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The Zookeepers Wife

by Diane Ackerman

Published: 2008-09-08

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A true story--as powerful as Schindler's List--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

by Al Franken

Published: 2017-05-30

Hardcover: 416 pages

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#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0....

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The Diagnosis: A Novel

by Alan Lightman

Published: 2002-02-19

Paperback: 384 pages

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From the bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes this harrowing tale of one man's struggle to cope in a wired world, even as his own biological wiring short-circuits. As Boston’s Red Line shuttles Bill Chalmers to work one summer morning, something extraordinary happens. Suddenly...

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When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the People Who Died and the People Who Lived On

by Joni Foster

Published: 2017-02-27

Paperback: 172 pages

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In 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The store owner grabbed the package and ran down the back hallway. The...

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Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards

by Jan Reid

Published: 2013-09-01

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Winner, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2012Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, Texas State Historical Association, 2012When Ann Richards delivered the keynote of the 1988 Democratic National Convention and mocked President Geor...

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Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

by Molly Ivins

Published: 1992-09-15

Paperback: 304 pages

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Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest—and hilarious.  Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on:-Texas politics: "Well, our attorney general is...

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Clare Boothe Luce : A Biography

by Stephen C Shadegg

Published: 1970

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In this definitive and very human biography, Stephen Shadegg captures the indefatigable spirit of America's Renaissance woman of the twentieth century -- Clare Boothe Luce.

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Barbara Jordan: American Hero

by Mary Beth Rogers

Published: 2000-01-04

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Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private ...

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Nothing But The Truth

by Avi

Published: 2010-01-01

Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages

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This Newbery Honor Book by acclaimed author Avi is available again through Scholastic--in an After Words paperback edition!In this thought-provoking examination of freedom, patriotism, and respect, ninth-grader, Philip Malloy, is kept from joining the track team by his failing grades in En...

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Once in a Blue Moon Lodge: A Novel

by Lorna Landvik

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 312 pages

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Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences...