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|  | Five Against One by Kim Neely
In this biography of Pearl Jam, Rolling Stone reporter Kim Neely offers an intriguing portrait of Eddie Vedder, providing an intimate view of his childhood in Chicago and showing how he evolved into one of Seattle's biggest grunge pioneers. She also discusses Vedder's anti-celebrity image, as he breaks the rules of America's corporate music industry by living in seclusion, attempting to launch a Ticketmaster-less tour, and refusing to insult fans with catchy tunes that lack emotional significance. AUTHOR: Kim Neely
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Midwife's Tale by Laurel T. Ulrich
This absorbing and illuminating chronicle of the life of a midwife in 18th-century Maine won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990. AUTHOR: Laurel T. Ulrich
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Enemy's House Divided by Charles De Gaulle, Robert Eden
Originally published in 1924 and available here in English for the first time, The Enemy's House Divided is de Gaulle's analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World War I. Based partly on observations made during his internment as a prisoner of war from 1916 to 1918, it can be seen as the foundation for everything he wrote in the 1920s and 1930s in the shadow of German resurgence and for much of what he said and did after the Nazi victory in June of 1940. To de Gaulle, the German conduct of the Great War and the debacle of 1918 was the greatest moral disaster ever to befall a modern civilized political community. He seeks to identify the internecine causes of the collapse of the German war effort in 1918 and of the subsequent dissolution of the German Empire. His diagnosis of the profound moral crisis that unfolded in Germany during World War I points forward to 1940, for de Gaulle understood the fall of France, above all, as a moral catastrophe for the French. His first book, it is also a key document of de Gaulle's philosophy of action, introducing his statesmanship to the world with its deliberate and studied critique of the perils of Nietzsche's philosophical initiative. AUTHOR: Charles De Gaulle, Robert Eden
PUBLISHER: University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Burdens of Sister Margaret by Craig E. Harline
The Burdens of Sister Margaret is a portrait of a 17th-century convent drawn largely from the letters written by a group of Franciscan nuns in France who had taken a vow of silence. The correspondence primarily concerns sister Margaret Smulders, who accused a chaplain of sexually harassing her and was thought to be possessed by demons. Sister Margaret was twice expelled from the convent, and was the source of much controversy among the nuns. Craig Harline, a historian, discovered these letters in 1989 and began putting together the story of Margaret, and that of the world in which she lived. Says Harline in his Foreword, I marveled at the...noise of a convent sworn to regular periods of silence, and the diverse viewpoints revealed. AUTHOR: Craig E. Harline
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Great White South by Herbert G. Pontig, Roland Huntford
Description not available.An account of Robert Falcon Scott's last Antarctic expedition presents 175 black and white photographs taken by the expedition's official photographer. AUTHOR: Herbert G. Pontig, Roland Huntford
PUBLISHER: Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8) by Sandy Balfour
A British journalist writes about his career covering world events through the end of the 20th century, and also about his obsession with the cryptic crossword puzzles that British newspapers specialize in. AUTHOR: Sandy Balfour
PUBLISHER: Putnam Publishing Group, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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