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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird
	Pulitzer Prize-winner Bird offers this vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem... Review: the Economist Review: The Independent Review: the Christian Science Monitor

Dreaming in Chinese Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language by Deborah Fallows
	In sharing what she discovered about Mandarin, and how those discoveries helped her understand a culture that had at first seemed... Review: the Christian Science Monitor

Curfewed Night One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland by Basharat Peer
	"Curfewed Night" is Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir. Review: The Guardian Review: The Economist Review: The Independent Review: The Observer

Pearl Buck in China Journey to the Good Earth by Hilary Spurling
	The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China. Review: the Christian Science Monitor Review: The Asian Review of Books Review: the Independent Review: The Observer Review: the Guardian

High Financier The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
	In this pathbreaking new biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Ferguson... Review: the Christian Science Monitor Review: the Economist Review: The Observer

General Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved by Jonathan Fenby
	A magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the 20th century -- General Charles De Gaulle Review: The Guardian Review: the Economist Review: The Observer

Shades of Greene One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
	In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles... Review: the Economist Review: The Independent Review: The Guardian Review: The Observer

Claiming Ground by Laura Bell
	By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, wife, and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down... Review: the Christian Science Monitor

Leo and His Circle The Life of Leo Castelli by Annie Cohen-Solal
	Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America's most influential art dealer. "Leo and His Circle" tells the story of his astonishing life and... Review: the Christian Science Monitor

Wildflower An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Death in Africa by Mark Seal
	"Vanity Fair" contributing editor Seal tells the mesmerizing story of the captivating life and shocking death of world-renowned naturalist... Review: the Christian Science Monitor

Let's Take the Long Way Home A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell
	In this gorgeous, moving memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open... Review: the Christian Science Monitor

Steinbrenner The Last Lion of Baseball by Bill Madden
	The definitive biography of George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, written by the "New York Daily News" columnist who has... Review: Business Week

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert
	Review: the Economist

Boswell's Presumptuous Task The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman
	With great wit, Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task--the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces... Review: the Economist

It's All About the Bike The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels by Robert Penn
	Tells the story of a journey to design and build a dream bike. From Stoke-on-Trent, where an artisan hand builds his frame, to California,... Review: the Economist Review: The Observer

Lives Like Loaded Guns Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
	From the author of "Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft," a "New York Times" Notable Book, comes a startling portrayal of one of... Review: the Economist Review: the Guardian Review: The Independent

Wolf The Lives of Jack London by James L Haley
	Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack London--adventurer, social reformer, and the most popular... Review: the Economist

Secret Historian The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
	Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M.... Review: the Economist

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