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image not found Isaac Newton
Ackroyd's Brief Lives Peter Ackroyd.
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2006; 176 p.; isbn:0385507992 More Information

image not found The sum of our days
Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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A narrative memoir of the author's life in the wake of her daughter's tragic death describes the idiosyncratic network of friends she has gathered around herself and the realizations she has formed about such topics as love, parenthood, and addiction.
2007; 301 p.; isbn:006155183X More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Shakespeare's wife
Germaine Greer.
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Challenges popular beliefs about the estranged nature of Shakespeare's marriage to Ann Hathaway, placing their relationship in a social and historical context that poses alternative theories about her rural upbringing and role in the bard's professional life.
2007; 406 p.; isbn:0061537152 More Information

image not found Callas kissed me... Lenny too! : a critic's memoir
by John Gruen.
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2008; 327 p.; isbn:1576874249 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view In the frame : my life in words and pictures
Helen Mirren.
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An illustrated account of the life and career of the esteemed actress traces her Russian ancestry and early life through her numerous achievements in a variety of performance venues.
2008; 272 p.; isbn:1416567607 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Franklin and Lucy : an intimate portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherford, and the other remarkable women who shaped FDR's life
Joseph E. Persico.
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Examines Franklin Delano Roosevelt's relationships with the women around him, from his devoted secretary Missy Lehand and wife Eleanor to Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the woman with whom he shared a long, secret, and life-altering relationship until his death.
2008; 443 p.; isbn:1400064422 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Life beyond measure : letters to my great-granddaughter
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on this amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of ...
2008; 285 p.; isbn:9780061496189 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Pope Benedict XVI : servant of the truth
edited by Peter Seewald ; translated by Brian McNeil
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2006; 189 p.; isbn:9781586171513 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Blair unbound
by Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon.
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"Anthony Seldon's first study of Tony Blair, published in 2004, which took his story from birth up to the second term, has now become the conventional wisdom about Blair: a figure whose rise was shaped heavily by powerful individuals and events, and who squandered his early years in office because he had yet to work out what he wanted to do with power, ...
2007; 669 p.; isbn:1847370780 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Boots on the ground at dusk : my tribute to Pat Tillman
Mary Tillman with Narda Zacchino.
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2008; 344 p.; isbn:1594868808 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Magnifico : the brilliant life and violent times of Lorenzo de' Medici
Miles J. Unger.
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2008; 513 p.; isbn:0743254341 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Audition : a memoir
by Barbara Walters
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2008; 612 p.; isbn:9780307266460 More Information

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