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|  | Variations to a Self Portrait by Angela Jianu, Norman Manea
Norman Manea`s memoir chronicles his childhood in Romania, and that country`s later years under the Ceausescu dictatorship--a story of family life, exile, and death in the camps told not only in the author`s own voice but in those of his relatives and friends. AUTHOR: Angela Jianu, Norman Manea
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
In this memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian who was a child at the time recalls the terror and loss endured by her family and the devastating cost to Cambodian society under the Pol Pot regime. She also recalls the bonds formed among families and strangers and acts of kindness in a time of devastation. AUTHOR: Chanrithy Him
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | John Adams
The Encyclopedia of Presidents is written in a style that will capture and maintain a reader's interest while at the same time it presents the factual side of our colorful presidential history. Opening with an interest-grabbing introduction, each biography brings out the character of the man -- his early life and its influence on his political aspirations, his election, important events (both good and bad) that occurred during his presidency, and life after his term in office (if applicable).
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Fatheralong by John Edgar Wideman
With resonant artistry and unflagging directness, Wideman examines the tragedy of race and the gulf it cleaves between black fathers and black sons. He does so chiefly through the lens of his own relations with his remote father, producing a memoir that belongs alongside the classics of Richard Wright and Malcolm X. AUTHOR: John Edgar Wideman
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Pocket Dictionary of Saints by John J. Delaney
Description not available.Identifies the approximately five thousand saints acknowledged by the Catholic Church and discusses their role as patrons and intercessors and their symbols in art AUTHOR: John J. Delaney
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Way of St. Francis by Murray Bodo
St. Francis who shows us a way of life both stimulat-ing and troubling, who asks us to look again at the possibilities within us and around us, and to whom we turn repeatedly in interpreting our own human ex-perience of God. AUTHOR: Murray Bodo
PUBLISHER: Saint Anthony Messenger Press & Franciscan Communications
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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