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Description not available.Relates the true story behind the shootout at Ruby Ridge between white supremacist Randy Weaver and federal agents, a confrontation that left Weaver's wife and only son dead. Reprint. AUTHOR: Jess Walter
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Is Our Children Learning? by Paul Begala
Published in time for election 2000, this entertaining and enlightening collection of public statements by George W. Bush along with somewhat partisan commentary by political strategist Begala attempts a comprehensive look at the record of George W. Bush as governor of Texas while evaluating his preparedness for the highest office in the land. The author was a partner in Carville & Begala, political consultants, and was a former counsel to President Clinton. AUTHOR: Paul Begala
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Lucia Joyce by Carol Shloss
This biography of James Joyce`s troubled daughter, Lucia, emphasizes the creative spark she inherited from her father and her work as a dancer before her hospitalization for schizophrenia in the 1930s. AUTHOR: Carol Shloss
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder
A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. AUTHOR: Ken Alder
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Writing and Reading Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury by Barbara Abercrombie
Description not available.Drawing on her own experiences as a breast cancer survivor, the author explains how to use writing as a therapeutic way to deal with serious illness or injury, explaining how writing helped her and others--including Stephen King and Lance Armstrong--through the healing process. Original. 20,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Barbara Abercrombie
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Pinochet & Me by Marc Cooper
This analysis of three decades of rule in Chile is by the former translator for Salvador Allende, the socialist leader overthrown in the military coup that brought General Pinochet to power. Cooper revisited Chile several times and each time saw a different aspect of the life under Pinochet. Although Pinochet is gone, Chile has been changed forever--and Cooper rues the pervasive influence of American culture. AUTHOR: Marc Cooper
PUBLISHER: Verso
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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