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Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

By Deborah Davis

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

By McCullough, David

Shaftesbury

By Pollock, John

Obama: From Promise to Power

By Mendell, David

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin (Stephanie Plum)

By Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902

By Beaumont, Antony

Hidden Agendas

By Pilger, John

No Better Friend (Young Readers Edition): A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II

By Weintraub, Robert

Reputations in History: Robin Hood Paper

By Brooman, Josh

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

By Meacham, Jon

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By Hay, Daisy

After Henry (Vintage International)

By Didion, Joan

Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact

By Lucinda Hawksley

Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives

By Marcus, Greil

Wallington's World: Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London

By Seaver, Paul S.

The Women Around Jesus: Reflections on Authentic Personhood

By Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth, Bowden, John

WITTGENSTEIN (Fontana Modern Masters)

By Pears

A Mouthful Of Glass

By Woerden, Henk van, Jacobson, Dan

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (Vintage International)

By de Botton, Alain

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

By Hughes, Kathryn

Letters To My Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future

By Benn, Tony

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Including 10 More Years of Business as Us...

By Yvon Chouinard, Naomi Klein (intro.)

New York: Monocle Travel Guides

By monocle

Memoirs of the Forties (Lives & Letters)

By Maclaren-Ross, Julian

Fire at the Triangle Factory (On My Own History)

By Littlefield, Holly, Young, Mary O'Keefe

A. J. Ayer: A Life

By Rogers, Ben

The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man And the Spirit of Invention

By Motu

I Was a Spy!: The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War

By Mckenna, Marthe, Churchill, Winston

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

By Annan, Kofi

Mexican Postcards: Critical Studies in Latin America (Critical Studies in Latin American and Iberian Culture)

By Monsivais, Carlos, Kraniauskas, John