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The author of this reevaluation of the work of Andre le Notre--who created the gardens at Versailles--sees his landscapes as playful, witty, and welcoming, rather than over-controlled, as they are often described. AUTHOR: Erik Orsenna, Moishe Black
PUBLISHER: Braziller, George Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Matthew Henson by Jean Williams
Matthew Henson endured much as an African American in the early 1900s, but through personal determination and the support of mentor Robert Peary, he was among the first men to reach the North Pole. AUTHOR: Jean Williams
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Flow in Sports by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Susan Jackson
Description not available.Describes how athletes reach a high level of performance in which they feel perfectly attuned toward their sport AUTHOR: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Susan Jackson
PUBLISHER: Human Kinetics Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Monkey Business by Simon Louvish
This lavishly illustrated biography of the Marx Brothers chronicles the comedy team's entire career, detailing their rise from vaudeville to Hollywood. Excerpts from reviews, interviews, memoirs, and scripts are included. AUTHOR: Simon Louvish
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Education of Henry Adams by Donald Hall, Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams, Ira B. Nadel, Jean Gooder
Published posthumously in 1918, this book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919. In this autobiography, Adams confronts the way he was raised, asserting that he and other men of his generation were singularly unprepared for the chaos unleashed upon civilization by the economic and technical innovations as the end of the 19th century drew near. More than any other work of Adams's, his Education has made his reputation as a probing intellect striving to make sense of the world around him. AUTHOR: Donald Hall, Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams, Ira B. Nadel, Jean Gooder
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Sorrow Mountain by Adelaide Donnelley, Ani Pachen, Richard Gere, Dalai Lama XIV
In this memoir, a woman tells of her life as a member of the Tibetan resistance, her long and painful imprisonment after having been captured by the Chinese, and her eventual release and flight to Dharamsala, the home-in-exile of the Dalai Lama. AUTHOR: Adelaide Donnelley, Ani Pachen, Richard Gere, Dalai Lama XIV
PUBLISHER: Kodansha America, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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