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|  | The Other Half of My Soul by Beatrice Bruteau
Essays celebrating Benedictine visionary Griffiths` blend of Christian belief and Hindu practice. AUTHOR: Beatrice Bruteau
PUBLISHER: Theosophical Publishing House
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | A Year in Van Nuys by Sandra Tsing Loh
Told through e-mail correspondence, sketches, charts, and bitter commentary, this witty memoirist shares her travels in self-doubt in Southern California. AUTHOR: Sandra Tsing Loh
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Duty by Bob Greene
Through a study of his dying father's hero, Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets, journalist Bob Greene gains a greater understanding of the events and values of his father's generation and gleans insight into the depth of that generation's disappointment with the generation that followed. Some of this book draws on the elder Greene's WW II journals. AUTHOR: Bob Greene
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Rethinking Camelot by Noam Chomsky
Chomsky examines the escalation of the American presence in Vietnam during the Kennedy administration, with a focus on Cold War intellectual elites and how they wrote foreign policy. AUTHOR: Noam Chomsky
PUBLISHER: South End Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove, Phillip Bosco
This memoirist recalls growing up Jewish in mid-century Budapest, when adolescent growing pains were darkened by the historical context. AUTHOR: Andrew S. Grove, Phillip Bosco
PUBLISHER: Warner Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Remembering Jim Crow by Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad, Behind the Veil Project Staff
Using testimony gathered as part of an oral history research project initiated by Duke University in the 1990s, the author examines the experience of people under Jim Crow--after Reconstruction and before Civil Rights--when segregation was legal. AUTHOR: Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad, Behind the Veil Project Staff
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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