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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: Consortium Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Main Line Wasp by W. Thacher Longstreth
Here is one man`s uproarious, adventuresome journey through the 20th century: from Main-Line debutante parties to the Battle of the Coral Sea, from affluence in the Roaring `20s to poverty in the Great Depression and more. AUTHOR: W. Thacher Longstreth
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Beyond Innocence by Dale Peterson, Jane Goodall
This second collection of Jane Goodall's letters continues to illuminate--charmingly and informatively--her admirable life as a primate researcher in Africa. AUTHOR: Dale Peterson, Jane Goodall
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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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 George W. Bush, organized into such categories as A Class By Themselves, Yankee Wits, and The Jokes on Them. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Bob Dole
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Malcolm X by Clayborne Carson, Spike Lee
In assembling an incredible mass of raw material, the FBI has made possible a reassembling of the history of Malcolm X that goes beyond the means of any team of researchers. From the opening of his file in March of 1953 to his assassination in 1965, the story of Malcolm X`s political life reads like a gripping biography. AUTHOR: Clayborne Carson, Spike Lee
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Basher Five-Two by Michael French, Scott O'Grady
A biography of Scott O'Grady, the U.S. Air Force captain who was shot down over Bosnia and managed to live through the crash that caused his plane to explode and to survive on his own in enemy territory. AUTHOR: Michael French, Scott O'Grady
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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