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  1. The Snowball

    by Alice Schroeder

    Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to... (learn more about this book)

  2. The Warren Buffett Way

    by Peter Lynch, Robert G. Hagstrom

    Buffett is back . . . and better than before! A decade has passed since the book that introduced the world to Warren Buffett -- The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom -- first appeared. That groundbreaking book spent 21 weeks on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller... (learn more about this book)

  3. Penguin Lives

    Buddha

    by Karen Armstrong

    With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam , Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" ( The New York Times ) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddha she turns to a figure whose... (learn more about this book)

  4. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

    by Roger Lowenstein

    Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the 20th century--an astounding net worth of ten billion dollars, and counting. Journalist Roger Lowenstein draws on three years of unprecedented access to... (learn more about this book)

  5. The Life Of Buddha And Its Lessons

    by Henry Steel Olcott

    THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophy: Religion and Occult Science, by Henry S. Olcott. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564593908.

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  6. Stealing Buddha's Dinner

    by Bich Minh Nguyen

    Winner of the PEN/Jerard Award. A vivid, funny, and viscerally powerful memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In the... (learn more about this book)

  7. What Happened

    by Scott McClellan

    With unprecedented candor, one of George W. Bush's closest aides takes readers behind the scenes of the Bush presidency, and what exactly happened to take it off course. Scott McClellan was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and... (learn more about this book)

  8. Love, Lucy

    by Lucille Ball

    Lucille Ball's autobiography, found by her children years after her death. In it, Ms. Ball chronicles her early life, her struggle to become an actress/comedienne, her turbulent courtship and marriage to Desi Arnaz, and, of course, her stint on "I Love Lucy".

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  9. Einstein's Shutter

    by Vincent Yanez

    “I circled the shutter. I was trying to visualize the most efficient way to pick it up and carry it away, appearing nonchalant all the while, as if shutter-carting were a normal, natural, everyday kind of thing. Then I heard a noise. To my left, twenty feet away, the neighbor had come out of... (learn more about this book)

  10. When the Game Was Ours

    by Larry Bird

    From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. These were the basketball epics of the 1980s -- Celtics vs Lakers,... (learn more about this book)

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