his struggle with depression his complex personal life and relationships and their influence on his literary work. Reprint. A New York Times Best Boo... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$10.00 - $12.00

Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994

This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nas... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$.51 - $12.95

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

Stores Selling: 3

$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

Stores Selling: 3

$27.00 - $33.00

Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach

Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$13.00 - $25.00

Gary Giddins - Visions of Jazz: The First Century

Gary Giddins' idiosyncratic series of essays on key figures in 20th-century jazz doesn't pretend to be an all-inclusive guide to the key players in the first century of the music's history; his introduction makes plain that, aside from obvious inclusions like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, he r... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$18.00 - $21.00

Paula J. Giddings - Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery and upbringing in the Victorian-era South, where she became a journalist and pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, in an account that also describes her determination to counter lynching ac... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$8.00 - $14.00

Edmund White - Genet: A Biography

A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet's plays, novels, and ess... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$16.00 - $24.00

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