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Danger pay
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Carol Spencer Mitchell |
"In this intensely thoughtful memoir, Carol Spencer Mitchell probes the motivations that impelled her - a single, Jewish woman - to document the turmoil roiling the Arab world in the 1980s and 1990s,… |
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Prisoners
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Jeffrey Goldberg |
The author describes his move to Israel as a student, his work as a prison guard, and his extended dialogue with a prisoner named Rafiq, a PLO leader, explaining how they forged a friendship despite … |
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Flat broke in the free market
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Jon Jeter |
A powerful, accessible, and eye-opening analysis of the global economy.
Growing up in an African American working-class family in the Midwest, Jon Jeter watched the jobs undergirding a community d… |
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Love in black and white
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William S. Cohen |
In a world where it was commonplace to see signs that read "whites only" or "Jews not allowed," William Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine, the eldest son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mothe… |
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Mr Playboy
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Steven Watts |
The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon "Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-Newark Star Ledger "Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected a… |
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Burning Down My Master's House
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Jayson Blair |
Burning Down My Masters' House is the highly-anticipated memoir that captures the pain, anger and fierce determination of Jayson Blair. A young black journalist who descended from slaves, he rose to … |
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My Times in Black and White
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Gerald M Boyd |
A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to the New York Times, this insider’s view of struggle and change at the nation’s premier newspaper reconstructs the most controversial period i… |
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Naked on the page
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Jane Ganahl |
Jane Ganahl is one of millions of single people out there looking for love at midlife, and she's (more or less) happy (damn it!)Jane Ganahl is forty-nine, single, and loving it—mostly. In Naked on th… |
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I Have Seen the Future
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Peter Hartshorn |
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Lincoln Steffens, an internationally known and respected political insider, went rogue to work for McClure's Magazine. Credited as the proverbial father of muckr… |
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Beware of limbo dancers
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Roy Reed |
"This witty, wide-ranging memoir from Roy Reed--a native Arkansan who became a reporter for the New York Times--begins with tales of the writer's formative years growing up in Arkansas and the start … |
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Jujitsu rabbi and the godless blonde
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Rebecca Dana |
A weekly columnist for "The Daily Beast" recounts the story of the launch of her career, a period marked by her graduation from Yale, unanticipated setbacks that culminated in brief homelessness in N… |
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After visiting friends
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Michael Hainey |
"A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death--a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us w… |
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The last pirate
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Tony Dokoupil |
"NBC News"senior writer Dokoupil offers a gripping examination of his longtime marijuana-dealing father, as well as a researched look at the evolution of American narcotics laws. In the early 1970s, … |
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
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Charles M. Blow |
Charles M. Blow’s mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's leg… |
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Gene Smith's sink
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Sam Stephenson |
"An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith; In an interview with Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith remarked: "I didn't write the rules, why should I follow them?" Famously … |
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Night moves
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Jessica Hopper |
"Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals from the aughts, Jessica Hopper… |
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Timeless
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Lucinda Franks |
"Lucinda Franks recounts her marriage to Robert Morgenthau, Jr., a man decades her senior who subscribes to a vastly different lifestyle"-- |
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I left it on the mountain
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Kevin Sessums |
"[Journalist and actor Kevin] Sessums chronicles his early days in NY as an actor, his years working for Andy Warhol at Interview and Tina Brown at Vanity Fair, countless nights of anonymous sex, his… |
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A field guide to awkward silences
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Alexandra Petri |
"Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir... Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri.… |
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The abominable Mr. Seabrook
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Joe Ollmann |
"In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist Willi… |
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