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Description not available.An introduction to the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Digressions on Poems by Frank O'Hara by Joe LeSueur
Frank O`Hara and Joe LeSueur lived together in New York City for 10 years, from 1955 to 1965, and here LeSueur affectionately remembers O`Hara, his poems, and how the man related to the work. AUTHOR: Joe LeSueur
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | War in a Time of Peace by David Halberstam, James Naughton
Through a deep analysis of the War in the Gulf, and through studies of operations in Haiti, Somalia, and Bosnia, Halberstam examines new ways of waging war following the fall of Communism. He addresses the issues of civilian control of the military and whether politics threatens to interfere with military goals, and he explains the new technologies of war, especially America's dominance in the air. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. AUTHOR: David Halberstam, James Naughton
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | My Father's Cabin by Mark Phillips
The cabin a father and son built together deep in the Allegheny Mountains provides the setting for this father-son memoir. When Phillips returns to the cabin years later, the perspective of age allows him to better understand his relationship with his father. AUTHOR: Mark Phillips
PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Autopsy of an Empire by Dmitri Volkogonov, Geoffrey Howard, Harold Shukman
Volkogonov completed this work shortly before his death in December of 1995. In the introduction, he declared, My aim is to describe the history of supreme Soviet power in the persons of these individuals. This history is divided into seven sections, each covering one of the seven general secretaries of the Soviet Empire: Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and Gorbachev. AUTHOR: Dmitri Volkogonov, Geoffrey Howard, Harold Shukman
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
Description not available.The author recounts his ten-year investigation into the life a twelfth-century Indian slave who lived in a remote corner of Egypt AUTHOR: Amitav Ghosh
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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