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This collection includes adventure writing from Philip Caputo, Edward Marriot, and Reinhold Messner, among others. They relate a shipwreck, a trek across a desert, and encounters with animals such as crocodiles, sharks, and lions. AUTHOR: Clint Willis
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | All for the Union by Robert H. Rhodes
Anyone who heard these diaries of a common Union soldier excerpted on the PBS-TV documentary The Civil War will recognize Elisha Hunt Rhodes' accounts of campaigns from Bull Run to Appomattox, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. This remarkable diary chronicles the career of one of the Civil War's most remarkable soldiers. --James M. McPherson. 70 photos. AUTHOR: Robert H. Rhodes
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Lewis & Clark by Richard Williams, Steven Kroll
Told in story form, this is an account of Lewis and Clark's 1804 historic exploration of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. Illustrated with color paintings. AUTHOR: Richard Williams, Steven Kroll
PUBLISHER: Holiday House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Generals in Gray by Ezra J. Warner
Description not available.Biographical sketches of the major Confederate military leaders focus on their military careers as well as peacetime activities AUTHOR: Ezra J. Warner
PUBLISHER: Louisiana State University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | From Mother & Daughter to Friends by Nancy Aniston
Engagingly written as a journal of fond memories, life experiences, lessons learned, and tragedies overcome, this is the story of the family that gave the world actress Jennifer Aniston. Written by her mother, Nancy Aniston, this tender, poetic, and charming memoir represents a healing exercise, and most importantly serves as an example of how to cope with and understand estrangement between parent and child. During the meteoric rise of Jennifer's popularity on the hit television comedy Friends, Nancy and her daughter had a misunderstanding imposed on them by a tabloid TV report. In the three years since they last spoke, Nancy learned that separation from grown children is a national epidemic and that scores of parents suffer the same feelings of pain, guilt, and shame. This knowledge inspired Nancy Aniston to record family memories in this compelling volume, and in the process of detailed retrospection a miraculous healing took place. Nancy chronicles her own childhood of poverty, abandonment, failed marriages, and the difficult years as a single mother. She recalls Jennifer's early love for the theater, therapists, career managers, and hangers-on who endangered family bonds as she guided her daughter through the exciting, sometimes disappointing stages of an acting career that came to realize phenomenal success. While refusing the lure of celebrity gossip, Nancy Aniston strives to secure her story's inherent dignity, hoping it will be helpful to those trying to overcome their own childhood trauma, fallout from divorce, single-parenting issues, and the dark hole of child/parent estrangement. AUTHOR: Nancy Aniston
PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books, Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Kurt Weill by David Farneth
This comprehensive biography of renowned German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill chronicles his entire life, including his early years of studying under Engelbert Humperdinck and his marriage to Lotte Lenya, the singer who became an interpreter of his music. Additionally, author David Farneth--who has served as director of the Weill-Lenya Research Center in New York--discusses Weill`s prewar Berlin collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, including the THE THREEPENNY OPERA, and his postwar Broadway period which produced such hits as ONE TOUCH OF VENUS. AUTHOR: David Farneth
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: Biographies
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