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Tuesdays with Morrie an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $10.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1997

Seller ID: 267

ISBN: 0385484518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for yo...
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $4.80

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004

Seller ID: 2061

ISBN: 0375413189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library; Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before—hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was returning, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures.

Armstrong’s struggle against despair was further fueled by a string of discouragements—failed spirituality, doctorate, and jobs; fruitless dealings with psychiatrists. Finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, given prop...
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King Peggy An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village

By: Bartels, Peggielene and Eleanor Herman

Price: $8.65

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2012

Seller ID: 803

ISBN: 0385534329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

King Peggy An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed and African Village

By: Bartels, Peggielene; and Eleanor Herman

Price: $7.49

Publisher: New York, NY, Anchor Books: 2012

Seller ID: 799

ISBN: 0307742814

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Ex-Library; King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way ...
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King Peggy An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed and African Village

By: Bartels, Peggielene; and Eleanor Herman

Price: $7.49

Publisher: New York, NY, Anchor Books: 2012

Seller ID: 800

ISBN: 0307742814

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

King Peggy An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed and African Village

By: Bartels, Peggielene; and Eleanor Herman

Price: $7.49

Publisher: New York, NY, Anchor Books: 2012

Seller ID: 802

ISBN: 0307742814

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

King Peggy An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed and African Village

By: Bartels, Peggielene; and Eleanor Herman

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Anchor Books: 2012

Seller ID: 1077

ISBN: 0307742814

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Boston Red Sox

By: Berry, Henry

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1975

Seller ID: 1048

ISBN: 0020293704

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Patton The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945

By: Blumenson, Martin

Price: $7.99

Publisher: New York, Morrow: 1985

Seller ID: 1132

ISBN: 0688137954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

This magnificent biography by the world's foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known (and feared) by millions; the sensitive, intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious, emotional, religious man only a handful of people ever met. Martin Blumenson deftly explores the life of this American hero, a paradoxical man who inspired others to greatness but who sometimes questioned the greatness within himself.
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David Brinkley A Memoir

By: Brinkley, David

Price: $4.49

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1995

Seller ID: 2086

ISBN: 0345374029

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Just how a young man growing up in a small southern town with only one one-hundred-watt A. M. Radio station and no network affiliation became one of the world's most respected broadcasters in the nation makes for a "grand and glorious adventure" in itself. Now, in this fascinating and charmingly candid memoir of a career spanning half a century, David Brinkley recollects from his own unique vantage point the remarkable, shaky beginnings of television news, the ever-changing social and political landscape of our country, and the colorful people who have crossed his path. He includes priceless m...
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Foreign Correspondence

By: Brooks, Geraldine

Price: $2.59

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books/Doubleday: 1999, c1998.

Seller ID: 1263

ISBN: 0385483732

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

10% discount off sticker on front cover and pages are yellowed on edges.

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness...
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Running with Scissors a memoir

By: Burroughs, Augusten

Price: $2.99

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2002

Seller ID: 1542

ISBN: 031242227X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provi...
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Brain on Fire My Month of Madness

By: Cahalan, Susan

Price: $3.99

Publisher: New York:

Seller ID: 1073

ISBN: 1451621388

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that ...
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Diary of a Sportscaster

By: Coleman, Ken; and Valenti, Dan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Literations: 1982

Seller ID: 49

ISBN: 0943514037

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Sido followed by The Tendrils of the Vine

By: Colette

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Hatchette: 1992

Seller ID: 2003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Book is written in French

A warm-hearted account of Colette's childhood. Conveys her admiration for her strong, empathetic mother, as well as her sorrowful, tender love for her disabled father. Never sentimental, it communicates through sensations and dialogues.
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The Kennedys: an American drama

By: Collier, Peter and David Horowitz

Price: $4.69

Publisher: New York, Summit Books: 1984

Seller ID: 1433

ISBN: 0671447939

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

A national bestseller based on hundreds of interviews with family members and associates, archival research, and previously unused sources reveals the all-too-human saga behind a high profile political family.
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700 Sundays

By: Crystal, Billy

Price: $4.39

Publisher: New York, Warner Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2046

ISBN: 0446578673

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex-Library; A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor's Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his experiences of growing up in a family headed by a father who worked two jobs to support the family before succumbing to heart failure when Crystal was fifteen.
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If I Could Live My Life Again I'D Begin Today and Then...

By: Cyrano De Words-U-Lac

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Salem, VA, Rhymeo Ink: 1996

Seller ID: 1623

ISBN: 1562920502

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

If you want to enjoy life to the fullest, you'll treasure this unique collection of inspiring proverbs. Eash on is a pointed, two-line motivatore that encourages yu to make the most of every moment. And because they are simple and clever, you'll remember them when you need them most!
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Stealing America What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democrat Party

By: D'Souza, Dinesh

Price: $6.29

Publisher: New York, Broadside Books: 2015

Seller ID: 2121

ISBN: 0062366718

Binding: Map

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

In the fall of 2014, outspoken author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza found himself hauled into federal court for improperly donating money to an old friend’s Senate campaign. D’Souza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in a state-run confinement center. There he lived among hardened criminals—drug dealers, thieves, gangbangers, rapists, and murderers. Now the bestselling author explains how this experience not only changed his life, but fundamentally transformed his view of his adopted country.

Previously, D’Souza had seen America through the eyes of a grateful immigran...
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In Contempt

By: Darden, Christopher

Price: $5.39

Publisher: New York, Regan Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2294

ISBN: 0060391839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

In Contempt is an unflinching look at what the television cameras could not show: behind-the-scenes meetings, the deteriorating relationships between the defense and prosecution teams, the taunting, baiting, and pushing matches between Darden and Simpson, the intimate relationship between Darden and Marcia Clark, and the candid factors behind Darden's controversial decision for Simpson to try on the infamous glove, and much more.

Out of the sensational frenzy of "the trial of the century" comes this haunting memoir of duty, justice, and the powerful undertow of American racism. A st...
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