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  John Adams

  by David G. McCullough

  In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering... (more)
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  Tuesdays With Morrie

  An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  by Mitch Albom

  Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as... (more)
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  Into the Wild

  by Jon Krakauer

  In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How... (more)
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  Night Trilogy: Book 1

  Night

  by Elie Wiesel

  Original Yiddish title: Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (And the World Remained Silent), 1955; rewritten in French in 1958 as "La Nuit"; original 1960 translation from French into English by Stella Rodway; later translated anew from French into English by the author's wife, Marion WieselNight, masterpiece of Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, is a... (more)