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An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
William Doyle
An American Insurrection is the true story of the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War and of a major turning point in American history. It takes readers into the eye of the chaotic and ferocious white uprising that occurred when Air Force veteran James Meredith tried to become the first black student to register at the University of Mississippi.
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Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Rebecca Walker
The daughter of famed African American writer Alice Walker and liberal Jewish lawyer Mel Leventhal brings a frank, spare style and detail-rich memories to this biography.
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Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Michael Lewis
The young man at the center of this story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League.
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Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond,
Diamond examines storied examples of human economic and social collapse, and even extinction, including Easter Island, classical Mayan civilization and the Greenland Norse.
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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Litttle Big Horn
Colton Larry
Watching Sharon Laforge shooting hoops, Colton tracks her senior year on the Lady Bulldogs,from the first practice through the tournament play.
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Eagle blue : a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska
Michael D'Orso
Fort Yukon is home to six hundred people. Overwhelmingly populated by Athabascan Gwich'in Natives, Fort Yukon exists almost exclusively in the margins of American culture. The tiny population and vanishing cultural heritage of this town have one powerful link to mainstream America: their high school basketball team.
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Educating Esme : Diary of a Teacher's First Year
Esme Raji Codell
In this diary, a record of Esme's frustrations, achievements, and struggles to maintain her individuality in the face of bureaucracy, she reveals what it takes to be a "genuine" teacher.
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Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley
Bradley did extensive research on his father and the other five men who marched up the side of Mount Suribachi on Ivo Jima during World War II and raised the American flag -- a moment captured in one of America's most famous photos.
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Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation.
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Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
Linda Greenlaw
Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a 30-day swordfishing voyage, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they could have been ripped from the pages of "Moby Dick."
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
This true-life adventure tells the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship "Essex"--an event that served as the inspiration for Melville's "Moby-Dick." of illustrations.
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My Losing Season
Pat. Conroy
Conroy has written an American classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it imparts, and about finding one's self in the midst of defeat.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Barbara. Ehrenreich
How does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce.
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Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Sullivan Robert
Sullivan went to a disused, garbage-filled alley in lower Manhattan to contemplate the city and its lesser-known inhabitants -- by observing the rat.
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Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
Timothy Ferris
America's finest science writer describes a major revolution sweeping astronomy, as amateur astronomers, in global networks linked by the Internet, make discoveries that are changing knowledge of the universe.
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last My
Robert Kurson
This superlative journalistic narrative tells of John Chatterton and Rich Kohler, two deep-sea wreck divers who in 1991 dove to a mysterious wreck lying at the perilous depth of 230 feet, off the coast of New Jersey.
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
Roach conducts an oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic exploration of the strange lives of bodies postmortem.
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True Notebooks
Mark Salzman
Salzman (Lying Awake; Iron & Silk) volunteered to teach creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall, a Los Angeles County detention facility for "high-risk" juvenile offenders.
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Truth & Beauty
Ann Patchett
In her first nonfiction work, the author of the best-selling Bel Canto recounts her extraordinary relationship with poet Lucy Grealy, whose Autobiography of a Face memorably recounts her ordeal with cancer as a child and the subsequent operations to reconstruct her face.
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Wilderness Family: At Home With Africa's Wildlife
Kobie Krüger
This number one bestseller from South Africa captures the excitement of Kobie and Kobus Kruger's 17 years at a remote ranger station and their adventure raising an orphaned lion cub.
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World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman
For Friedman, telecommunications have finally obliterated all impediments to international competition, where "economic stability is not going to be a feature" and "the weak will fall farther behind."
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