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1,000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire Part autobiography and part inspirational business guide, 1,000 Dollars and an Idea is full of refreshing insights and homespun life lessons about what it takes to create, grow, and build successful companies. 
Buffalo Gal Combining laugh-out-loud humor with a slice of social history --- her hometown was a flash point for race riots, antiwar protests and abortion rallies --- not to mention bingo, bowling and Friday night fish fries --- Pedersen paints a vivid portrait of an era. 
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces The perfect gift for art lovers, Robert Clark’s Dark Water is a dramatic narrative account of the 1966 flood of the Arno River and the heroic efforts made in the aftermath to save Florence’s works of art. 
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World Eric Weiner takes readers from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness. His debut uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. 
Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment and recognition. 
Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus With a Will of Its Own A hilarious, offbeat and romantic travel memoir about living your dreams and refusing to settle. "Charming, insightful and hilarious... evokes the best of Bill Bryson and David Sedaris." -- Jonathan Kellerman
Searching for Schindler: A Memoir Discover the captivating story behind Schindler’s List, the international bestseller and Booker Award-winning book and the Academy Award-winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world. 
Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister's Memoir A "beautifully written" story about guts, grace, love, loss and survival. #1 Reader Comment: “I couldn’t put it down.” A Book Club favorite. 
Thames: The Biography In his signature entertaining and informative manner, Peter Ackroyd delves into the hidden byways of history, creating a vivid and highly original mosaic of life by and on the Thames. 
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Acclaimed historian and bestselling biographer H. W. Brands delivers the richest and most rewarding portrait yet of the 20th century’s greatest president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
