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|  | Great Presidential Wit by Bob Dole
Description not available.The senator and former presidential candidate collects bipartisan presidential humor from famous, and not-so-famous, chief executives, from Washington to Clinton. 125,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Bob Dole
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Description not available.Featuring a new introduction, a classic memoir of life in the barrio of Spanish Harlem recounts the author's redemption from a life of crime and drugs after his discovery of his own talent for poetry. Original. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Piri Thomas
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
Essays about the author's growing up, part of a tight-knit clan but attracted to a more dangerous world of daring and romance. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Jo Ann Beard
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Still Alive by Lore Segal, Ruth Kluger
A best-seller in the German original, this translation of Kluger's unflinching memoir about growing up Jewish during the Holocaust documents the transformation of her family from middle-class members of Vienna's lively Jewish community to inmates at Auschwitz. A professor and a scholar of German literature, Kluger brings her talent as a critic to bear on the events of her own life. AUTHOR: Lore Segal, Ruth Kluger
PUBLISHER: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelin by Marvin Lowenthal, Gluckel, Gluckel of Hameln
Description not available.The diary of a German Jewish widow, begun in 1690 for her children, describes the manner in which she tended her business and family amid war and persecution AUTHOR: Marvin Lowenthal, Gluckel, Gluckel of Hameln
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Life of Bellini by John Rosselli
A biography of the celebrated composer whose works transformed Italian opera in the early 19th century. Vincenzo Bellini`s physical beauty, boundless success, and untimely death at the age of 33 combined to give him near-mythic status. In John Roselli`s new account, the portrait of Bellini that emerges is that of a normal young man with uncommon musical gifts. AUTHOR: John Rosselli
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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