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Biography and Memoir January 2018
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| The cruel childhood of author Maude Julien, who was raised by sadistic survivalist parents in isolated and deprived circumstances, from age three to age 16. This disturbing memoir relates the abuses Julien suffered and the path to freedom offered by a sympathetic music teacher.
Julien's love for animals and her years of therapy helped her to become an empathetic and loving adult, which is apparent as she relates her story. |
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| The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando by Paul KixRobert de la Rochefoucauld, a scion of the historic and wealthy French family. During the German Occupation of France in World War II, he responded to General Charles de Gaulle's call for the French people to resist, by joining Prime Minister Winston Churchill's secret agents in the Special Operations Executive. Filled with real-life derring-do, including hair-raising escapes and spectacular acts of sabotage, this slice of World War II history will appeal to espionage buffs and those who admire the anti-Nazi resistance, especially in France. |
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| The autobiography of interdisciplinary scientist Jaron Lanier, who invented the term "virtual reality" and gave us new ways to understand the human mind's relationship to the universe. You'll enjoy Lanier's account of his life and the far-out ideas he's developed. Geeks, nerds, and technophobes will all appreciate this thought-provoking book. |
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Dare not linger : the presidential years
by Nelson Mandela
A sequel to the best-selling Long Walk to Freedom completes the Nobel Prize Laureate's unfinished memoirs and is complemented by notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency.
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Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend by Steve PaulIn the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind and eventually chose to begin a career in writing and journalism at the Kansas City Star, one of the great newspapers of its day. In six and a half months at the Star, Hemingway experienced a compressed, streetwise alternative to a college education that opened his eyes to urban violence, the power of literature, the hard work of writing, and a constantly swirling stage of human comedy and drama.
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| Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen A biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin that details how he masterminded Russia's post-revolutionary Reign of Terror and highlights the dictator's relationships with women. Author Victor Sebestyen demonstrates how Lenin inevitably became the center of a dangerous personality cult. Besides offering a groundbreaking portrait of Lenin, Sebestyen emphasizes links between Russia's revolutionary history and the present day. |
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Avedon : something personal
by Norma Stevens
An intimate, candid portrait of the famed 20th-century photographer, co-written by his longtime business partner and confidante, traces Avedon's life from his humble New York childhood to his death during a shoot in 2004, covering such topics as his controversial portraits of his aging father and his "In the American West" series.
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