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  West with the Night

  by Beryl Markham

  This is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Controversery surrounds whether or not Markham actually wrote this book herself, or whether her lover, Thomas Baker is the real author.
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  Orthodoxy

  by G. K. Chesterton

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton called himself a "pagan" at 12 and was agnostic by 16. He then developed a personal, positive philosophy that turned out to be orthodox Christianity. First published in 1908, when he was 35, this intellectual and spiritual autobiography combines simplicity with subtlety in a model apologetic for those who face the same materialism and anti-supernaturalism as the "man at war with his... (more)
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  Something Happened

  by Joseph Heller

  Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing... (more)
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  The Bible (King James Version)

  Arguably the most printed book in history, The King James Version of the Bible was a landmark that changed the world. The translation name is used differently in different areas of the world and, except for the UK, has moved into full open copyright status. In the UK, Parliament still holds the copyright. Authorized King James Version is a translation of the Bible, first published in 1611.King James... (more)
• Freedom - A Novel Of Abraham Lincoln And The Civil WarWilliam Safire

  

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  Freedom - A Novel Of Abraham Lincoln And The Civil War

  by William Safire

  ISBN: 0-385-15903-X
• No Experience Required: Jackie Sherrill and Texas A&M's 12th Man Kickoff TeamCaleb Pirtle III

  

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  No Experience Required: Jackie Sherrill and Texas A&M's 12th Man Kickoff Team

  by Caleb Pirtle III

  The story of the 12th man kickoff team is one of personal triumph and occasional tragedy. Some memories and recollections have dimmed with the years. Others remain as vibrant as the day they occurred. And the complexity of the truth lies deep within the woven layers of fact. Perception so often is founded on truth that has been colored by layers of high anxiety and high excitement that people recall or choose to... (more)
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  Robert Langdon: Book 3

  The Lost Symbol

  by Dan Brown

  As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object,his best friends hand, artfully encoded with five symbols--is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation... one meant to usher... (more)
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  Pirate Latitudes

  by Michael Crichton

  "Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action.. A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure.. History as entertainment.. "It's not an ironic pirate novel. It's not a pirate novel with a secret gimmick. It's simply an entertaining tale filled with crafty privateers, despicable villains, treasure hoards, double crosses and a sea monster. "The plot sucks you in like the giant kraken monster that nearly... (more)
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  Instant Replay

  The Green Bay diary of Jerry Kramer

  by Jerry Kramer

  In 1967, when Jerry Kramer was a thirty-one-year-old Green Bay Packers offensive lineman, in his tenth year with the team, he decided to keep a diary of the season. “Perhaps, by setting down my daily thoughts and observations,” he wrote, “I’ll be able to understand precisely what it is that draws me back to professional football.” Working with the renowned journalist Dick Schaap, Kramer recorded his day-to-day... (more)
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  The Next Five Steps to CALM

  by Sr. Robert Patterson

  Sell Yourself! A career counseling manual that provides a comprehensive collection of "how to" steps for achieving your personal and career goals. Author Robert Patterson, stresses the importance of becoming your own best advertisement and provides strategic ways for marketing yourself in this volatile economy. Each chapter provides detailed step by step instructions on: personal appraisal, career exploration,... (more)
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  How to Win Friends and Influence People

  by Dale Carnegie

  YOU CAN GO AFTER THE JOB YOU WANT...AND GET IT! YOU CAN TAKE THE JOB YOU HAVE...AND IMPROVE IT! YOU CAN TAKE ANY SITUATION YOU'RE IN...AND MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU! For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available... (more)
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  State of Fear

  by Michael Crichton

  In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters of New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.
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  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  Catch-22 is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men... (more)
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  Fahrenheit 451

  by Ray Bradbury

  Unlike this day and age, firemen in this book start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. She would get Montag thinking a bit. Guy Montag never really cared about his job or his wife Mildred. But one day something... (more)
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  Breakfast of Champions

  by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
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  Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming

  by Richard Bandler, John Grinder

  Gentle use. Clean pages, binding tight. Cover clean w/ gentle use. No tears.
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  If I Ran the Circus

  by Dr. Seuss

  Illus. in color. Young Morris McGurk lets his imagination run wild with his circus McGurkus. "Fun for the entire family."-- Children's Book Center.
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  The Gospel According to the Beatles

  by Steve Turner

  Renowned British music journalist and author Steve Turner surveys the religious and spiritual influence of the Beatles, the band that changed the history of music forever. With new interviews, never-before-published material, and fresh insights, Turner helps the reader understand the religious and spiritual ideas and ideals that influenced the music and lives of the Beatles and helps us see how the Fab Four... (more)
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  The Hero with a Thousand Faces

  by Joseph Campbell

  Joseph Campbell's classic cross-cultural study of the hero's journey has inspired millions and opened up new areas of research and exploration. Originally published in 1949, the book hit the New York Times best-seller list in 1988 when it became the subject of The Power of Myth, a PBS television special. The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the... (more)