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Katharine Graham - Personal History

Katharine Graham - Personal History

In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a ...
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Latest review by blunt Jan 30, 2006
"This book turned out to be nothing as I imagined. I was surprised to find so many parallels' with he..." Read full review

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Elsa Knight Bruno - Punctuation Celebration

Elsa Knight Bruno - Punctuation Celebration

Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring fourteen playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a bakers shop, commas help a ...
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Latest review by djningr Oct 14, 2010
"The last time my children and I went to the library my two year old brought this book over to me. Sh..." Read full review

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Henry Alford - How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)

Henry Alford - How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)

Free Worldwide Delivery : How to Live : Paperback : Little, Brown & Company : 9780446196048 : 0446196045 : 04 Feb 2010 : One man's amusing and ...
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Latest review by MiDoyle Jun 20, 2009
"It wouldn't hurt to ask an older person a question now and again. You just might learn ... something..." Read full review

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William McKeen - Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

William McKeen - Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

A portrait of the high-profile creator of Gonzo journalism offers insight into his unique capacity for portraying America and its people in myriad ...
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Latest review by teamfreak16 Feb 2, 2009
"When Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide on February 20th, 2005, you had to figure that it was only..." Read full review

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Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones - The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times

Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones - The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times

An insider's biography of America's most powerful media dynasty draws on archival material from The New York Times and family resources to chronicle ...

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Terry Mort - The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats

Terry Mort - The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats

The extraordinary life of Ernest Hemingway has been covered exhaustively by biographers, but Terry Mort details a fascinating episode which has been ...

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Henry Hitchings - The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

Henry Hitchings - The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary, but also of how words witness history, ...

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Simon Garfield - The Error World: An Affair With Stamps

Simon Garfield - The Error World: An Affair With Stamps

When his life grows grim in middle age, Simon Garfield exhumes the passion of his childhood: stamp collecting that focuses on "errors"--misprints and ...

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Bill Henderson - Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reviews & Rejections

Bill Henderson - Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reviews & Rejections

A few years ago, Pushcart Press issued a series of three books: Rotten Reviews and Rotten Reviews II, edited by Bill Henderson, and Rotten ...

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Arthur Schulman - Websterisms: A Collection of Words and Definitions Set Forth by the Founding Father of American English

Arthur Schulman - Websterisms: A Collection of Words and Definitions Set Forth by the Founding Father of American English

Traces the efforts of curmudgeon and patriot Noah Webster to define the American language by preparing a complete lexicon of terms and definitions in ...

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Roy Blount - Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, T

Roy Blount - Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, T

If everybodys first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their ...

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Barry J. Blake - Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols

Barry J. Blake - Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols

With revelations on every page, and sample codes and puzzles for the reader to crack, Secret Language will entertain everyone with an urge to know ...

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The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service

The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service

A tribute to the fortieth anniversary of the <IT>Black Panther <RO>newspaper's debut edition is a history of the periodical that places its ...

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