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• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

  Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015,

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  Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Cold Blood

  a True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

  Capote, Truman, 1924-1984

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  Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silent Spring

  Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964

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  Carson's passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Brief History of Time

  Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)

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  Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and "arrows of time," of the big bang and a bigger God--where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A People's History of the United States

  Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

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  Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of--and in the words of--America's women, factory workers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

  An Indian History of the American West

  Brown, Dee, 1908-2002

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  First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Right Stuff

  Wolfe, Tom

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  The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage. It's men like Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of all and the fastest man on earth. Pete Conrad, who almost laughed himself out of the running. Gus Grissom, who almost lost…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Grief Observed

  Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

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  Written in moments of sadness and longing after his wife's death, C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed is an honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith. This elegant trade paperback edition of Lewis's classic summons those who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Boy

  (American Hunger) : a Record of Childhood and Youth

  Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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  Wright's once controversial, now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, and hatred while growing up in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Man's Search for Meaning

  Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997

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  Viktor Frankl's riveting account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps, and his insightful exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of the worst adversity, has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  Angelou, Maya

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  This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

  Ray, Janisse, 1962-

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  Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the President's Men

  Bernstein, Carl, 1944-

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  Published just months before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope of the scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious "Deep Throat." Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fire Next Time

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And the Band Played on

  Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

  Shilts, Randy

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  An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hot Zone

  Preston, Richard, 1954-

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  A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  An Inquiry Into Values

  Pirsig, Robert M.

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  A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roots

  the Saga of An American Family

  Haley, Alex

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  One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots , galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn't been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin .

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  Didion, Joan

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  The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America--particularly California--in the sixties.

• All Creatures Great and Small

  Herriot, James

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  Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.