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AVA'S MAN
by Rick Bragg
Knopf
ISBN: 0375410627
AVA'S MAN is a loving, tender tribute to Charlie Bundrum, Bragg's maternal grandfather and his family and a paean to a lost generation --- the good, solid, hardscrabble men and women of the now vanished South.
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COLD ZERO: Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team
by Christopher Whitcomb
Little, Brown & Co.
ISBN: 0316601039
An insider's account of the highly-skilled training programs to prepare FBI agents for events like the terrorist acts of September 11th.
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FAST FOOD NATION
by Eric Schlosser
Houghton Mifflin Co.
ISBN: 0395977894
Faster, easier, but not necessarily better --- the ways in which the fast food industry has impacted our lives.
Editorial: ALL AMERICAN FAST by Bernadette Davis
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JOHN ADAMS
by David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0684813637
A magnificent perspective of our early history, our forefathers, and the role John Adams played in shaping it.
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NICKEL AND DIMED
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 0805063889
In her poignant, thought-provoking and downright startling new book, Ehrenreich leaves the comfort of her home to conduct a social experiment among the working poor. It dares to beg the question: how do the millions of Americans on the edge of poverty survive?
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THE NOONDAY DEMON: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon
PUBLISHER
ISBN: 068485466X
A longtime depression sufferer, Solomon chronicles the treatments, approaches and myths surrounding the disease, while imparting wisdom gleaned from his own life lessons.
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POSITIVELY 4th STREET
by David Hajdu
Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 0374281998
The tell-all tale of four dueling personalities and their impact on the making of a counterculture.
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SAVAGE BEAUTY: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford
Random House
ISBN: 039457589X
Poet Millay was the liberated, bohemian queen of the "Lost Generation" --- and author Milford's vivid prose captures the spirit of the age while exploring how art imitates life.
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SEABISCUIT: An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
Random House
ISBN: 0375502912
During the 1930s the biggest headline-maker wasn't Franklin D. Roosevelt or Adolf Hitler, but a scrawny little horse who became an American legend.
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THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060193611
Winchester, author of the surprise bestseller THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, tells the compelling story of William Smith, whose 1815 map of England and Wales, became the bedrock of modern geology.
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