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The combat memoirs of a Navy SEAL who served in the Vietnam War. Gormley maintains that American military strategy in Vietnam was deeply flawed, and that more emphasis should have been placed on attacking the Communist cadres that organized and ran terrorist operations in the villages. Eventually Gormley became commander of SEAL Team 6 and helped to capture the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985. AUTHOR: Robert Gormly
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Leading Women by Eric Lane
Description not available.Presents a second anthology of richly diverse, challenging plays, scenes, and monologues for actresses of all levels of experience and ethnic background, featuring works by Wendy Wasserstein & Christopher Durang, Diana Son, Alan Ball, Donald Margulies, Claudia Shear, Eve Ensler, and Margaret Edson. Original. 20,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Eric Lane
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Winter Creek by John Daniel
An environmentalist writer looks back to his youth, when he first discovered the delights of the natural world, and talks about the influences on his work and on his thinking, including Gary Snyder, Wallace Stegner, Wendell Berry, and Loren Eiseley. AUTHOR: John Daniel
PUBLISHER: Milkweed Editions
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | With Malice Toward None by Katherine Speirs, Nelson Runger, Stephen B. Oates
Description not available.Presents a portrait of Lincoln as an uncommonly complex man of compassion and ambition, honesty and political acumen, and wit and morbid melancholy AUTHOR: Katherine Speirs, Nelson Runger, Stephen B. Oates
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Henry Perrine, Plant Pioneer of the Florida Frontier by Kaye E. Carter
Description not available.Discusses the life and career of the Florida botanist Henry Perrine, who opened a plant experiment station on Key West during the time of the Seminole Indian War AUTHOR: Kaye E. Carter
PUBLISHER: Tailored Tours Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Clarence A. Andrews, Louis R. Harlan, Walter Covell, William L. Andrews
Long considered one of the most inspiring autobiographies in American literature, UP FROM SLAVERY chronicles the author's beginnings as a slave to his success as an educator, writer, and speaker. Noted for his leadership of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington promoted economic progress through vocational education. AUTHOR: Booker T. Washington, Clarence A. Andrews, Louis R. Harlan, Walter Covell, William L. Andrews
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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