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Life Is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How he Learned to Read at Age 98

by George Dawson, Richard Glaubman

Published: 2001-06-01

Paperback: 260 pages

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In this remarkable book, 103-year-old George Dawson, a slave's grandson who learned to read at age 98, reflects on his life and offers valuable lessons in living as well as a fresh, firsthand view of America during the twentieth century. Richard Glaubman captures Dawson's irresistible voice and view...

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Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On

by Jenny McCarthy

Published: 2007-03-27

Paperback: 240 pages

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Jenny McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of Baby Laughs and Belly Laughs, speaks candidly about the challenges and the humor to be found in balancing motherhood and the ups and downs of marriage. Jenny McCarthy�s honesty has made her a bestseller. In Life Laughs, Jenny opens up ...

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A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir

by Baby Halder

Published: 2007-05-01

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Abandoned by her mother, beaten by her father, and hurriedly married off at twelve to an abusive man twice her age, Baby Halder's early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak. Exhausted and desperate, the young mother finally fled with her three children in 1999 to Delh...

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Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds

by Olivia Gentile

Published: 2010-03-30

Paperback: 352 pages

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After her four kids were nearly grown and she was about to turn 50, Phoebe Snetsinger was told she had less than a year to live. Snetsinger, a St. Louis housewife and avid backyard birder, decided to spend that year traveling the world in search of birds. As it turned out, her doctors were...

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Life Mask

by Emma Donoghue

Published: 2005-09-05

Paperback: 650 pages

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The bestselling author of Slammerkin vividly brings to life the Beau Monde of late eighteenth-century England, turning the private drama of three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full-bodied portrait of a world on the brink of revolution. In a time of looming war, of glittering spectacl...

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LIFE Michelle Obama: A Portrait of the First Lady

by Editors of Life

Published: 2009-10-06

Hardcover: 144 pages

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Her husband's American journey has been told, but no less fascinating is the inspiring path that Michelle Obama has taken from a modest upbringing in Chicago to the White House. Hers was the family unit that Barack Obama whose father abandoned his mother when he was not yet two-had always longed for-...

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The Life of an American Holocaust Survivor: Memories of the German Concentration Camps

by Dana Kent

Published: 2005-11-28

Paperback: 175 pages

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A Life of Bright Ideas: A Novel

by Sandra Kring

Published: 2012-02-07

Paperback: 448 pages

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A secret tore best friends Evelyn “Button” Peters and Winnalee Malone apart. Now, nearly a decade later, a secret brings them back together.   Nine years ago Button and Winnalee began recording observations in their Book of Bright Ideas, a tome they believed would solve the mystery of...

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The Life of David (Jewish Encounters)

by Robert Pinsky

Published: 2008-08-26

Paperback: 240 pages

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The Life of Elizabeth I

by Alison Weir

Published: 1999-10

Paperback: 560 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPerhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantl...