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|  | Lure of the Quest by John Balzar
This story of the Yukon Quest, a grueling 1,000-mile-plus sled dog race, looks at the men and women, and their dogs, who challenge themselves and nature as well, as at the issues of animal rights and corporate sponsorship. AUTHOR: John Balzar
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
Catherine McClure relates her unusual experiences assisting her parents in their family pharmacy in this memoir about growing up in Lewiston, New York. This book was shortlisted for Canada's Trillium Award. AUTHOR: Catherine Gildiner
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | More Lost Hollywood by Ann Miller, Wallace
Description not available.A tour of Hollywood in the first half of the twentieth century follows the dawn of the studio era while tracing the lives of its biggest stars and players. 10,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Ann Miller, Wallace
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Banvards Folly by Collins
Description not available.Identifies and profiles thirteen would-be significant contributors to scientific history whose revolutionary ideas were reduced to obscurity because of bad timing or unsurmountable obstacles. Reprint. AUTHOR: Collins
PUBLISHER: Picador
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Orphaned in college when his parents--almost simultaneously--died of cancer, and left to raise his kid brother, the author of this memoir moved to San Francisco and set up a life for the two of them that was one part adolescently carefree and one part precociously responsible. From getting his brother into school, to finding a house, founding a magazine, and looking for girlfriends who could accept his strange circumstances, the author tells his story here even as he mocks both the memoir as a genre and the idea that a 29-year-old would have a memoir worth writing. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000. AUTHOR: Dave Eggers
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Good Medicine by Atul Gawande
Essays by a writer, scholar, and surgeon on the mysteries and mishaps of modern surgery. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. AUTHOR: Atul Gawande
PUBLISHER: Audio Renaissance
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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