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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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 | Scalp Dance by Thomas Goodrich
From the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 through Custer`s Last Stand in 1876 to the final defeat of the mighty Sioux and Cheyenne nations in 1878, Scalp Dance reveals the bloody, bitter clashes between two cultures--one bent on conquest, the other defending its land in the only way it knew how. Military Book Club Main Selection. Doubleday Book Club Selection. 25 b&w illustrations. Western regional book signings. Available September. AUTHOR: Thomas Goodrich
PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Alexander Hamilton by Willard Sterne Randall
Description not available.An illuminating account of one of the most ingenious and complex founders of our nation traces his life, from his birth on the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1755 to his untimely demise in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1804, highlighting his many significant contributions that have had a profound impact on our world today. AUTHOR: Willard Sterne Randall
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | First Love by Isaiah Berlin, Ivan S. Turgenev, V. S. Pritchett
Vladimir Petrovich, a middle-aged bachelor, is persuaded to write an account of his first love for a small group of friends who have been entertaining one another with romantic recollections. Vladimir's story takes place when he is 16 and living with his parents in their summer home outside of Moscow. Their neighbors are the Princess Zasyekin and her 21-year-old daughter Zinaida, who daily entertains an odd assortment of suitors. Zinaida gives Vladimir an honorary place among them as her page, and he soon discovers that she has a secret lover. In a passionate rage, Vladimir is determined to find this lover and kill him but is horrified to learn of his own father's secret visits to Zinaida. His mother too learns of the infidelity, and their stay in the country is cut short. Tragically this episode colors everything Vladimir knows about his parents and all that he understands about love in general. AUTHOR: Isaiah Berlin, Ivan S. Turgenev, V. S. Pritchett
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Strange Brains & Genius by Clifford A. Pickover
This entertaining collection of stories--illuminating the obsessive personalities, strange phobias, and bizarre lives of the eccentrically brilliant--speculates on the link between genius and insanity. AUTHOR: Clifford A. Pickover
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Backstage Passes by Angela Bowie, Patrick Carr
Having outlasted the gag order that was part of their divorce agreement, Angela Bowie produced this memoir of her turbulent life with David. AUTHOR: Angela Bowie, Patrick Carr
PUBLISHER: Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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