Jefferson, Thomas

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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation by the University Press of Virginia 1986

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Dorris, Michael.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1990

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Gordis, Daniel.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002

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Shorris, Earl

Summary: Documents the author's observations of circumstances reflected in a maximum-security prison and subsequent launch of a humanities college course for dropouts, immigrants and former inmates who eventually became high-achieving contributors to society.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2013

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Alda, Alan

Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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Morain, Dan

Summary: There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, yet her personal story also represents the best of America. Morain introduces us to the fast-rising prosecutor, who became the first Black female attorney general in California history. He shows us that Harris is a shrewd strategist, a risk-taker who ran for the United States Senate, embraced Barack Obama's candidacy when he was just...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

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Norris, Kathleen

Summary: Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008

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Norris, Kathleen

Summary: Poet Kathleen Norris' account of her two extended retreats at Benedictine monasteries and the resulting enrichment of her marriage, her daily life, and her poetry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1997

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Norris, Kathleen

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paulist Press 1998

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Goudsouzian, Aram.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010

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Morain, Dan

Summary: "There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of single mother, a cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better education. She and her husband, an accomplished economist from Jamaica, split up when Kamala was only five. The Kamala Harris the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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Alda, Alan

Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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Barris, Chuck.

Summary: The creator of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, and other television game shows describes his career and shares a tongue-in-cheek glimpse of his personal life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2002

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Marrin, Albert

Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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Norris, Chuck

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1997

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Norris, Kathleen

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996

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Norris, Kathleen

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1993

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Norris, Mary

Summary: Presents a chronicle of the author's lifelong love affair with words, filtered through her passion for all things Greek and her solo adventures in Greece.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

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Marrin, Albert.

Summary: Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984

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Glover, Lorri

Summary: Explores the family life of the Founding Fathers, providing intimate portraits of the households of such revolutionaries as George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014

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Morris, Dick.

Summary: Now, for the first time, Fox News political analyst and former Clinton advisor Dick Morris turns his sharpe eyed gaze on Hillary, the longtime first lady, current New York senator, and bestselling author.

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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2004

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Morris, Jan

Contents: The 1950s -- Mount Everest, 1953 -- A benign republic: USA -- Kingdom of troubles: the Middle East -- South African White and Black -- Confusions in paradise: the Caribbean -- Europe: after the war was over -- Orientalisms: The Far East -- The 1960s -- The Eichmann Trial -- The Cold War -- South American frissons -- Oxford, 1965 -- Australia -- A New Africa -- Manhattan, 1969 -- The 1970s --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003

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Morris, Peter

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2006

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