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|  | Treason by Book by Jonathan D. Spence
In this narrative history of 18th-century China, a prominent scholar recreates the imperial world as he relates a plot to kill the emperor. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. AUTHOR: Jonathan D. Spence
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Marcus Garvey by Coretta Scott King, Mary Lawler, Nathan I. Huggins
One of the most controversial figures to emerge from post-World War I America, Marcus Garvey became a champion of black rights as the charismatic leader of the Back To Africa movement, which sought to establish a central homeland for blacks. AUTHOR: Coretta Scott King, Mary Lawler, Nathan I. Huggins
PUBLISHER: Chelsea House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Too Late for the Festival by Rhiannon Paine
In 1985 and 1986, the residents of a Tokyo suburb were treated to a singular sight. Just before ten every weekday morning, a pale-faced, wild-haired foreigner came scurrying out of her apartment, tucked her full skirt between her legs, mounted a bicycle and pedaled off furiously, heading east. At around six-thirty, her neighbors saw her again, pedaling home with her bicycle basket full of Haagen-Daz ice cream and Shredded Wheat. Rhiannon Paine, 37, was working as a technical writer for Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley; she agreed reluctantly to transfer to their Tokyo branch. She had no idea what she was in for, and neither did her Japanese colleagues. While they coped with her social gaffes, like arriving late to work and blowing her nose in public, Paine struggled with Japanese food -- deviant sea-creatures on rice -- and with the Japanese language, which kept tripping her up with new verb tenses ( the conditional, the volitional, the passive, the causative, the potential ). Paine writes with wonderful humor about the good times -- spending an evening with a Shinto priest, drinking sake out of a bamboo pole and trying to make herself presentable on the beach with a package of inadequate Japanese nipplecovers. She collects weird English slogans printed on Japanese products (from a packet of instant coffee: Ease Your Bosoms). But she is also honest about her loneliness and sense of dislocation. A slim 5`4, Paine towers over most of her Japanese colleagues. She unconsciously contracts her back muscles trying to make herself smaller, and develops back pain for the first time in her life, a condition she calls being bonsai`d. Her in-depth contact with a radically differentculture raises questions she couldn`t begin to answer. If I hadn`t been born American, would I still be restless, ambitious, contrary-minded? Could the same raw material, worked upon by a different society, have produced a tea-making office lady or a contented housewife? This insightful and AUTHOR: Rhiannon Paine
PUBLISHER: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Founding Fathers by Dick Estell, Richard Brookhiser
In this thought-provoking look at George Washington as soldier and statesman, Richard Brookhiser traces the astonishing achievements of Washington's career and illuminates how his character and his values shaped the beginnings of American politics. AUTHOR: Dick Estell, Richard Brookhiser
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ray Charles by George Ford, Sharon Bell Mathis
An illustrated biography of the jazz legend who, despite blindness, become a world-renowned musician. Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. AUTHOR: George Ford, Sharon Bell Mathis
PUBLISHER: Lee & Low Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Peter the Great by Frederick Davidson, Robert K. Massie, Wolfram Kandinsky
Description not available.This meticulous biography of the notorious Russian ruler examines his background and accomplishments, detailing the armed conflicts during his reign and scrutinizing his transformation of medieval Russia into modern Russia AUTHOR: Frederick Davidson, Robert K. Massie, Wolfram Kandinsky
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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