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If Vicki León’s name isn’t familiar perhaps some of her books are: the very popular Uppity Women and Outrageous Women series as well as books about animals and aspects of history for both children

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?“More than anything else I wanted not to disappoint my father.” So speaks the heart of a young man, who uses that lifeline to struggle between two worlds: one, a world of a biracial family distinc

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Suze Rotolo, the daughter of Italian communists who immigrated to New York, grew up in Queens but soon found herself in the bohemian milieu of Greenwich Village.

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In many ways, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook couldn’t be more perfectly timed.

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Moira Allen’s name is well known to most writers. She was a pioneer in using the web to offer support and built a strong following, with her website and newsletter.

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The wilderness is appealing to most people. At least, most appreciate its beauty and its unknown qualities, if not its danger and isolation.

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Of Washington, it has often been noted that it doesn’t much matter what you say so long as you say it at the right time.

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The Zen of Social Marketing is the perfect book for anyone wishing to learn about separating the wheat from the chaff when it comes to social media marketing.

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Unlike the author of the latest biography about the physicist, Paul Dirac, I actually had dinner with Professor Dirac, and his wife, in 1975.

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“To our eyes, though, it is possible to detect an obscure but even more compelling reason for the massive appeal of the New Atheism: it constitutes a new and powerful creation mythology that—like m

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The King of Madison Avenue is part biography, part history of advertising, and part advertising as a business.

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Sure to be on Regis Philbin’s reading list this Fall, as well as on those of the millions of other passionate followers of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, The Gipper: George G

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend a weekend with Coco Chanel?

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One might expect that a book written on the subject of style should be made very reader friendly.  One might expect this, but that is not what is delivered in this reissue of a 1996 edition.Mr.

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In these recessionary times, buying a book like Secret Historian only makes good sense for the frugal reader, in that it consists of a dizzying array of biographies, all bound within a sin

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Immediately after Fort Sumter surrendered, the author tells us of the tremendous enthusiasm for war in both the North and the South.

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Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, April 2009

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 This is a fantastic account for both general and academic audiences.

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Romance with a social message rooted in Christianity is the basis of Kathi Macias’ Extreme Devotion Series.

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"I have committed 100,000 crimes, and those crimes were just all style."

about the same: selling people a good time they desperately wanted.”

 

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According to his only child, Christopher, William F.

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Not too many autobiographies begin with the author sliding down the birth canal.

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